Once again I don't have anything to write that will make a full post, so here are some random thoughts/happenings:
We lost a big maple tree to the high winds of the other day. It is back in the woods, and fell away from the house, so we never realized it until the neighbor pointed it out. Actually I think the tree straddled the property line, so we will ask if he wants all (or some) of the wood before cutting it up. Actually WS will cut it up and I will be moving what is cut up.
Apparently WS doesn't think I have enough to do (I have actually taken some time to read the last week). He brought home some more granite chunks from work (they were dug up and will be hauled away soon if no one takes them). I think that means he wants me to make more steps and a landing to the dogs' pen.
We are attending a "meet the neighbors" party tonight. A lot of new people have moved into our area; 7 houses were recently built on the street that joins ours and we haven't yet even seen the neighbor that recently moved in two houses up (he, of the security system). the party doesn't even start until 7:30 PM which means that we will be there for about an hour before we start yawning because it is our bed time.
I am taking care of Sunny and Winnie (the two golden retrievers) today thru Monday. This will give us a good excuse to leave the afore mentioned party early.
The water softner just came on (at 7:10 AM). Guess who forgot to reset the time on that piece of equipment?
And that is it for today, hopefully I will have something more exciting to write about tomorrow!
..yeah, I'd noticed that you hadn't rushed up to say hello :^(...and can I ask you to re-set the water softner - at that time in the morning I like my water to be hard, none of this soft water for billy first thing in the morning :^)....actually that's another difference between the us and the uk - we don't have a 7.10 in the morning :^)...what????...what've I said now?????
Posted by: billy | October 18, 2003 at 01:40 PM
I don't really care about hard water, we only got the water softner to take out the massive amounts of iron in the water.
Before we got the water softner, the water came out of the tap orange (literally), white clothes came out of the wash orange (bleach just sets in iron stains), and spaghetti came out of the boiling water orange (mmmm, really appetizing!).
I am sure you have a 7:10 AM (or 0710) in the UK, but you just don't get up early enough to see it :)
Posted by: Bogie | October 19, 2003 at 07:15 AM
Bogie, about five years ago the neighbors to the west sold their farm to developers and now we have a moderately upscale subdivision on our western lot line. We've briefly spoken to two of the six neighbors who back up to us. TWO in five years! At least one of the houses has been sold twice in that time.
I was actually contemplating having a cookout for them, to meet them, and then checked my forehead to see if I was ill.
Posted by: Buffy | October 19, 2003 at 05:56 PM
I'm certainly glad that someone came up with the "Meet the Neighbors" party, because I certainly wouldn't have hosted one (I have a built in excuse; most people don't like dealing with all the dogs and cats - not to mention the pet hair that goes with it).
Posted by: bogie | October 20, 2003 at 06:11 AM