Nothing spells out the weekend quite like waking up just as, or more exhausted than when you went to bed the night before. I even slept in until 9:00am before crawling out of bed. The extra two hours of sleep did not do much in the way of helping me out, at all. Possibly made it worse. Yay.
Good morning Saturday. How are you all doing? Just walked up the road to pick up my eldest from a sleep over. Nice that it’s so close by. Just over my in-laws fence, and up the way from us. She had a fabulous time, sounded like non stop fun and excitement when she explained it all to me in a flurry of hand gestures, partial dance steps, and “um, actually” as is her current affectation. The youngest however howled about having no sleep overs, fire side play dates, or parties to attend. She carried on that way until about 10pm, when she crashed, hard. So our evening with one child out for the night was a bust. No movie date night for us. Glad we had lunch together earlier in the day, otherwise that time would have been sorely missed. Hard to plan with two living chaos machines in the house. Little whirlwinds of destruction, and mess making. Are they friends today, mortal enemies, enemy combatants, best buddies joined at the hip? Or mortal kombat avatars looking to score a near fatality? Spin the wheel, take a guess, it’s anybody’s game!
What are the rest of todays plans you ask? Well, my wife and youngest child went to the Zoo for a walk about. My guess is to go see the poison dart frogs and snakes which my youngest likes so much. Reptiles are her jam, right now anyway. Used to be chickens(?) for some reason, then hamsters in mazes, and now snakes and such. The oldest is going bowling for 2 hours mid day, so I’ll be off taking her to that, then wandering the nearby mall to occupy myself.
If the weather holds I wouldn’t mind doing another Halloween Haunt at Wonderland before it gets really really cold at night. But truth be told we did go seven times this year, and I got one of my big wish rides in, so I’m pretty good on the thrill ride front. I’d love to ride Leviathan next spring if my oldest is finally tall enough to join me. And then Behemoth too. That would mean we can ride all of the largest coasters in the park height restriction free! Giv’er!
Made the effort in yesterdays surprise sunshine to start the leaves in the yard. Managed nine full bags of mulched up leaves. I’d much prefer to do it once on a long day, but only 30% of our leaves have come down so far. Enough to be noticeable compared to our neighbours whom pay people to maintain their property. But not enough to be a major problem. We need another one or two big wind/rain storms to bring the rest down. My vacuum bag mulcher needs leaves on the dryer side of the spectrum to work without clogging. So I need a storm to bring them down, and then two days of sunshine and breezes to dry those leaves off so that I can work them over and dress my front bed with the resulting mulch. I prefer it to hand bagging, by a very wide margin. It also requires less raking, which I also prefer. Very little leaning over or bending. Hardly any squatting so my thighs don’t scream at me for days afterwards. Plus I keep all the leaf moisture and biomass here where the trees are. Works for me. We used to have this toad that spent the spring/summer/fall in our garbage box, and he liked the leaf cover. Didn’t see him much this year, but we’ll keep it up in hopes the wee guy will come back. Keeping the leaf mulch is good for butterflies and helping acorns, walnuts to germinate. I like having trees on the property. I’d turn it into a small scale arboretum if I could! Rotating trees through as I need them. Mainly I want to keep the trees for 10-15 years, and then harvest them for wood stock for my furniture projects. I have my eyes on a saw mill, or chainsaw mill operation of my own to process the few logs I will have over the coming years. To dream a dream of wood. Ha.
Not sure why but it doesn’t feel much like a Saturday to me – yet. Hard to describe how a specific day of the week feels. But they certainly have one. I know that much. I’m just having difficulty putting the “feel” of it into coherent words. Maybe some other time. Have a good one. Ciao Bella.
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