Moon Through The Tree
When I was closing up the house for the night, it
was hard to miss the big moon high in the sky.
I decided to grab the camera, mess with some
settings (like exposure and shutter speeds), and
see if I could get a reasonable-quality night
photo. I don’t think I did too bad, actually.
So it’s been yet another very busy day. But pretty productive, I would have to say. The work day was relatively productive, but that helps because the phone was pretty quiet. I can multitask very well, except when it comes to the phone. But I got several things accomplished and working the way they should be, and that’s always a nice feeling (better than when I’d left the office on Wednesday evening).
Seeing as how I had been pretty productive and didn’t want to start anything big before I left (and also seeing as how it was nearly 70 degrees outside, sunny, and just generally AWESOME), I came home about 30-45 minutes early. I had to stop by Willie’s on the way home to pick up a few items for spaghetti salad, but that wasn’t a big deal at all.
I got home and shortly after changing clothes went outside to enjoy some of the beautiful day. I didn’t really do anything spectacularly amazing, though. I took down the plastic from the upstairs windows (which meant that I had to get out the extension ladder), which took not nearly as long as it did to put up. 🙂 I wanted to do that now that it’s warm outside again, and also wanted to get that down so the window trim could air out a bit before getting a fresh coat of paint to touch-up where any of it came off with the adhesive from the tape.
So that’s done, and I decided that I was going to also remove the old plastic from the basement windows. I’d never touched it since we bought the house, and one of my summer projects is to fix up the basement windows…so this was a bit of a necessary task. That didn’t take that long to accomplish, but while I was at it, I did something I’ve wanted to do for a long time — look inside the cistern!
Yes, it’s official. I have finally seen the inside of the cistern, the magic quarter of my basement which is wholly unused space. It’s not nearly as bad as I thought it would be (see, the aforementioned window plastic on the basement windows was not opaque enough for me to see through). I fully removed the storm window and stuck my head inside. It’s quite dank in there (I’m not sure how much dried sludge has collected on the floor since I didn’t drop a ladder in there and actually go inside), but about what I expected. So that was kinda exciting. I still really can’t do anything with that space (until I get some sort of door cut in the wall to the rest of the basement), but I could potentially at least get in there and clean it out now.
So anyway, back to the spaghetti salad. I had to pick that stuff up so I could make it for a funeral on Saturday, since we were asked to supply a salad. Not that big a deal, really. I’ll drop it off tomorrow morning in one of the refrigerators at church and they’ll have it with plenty of time to spare for Saturday afternoon. It’ll keep without trouble. So I made that this evening (after I got cleaned up from my aforementioned outdoor activities)…while making supper and my first batch of banana bread of the evening.
Yeah, that’s right — I made two batches of banana bread tonight. It just seemed like the thing to do. And it uses the bread machine. Might as well, seeing as how I’ve had it out for a while now. So actually as I write this post, I’m waiting for the second loaf to cool enough to put in a Ziploc bag for storage (and ultimately transport to work tomorrow). I made one for here at home, and one to bring to work. So I guess I’ve just been little Susie Homemaker tonight. Go figure.
Now, finally my last bit of business here tonight. The picture. When I was closing up the house, I thought I needed to take a picture. This is one of the pictures I took when messing with the camera for low light conditions. I actually think it turned out quite nice. I might have to do this sort of thing more often. Now that I use the digital camera every day, I usually keep it fairly close by and easy to reach.
Anyway, it’s now getting to be kinda late, so I think I’m heading for bed here shortly. So, until next time…
–MZ