Sep 01

Oh, Yeah. Got A Little Wet Out There Today.

So incredibly beautifulStarting around 1545, in the space of about 30 minutes, we had 5 distinct, separate, downpours. It was crazy! The first one I had braved the rain to go to the Caravan and I was stuck out there for about 8 minutes. It really came down! (The rain. Not the Caravan.) Sounded great! Didn’t get any lightning or thunder though. Bummer!

So, as you can guess, I didn’t get outside much today. Mostly I spent a good portion of today cleaning up my office, desktops, and crawling around under the desktops tacking up wires (cause I hate wires.) Wanted to get them out of the way and quit snagging them with my toes/feet all the time.

#Desiree

That and scanning SWMBO’s pictures. And I’ve been uploading the pictures I took at the last Belfair Bites and Bremerton Airport Flyin earlier this month to my personal gallery. That’s been going for about 4 hours now and is only about 50% done. I may btkw02akill it (the uploading) and continue it tomorrow. Yep, 408 files uploaded with 499 go go.

And I got all my usual chores done too. Went the really easy way for dinner and just warmed up a can of Dinty Moore Beef Stew. Think I’ll just relax until time to go pick SWMBO up at the QFC today.

It rained most of the way to pick her up, most of the time I waited, and most all the way back home. Welcome to Western WaRshington beginning of Winter! Always wet. Always gloomy.

Looks like I’ll be inside most of this Labor Day weekend. (And SWMBO has Monday off. Maybe a day trip somewhere?)

Aug 30

Today Was Clean The Damned Ceiling Fans Day!

And mess up my web site day. We’ll get to that …

Had to get the 12-ft ladder into the kitchen to change the lightbulbs in the ceiling fan and decided to just go ahead and clean it while I was up there. What a mess! I probably need to do that one more than once a year or so. That led me to cleaning all the ceiling fans; except for the one in SWMBO’s room. And, yeah, I probably ought to do them all more than once a year. So, 5 fans cleaned with 1 to go.

#Desiree

And, yeah, I was researching how to stop wordpress from putting that damned “&rquote” thing in my subject lines, found a solution, and messed up my theme doing it. Had to completely switch to another theme. Not sure if I’m going to re-download the usual one or not. (Probably will. I like it.)(I did.)

Fashion011aOther than that just not a lot going on. Way cooler today so I haven’t been outside except to check the mail and water the garden. And I probably didn’t need to water since it’s supposed to rain tomorrow. We’ll see.

btkw01aIt finally got warm enough for me and the Dog to go for a walk. Really, it’s kind of nice out there even with the breeze. Guess it helped that I got overheated sweeping all the floors in the house before heading out. AAMOF, I got a lot of things done today but not what I wanted to get done; which was my counter-top/desk area. Wonder why that is?

And that’s it. SWMBO is home and settled in. Her Son clipped the Dog’s nails and accidently clipped his paw so there was a lot of blood to clean up. I’ll have to swab the decks tomorow but was going to do that anyway.

I’m thinking of un-following everyone on Facebook that posts a “Hillary’s Finished” post. Tired of hearing it and nothing getting done. Maybe stick with just Family. Probably do the same on Tumblr and G+ too. (Just sick of hearing it.)

Aug 29

I Am Not Looking Forward To Winter!

Well, I think it’s begun:

Tuesday – Partly sunny, with a high near 73.
Wednesday – Rain likely before 11am, then showers likely after 11am. Cloudy, with a high near 67.
Thursday – Showers likely, mainly after 11am. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 66. Chance of precipitation is 70%.
Friday – A chance of showers. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 66.
Saturday – A chance of showers. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 69.

So, it may be getting time to keep a pair of long pants handy. Sucks.

#Desiree

Today was nice though. Somewhere between 75 and 80 degrees. Definite coolness to the air at 0930 when I went to check mail. Got hot this afternoon. A warm wind sprang up. That was really nice. Felt good. We took several walks around the back of the property. (Sometimes it’d be nice to have a person along for the walks. Dog is okay, but he don’t talk much. And he doesn’t always stay with me.)

Fashion035sFashion038sSo I was trying to do things outside. Took my saw out and cut the shelf supports for the Caravan cabinet. Got the first 2 put in (have to use glue cause the “wood” is so thin). Gonna let it dry overnight and do the second 2 tomorrow. I figure even with using glue (a good wood glue) that the shelves should hold 5 or 10 lbs of the Thrive food. As long as we put bottles of liquid on the bottom it should work. Guess we’ll find out next trip!

Checked into the Peninsula Amateur Radio Emergency Net (at least, I think that’s it’s name) but was really scratchy to them. Then, on our local North Club (NMARES) net they didn’t have any problem hearing me but I couldn’t hear them worth beans. Time to get off my fat, old, ass and get my antenna moved! (And soon!) Then one of the new Hams was trying different frequencies to test out his new radio and antenna. Cool!

Other than that, not a whole lot going on. SWMBO stayed up way too late last night finishing a book (which I totally understand) so she’s probably going to lay down early. Think I’ll join her!

Aug 28

IF There Is A Final Reckoning …

btkw21aWhere all the hours/days/weeks/years you’ve spent doing something are added up, then someone is going to look at me and say: “Time spent reading on the toilet = 8 years of your life, King.”

Yesterday was Date Day and we pretty much did our usual. SWMBO took me to Red Robin where I had some pretty good chicken strips and some really terrible steak fries. ( Not a crispy one in the bunch and most of them were cold. Not freezer cold; but they’ve been sitting out for awhile cold.)

Afterwards we did something that you could probably count on one hand us doing before: We walked through Home Depot discussing ideas and projects and walked out empty handed. Didn’t spend a dime. Highly unusual for us. But it was fun though. My idea to replace the Boob Lights in the big room with bright LED’s got kinda squashed, but, hey, that’s the way the cookie crumbles.

USS Turner Joy (DD-951) Museum

Thing about the Big Room is: we don’t really spend a lot of time there. If we are there, we’re either playing with something (need bright lights) or watching a movie (need little light). Neither of which we do often. Not often enough to spend a couple hundred $ for new lights. Not even when we get a really large TV to go in there.

Fashion040sHell, we watch more movies together sitting here at my desk and using one of the 32” monitors. Both of us use the Library for sitting around more than any other room. (If you don’t count the bathrooms. Which is sitting around with a purpose.)

Sometimes I think we ought to make half the Big Room into another bedroom for guests. But we’re going to put a loft in there for that purpose. And cause it’ll be fun and kinda neat. Still have no idea what to do with the gas fireplace we never use. Could convert it to a wood burner “just in case.” I want bigger windows in there also. Floor to ceiling windows.

Today has been our usual Sunday. I made another Beef Stew for dinner but this one didn’t turn out as good as the last one to me. Tried not making it as thick as usual per suggestion from SWMBO. Didn’t taste the same. So I told her she’ll probably just have to get used to thick stew. (It’s supposed to be STEW, not Soup!)

The MCARC 2-meter Sunday Evening Chat Net went well; but I was Net Control tonight. Had 9 check-ins tonight. Not a record, but not bad.

Anywho, that really is all that’s going on. SWMBO painted the trim on the new linen closet I put in and now we be chillin’ for the rest of the night.

Oh, it sprinkled some.