Month: July 2022

Yesterday was a bit of a blur, but we have now surpassed the 200 day writing milestone. Came & went without fanfare or markings of any kind. Seems like something I’d do. My hips ache from all of the walking we’ve done the last two days mooching around the town events. I also carried my youngest around a fair bit too, which didn’t help my back, nor my hips much. Partly why I have been consistently lifting weights, so I could do so, without further injury to my back. Who’d have thought getting fat & lazy would lead to minor, but nagging injuries hmmm. Well, exercising just a little every day has counter acted some of those nagging back issues, and made me less tired on the daily. Which is nice. I’m happy about it. Hasn’t done me much in the way of weight loss, but that hasn’t been my goal as of yet. I wanted the back issue to soften a bit over several months first.

And now we are, what? Three days into the 63 days of summer break. Several tantrums deep at this point. Some days are hot and sticky, some rainy, and some have been windy & cool. The whole gamut of possible summer time weather in three days. Very strange days indeed.

Saw the second to last episode of Stranger Things Season Four last night, and I’m pumped for the two plus hours of the finale! From what I hear there will be one more season and then it’s all over and done with. It’s been mostly quality thus far, so I appreciate them not going on until we’re all sick to death of the show. Top quality!

As great as we have it here, there are questions to be answered regarding our collective history. So take pride, but be aware that our history is not pristine, and free from horrible acts of cruelty.

The Canada Day/Strawberry Festival is upon us. The fireworks, though late (at 9:52pm) were wonderful yet again.

It is currently just after 8:00am on Friday July 1st, and The Summer Break 2022 is officially underway. Sounds as though the kids woke up on or around six something this morning even though there is nothing much going on until 11:00am. These kids have got to learn to sleep in, as they are exhausting when they get up early and then make demands they know cannot be met at that time. Unreasonable, logicless children. Primal savagery contained in minuscule bodies full of too much energy and not enough introspective self awareness. Trouble in waiting these kids are. When do they start to sleep in? When does that phenomenon begin to take hold? I desperately need to know, so that I can set a countdown clock for it in the back of my mind.

Not going to lie, the weather looks sketchy at best outside these windows. Could downpour on us as we attend the town’s events. Drizzle is one thing, but a full on deluge from the heavens is another issue entirely. Drizzle will limit the crowds and we can still have a good time, a downpour will cause everything to screech to a halt, and will kill the vibe. Plus it’ll set the kids to whining and crying in disappointment. We’ve tried not to shield them from disappointment so that they could learn to deal with it, and build up resilience to things not going as planned, but both being under eight years of age, means tears and moaning endlessly regardless. The Joys of parenthood. We’ll make the most of whatever we can get.

Nine weeks with the children at home. Well technically eight, as the kids both go to dance camp for one week this summer when my wife goes back to work, and they weren’t scheduled to be back in school yet. So we have eight weeks to try to stay sane and keep them occupied enough not to kill one another. A razor’s edge of keeping them busy without falling over into over tired territory which is just as bad as bored and irritable. I get it now, why our parents smacked the shit out of us in our youth. Not that we condone it, but I get it. I hated it, but I get it in a very visceral way. How much simpler it would be to solve every irritation with a slap upside the head, or a slipper to the behind. But all that does is breed resentment and more outbursts. Though calm talking and time outs only worked well when they were very little. The hankerin’ for a spankerin’ as The Simpson’s said, is growing some days. May cooler heads continue to prevail.

I have started to think alot about a live edge waterfall coffee table build for the fall. Can I just say, what a relief it is to have the screen door build finished. We’ve had many cool breezy days where it has seen use, and I am in love. It’s what I always envisioned for the house. And I’m still very interested in a slab table build project. It will depend greatly on price, as wood is kind of expensive still. I know plywood is not anywhere near as cheap as it used to be. So I can only imagine what the price of hard woods is doing these days. Maybe instead of Walnut, we use Cherry or one of the more locally sourced species like Ash. Of which I have a bunch all ready. I just need it to be 1″ thick or thinner instead of the 9/4 it is now. Which is heavy and unwieldy. Things to consider for the fall. Unless a very specific request comes in from my spouse, I won’t be building any furniture for at least eight child filled weeks. Yesterday’s rushed rabbit hutch was the last of it for now. Unless we need an outdoor over sized hutch for the rabbit to live in.