So I had today (Monday) off in addition to the regular weekend. Or really, I just took today off on one of those ‘use it or lose it’ days.

I don’t intend to ramble too much tonight, but just as a teaser…I do have some pretty hot (in my mind, anyway) topics about which I intend to share an opinion one of these days. It’ll be great!

At any rate, the weekend was pretty uneventful, really. Saturday I spent time in the basement removing some shelving from a wall I needed to paint, scrubbing (with bleach water) said wall(s), and otherwise hanging out. It was a good day.

Sunday, I got a coat of paint on the walls mentioned from Saturday’s activity, and also put a second coat of paint on two sections of basement wall that were devoid of a second coat. We went to a picnic event in town on Sunday afternoon/evening, and that was really nice (I wished I’d brought the camera). And today was the day of work…

It started out simply enough. I slept in (which was nice), made a quick trip to town to do a few errands, and on my way back as I drove by the WPA, I noticed pelicans. Very near to the road.

Of course, I didn’t have the camera.

So I drove the remainder of the way home (less than a mile), grabbed the camera and 75-300mm lens, and headed back to the pelicans. It was so very cool — I’d been wanting to get pelican pictures for some time and, while they didn’t all turn out as cool as I’d hoped (namely since the pelicans closest to me weren’t interested in hanging around), I was still successful in my quest.

So that was cool. And made my day look brighter. 🙂

I went back home and decided to start working on projects. First off was to do as much basement painting as I could get accomplished before running completely out of paint. I still have a little paint left (if I scrape out the 5-gallon pail), but I did just enough scraping of paint from the pail to get my main work area completed. I need to pick up a gallon or two to complete the basement, but it’s really down to the last stuff now. And that’s a good thing.

After I cleaned up from the painting thing, I decided to go outside and do a little work. Even though it was in the mid-80’s at the time. I managed to get two trailer loads of river rock removed from the eastern landscaping bed on the front of the house. I also removed the edging. After having to fix the tire on the trailer on the second load of rock removal (always a fun time), I decided I’d done enough hard and hot manual labor for the day and called it good. But at least that area now looks a little better — it’s not quite as ghetto-looking as it was (with a pile of rocks sitting there). I still have at least two more loads of rock to remove from that side, but that’s all behind the bushes and next to the house, so it’ll be a little more complicated to remove (and a project for another day).

Amongst other things, I decided it was then time to work on some side jobs earlier in the day/evening than later, so I got some semi-substantial work completed on those, which is always a good thing. After some ice cream (with fresh peaches) and the 10pm news, I’m brought to the current time where I find myself idly typing this.

So, that was my weekend in a nutshell. This will be a very short week for me since I have Friday off, so I’ve got a whopping three days to sit at the office this week. It’ll be weird, really. But I’ve got plenty of things to tinker with there that are different from what I find myself doing at home…so that makes life more enjoyable.

Anyway, I’m going to leave it at that and call it a night. So until next time…

“Everybody pities the weak; jealousy you have to earn.”
– Arnold Schwarzenegger (1947-)

–MZ