Sunil has fallen in love with our local dirt bike track. He's not quite strong enough to get up every "hill" every time but he's doing better than I expected.
The youth center here is for teens only - big screen tv, game systems, air hockey. Outside they have the country's largest community skateboard park and two roller hockey rinks.
Sunday was a rarity for me. I went a full day without reading anything. I can’t remember the last time that happened. The kids and I helped the Cub Scouts help their charter church set up for their consignment sale. Mostly we unloaded the pieces and parts of the racks and shelves and then helped assemble them. It was more fun that it sounds and I was glad we went for a couple of reasons. First I like the kids to help out as often as possible. It’s a good habit to develop. Second as the Cubmaster pointed out, our charter organization rarely requests assistance and without them we wouldn’t have a pack. Third it was fun. Fourth it got us out of the house and almost a third of the time we were outside and fifth they feed us chili, chips and chocolate. The white chili was particularly good.
After that we dropped Sheela at the house and Sunil and I came up to the office to install my cube shelves. I’m packrat enough to want to keep all of this junk close to hand but overwhelmed enough that I can’t work productively with it all on my desk at the same time. They worked out just as intended. Now I need to bring in the two pictures I’ve been saving for out here and the book ends to neaten up the piles.
Then I sewed on Sunil’s new rank and awards. The rank was pinned on (upside down) until he performed a good deed. He thinks he earned the right to flip it right side up by working as Sheela’s slave for a day but I’m counting the consignment sale set up from this morning. The rest of the stuff I thought I’d already done. But it turns out I ironed it all on but didn’t go back to stitch them on. They all fell off the first time he wore them. So in addition to his Wolf badge I had to sew on six arrow points and replace last year’s quality patch with this year’s. He has one more award (world conservation) but I don’t know where it goes. That’s probably just as well as my fingers are numb from pushing and pulling on the needle.
I even spent a few minutes out in the yard working with the compost pile and the jasmine bushes. It was a beautiful day.
The time has come for me to renew my driver's license. In TX they moved to a 10 year cycle so I'll renew this year and then again right before I turn 51. 10 years with the same picture and me with a cone head haircut. I can delay as much as seven more weeks by then surely I'll have better hair.
I cleaned out the bird box this week to make room for this year’s broods of house sparrows. They are prolific little buggers and they took over the bluebird house as soon as we put it up five years ago. I would prefer actual bluebirds but there aren’t that many in this area so we make do with watching the sparrows. However it looks like someone else is trying to make a move on the house. The opening is being widened daily by someone with a very sharp beak. Based on the birds in the area I’m guessing it will be the starlings but I haven’t seen them near it.
Wow Sid and I started dating 22 years ago tomorrow. That’s more than half my life, more than half of his too.
Today was VIP Day at the elementary school. Each class presented a song or two and then the kids were released early for Spring Break. We sat way in the back so don’t have pictures or video to share. Suffice it to say the kids were cute and the songs fun.
I’ve given it five days for me to adjust to my most recent haircut. It was supposed to be a trimming up of the same rather drab cut I’ve had, more or less, for ten years. I never love a new cut. It always takes a few days for me to figure out the subtleties. Do I need to dry it forward before brushing it back or should I dry it back? How far to the side can I move the part? The subtleties of this one still elude me. It gives me an unattractive cone shaped appearance. It’s much short to have it redone and yet it is still too long over the ears, much too short on top, the bangs are still in my eyes and from the back I look like a boy. It is too short to curl under and layered wrong to brush back leaving me the only option of hanging dismally around my ears. There will not be photo you’ll just have to imagine the effect.
It is from one of my many calendars.
“I can handle reality in small doses, but as a lifestyle, it’s much too confining.” - Lily Tomlin
My new 24" monitor on my work computer. I wasn't expecting it but I think I'm going to love it.
That's right! It's time for allergies and colds. Sunil and I are skipping baseball practice to pick up a nebulizer. This time they want him to do it right away so they can check him after.
My friend Marina lost both of her parents this weekend in an automobile crash. Once again I find myself wishing I could somehow make it better.
