The entire van was filled with yard waste… it was a pretty impressive haul.
Afterwards I kind of liked how butch Penny looked and I wish they had AWD vans because I would offroad that thing all the time just to look cool at the school pickups.
Posted on 2015-08-27 in Happenings
The kids have started school and since then productivity around the house has taken a huge hit.
There’s been lots of shuttling of people around and the retrieval of supplies to keep everyone fed, happy, and ready to complete the next assignment.
Posted on 2015-08-14 in HomeMade
The cat box will forever be a project in need of improvement.
Here is an update.
Posted on 2015-08-14 in Happenings
The end of summer gave me a little sucker punch this week – just to let me know that the big hits was coming soon.
I panicked a bit and made sure that we try and cram a little more learning and fun in before school starts and all that is off the table.
Today me and the smaller two went to the science center and built some cardboard contraptions. Both were crank driven cat-toys. There was hot glue and fun.
Posted on 2015-08-14 in HomeMade
“Honey, do you remember when we talked about taking down that section of the pergola and we were unsure if we should do it? Well I /was/ sure and you were unsure. Turns out it was more dangerous than I thought to take it down.”
Posted on 2015-08-12 in HomeMade
Being able to predict a thing doesn’t mean you’re smart. I predicted that the gaps in the tile and stucco would be a great place for spiders.
I got myself some of that sticky foam glue stuff and proceeded to fill the gaps. It was messy and dumb and I took off one of my gloves to hold the paper towel to contain the overflow.
But, then the spiders ran out of room, there was a jail break while I was spraying super sticky foam everywhere. About 8 fifty cent piece sized spiders jumped on me, and I freaked out. If I hadn’t had safety goggles on, I’m certain I would have glued my eye balls.
Instead I just mucked up an already sloppy job.
It cleaned up okay, and I’ll sand and paint it when I’ve recovered from the trauma
Posted on 2015-08-12 in HomeMade
Tatum helped test out the anchor if the shelves in the garage. It passed.
Posted on 2015-08-09 in HomeMade
I’m not the only one making home improvements; I’m the only one that doesn’t have the Facebook.
Here’s an impressive Mariel improvement.
Posted on 2015-08-08 in FloraFauna
Saw a rabbit our by our hot tub… a day after we saw a Racer snake.
Hopefully those two will take turns in the yard so we have less death.
Posted on 2015-08-08 in Happenings
Dex and I installed an open sprinkler irrigation controller.
It is choice! The only slight mis-steps are A) We had 9 stations which meant we had to upgrade to 20 stations because the standard 8 wasn’t going to cut it and B) I didn’t get a right proper water proof enclosure so we had to hack the old one up to fit the new guts.
There were quite a few new talents to take care of here. One most important was testing for live 120V AC wires – with my kid watching. No one was shocked.
We managed to get it all done before Mariel got home and we surprised her with some automated, 10 seconds per zone, water works. It felt like fireworks 🙂
