in not-garden news
May. 26th, 2012 02:53 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
treeskinIn whatever order I remember things....
* We got the shade cloth up over the deck just in time for the summer heat to hit. Yay! (Am enjoying the shade as I type.)
* The kids are out of school nexxt week, and then have a month of summer school. The Boy wouldn't have anything to do with the end-of-preschool celebration, and The Miss hammed it up like it was all for her. Typical.
* Our neighbor has finished his classes, gotten his CDL, and left Thursday evening for his first over-the-road long haul. No idea when he'll be back, which has his wife scramblimg a bit to find someone to watch their 8-yr-old on her work days. We'll get her intermittently, I think; I think she's going to spend most of those days with a family who's got kids her age.
* Sis is taking The Ex back to court, not exactly sure why. I suspect that he's either still not paid this month's child support, or has hit the boys again. Didn't ask. She did tell me that he's mad because she's "raising his sons to be pussies." Whatever that means. And she told me that she's finally trying for full custody. Best of luck to her.
* I've managed 2 shopping trips out with me and the kids this week, without major breakdowns. Minor miracle. They were even cute and cooperative through most of yesterday's trip. Am hoping that they start to realize that cute and cooperative gets them more outings and treats. (Yesterday's treat was over an hour running wild in D's 4-acre yard with big pond, goldfish pond, and bridge.)
* We made fair progress on the yard in the past week. Got some stuff cut down, took after problem areas with the walk-behind string trimmer, hauled great heaps of branches down to the brush pile, and figured out where the replacements for the dying pines are going.
* The kids have turned the plastic sandbox into a wading pool. Which is funny, because they weren't interested in their big wading pool last summer, and so we didn't set one up this year. Even overseeded the bare spot in the yard. The Miss is currently sitting in the muddy water in her Strawberry Shortcake sundress, splashing her brother.
* We got the shade cloth up over the deck just in time for the summer heat to hit. Yay! (Am enjoying the shade as I type.)
* The kids are out of school nexxt week, and then have a month of summer school. The Boy wouldn't have anything to do with the end-of-preschool celebration, and The Miss hammed it up like it was all for her. Typical.
* Our neighbor has finished his classes, gotten his CDL, and left Thursday evening for his first over-the-road long haul. No idea when he'll be back, which has his wife scramblimg a bit to find someone to watch their 8-yr-old on her work days. We'll get her intermittently, I think; I think she's going to spend most of those days with a family who's got kids her age.
* Sis is taking The Ex back to court, not exactly sure why. I suspect that he's either still not paid this month's child support, or has hit the boys again. Didn't ask. She did tell me that he's mad because she's "raising his sons to be pussies." Whatever that means. And she told me that she's finally trying for full custody. Best of luck to her.
* I've managed 2 shopping trips out with me and the kids this week, without major breakdowns. Minor miracle. They were even cute and cooperative through most of yesterday's trip. Am hoping that they start to realize that cute and cooperative gets them more outings and treats. (Yesterday's treat was over an hour running wild in D's 4-acre yard with big pond, goldfish pond, and bridge.)
* We made fair progress on the yard in the past week. Got some stuff cut down, took after problem areas with the walk-behind string trimmer, hauled great heaps of branches down to the brush pile, and figured out where the replacements for the dying pines are going.
* The kids have turned the plastic sandbox into a wading pool. Which is funny, because they weren't interested in their big wading pool last summer, and so we didn't set one up this year. Even overseeded the bare spot in the yard. The Miss is currently sitting in the muddy water in her Strawberry Shortcake sundress, splashing her brother.
