- 10:38 Client newsletter: full version on site; mailable ver. ready to go after one last client check... Phew! Time to stretch...
- 10:52 blog.echovermont.org/
- 12:18 For the 3rd time this past week, a hairy woodpecker is tapping on our house. Not sure whether to worry about the house or the woodpecker.
- 18:56 Great afternoon with kids b/c of sisterK! Yay! She's so awesome.
- 23:10 Thanks to GM for ordering http://www.cafepress.com/whimsicaldreams.2
7285886 !! Much appreciated!
- 07:47 writing PHP to (ideally) simplify site upkeep. This continues to be more fun that I expect it will, making things work smoothly.
- 10:30 cleaning after microwave tried to kill us / playing with Mo / coding in interstitial moments / lawn + garden too? / planning gaming. Busy!
- 13:23 "13 more things that don't make sense" from New Scientist: http://www.newscientist.com/special/1
3-more-things - 15:04 Timeline: climate change research, political responses: http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn9
912-timeline-climate-change.html?full=tr ue
- 14:50 R+B are cutting up those big logs we got; M is practicing biking (I'm spotting). Nice day for all this!
- 22:15 Apparently breaded catfish and weird "creole mustard" (=stoneground+mayo) will raise my blood sugar farther than cake & ice cream. *sigh*
LoudTweeter's server is still kaput. Sympathies to him! Manual repost...maybe with edits.
Mojo grew overnight! I mean, yeah, they do that, but this was a lot!
6:13 AM Jul 1st
Great swim this morning; makes up for missing some of last week due to sick kid and for some of the short swims in the week before.
12:24 PM Jul 1st
Podcast from On Point on Memorial Day, asking (among other things) what is our American freedom FOR? http://www.onpointradio.org/2009/05/mem
2:49 PM Jul 1st
KKS & Mo: cookies & spinach; R: steak & potato salad; me: dishes. Perfect balance!
7:20 PM Jul 1st
Mojo gets to go to his bud Preston's house today after pre-school! They are both totally psyched! Yay! Thanks, MamaJen!
7:03 AM Jul 2nd
Mojo grew overnight! I mean, yeah, they do that, but this was a lot!
6:13 AM Jul 1st
Great swim this morning; makes up for missing some of last week due to sick kid and for some of the short swims in the week before.
12:24 PM Jul 1st
Podcast from On Point on Memorial Day, asking (among other things) what is our American freedom FOR? http://www.onpointradio.org/2009/05/mem
2:49 PM Jul 1st
KKS & Mo: cookies & spinach; R: steak & potato salad; me: dishes. Perfect balance!
7:20 PM Jul 1st
Mojo gets to go to his bud Preston's house today after pre-school! They are both totally psyched! Yay! Thanks, MamaJen!
7:03 AM Jul 2nd
- 09:20 PossibleSunflowers are definitely not beans OR squash so they're out of the garden now (into a pot, just in case they ARE sunflowers).
- 11:51 Raining again. Thinking it's not the day for M's first camping overnight. Hope KKS gets our msg to this effect!
- 09:43 Wood arrived! • M's fever is back, lower than yesterday, so again with no pre-school, little work. • Filtering old files I can do, though.
- 11:22 Sometimes, despite ...interesting... sounds from upstairs, you just don't want to find out what the 4-year-old is up to. Clank! Bang? Shake!
- 16:57 Mowed lawn, mailed letters, had spicy noodles at co-op, made half a bank deposit, and delivered old bricks. We are awesome! I need a nap...
Big Truck, Small RoadThis year, R took care of ordering wood and arranging for delivery. It all happened faster than in previous years, and more cheaply (although it will be more work on our end). Yay. R ordered logs, which turned out to be seasoned ones (a good thing), so we'll have to buck them up to stove length, and rent a splitter to make them small enough to stack.
Using a boom with claw to lay the log lengths on a pileM was thrilled to watch the Murray, the wood tech, use the grabbing claw on the end of the boom to lift the wood off the truck and lay it in the cleared space near our shed. One at a time, carefully!
Five, maybe six, cord of wood/When you go by logs, it's a lot harder to estimate cordage. This is somewhere between 5 and 7 cord of wood (we stack pretty snugly, and a cord is a volume measurement, so I'm guessing not quite 6 cord.) Our woodshed holds just over 5 easily. We'll have to rent or borrow a longer chain saw (some of those logs are about 20"-24" in diameter!) maybe, as well as the splitter.
The photo suggests the wood is leaning on the apple tree; it's not, but it's close. Aside: that poor apple had its top lopped off by the power company, clearing branches off the lines. This was a good precaution against the storms&emdash;we've had fewer power outages since they really started keeping up with that&emdash;but I wish they'd told me they were going to this poor tree!
And our winter's heat is mostly here!
Cross-posted from my Small Measures blog
- 13:53 It's somewhat surreal to look out the window and see an excavator digging out the foundation of the house you're standing in...
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lepi or turbocat, do either of you remember?) blocks part of their access to the wall from the outside. They had a trackhoe outside, and two or three guys with sledges inside.When this is done, they'll pour and insulate a concrete wall, tying that into the concrete walls that are now under the front porch (which replaced boulder-footers in about 1990 I think) and into the back wall, which is still boulders, but tied to the concrete slabs & footers of the back hall extension and the greenhouse floor, c 1985ish)
Cool stuff, but the excavator out the window was still surprising to see, even though I knew it was onsite.
- 22:55 Recommended (food for thought at minimum): http://www.thenewatlantis.com/publicatio
ns/shop-class-as-soulcraft
Back from vacation (we went to Philadelphia). It was good to be gone; it will be good to get back into the stride of things, but won't happen fully this week as I'm off again Thursday (back to Philly, more or less -- how the hell do TWENTY years pass so ... so ... fast and interestingly? ).
Trying to not take on anything new until I've FINISHED some stuff, and trying to figure out what work to bring (I'll take train for part of it after all) since Thurs & Fri are my usual work days and I can't do no work for 2 weeks in a row. (Also, if I wait on trying to get new stuff, someone else will do it/be hired and I won't screw it up and I won't screw up what is in my hands. This sounds weird, and is phrased negatively, but I think is good planning for me now and I'm just now to sleepy to phrase it better.) Wishing as always for my time to set up and do some of my own projects and sites, but must do the agreed-to/paid-to-do stuff first still.
On the other hand, although no work was done today (true about 2/3 of Tuesdays at present), I was the kind of Mom I want to be (basically cheerful, moderately organized, sharing attention, with my kid, instead of being too wrapped up in my own head/projects/chores). We mowed, tidied, planted marigolds, lettuce & spinach seeds, played with AuntieE, got haircuts, had ice cream with
lepi. Mojo knows that marigolds help keep the bugs away from other plants, now! 'Nuff tags, Kir? Sheesh.
- 08:04 Gorgeous weather today. Must feed Mojo. Looking forward to a short burst of intense paperwork, and then playing w/ kids in pm at swings.
I suppose I've mentioned that most Tuesdays and Wednesdays -- well, over half -- my sisterE and I combine the kids and split the day, so each of gets between 2-4 hours of work in (2 is much more likely, and sometimes even 3). Wednesdays this has been involving a lot of driving as well, so it's not as efficient as we think we should be, yet we haven't quite sorted out how to improve it....
I am very grateful for the splits though, and I thin the kids like it too. Even if it's inefficient.
- 15:16 Mojo is making a mud puddle. I keep hearing happy noises from the front yard!
- 22:09 Missed BSG:Daybreak 1 on hulu.com, but got to watch Daybreak 2-3. Some good, some OK, and one *really* cool bit. More hulu now, with bills.
After a nicely lazy afternoon, R took M to Concord for an overnight, so I stayed up late streaming tv shows and tidying the office.
- 15:12 To chirps of woodpeckers dueling over suet, I finished tedious bit of a small project. Works AND is semantically sound! Now for review...
- 19:37 Mojo, I & KKS are coloring Easter eggs!
- 14:52 Whiling away day w/ reading (mostly RaceFail'09), various chats (I hope I've made no more fool of self than usual), & playing trains w/ Mo.
- 16:02 Laughing at YouTube "interviews" with monsters from D&D 4th edition (vids from fkluv1n and others)
- 18:09 Plans change: laze, parent & paint, not watch bellydance. If I'd thought it out, I'd've realized this was predictable & preventable. Hrm.
- 15:35 *grumbles* at getting behavior right at the cost of what I think ought to be the semantic structure, but that was too many levels.
- 19:00 Hah, found way to maybe do this with both semantic + behavior correctness.
- 19:45 Humidifying the house with laundry by the wood stove. Movie night with Mojo! _He_ says jammies first.
- 09:10 coffee + random(Abba, Chieftains, Vivaldi, Rusted Root, Gaelic Storm) wins initiative roll v. sorrow+chores. Plus getting to see E&L later!
- 20:33 Retail therapy: New sable brushes for me; foam and bulldozer model kit for Mojo. Thanks, Turbocat, for gift card!
Actually, I didn't totally take the day off. Also was total goddess of laundry, of keeping fire going, and of washing dishes, and didn't suck on the vaccuuming front either. Hah.
- Have I mentioned it's cold? Our 2 thermometers are no longer in sync, so it's maybe -4 to -14 F
- Overheard today: "Stay out of the hot sun!" **chuckle**
- is paying bills, and grateful I can.
- I wonder if ping.fm is working. I've lost more messages today...
- Later: (Well, heck. At least for some settings right now it is.) We are home and warm and going to eat to fight off the WhinesOfDoom.
- More later: I just lost all motivation. Bother! There's LOTS of cleaning (+ deChristmasing) for a party on Sunday. *grumps at self*
- 18:44 A jug of wine, a loaf of bread ... and the house all to myself (and a very large dog and a demon cat) for the weekend.
- 21:00 Good Faeries and Bad Faeries dancing at the end of January in Eugene, Oregon:
http://www.faerieballs.com/
Enjoy the music! - 22:21 Check out http://www.surlalunefairytales.com/ -- comprehensive. Amazing resource. Go spend a moment, an hour, a day, reading.
- 14:40 Good meeting w/ client (short, to the point, friendly) this a.m. MonkeyBoy had lovely time at E's during. Lazy now, but not enough nap...
- 17:13 is finding the living room after Christmas and camp-outs and Arts'n'Crafts. It's there somewhere.
- 19:50 is celebrating homemade chicken soup and a almost-4 yr old who wants to play Scrabble... somehow. :)
metasilk ...
- 08:32 R has our evil cold of doom. Weather: thawed. ?? Snowstorms 21st + 24th; Rain yesterday. Thaw now? Bah.
- 09:55 laughing at Savannah chasing our squirrels!
- 11:45 Tea, a drink with jam and bread... homemade blueberry jam. And peanut butter. And chicken soup. Mm. (next: more laundry + bingo w/ boy)
- 16:15 is goofing off, taking ibuprofen, going to make soup after more laundry. Watching MonkeyBoy & Savannah play is hysterical!
metasilk ...
... I really wanted to write "wrapstuff" ... yikes!
- 17:26 Exhausted. Tornado of nieces/nephews/presents. Mother in law read SWAPA out loud to me. All 3 mothers in 1 house yesterday. Today: sledding.
... I really wanted to write "wrapstuff" ... yikes!
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