Weekend Doings

The Wonderful Spouse was gone most of the weekend helping Harry tear up his yard (the beginnings of landscaping), cut down trees and various other things.

I finished stacking the wood, that was split last weekend, under the lean-to (which is full to bursting). Lots of fun was had on Sunday (the day of rain) cleaning bird cages, bird play pens and the rest of the bird room.

We now have a new vacuum to replace the one that I tried to teach to fly (unsuccessfully, I might add). I decided to get a canister vac this time. I have discovered that I loathe all vacuums, just for different things (all right, I already knew I loathe all vacuums, but the emotion arises to the surface when actually going shopping for one). Uprights tend to fall over, don't have retractable electrical cords and always seem to be too big and unwieldy. Canisters have bags (I liked that my last vacuum was bagless), aren't as adept at following me as I would like (especially around corners), don't seem to be as powerful as uprights and don't follow the toiler as well as I would like (especially around corners. Lucky me, I got to try the new vacuum out last night. And I am happy to say that it did its job much as expected.

Comments

[Wichi Dude]

Darn! The vacuum launch was a failure, huh. Well, I guess JPL will be sending YOUR application back.
And the new beast is an R2D2 model? Cool. Though you are right about them not following you around corners. Abused a couple and could never get them trained.

[bogie]

I'm not so sure that the vacuum launch was a failure from my point of view. The vacuum failed to realize that it needed to grow wings if it was to be released back into the wild so it could fly free. Since it could not pass the crucial test, it will never see its natural habitat again (in fact, it has been put down for its safety as well as my own).

Jeeze, I'm glad you figured out that they don't follow around corners (I evidently only mentioned it twice, so really expected everyone to miss that point - HA).