Kids are being taken to do lots of programming today because we are going to have a date night for the first time, in several months. So first thing today my wife took the kids who are in costumes to the Zoo, to see the animals maul the pumpkins we delivered one night earlier this week. Then I’m taking them trick or treating along main street for an hour to ninety minutes, and tonight my sister inlaw is supposed to take them to go do a drive through light festival to help kill some time while the kids are with grandma and grandpa. As far as I know tonights event is a dressy affair. So hair cut, shave, and real clothes are required of us. Proper shoes too, I’d imagine. Looking forward to it.
We finally closed the inlaws pool last night, so of course my knees, my hips, and my back are less than happy with me about all that bending, and kneeling on the paving stones. They didn’t add much slack at all to the pool cover, so if it isn’t 100%, it will have to be undone, shifted/rotated slightly, and reattached. It’s an hours long process and can come down to just being a few millimeters off, and needed to be corrected – again. It’s rather unfortunate. Should have been created with 4 to 6 inches of slack to avoid that issue. Or be able to stretch just a couple of percent. A 2% or 3% ability to stretch would really come in handy when you’re off by just enough millimeters to warrant a tear down to have to start again. Aggravating to say the least.
I turned the dishwasher on a while ago, but as I look around the room I’m seeing plates, cups, and bowls lying about that weren’t brought to the kitchen, and were just abandoned in situ. Lovely. I just love having to clean the same messes seven days a week. Fun!
I think I need to buy some burlap to wrap our cedar trees in, as last years wet snow caused them to bend and distort under the added weight. I retrained them with string and rope tie downs over the spring and early summer, but it seems means to just cycle through that type of thing year after year. I need to wrap the AC unit. Pull up all the lights, and patio furniture, and tidy up the hoses, pressure washer etc… lots of exterior chores to do. Take down the swings, pull the slack line apart, and store that carefully for the winter. Pull up the dahlias and the glad bulbs. Much to do outdoors still. Check the rain gutters for leaves. Clear the down spouts. Dig out the snow shovels, and salt bags. November can either be sunny and warm, rain soaked, or a snowy winter wonderland. I have no idea which it will end up being. I’d like to get the Christmas lights up while it isn’t bitterly cold, if I can help it. They won’t get turned on until after Remembrance Day, that much I can do to hold back Christmas. I used to want to wait until after all the birthdays were done to focus on the holidays, but that leaves us perilously little time to feel festive! So now the last two birthdays in the family prior to Christmas have santa overtones in the background. Which is fun when you are nine, less so at fifty.
Putting away the outdoor furniture is an endeavour. I need to pull the shed apart. It’s a whole thing. I really have to be in the mood for it. No walking away in the middle of the job. Makes me wish that my shed was twice the size, so I could clean up and not have to pull everything out to reorganize and manoeuvre around. Rah-rah. Yeah I hear it. It needs to get done. These last few 16°C sunny days would have worked out great for it, but other tasks took priority. Now I’ll wind up doing it all in the rain. Such is life.
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