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Time keeps moving

Wow, been a while. Life is busy busy busy. We started making our own bread, and our own yogurt, and our own tofu, and our own kombucha, and our own soap. Actually trying to do some yard work this year, too.

The tripod got her side cut up yesterday so we got to spend a couple hours last night at the emergency vet getting 6 stitches.

It’s weird to not have her bouncing off the walls.

And then, here’s some strange music:

Taking the background music away from the Village People make them sound pretty sad.

My daddy always told me that gloves are handsavers

Home appliance repair

10 bucks and the cogs engage again. Better than 600 bucks for a new one! 

Wife has her friends over for an “avoiding the election 2016 mask and movie night” and I’ve got the dog in my computer room, a tall glass filled with cheap bourbon and coke, and skyrim is calling my name. Later taters.

Yikes

It’s kind of amazing how working 10-13 hour days up in the mountains for a month can suck away at your life. Get home after dark, go to bed, get up before the sun comes up and drive off again. Whatever free time you might be able to scrounge is spent trying to do the chores that you can’t get to when you’d regularly be doing them. I finally was able to take a day off and have a three day weekend, and now I’m almost caught up far enough to get ready to fall behind again! At least I get overtime…

Life

Changed the oil on the little yellow car and the wife’s good ol’ maxima last night. I really like how the Fit is set up–pull out the splash guard, and the oil pan and filter are right there. Not at all like the truck, which always makes me curse at Ford’s idiot engineers when I try to somehow get my hand up inside the engine bay to get the filter out. The maxima is also simple, though that is helped by how the splash guards have all been damaged to various degrees (it is 16 years old, after all) so it’s more accessible then it was as originally delivered.

Good timing

Saturday, the day in question, the day that the countdown has been for since last October, is going to be the nicest day of the week! June weddings, man.

Do you know how hard it is to find an in-stock California king locally that is a reasonable price? Well, let me tell you how hard it is: I just bought a mattress off the internet. We’ll see what happens…

So yeah

I have now spent more on just the shoes I’m going to wear to my wedding than my wife-to-be has spent on her dress. She’s a smart cookie.

Took the day off

Had 13 cu yds of 3-15″ river rocks delivered yesterday so the guy with the skid steer came this morning to spread them out. One of the spruce trees we planted last year died over the summer, so while the skid steer was here to do the heavy work, we got a new tree delivered. At that point half the day was shot already and it’s supposed to snow tonight, so I decided to really play hooky and spend a few hours picking up hoses and generally straightening out things that don’t need to get snowed on. Now I’m kinda pooped, so I’m enjoying some apple pie moonshine and I think I’m gonna play some Fallout 4 since it came out today. So there.

I’m back

I left with a girlfriend last week to MT to see all the peeps. I misplaced her somewhere near Phillipsburg, but I came home with a fiancée.

Sproing

Just spent $100 on various clover, sweet pea, and wildflower seeds. Maybe I’ll be able to beat back the vile forces of Weeds a little bit.

Whoooo

Spent today climbing over my dam, going through three layers of sunscreen and sweating through an almost 80 degree day.

Tomorrow I’m going up into the mountains with my snowshoes to monitor some ice problems on a much much different dam.

Hopefully I’m able to successfully switch modes and not show up in the snow with flip flops and a Hawaiian shirt.