Somehow, it's always Friday when I just happen to wake up early. I wonder, at the end of my blogging "career" just how many of these Quick Takes posts will end up mentioning how I'm usually a night owl and like to sleep in, but just happened to wake up early and stay up this morning. And how many will end up mentioning that the neighbors are having a garage sale. But yeah, they do host an inordinate number of garage sales each summer.
Speaking of being up early on a Friday and the neighbors having a garage sale, I JUST bestowed the 25-cent Thomas the Tank Engine toy to my delighted little boy this past Tuesday. Guess it only took 2 months... And he was only momentarily delighted because it was his consolation prize - literally - as he was undergoing some skin testing to rule out a few additional food allergies. At least they didn't have to do a blood test. He's been enjoying it fully since then, so I have no regrets.
Did I mention I got up early today?? I'm always so excessively energetic when I do that. I got a whole lot of gardening done this morning between 6 and 8 am, it's not even funny. Too bad I didn't have an early bird morning two weeks ago when I came into possession of the plants that finally got put into the ground this morning.
After the productivity explosion came breakfast, and after breakfast, the sloth. Oh yes, I was busy, but I wasn't getting anything important or Idunno, beneficial to my family accomplished. I was fighting with Picasa trying to get my blog header in order. Then, when that was finally a success, I had to revamp my color schemes because my label links disappeared into the new background. But I do like it - feels a little less rough around the edges.
I told myself I was going to write these Quick Takes as little breaks during my weekly checkbook balancing. Hmm, maybe I should actually start that...
Only 2 Takes left - better get a Silver Lining in here somewhere. Ah yes, the sale of Mom and Dad's cabin, now finally final. The cabin on a river with shipping freighters going by, with the gazebo and a pontoon boat moored just offshore - the one place I've stayed that felt peaceful - like a real vacation, regardless of what else was going on. (Not sure how much the distinct lack of cell phone reception plays into this - perhaps quite a bit.) It's no longer in their possession, and thus no longer accessible to us for beautiful, quiet, lazy summer weekends away. But here's the Silver Lining - no more worry over mortgages or maintenance or troublesome neighbors for my parents, and many many happy memories for our family, including first boat rides, babies in life preservers, bonfires, and a gleefully infamous mud-fight along the shore during our courtship (talk about twitterpation!)
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Time for random adorableness, courtesy of our last (final, never happening again, waah!) trip to the cabin.
