Steve

8-1-13

I think it is all catching up now.

I really could use a day of rest. I don’t know that I will have one for a while. Tonight we have the board meeting, which will be important due to the season almost being here. That being said, I am actually considering taking tomorrow off so I can at the very least sleep in and then get to work on stuff that matters to me.

Ken and the boys picked up the entertainment unit for the new house. Oh, and for the record, the new house has been dubbed “Steve”. We actually joked that perhaps we need to paint it in green stripes and make one of the hedges blue.

Our gardener’s people were at the place yesterday kicking ass on the vegetation. They removed all of the yucky plants in the front, including clearing the tree by the front door. They will trim the inner workings of Dax’s tree, too, along with removing the stumps in our backyard. I am very happy about all of this. It means I need to go get some new, pretty plants for the front. Of course, I won’t do that until we paint.

On the way to Steve yesterday, we passed a group of three kids, one of them sitting on the curb grabbing his knee in obvious pain. We went back and got out to help him. Poor kid. He had crashed on his skateboard, really scraping up his arm and injuring his knee. The kids all go to Hull, as we found out and I am sure they were quite confused at first, but when the boys got out, too, to see what was going on, I think they realized we were good and just helping. The injured kid was trying so hard not to cry, but I watched some tears escape. Poor darlin. It made me sad. We offered to drive them home, but they seemed ok with walking, even though the injured one was limping quite a bit. I am glad we could help, but bummed that in today’s society we all have to be so careful in terms of these kids not being able to openly trust grownups trying to help.

My allergies are acting up big time. My throat is in a sea of phlegm which is driving me nuts. I am starting to realize that I probably suffered from this back when I was a kid and I just didn’t know that it was simply standard allergies. I will need to be diligent for the next couple weeks on using my spray so that it clears up a bit. I can feel my throat hurting from all the clearing.

I just discovered that the boss is out tomorrow. This makes it significantly easier to bail tomorrow what with the new rules on how we need to call out. Woo!