Month: October 2022

That is what plaques my youngest child. Once she gets a runny nose, or a sore throat it moves around and around in her system, and eventually settles in the lungs for months on end of intermittent phlegmy coughing fits that keep her up at night, on a weekly basis. Not every single night, but at least 2 or 3 a week. And if the previous five years are any indication there isn’t much we can do besides wait it out. Which is taxing and unfair. But what are we gonna do about it. At this point, beyond children’s cough medicines (which are still ridiculously hard to come by) there isn’t much we can do. I try to keep them both in masks if out and about indoors, and at school, but something always follows them home. Fun.

Getting lots of outdoor activities done while we have all of this lovely sunshine. Making up for lost time due to Covid infections, so not working on my own leaves this weekend. Much to my chagrin. The leaves would be do dry & crispy. Just about perfect conditions for my electric leave mulcher/ bagger. I do hope it doesn’t rain between now and Monday morning, so I can get some of it done while it’s all in such great condition outside.

Catching a sunrise this morning, against my will I might ad. I would much prefer to get an extra hour or two of sleep on a Sunday morning, by sicky coughy McGee over here put the kibosh on that happening. In other news the kids are still going hardcore for the Rainvow Loom toy making all sorts of crafts with it. Nice to see some stick with it ness from both kids for a change. They usually pass from one thing to the next in a constant stream of “I want, I want”, but in this case they’ve been doing it for more than a month now, and still going strong. Of course, now that I’ve said it, it will get put aside and forgotten about for weeks on end.

Halloween is just around the corner, so you can sense the kids buzzing with excitement. Their ideas for what they are going to be change daily, if not hourly. Flip flopping between monsters, grim reapers, walking dead, fairies, and frogs or a chicken. The silly thing is, we have the costumes on hand to be any one of these things. They love going to grandma’s to hand out candy at their house to all the neighborhood kids, and then we hit up a few houses on the walk home, plus our nearest neighbours too. I tend to stay home and hand out candy myself while I watch Alien/Aliens or something I can’t watch with the kids around.

The downstairs apartment oven that is, because Sculpey smells a bit when you bake it. Have all the windows open in the basement, and two exhaust fans running full tilt. Won’t smell for long. On the bright side it isn’t a lingering noxious smell, so that’s nice. Once my Hellboy bust is cooked, he can come out of the oven around 6:00pm, after cooling down inside the oven for a few hours. Fingers crossed for no major cracks or after the fact calamities. This will round out the year at Six sculptures. I can’t recall if the two Sammie Slimes I made for my kids was this year or last year? There was snow on the ground, so could have been January or February of this year. I don’t know, the time it all runs together in a bit of a muddle now.

Today started off with a pow. Last of the pumpkin order was delivered to the school for their fall fair. Got a price list off for review. And another brochure out the door, with only a minor tweak kind, so nothing major. Plus I downloaded photo sets and logos for a new report coming soonish. Got the document set up and ready to roll once I get my data sheet. Have the aforementioned bust in the oven, pumpkins out of my hair, and some laundry washed and hung up in the kids closets. A real banger of a Monday. I’ll sort the rest of the washing shortly. Eating my breakfast now, forgot about it as I came in the door after drop off. Even managed to pump up the vehicle tire prior to leaving the house this morning. Oh I need to call about a doctor’s appointment. Nice catch! See you around town. Ciao Bella!

You know what really sucks, having a great idea or an amazing opportunity present itself at a time when you can’t act on it or do a damn thing about it. That really sucks. It’s like having an amazing idea for a story in your dreams but waking up and not being able to recall any part of it all all. Or getting an offer for a piece of equipment you desperately need when you’re committed to going away, and are heading out the door as you get the notification. D’oh! Damn. Double damn!

There are worse things, of course, but that kind of thing can really rankle. Although if you have time on your side you can sidle up to things you want at really random times. You might even stumble into a fantastic opportunity by just being somewhere at a useful time. Time. Such a funny, fickle thing. It can kill you, if you’re in the wrong place at the wrong time, or lift you up if you’re in the right place at the right time, or toy with you with right place wrong time, or right time at the wrong place, and seeing incredible things pass you by.

Just an awkward thought I was having while washing my kids Taekwon do outfit, and finding a new, huge stain that the machine has put there. I’ve tried three washes, at three temperatures, with pre-treatment, and stain removers, and no such luck getting rid of it as of yet. Such is life.