OK, my submission is a slightly-edited cut-n-paste from an email I sent earlier today that I don’t want to rewrite since it says it all. I know the recipient of said email won’t be offended since it’s now second-hand, ya know? No offense to my loyal fan base here in Rue-land… 
Moving along:
Glad I’m back at the office - I need to recover from the weekend. I mowed Friday. While FCD was working on the boat on Saturday, I raked one end of the back yard, then mowed that area. Then I raked two piles of leaves and debris out front, weeded a garden, and planted a bunch of English ivy that a coworker gave me. It was pretty hot out, so it was harder work than it would have been in the fall. But the yard now looks good.
On Sunday, after a little running around and after a late lunch, we attacked the tan shed - the one we just crammed a lot of crap into. Well, besides our crap, there was tons more that the Easts had left us - old doors, lots of old electrical stuff (much of which we figured he stole from work because they all had government stock numbers on the packages), electrical wire and conduit, brackets, lumber, glass, floor tiles, and 7 large cans of gasoline, with dates going back to 1998!!!
We completely emptied the shed, filling the garden trailer twice with stuff for the junk yard. I swept out the remains of bees that had gone in there and died, plus all kinds of dust and critter poops. FCD took down a very long, poorly supported shelf and used some of the brackets to put up 3 shorter, better supported shelves. I brought out the pieces of two sets of shelves that were just laying around in the laundry room and assembled them. That’s where all our boat stuff went (boy do we have sails!) FCD picked thru the electrical and hardware stuff and kept what he wanted. Some stuff went back to the shed, some went to the basement, and most went to the trailer for trash.
I ran a FreeCycle ad and a Freebie ad in our county website. So far I got rid of the purple gazing ball. I thought someone was going to take the deer, but it was bigger than she’d thought. Oh well. A man is coming this afternoon to paw thru the trailer and take some of that crap. I hate to take it all to the dump since much of it is still good. We just don’t need another sink or 8 closet door panels or two electric baseboard heaters.
Yesterday, after breakfast, we finally got the boat out of the slip. First stop was the fuel dock at our old marina. We’re no longer there because the slip rent is twice what we pay where we are. But as we pulled up to the fuel dock, our old boat neighbor was coming down to see us - he and his wife were sitting by the pool and they saw us heading down the creek. He’s a good guy - grew up down the street from my dad, although he didn’t know him. The boat took 65 gallons <gasp> which means we only had about 15 gallons aboard. Lucky for us, diesel is lots cheaper there than at the gas station - only 2.14/gal. (Only???) but with full tanks, we’re good for all summer at least.
Once we took care of business there, we dropped our lines again and headed out towards the Patuxent River. All told, we were only out about an hour, but we got to monitor the engine, which was good, and it was nice being on the water again. We docked with minimal problems and got home before it got too awfully hot.
My inlaws are coming to visit later this week - both FCD’s folks and his youngest brother, and Abby, the Cairn terror. Bernie and Abby do great together. The cat won’t be happy. But since they’re coming, I decided to clean and rearrange the red guest room. Man, did we have a lot of crap in there!! I washed all the curtains (they were gross) hemmed one panel (she’d held the hem up with scotch tape!!!) vacuumed, and moved a lot of stuff out to the kitchen counter. It’s still there - I’ll sort and store it today. All that remains in that bedroom is to put away my old computer (wish I had some place to set it up) and bring in the kid’s old armoire and a lamp. We may hang a few pictures on the wall, too. Gonna hang some pictures in the yellow room at the same time.
We’ll have to go to BJ’s later this week and get food. I shopped before to feed 2, so having 3 more means I need a large roast, a good sized chicken or flat of chicken parts, some ground beef for burgers and stuffed cabbage, and junk like bread and taters and cereal. So it’s gonna be a busy 5 days. They’re arriving Sat evening after driving all day. They’ll be pooped.
Meanwhile, it’ll be a quiet week in the office. My neighbor, D, is on travel all week. I’ll miss him - he makes me laugh. R, who sits on the other side, is a bit of a lump. Oh well…
So that was my weekend. Like I said, I need the rest. And a neck rub. And a long soak in a hot tub. Is that expecting too much?
Yeah, I think it is. Oh well…
PS - WhyBaby is just a cute as cute can be!!
PPS - swampy, just one question about Synchornized Pool Noodling - does it require Speedos?? :eek:
Since there’s no set uniform, though, I might take to wearing actual clothes–but that would affect my buoyancy, I think.