Still here…

Things have been moving along here, no great ups or downs exactly. The heat has dissipated quite substantially and the leaves and acorns have begun to drop.

It is mid august. This isn’t supposed to happen until at least the last week in september.

Prognosis: Long, cold hard winter.

So I spent today with the woodsplitter in the backyard, my brother has FINALLY dropped it off and today I had the chance to begin and I made a large dent in the wood I had waiting. But I’m glad I waited as long as I have because they’ve dried out considerably and made them less a chore to pick up and deal with. From my calculation it will take me two full saturdays (5 hours each day minimum) to get this all out of the way.

I was kind of pissed off today, you see I had plans on starting at 8am but Nina had a really bad’s night sleep and I woke with Joe in the morning and she asked me to just give her an hour.

No problem.

Well I wasn’t paying attention and it turned into two hours.

– My fault.

Then I notice as I’m doing the cat litter that we are out of litter.

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

So I am ready to go to Petco to grab litter and just head back fast. Well Nina asks me to grab a few other things and the cat litter at Costco.

This takes it to another level, wading through the mess which is Costco with the old folks eternally on line for the free samplers at every corner. Between this and the family caravans of people just trying to get their own stuff taken care of I make it out alive.

I get home and it’s almost noon. I feel like my whole day is used up and almost don’t get going on the wood.

I am tired now, so tired that all I want is sleep, the comfort of my buckwheat pillow and feeling of my entire body sinking into my bed.

You know that feeling? The one where you know the moment you hit the mattress you are OUT!

We caught little Joe using the spoon on the sly! He was outside in his highchair and he had the spoon in his hand and was in arm’s reach of the bowl of soup we had been giving him when we just keep hearing:

clink!

We look outside and there he is bringing the soup to his lips and slurping it up!

Amazing!

Anyhow that’s my day.

Be well.