Babysitting for Trish...

OK - now I need a new monitor - this new machine of Trish and Dan's has this big, beautiful flat screen - and the crisp, clean - whew, will I moan and complain when I get home... sigh...

Well, Peter has left with his mum for his first bottle drive as a new Beaver. Morgan couldn't get down for his nap fast enough - you sure can tell when he's ready... He can be grinning from ear to ear and then cry in the space of three seconds. But, oh what a love!

So now what - well Trish has the dishwasher running - all that free hot water going down the drain - so I plug up the sink and search for her Blue Wonder cloth - kitchen window, french door and front room window - all with one sink of hot dishwasher rinse water - if you don't have any Blue Wonder cloths in your house, you are silly, silly :) I could get a job as a distributor for them if I had any sense.

John is at home , hopefully starting to put the stairs on the new deck (the dog can get down, but not back up :) This spring, the boards felt a little springy as I stepped out of the patio door. Our 30 year old decking practically fell apart by itself when I decided it was time to attack it. Only had to pull one nail in three. The way I get John to do stuff is to rip out the old stuff. It's worked so far with carpet, wallpaper, sidewalk blocks and now the deck. So now John is proud of the new decking - that composite stuff, supposed to last the rest of our lives, and the new railing - white aluminum so I can wipe of the bird poop easily (the birds are feasting right now on the masses of berries in the two mountain ash trees hanging over the deck).

Things would move faster at our house if we could focus more tho. We spent almost the whole summer at the cabin so now John has to push for the finish. I was laying new sod last week in the pouring rain, but it was the only day I had so it got done. Could have foregone my shower that morning, I was that wet when I finished. Of course if the greenhouse hadn't run out of sod the day before, I could have done it in sunshine. But that's not how my life travels - certainly not in any straight lines - go with the flow, man, go with the flow...

Boy, you can really get into this diary stuff... certainly faster that writing in my regular journal .. better be careful not to "bare all" :))))

later man, jan