Well, it’s pretty obvious that this is the first blog post since Thursday evening. My apologies to the two people who read this frequently. 🙂

We had a good weekend, and I was intending to write an entry or two during the weekend, but I was always just tired and wanted to go to bed rather than sit and write…so it’s all coming out now (well, in a more condensed version).

For starters, we went to my folks’ place on Friday afternoon. Ma was having a baby shower at her house on Saturday afternoon, so we pretty much hung around Friday evening and Saturday morning. Good times were had; the shower turned out really well. It was cool to see some of the people that were there. Many I’d not seen since our wedding, and there were even a few I’d not seen since my graduation or before (on the order of 10 years). We came away with quite a few items, so it worked out really well.

We came back home Sunday morning and Minda came out for the afternoon. Excellent times. Minda had not yet met Kirstin (although she’s a huge fan of the Flickr site), so it was good to get those two acquainted and just hang around and get caught up. The weekend wasn’t all that productive from a project standpoint, but we certainly got to see a lot of people and share good times. Always important.

So today was back to work, which wasn’t nearly as intense as Friday had been. Of course, I was trying to get out a little early on Friday because of our pending trip, so that didn’t help at all. Friday was incredibly productive and it worked out in such a way that I was able to sneak out when I wanted. Anyway, today I managed to finish something that was left hanging (but not worked on much) on Friday. So that was good. Sometimes I surprise myself. It took some time and dedication, but I got it working.

So tomorrow (Tuesday) is another day I get to spend at home with Kirstin. In a perfect world she’ll sleep enough during the day to let me get a few work-related things done. That doesn’t always happen, but the sooner I can get that stuff done, the less busy I’ll be for a while. So we’ll see what happens and go from there.

In other news, I re-tilled the garden plot a bit tonight. It’d been tilled good and deep a few weeks ago, but not yet planted (namely due to Beth’s lack of time) so it was getting a bit weedy. So I broke out the weed eater with tiller attachment and went to town. It probably took a good half hour or better, but I got it all dug up (really pretty well). I then raked the junk out, spread some preen, and raked it in. Since preen is a pre-emergent herbicide mix, it doesn’t do any good for existing weeds but prevents new ones from coming up. The garden likely won’t get any planting done until this weekend (and it’s supposed to rain a little bit during the week), so I figure my application is just in time to keep things going well.

I also took time this evening (it was nearly an hour and a half) to upload some new pictures. I don’t like doing more than two days worth of pictures at any given time…and this time I had four days of pictures. Eesh. Ah well, by the time I got to thinking about uploading pictures last night, I was way too tired. So I did it tonight. Something like 48 pictures got uploaded tonight. It takes a bit of creativity to keep things from getting too boring with captions and titles.

I know I had something else profound about which I intended to ramble, but I can’t recall off hand. So, I’m taking that as my cue to stop for the night and bid thee adieu.

Until next time…

–MZ