I Can Kick!
She was happily kicking away while
I tried to get a few pictures of
her in her cute little outfit.

So it’s been a really good and productive week off. I’m glad I took the opportunity to do it. Some pretty major things got done during the week…most of which had been put off because I didn’t want to get to them during a weekend or always had something else that needed to be done first.

Today was pretty normal as far as things go. After a mid-day nap, I went outside and mowed the lawn for the first time in nearly three weeks. Some parts needed it badly, while others were a waste of gas. Regardless, the job is now done for a while again.

Once I finished that project, I decided to break out the cart (seeing as how I already had the lawnmower out) and haul out the remainder of the concrete block wall and other debris that resulted from Friday evening’s activities. It was not as bad as I’d expected (hauling out the remaining concrete), but it wasn’t really fun either. But it’s out now, and I no longer have to deal with it.

I took down the plastic that I’d used to seal off that portion of the basement, and also picked up things a bit while I was down there. It looks much better than it used to, and it’s just cleaner now. I still need to do a fair amount of cleaning down there, but that won’t happen until the sump basin is installed, which cannot happen until the rest of the hole is dug. As of this evening, we’re about half way there with the hole. I haven’t dug any more since Friday night, but it shouldn’t go too badly if I tackle it in small bits during the week (a bucket or two here or there). And if not, Erik might have to come out for a few more beers and some excavation fun. 🙂

At any rate, it was a good week as I noted above, but it’ll be back to the salt mine for me come tomorrow morning. In a way it will be nice, but I have a feeling that catching up with various communications may be a bit of a nightmare. We’ll see. At any rate, it’ll be nice to return to more of a normal routine. I had a routine for the most part during this last week, but it rarely consisted of the same sort of project. 🙂 It was just always a new project here, then one there, etc.

I don’t know if it will be this summer yet (it might not be until after Labor day), but I have a few more things I want to work on that will require a day or two off. I need to do some work in the garage so I can get more storage space worked out before wintertime comes, and I also would like to do some stuff in the storage shed for the same reason. I’m pretty sure I know what I want to do in the garage, but the storage shed I’ve got to think about yet.

Anyway, I’ve rambled enough about that stuff, and it looks like we’re going to see some rain and storm activity within the next two hours or so (I can now hear thunder periodically), so I’m going to wrap this up and call it a night. Until next time…

“The best way to predict the future is to invent it.”
– Alan Kay

–MZ