Cute Outfit!
This is one of the outfits that
Minda got her — it looks so cool.
And yes, that’s Deadliest Catch
on the Discovery Channel in the
background.
It’s been a bit of an interesting day today. For starters, it’s been incredibly humid all day today, but then it’s also been quite warm and overcast all day as well. I was at home with Kirstin all day today, and it was a good day. She actually slept a lot throughout the day which was nice.
I managed to work in her baby book and calendar a bit, went outside and did some work in and around the bushes in front of the house while she was sleeping, and actually got a few work-related things accomplished. There are other things, but it was a pretty productive day. We got a short shot of rain in the mid-morning, which was welcome. I don’t want buckets of rain, but it was a nice rain for about 10-15 minutes. Soothing, really.
While I was outside for a few minutes working on weeding the bushes, etc., I walked over to the garden to take a quick look at my handiwork from Monday. I wasn’t quite sure exactly how much of the root and grass/weed material I’d removed from the space, but it was quite apparent after the rain that I’d done a pretty good job. So that should be all ready to go now. I know Beth is looking forward to working out there shortly.
Tonight’s supper was ribeye steak and asparagus. I got out two steaks (and we’ve no shortage of asparagus) and prepped them for the grill. They turned out fantastic, so that was a good meal. I don’t mind doing that sort of meal at all, but I try to pick items that give me leftovers to take to work, etc., during the week…so we don’t do the steak thing that often (because I’m not keen on steak or similar leftovers). But, seeing as how we had tacos on Monday night and ‘the pasta stuff’ when Minda was here on Sunday, I’m set for the week as far as lunch goes, so it was a welcome change.
We got a significant rain event later in the evening…sometime around 7:30 or 8. I haven’t gone out to the rain gauge to check exactly what we got, but it was really coming down for a while there. It’s rain events like that which remind me that I need to get a section of rain gutter back on the house (I took it down last fall when I replaced a fascia board) and also get some extensions to keep the (front of the house) rainfall from collecting or being deposited in the rock bed around the front of the house. It was just pouring into the rock and essentially being pooled there to a degree by the edging material. It’s much easier to watch now that I’ve done some of that random maintenance on the bushes and area in general (which started last fall).
One outside thing I’d like to do (perhaps this summer, we’ll see) is to essentially re-landscape the rock beds. In particular (I don’t really want to change anything) temporarily remove the rocks, re-grade, put down a new weed barrier (e.g. plastic or fabric), re-place the rocks, and possibly plant a new bush or two (we’ll see how the big/tall bushes recover this year). I need to do some re-grading around the sides of the house where the edging ends anyway, so I might as well do it all out and get it done the way I want.
It should actually be a fairly minimal cost (aside from time), because I really shouldn’t need to buy much of anything (unless I want more rock) short of fabric and new edging. We’ll see what happens. A lot of this will depend upon if I do any other dirt work this summer or not. Since I need to move some dirt, I’d rather borrow a skidloader and do it all in one weekend (or shot) rather than split it up into separate projects.
Anyway, enough of that stuff. I’m going to cut this a little short tonight and head for the hills. So until next time…
–MZ