So I’m home for the day now, and it’s Friday! Woohoo! Although it could be a nicer Friday — it’s just been gloomy and rainy all day so far. While that’s alright to a degree, it makes the day a bit more ho-hum.

Anyway, I’ve noticed a fair increase in the number of trains moving along the BNSF tracks down the road a bit. Maybe I’ve just been more tuned into the train noise lately (which isn’t that bad when you’re over a mile from the tracks, it’s mostly low rumbling and the occasional whistle, depending upon the direction of the wind), but it seems like there are always trains running by.

I don’t believe that it’s just my imagination, though. I would imagine that there is likely a fair amount of dry (and liquid) fertilizer being moved in anticipation of the forthcoming agricultural season. So I would guess that there are actually more trains moving through the area (as this is a fairly major corridor).

Anyway, enough of that. Trains are cool. 🙂

So we gave Kirstin her first ‘full immersion’ bath last night. That sounds overly baptist of me, I guess. She sat in a small amount of water and was bathed in the sink as opposed to sponge bathed. Yeah, that’s it. I figured we’d have a screamer on our hands when that happened, but she did really well. She got a bit cold towards the end (I can’t say I blame her), but it really went off without a hitch. So that was a Good Thing.

Anyway, I think I’m going to just hang out for a while now on this gloomy Friday afternoon. I’ve still got plenty of things I can work on, but I’m just going to vegitate for a bit, I think. Yeah, that sounds good. Or in a Homer Simpson sort of way: ‘Mmmm, Vegitate…’

Until next time…

–MZ