Interesting Hat
She was only interested in her hat after a bit. But we learned all about pinecones and rocks and grass and trees today, so she was due for some mindless stuff.

There was no shortage of its intake (Vitamin D) this weekend. That’s for sure!

We all stayed fairly busy this weekend and had a pretty productive time. On Saturday, I spent most of the afternoon outside ‘stealing’ the rest of the gravel that the county snowplow had so kindly deposited in the ditch for me to ‘mow’ all year. All-in-all, I managed to walk away with something like ten trailer loads of gravel. Since each trailer full can hold somewhere around 5 cubic feet of material, I put quite a bit of material on parts of the driveway (and parking spot for the car).

There’s more gravel I could get, but I was damn tired of raking up gravel (and got the most important parts where it was deep) that I called it quits. I even managed to get a bit of a suntan in the process.

In other news, the sump basin experiment is working so far. There have been a few moist spots in the basement floor (at various cracks) where there’s sign of some capillary action going on, but there’s been no actual water flow recorded in the basement (above the floor level) yet. The pump still runs 3-4 times per day, and it seems to be doing what I intended it to do. So that’s a good thing.

Today it was WARM outside. It was near 70 and ideal for just hanging out, which Kirstin and I did while Beth did some garden work. Good times. Lots of pictures, education for Kirstin (about things outside), and even some time for George and the other animals (sans Felix, who is afraid of the outdoors) to enjoy a beautiful day. So that was basically the weekend in a nutshell.

And seeing as how it’s now past midnight, I’m heading for bed. So until next time…

“I have nothing to declare except my genius.”
– Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) upon arriving at U.S. customs 1882

–MZ