I haz a tired.

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I haz a tired. Iz a good tired, but iz still a tired. The weekend was productive, but I'm ready for a break.

Saturday

Up at zero-dawn-30 Saturday morning to begin tilling the last of the vegetable beds. By the time the day was done, the last two 4x4 beds were in, filled, and the mulch base laid around them. We're using grass clippings for the base, with pine bark mulch to follow over that.

I found out that the tiller does indeed run at 50° fahrenheit, and so do I. The major difference is the tiller uses gasoline, while I use coffee, both of us at full choke until completely warmed up¹.

Michelle had a bridal shower to attend, so while she was gone I loaded the kids and ran errands. We listened to the latest cuts from Walkin' There² way too loud, drove too fast, and had a good time being out and about. We picked up a straw bale from Farrand Farms, gasoline for the mower, cheese for lunch, and a package of cookies for dessert.

On the way home, it was more convenient to take side streets and I happened upon a Pile of Stuff left in the driveway of an empty house. In the pile: a twin-size egg-crate mattress pad. SCORE! Those things make great sound deadening material for recording booths. I only need a few more and I'll have enough to do an entire booth instead of just a backdrop for the microphone.

I tilled up the area where the kids' playset used to be and planted grass seed - hence the need for the straw bale. After the tilling, Katie did most of the work, raking the soil, laying in the seed, spreading the straw. She loves being outside and doing stuff.

So, Saturday: tilling, seeding, gardening, lawn mowing. I don't think I was indoors more than an hour while the sun was up.

And the morning and the evening were the first day.

Sunday

Nintendo has such confidence in wireless networking that the Wii doesn't even have an RJ45 port on the back, only USB. In my house, for some reason probably having to do with where the wireless modem lives, wireless networking is an elusive dream. In the forty-five minutes before the kids had to wake up, I ran CAT5 to the family room (thank God for an unfinished basement that makes running cable to any room in the house a breeze) and installed a connection in the wall. It was only then that I discovered the Wii's lack of connection options. (We went to Best Buy in the afternoon for an adapter and rectified that. Now we can watch Netflix with little if any lag, and it never fails to connect. Yea, us.)

With the kids fed, dressed, and installed in Sunday School I headed off to Lowes for lumber for the eventual picket fence that will surround the vegetable garden. I needed 4x4 posts and gate hardware - pickets I already have in quantity.

I hung the last new bedroom door, ours. That's a whole other post, right there, for later today.

For dinner I smoked a couple pounds of flap meat, an absolutely amazing cut for making fajitas which, oddly enough, I did. We tried a new salsa from Whole Foods, added in sautéed peppers and onions. The leftovers are in my lunchbox.

And the morning and the evening were the second day.

Music

Here's the goal for this week: with the gardening mostly done, my part of it anyway, I finish production on Walkin' There to send to press next week. CDs in hand by June 1.



As usual, most of the pictures have larger versions, so click the thumbnail if you want to see them. The exception is the thumbnail of the adapter because, you know, who cares?



¹ If you have to ask what that means, you wouldn't get the joke anyway.
² Walkin' There, the long awaited debut CD from international folk performing artist William Morris. Blah blah blah, woof woof woof.

Comments

[joegoda.livejournal.com]

And from where will we be able to order this CD?

[jehosefatz.livejournal.com]

Nice looking garden.

Yay CD!

As always, if you need anything, let me know. I think I'm in the .01% of the population sans Wii. I watch Netflix on the second monitor on my gaming machine, typically... and even then, not very often.

- J

[starwyse.livejournal.com]

Hooray, hooray, hooray!!!