Traveling Family


Everybody is on the road today. Karen and Tim are in Boston (on their “Babymoon”, it’s like a honeymoon but it is your last trip together without kids), Christy and Christian are in North Carolina and sister Kathy is in Wisconsin! Penny and I must have missed a memo somewhere along the line. We are at home.


I spent the day bagging more grass - Only 11 bags today. That job is done and I’m spreading sand now. That’s the last step before new sod goes in.


I’m listening to one book a day when I’m doing the lawn. I need to hit the library and reload and hopefully find some more interesting books. Clive Cussler and John Saul just don’t cut it.


I’ve read that advertisers were going to be more aggressive in making their products TiVo-proof. There was a blatant example of this last night on CSI New York. The CSI tech made a big production of loading his flashlight batteries in the field. One shot was a full screen view of 4 Duracell batteries all placed so you could read the Duracell (in fact all 4 batteries were in the same relative position, nice and symmetrical). So even if you zapped the Duracell commercial later in the show you still had this unavoidable product placement in your face.

I did rest my hands yesterday and it was good. I can take my time spreading sand and not overstress my body. It will be interesting when we get the 3 pallets of grass delivered to see how long it takes to put that in place. That is next week’s challenge.