Weekend Activities
Jun. 2nd, 2013 11:44 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dreamsharkRichard picked up coffee beans for me last week and came home with espresso beans. I just ground them as usual and used them in my regular little coffee-maker, and boy did that make some good coffee!! Just what are "espresso beans" anyway? Just a super dark roast?
Got lots of stuff done (possibly thanks to those espresso beans) but most of it so transient that I forgot it as soon as I deleted it from my to-do list. Things like cleaning the sink underneath the dishdrainer, vacuuming stairs, send the Doodlebug over the downstairs floors, balancing checkbook, etc. etc.
Got up early enough for a lovely bike ride around the lake before the weather got nasty. On the way to the bike shed I met the young mom and her adorable 5-year-old son that had just moved into the house across the alley. The little boy (Pete-O, if you ask him, "Peter" if you ask his mom) immediately volunteered to show me the secret mourning dove nest between 2 garages a little ways up the alley. So I invited them in to meet our turtles. It was really fun. When I came back from my bike ride Pete-O waved and called hello to me from his front steps. Nice.
Speaking of turtles, the new painted turtle is finally starting to relax. He's a little older than the ones I usually find, and the most timid painted turtle I've ever seen. Usually they lose their fear almost immediately upon discovering that humans deliver food, but "Tiny Tim" has been hiding at the bottom of the tank for the last week. Oddly enough, ever since I picked him up to show to Pete-O he's been coming out and looking around and finally climbing up on the basking station with Skippy. He still isn't eating much, but seems perfectly healthy so I think he'll be alright. We're going to turn the Tobias and Skippy back into the wild sometime soon, as they are outgrowing their tanks. I'll miss Skippy - he's so enthusiastic about everything.
After a week of no activity on my Recycle.org postings I started getting some responses - disposed of the old vacuum cleaner, another 2 bags of magazines, and a box of discarded purses and wallets. I finally gave up and junked the old electric typewriter. I hoped that a metal scavenger would find it in the alley, but it was still sitting there when the trash pickup came and they just picked it up and heaved it into the regular trash collection. *sigh* Maybe I should have tried hard to recycle the metal.
It's finally nice out today, so Richard and I planned to hit a bike trail somewhere. It's windier than predicted, however, so we decided to head for Cannon Falls trail since it has fairly good tree cover.
Got lots of stuff done (possibly thanks to those espresso beans) but most of it so transient that I forgot it as soon as I deleted it from my to-do list. Things like cleaning the sink underneath the dishdrainer, vacuuming stairs, send the Doodlebug over the downstairs floors, balancing checkbook, etc. etc.
Got up early enough for a lovely bike ride around the lake before the weather got nasty. On the way to the bike shed I met the young mom and her adorable 5-year-old son that had just moved into the house across the alley. The little boy (Pete-O, if you ask him, "Peter" if you ask his mom) immediately volunteered to show me the secret mourning dove nest between 2 garages a little ways up the alley. So I invited them in to meet our turtles. It was really fun. When I came back from my bike ride Pete-O waved and called hello to me from his front steps. Nice.
Speaking of turtles, the new painted turtle is finally starting to relax. He's a little older than the ones I usually find, and the most timid painted turtle I've ever seen. Usually they lose their fear almost immediately upon discovering that humans deliver food, but "Tiny Tim" has been hiding at the bottom of the tank for the last week. Oddly enough, ever since I picked him up to show to Pete-O he's been coming out and looking around and finally climbing up on the basking station with Skippy. He still isn't eating much, but seems perfectly healthy so I think he'll be alright. We're going to turn the Tobias and Skippy back into the wild sometime soon, as they are outgrowing their tanks. I'll miss Skippy - he's so enthusiastic about everything.
After a week of no activity on my Recycle.org postings I started getting some responses - disposed of the old vacuum cleaner, another 2 bags of magazines, and a box of discarded purses and wallets. I finally gave up and junked the old electric typewriter. I hoped that a metal scavenger would find it in the alley, but it was still sitting there when the trash pickup came and they just picked it up and heaved it into the regular trash collection. *sigh* Maybe I should have tried hard to recycle the metal.
It's finally nice out today, so Richard and I planned to hit a bike trail somewhere. It's windier than predicted, however, so we decided to head for Cannon Falls trail since it has fairly good tree cover.
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Date: 2013-06-06 03:59 am (UTC)