Morning. It’s Sunday, so that means it’s chore day. I’ll start in a couple of hours. It’s not a lot. So it shouldn’t take too long.
This afternoon, we’ll be heading to Shady Acres, where I’ll be hauling in about 20 bags of wood pellets. Then, I’ll be cleaning the stove again.
Pippin just crawled onto my lap for a snuggle. She’s staring at Podrick.
I need more coffee.
Podrick’s being Podrick this morning. And my neck is locked up. It seems like every winter this happens. It’ll be a few days to a week before I can turn my neck all the way on both sides.
Work wasn’t too bad yesterday. It wasn’t too busy, nor too slow. It gave me a chance to do a lot of cleaning in between customers. Finally after about an hour and a half, I called it. No more cleaning. Bing Bing and I grooved out to iHeartthe90s. It was a long day. Sundays usually are, and both of us were drained when we finally left.
Today, we’ll be travelling to SlightlyBiggerTown for some much needed supplies, and just to get the heck out of TinyTown for a couple of hours. It’s dark right now, but hopefully it’ll be a nice day for a drive later on this morning.
Good morning my southern friends. It’s me, Shawshank. You know, north of the wall. How’s the weather down there? It looks pretty calm right now. But later? Who knows!
Podrick was nice enough to let me sleep until about 7:20ish. That seems to be about the time he wants us up nowadays. That pretty much works for me. Would it be nice to sleep until 8? Yes ma’am it would. But I’ll take what I can get. And if the means 7:20, I’m totes ok with that.
I’m on a couple of days off. Today( I’ll be heading to Shady Acres to finish up the pellet stove. I just have to put a pipe thing back on and an upside down lid thing, and with my skill, should be ready to introduce fire to the stove. Shouldn’t take more than maybe an hour? We’ll see how quick my dad will be moving this morning.
I still have to finish Raw from last night.
It’s also Remembrance Day here. So I’ll talk to my grampa a little later.
In Flanders fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses, row on row,
That mark our place; and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.
We are the Dead. Short days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved and were loved, and now we lie,
In Flanders fields.
Take up our quarrel with the foe:
To you from failing hands we throw
The torch; be yours to hold it high.
If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Flanders fields.
Here we are. Podrick was mostly good this morning. A somewhat loud noise pulled me out of sleep, and I come out to the living room. Stuff is pulled out of the bookcase, so I picked up the stuff, and threw some kibble into a bowl and went back to bed, closing the door. I dozed for another hour, and then got out of bed.
Yesterday was so nice and relaxing. I got up and filled up the bird feeder, and suctioned it to the front window. Hopefully, some birds, and maybe even some deer will come and feed from it, so the kitties are entertained.
We did do a whole lot of anything yesterday. I watched the first couple of episodes of 1883 – since when Crystal watched, I came in half way through episode 5. I think we finished watching either episode 5 or 6. It’s such a good show. We watched other shows after. Nothing special, just relaxing. I did the laundry, and I’ll do the rest of the chores this morning, before we head over to Shady Acres. I’ll have chores to do there too.
I slept ok last night. It’s still anxiety inducing because my mind tries to figure out what he’s getting into. Same in the morning, because I can hear him getting into things. I have a blue tooth headset like Crystal’s that I’m going to try. Hopefully any noise I have coming through the speakers, will drown out his noise, and not cause my anxiety to spike.
It’s still cold out there. I’m pretty sure it’s gonna be cold for the next 8 months, so I better started getting used to it. It’s no longer sunny. It just looks crisp out there, and not in a beautiful spring day. Think; frozen wasteland. But soon once actual snow falls, it’ll be pretty outside for a while.
Good morning everyone. I really had no idea what day it is when I woke up this morning. I had to really think what day it was. Then I remembered that we watched Saturday Night’s Main Event last night.
I’m on a day off today, and we won’t be heading to Shady Acres this afternoon. Nope. It’s my only day off, so we’ll be heading to SlightlyBiggerTown for supplies, and then back to the Flat to do laundry. It’s a short 24 hours off, but we’ll be making the most of it.
I got a text from my mom with a picture of her and my grandmother. My grandmother is all dressed up for Halloween with a smile on her face. It was great news, and helped me make it through the night.
It wasn’t a bad night at work. It definitely could have been a lot busier. I think a lot of people were laying low, sleeping off their Halloween hangovers. It was, in all honesty, slow. But me and Bing Bing made it through the night. He’s getting better, and figuring out how to interact with coworkers. He’s not a bad kid, he just needs direction.
So in a little while, we’ll be heading out. Coffee first, of course.