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Weekend update
Jul. 27th, 2008 05:56 pmTook last Thursday and Friday off -- spent the mini vacation cleaning the garage in preparation for R's fourth birthday party (including finishing the mowing at 9 PM Friday night). Saturday had 20 or so kids over, plus another 10 - 15 adults. In the process of hanging some shelving in the garage, I found that both batteries from my first cordless drill had both given up the ghost, and would not hold a charge. Looks like I may need to order another one of these, since the other drill is a good 10 or so years old at this point. Though I've already got all the other kit that this one includes (a couple of batteries plus a charger), so maybe I can get just the drill at one of the stores and save about half the price.
Sunday had my parents and sister over for a quieter day (burgers on the grill, and sundaes and yesterday's cake for dessert); also had a call from![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
geordieyankee to wish R a happy birthday from across the pond. Now, we're just left with getting the kids fed and in bed, and things ready for work tomorrow.
Fortunately, in another week I've got a week's vacation, but this is a real vacation and not "take some time off from work because there's Things to be Done." No real plans, but there's day trips to be had, and plenty of pool time, assuming the weather co-operates.
Though in the process of composing this, I've now got my mother-in-law, sister-in-law and one of their cousins (and S-I-L's one year old kid) for tea and carrot cake, and I've had to spend 10 minutes outside in the rain, pulling in the container garden since we're now getting even more rain, and we've dumped two inches or more of water out of the basil pot enough times that we're starting to worry that one of these times the soil will be so waterlogged that when we tip the pot to pour the water out we're going to end up with a giant glob of mud and plants going out with the water. So much for a quiet night, I guess....
Sunday had my parents and sister over for a quieter day (burgers on the grill, and sundaes and yesterday's cake for dessert); also had a call from
geordieyankee to wish R a happy birthday from across the pond. Now, we're just left with getting the kids fed and in bed, and things ready for work tomorrow.Fortunately, in another week I've got a week's vacation, but this is a real vacation and not "take some time off from work because there's Things to be Done." No real plans, but there's day trips to be had, and plenty of pool time, assuming the weather co-operates.
Though in the process of composing this, I've now got my mother-in-law, sister-in-law and one of their cousins (and S-I-L's one year old kid) for tea and carrot cake, and I've had to spend 10 minutes outside in the rain, pulling in the container garden since we're now getting even more rain, and we've dumped two inches or more of water out of the basil pot enough times that we're starting to worry that one of these times the soil will be so waterlogged that when we tip the pot to pour the water out we're going to end up with a giant glob of mud and plants going out with the water. So much for a quiet night, I guess....
