Well, today was a relatively mundane but somewhat interesting day. Kirstin finally had a day with me where she was doing the cat nap thing throughout the day (rather than sleeping for somewhat extended periods of time (an hour or more)). It wasn’t quite as unproductive as I expected it to be, but she was also fidgety enough to not want to be held for long periods of time either. So she spent a good amount of time in her bouncer with the play gym thing to keep her occupied.

When she slept, she slept fine (unless I tried to move her). When she woke up, she’d play more. Go figure. 🙂

It was really quite cold all day today. I don’t think it got above about 53 degrees. There was a minimal wind factor, but it was still quite cold. So short of going outside to get the mail, I pretty much stayed inside all day. Until Beth got home.

When Beth got home I went out to do a bit of mowing (I wanted to mow the field and tree line one more time before changing the blades). So I got that done. During that process, one of our neighbors came by with my birthday present delivery (seeing as how it didn’t fit in the trunk of Beth’s car) from Beth. She went and got me the tow-behind sprayer that I’d been talking about getting for some time. Yay! So I can now wire up a harness to get it power from the lawnmower and go to town.

The real reason I wanted such a contraption is so that I can pull it behind the lawnmower and use it with products like 2,4-D (I have a 2.5 gallon jug of the LV4 Ester variety — much more concentrated than the pre-mixed stuff you get in the store) for weed control in the yard. Specifically with dandelions and the few other pesky bits. But, I can also use it possibly to spray Roundup on the entire field section to kill it off before I work on trying to get it properly seeded and prepared. So that’s awesome. Will make some of those jobs considerably easier.

So anyway, after I finished mowing the bit of lawn I wanted to do, I removed the deck and changed out the blades. So I can mow properly again this weekend sometime (and do the whole yard)…depending upon if it’s rainy or whatnot.

I also took the opportunity this evening to do my semi-annual thorough cleaning of the litter box. I don’t wish this job on anyone. I’m really glad we use scoopable litter (because I can’t imagine doing this very often), but even still it’s a Good Thing to do this about twice a year (spring and fall). That probably took an hour to complete, start to finish. Half of the house smells like lemon Pine-Sol now (which isn’t bad), but I can tell when the cats have been to the litter box — because they also smell of Pine-Sol upon their return.

So tomorrow’s my birthday. Go me. 🙂 The planets aligned in such a way that Beth and I are actually going out on a date — by ourselves — for the first time since Kirstin came along. So she gets her first teenage babysitter for a few hours tomorrow night while we go to eat. Should be good times.

I was curious how this comment thing worked with the blog. For some reason, the make/view comments link doesn’t show up on the main page, but will show up if you look at an individual post (click on the title which will take you to the individual post page). I’m not exactly sure what’s going on; we’ll see. I may have to tweak the template a bit. But I did verify that once I found where I could make a comment that it worked. So I guess that’s good. 🙂 We’ll see if it gets used at all.

I’ve been repeatedly playing ‘Close Every Door’ from Joseph & The Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat soundtrack. Why, I’m not quite sure. It came up in the playlist this afternoon and caught my attention. So I’m in one of those weird moods where that particular piece works. I’m not sure what that means (if it means anything), but it’s been in my head now.

So, all of that said, I think I’m heading for bed now. So until next time…

–MZ