Need to make another run to the post office later on today because more passport documents have arrived, which I need to sign for. Since I was out yesterday morning splitting wood I missed the at home delivery, so now I have to go there — again. This time I hope it is a completed, newly updated passport and not a return of my application with details circled that I have missed. My deadline is fast approaching, and I don’t want to have to do a brand new passport application from step one, as the renewal is so much easier to do. Maybe six weeks out wasn’t early enough on my part. Fingers crossed for a passport in this package I am receiving. Let us hope!
But not unlike any other day of the week where it wasn’t pouring with rain, I was in fact back at the farm walking the dog, and splitting more rounds for firewood. Mostly for exercise, but helping keep us all heated for the winter months is a bonus too. I am down to the point where I am picking and choosing my rounds to split. Some have sat face up for too long and are now water logged. Which makes them spongy, and unlikely to split without a Herculean effort on my part. I skip those whenever possible. But I’ve turned them on their sides, so I hope that they now drain, and dry out for next year. I am also moving undesirable logs into neater piles that can be dumped in the woods, or bucked into useable slices for me to split. I could take my chainsaw down, it’s a tiny little one. I think I might have pooched it using premixed gas out of a store bought canister. More like lighter fluid than gasoline. I don’t think my Stihl liked it much. I will need to drain it, and put proper hand mixed fuel in it, and see if I can get it going again. I could likely then buck a few rounds myself with my teenie tiny chainsaw. I’m not there yet.
If I examine the absolutely massive Pile Three and find nothing ready to go, then I might reconsider my chainsaw situation. Unlikely, but stranger things have happened.
In other news the Grade Six Trip downtown was a resounding success, they had sunshine (if slightly below seasonal temperatures) and a good time on the observation deck of the CN Tower, they got to pet a Sting Ray at Ripley’s Aquarium, and the food was ok at the Spaghetti place, except that all the boys sat in her table group tried to finish the table Parmesan cheese which lead to terrible flatulence on the bus ride home. Also, the bus ride downtown was more pleasant this go round than the ride to the Cross Country Meet a few weeks ago. She brought gum to help with ears popping on the ride up & down the CN Tower, so that was a win. And she bought herself an axolotl stuffy at Ripley’s so she was pleased as punch about that. Did my daughter go to bed any earlier because of her busy day, you might ask? No. No she did not. And this morning she was all the more grumpy because of it. At least tomorrow is a PA Day. Sleep in for the three of us! Wife still has to work though. Then she’s off for nine days, so I don’t feel too bad.
Tomorrow night is game one of the Blue Jays vs. Dodgers World Series, so that should be a hoot! I have my fingers, toes, arms and legs crossed for a positive first outing for the Jays! Let us pray.
**Editor’s Note: It came, it finally came! My brand spanking new updated passport has arrived. Too late for any kind of overseas trip any time soon, but the point is I now have it in hand, and I don’t have to think about mine again until the mid 2030’s. Which, if I do say so myself, is pretty fucking great news. I’m so glad. Although with Las Vegas and Florida potentially off the table for the foreseeable future I’m guessing we travel to Europe or the Caribbean if we go anywhere noteworthy. Shame, I really wanted to visit Universal Studios to ride their giant roller coasters. We will have to see how the trade deal shakes out of the next few months/years. Either way, I now have my deets ready for dooting.
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