Yay for Rigs getting sprung. Even nicer is that you’ll be off work.
I weeded and weeded and weeded and weeded and weeded and weeded yesterday. I filled up the whole yard waste bin. It’s a BIG yard waste bin. I only have one garden left to weed, but the bin is too full.
I also discovered that I have a weak left wrist. I’ve noticed that my wrist always feels like I pulled it or something when we go wakeboarding. I always thought it was because of the wakeboarding and skiing. Nope, turns out I am limp-wristed. I was pulling weeds yesterday when my left wrist went funky on me again. I soldiered on, but I guess I need to start wearing a brace or something. It’s still bugging me today. What the hell is up with that? It sucks getting older.
I am up drinking my coffee and trying to wake up fully. My sleep was restless, yet again, and I kept having very strange dreams that would wake me up. I can’t remember the dreams though.
I’m glad you figured out the cushion thing, FCM. However, since you won’t be using velcro, does this means you have to do seat covers every time they get dirty? That sounds like a lot of extra work.
We were talking about going boating today, but we woke up and it was raining. Bah! The weather gods are conspiring against us. Where the FRACKIN’ FRICK is our summer?
I used the same fabric to cover the cushions in our last boat (I started with a bolt of 65 yards…) and they were used for over 5 years, including 2 years or so that **FCD ** (and later I) lived aboard. When we sold the boat, the cushions still looked like new. So I’m not concerned about that. And as I said, if they got so grossly dirty that the covers need to be replaced, chances are the foam inside would be gross too and have to be replaced, so I’d be starting from scratch anyway.
First cushion is all done - the hand stitching was time consuming, but it looks pretty good. Second one should go lots faster since I know exactly how I need to do it. Off to cut and measure now…
Honestly. I think I can count on my fingers the number of actual hot days we’ve had so far this summer - the rest have been cool and rainy. Yesterday I needed a jacket to go outside. A jacket! In June! WTF?
Another lazy weekend. I swear I’m going to start taking advantage of all the festivals and whatnot going on, but this weekend I’m perfectly content to stay inside and read and strum my guitar.
How are you having such a different summer from me, Hank? I’ll blame it on the lake. It’s been hot and dry here for what feels like forever. But the last few days have been pleasant. It was supposed to get to 90 today, but it still feels very pleasant out - mid-70s, maybe.
Oh, that flirting.
Why, yes, swampy, we do live to hear the minute details of life in da cave. How did you know?
I have way too many things to do. Gonna start with gardening stuff. I went and bought one last (really!) nice container for the plants I bought yesterday. I’m hoping it will suffice. I’m gonna stick the prettiest coleus I bought (Religious Radish in its own pot. (Page down; they’re alphabetical.) We also saw Religious Rutabaga, but they only had one and my friend got to it before me.
Well, I cut the next piece of fabric to length, then **FCD ** asked for help installing the ceiling fan in the blue bedroom. So we did that. Then he installed the closet door, and I cleaned the headboard and bedframe. We brought the bed in, set it up, and made the bed (except for pillows - I need to buy new pillows.)
Then I ironed and hung the new curtains in the green room - I’m not crazy about them, but they’re better than the ones I made, and it’s just a spare room, so who cares? I also need an eggcrate foam mattress pad for the bed in that room, and I can make it up. We need to hang the closet doors in that room, then put in the bedroom doors.
I won’t be doing any more sewing today, I don’t think. I’m going to make a ham and N.O.T. casserole for supper, but mostly I think I’m done doing anything constructive. Although I might start moving our assorted artwork to the rooms where I want it to hang. Maybe. If I feel motivated.
FCM I suggest you hang the artwork on the walls, or, if you’re feelin’ especially avante garde, the ceiling.
I snuck in to read up on what I’ve missed and to post. Ok, really to get some AC cause it’s h-a-w-t outside! People are still here cause we’re gonna eat shortly. We’ve been playin’ at the pool and snackin’, so people are gettin’ ready for some real food. A friend brought baked beans and we put ‘em in the oven about three-thirty, so they’ll be done in a few then it’s feedin’ time! All eating will be done indoors cause it’s really too hot to do so outside. All I gotta say is yay for Chinet and Solo and heavy duty plastic forks cause they can be tossed. Real knives though cause those plactic knives just don’t <snerk> Cut It! <snerk>
Ok gonna go tell people to dry off and such so’s they can eat.
Food is et and everybody (yay!) is gone. It was fun and all but ya know, after about five hours, well, I’m glad to have da cave to myself again. The good part is cleanup bein’ next to nuttin’. Literally a couple of pots and some knives. YAY!
I’ve been strumming my guitar for the past few hours. It’s really addicting, but I should give my fingers a rest and fetch my laundry from the dryer. And contemplate dinner.
Just finished eating supper then loading the dishwasher. The casserole I invented for supper was pretty good. It was diced ham, sliced N.O.T., baby carrots, and lima beans layered in a casserole with a sorta white sauce poured over (milk and flour and garlic powder and minced onions and salt and pepper all shaken together). I covered it and put it in a 375 oven for about an hour. It boiled over and made a disgusting mess in my oven, but it was yummy. I’d meant to add mushrooms to the mix, but I forgot. **FCD ** said he’d have liked peas in it. I see me repeating this with variations in the future. Kinda like scalloped potatoes with stuff added. Anyway, it was good.
I went outside to enjoy the day, and also because I was sick of laying around indoors. I wasn’t out there 5 minutes and I got a bee sting! On my inner wrist which hurt like a mother.
Am considering wearing a Hazmat suit at all times now…
I did do one homework assignment, that in my anxiety about OTHER homework, I had forgotten was due tomorrow! So I did that one. I will do the paper tomorrow. I also have to record a book talk and turn that in…Lots to do, lots to do.
I am not eating dinner. Guess what? The antibiotics I’m on have done a number on my GI tract. This is getting to be a bit ridiculous…
Of course you can use the medium or hot salsa. And if you’re expecting vegans, leave out the beef and add more beans and mushroom and some other sturdy veggies like zucchini or carrots and celery all chopped up small.
About 15 years ago a bunch of fus were helping friends move from 2 apartments into one house. Since I have never been any good at lifting or carrying, I had two jobs - one was to make the chili and coffee to feed the friend-workers, the other was to watch the friend-workers’ kids and keep them occupied in the back yard. I did have help on the second job, tho.
Ya know, BioRosie, being chief cook and [del]yardape[/del] kid watcher would be a tougher job that liftin’ and carryin’ IMO. You did BIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIG work that day!
Tell me about it! They’re fun in small doses, like this afternoon when there were a few [del]house monkeys[/del] kiddies around. However, all day, every day, all the dang time… :eek:
Eh, kids aren’t so bad but you DO need the patience gene - although, there is a difference once it’s yer own kid.
Now, other people’s kids? They need to go home.
Back from the game, I started some meat sauce - browned some eye-talian sausage, added crushed 'maters and assorted spice things. Once it has simmered a decent time, I’ll do the pasta and viola!
Ah, yes, the miracle of aunthood. I always get to send them home.
I was all virtuous and mulched the part of my garden that is currently housing my vegetable and herb collection. Also, I planted my last (I swear!) containers. Well, actually, maybe not since I have a couple of begonias that aren’t happy in their current containers and might be moving during the week.
I’ve eaten a baked potato with sour cream and herbs and am now going to go to the grocery for a few minutes to get a couple of items I need for lunches during the week.
Then it’s a bit of cleaning and laundry and reading.
Yeah but when they’re your own and you get them untrained and unprogrammed, they grow as a kid while you grow as a parent. Of course, for some folks, that still wouldn’t make a difference, but one should never judge one’s aptitude for parenthood based upon occasional encounters with other folks’ offspring.
Just my opinion, but since it’s mine, it must be right.
Nah, see, MBG makes his own pasta shaped like violas. Or does he play the viola while making pasta? Then again. he could eat violas for dinner. Seems to me that’d be kind of expensive though a good source of fiber.
To me the problem with [del]anklebiters[/del] kids, is they expect you to do stuff like feed 'em and clothe ‘em. Plus they insist on sleepin’ indoors.
