Thursday - October 01, 2015

now i lay me down to sleep

Tired now.

Been going since 5:30 this morning. Wednesdays and Thursdays are my long days. Real long.

Right. Got the ugly pavers back to Walmart. Talked people out of buying ultra-expensive granite blocks to replace them. Decided on using plain old mulch for now for the garden paths. Everything is ready for the Big Dig. Which is why there’s a hurricane on the way, right? It so figures.

I did my cleaning job tonight with a spray bottle of Windex and a roll of packing tape. Not on purpose! See, I cleaned out the old Satrun to use it as a truck to haul the pavers. At about 15lb each, I took 2 trips with 30 blocks. Didn’t quite drag the undercarriage on the ground, but it was low rider time for sure. Otay, got that done. Then it was off to dodge the raindrops and the cold breezes and do some more painting. I’m doing my best, but it still takes me about half an hour per garage to do the cutting in, the trim, and to slap a coat of paint on the wooden surrounds. And it takes a bit longer when there’s bad paint that needs to be scraped off. So it’s pretty much a full day’s work to do one of the 16 unit buildings here. So I think. I’ve yet to start one building and finish it in a day. Half a building this day, half another ... part time job, right? Right.

In other personal news, no new stray kittens today. Glad of that, but it’s bittersweet. Latent maternal instincts surfacing ... she wants a kitty so bad. And the half feral cat outside breeds them non-stop. Pretty sure Scowler (aka mom cat) is on her 4th litter this season. Right. So one of the kittehs got left behind out on the lawn, so we collected him. Or her. Poor little tyke. Took her inside, fed her, washed her, fed her, brushed her, fed her, petted her, fed her ... damn, you’d think this cat has never eaten before ... and even got some antibiotic ophthalmic ointment in her eyes. See, this one is the runt. And she’s a messed up kitten. Sad, but it happens. The cat is either blind or has misshapen corneas. Worse, she’s got some kind of nervous whole body twitch, or something like spina bifida. The cat is bent, and only walks in circles to the right. Please honey, don’t keep the broken kitten. Give it back to mommy cat, and let nature do what’s right. No!! No no no!

Yeah. So I go off to work Wednesday night, leaving her cooing and snuggling the little thing. I figured we were going to have a cat, and a cat with Issues at that. When I got home, she was out on the sidewalk with the kitteh and mommy cat. She did the right thing and gave her back. Felt guilty I guess. And after all that food, the little thing went straight to mommy’s nip for a quick snack. And then proceeded to not follow mommy home. Frustrating for us, frustrating for mom cat. But we left them to it. Well, worst case is that the cat got one really big meal of high quality cat food and kitten kibble mush.

Otay. Hey, you know what I really like about Fall? Apple cider. And you know what I really like about apple cider? Dark rum. Oh, they go together so well. The sweet crisp cider can almost completely hide a major wallop of rum. Or Jack. Or Jamison’s. But a dark golden rum has a sweet edge of it’s own, and the two combine with delicious stealth. Almost like those tropical drinks you get in the coconuts at Polynesian restaurants. Smooth. Half a glass of one is quite relaxing. Quite. Gets you sitting down, chillin, writing some simple blog post. And then the other half of the glass ...

... now I lay me down to sleep ...

Posted by Drew458     on 10/01/2015 at 09:59 PM   
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