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Sunday, Apr. 13, 2003 - 7:46 p.m. We planned on sleeping in late this morning. Really, we did. What we didn�t plan on was some idiot roofers who decided to start nailing shingles onto the neighbor�s house across the alley. AT 7:04 AM! Who starts a roofing project at that hour on a Sunday morning? As far as that goes � what respectable roofing installation man is even out of bed at 7:04 am? Aren�t they all in bed, sleeping off Saturday night? I know- don�t assume things about people Roadiepig! I have met a bunch of roofers though the years, and they all have two things in common: They are not the least bit afraid of heights, and they can drink draft beer like there�s no tomorrow. Hey, most people make jokes about my fellow State workers, so I think I am entitled to make a generalization every now and then too� Since they ruined our sleeping-in, I got up early and threw together a decent breakfast (jumbo biscuits (from the can), sausages patties, and scrambled eggs with green onions and red bell peppers), and was dressed and ready to run by 9:30. Before I left, I started charcoal for the water smoker. We picked up a slab of ribs and a whole chicken yesterday morning, before Codeman�s baseball games (which went well, if you haven�t read about them yet ;) I started the ribs at 10 am. I added the chicken (cut in quarters) at 2 pm. I added bbq spices to each cut of meat, and added extra charcoal about once an hour. We ate supper at 5 pm. And it was very good. We ate most of the ribs, and a little of the chicken. The rest of the chicken will be shredded and made to bbq sandwiches for a quick meal next week. Around this long-time cooking effort, I managed to get (somewhat) caught up in my home repair /yard work/ car care. All of this stuff just stacks up upon itself when spring rolls around. I can�t keep up with all of the yard and garden jobs if I take the time to go to all of Codeman�s games. I think you know what is our priority at the present time. I ran to the local Me-nards� top buy a little treated lumber (deck wood). This was for a small project to protect our air conditioners outside compressor unit. Why would this need protection? Because Tony Bonehead has decided it is his favorite landmark to �sign� with his urine every day. I didn�t know how much damage he had done this way until the furnace/a.c. guys stopped by last week to check our Freon (since they changed our ac coil last fall when the replace dour furnace). He told Codeman that if we didn�t find a way to protect the unit Tony�s urine would ruin it in less than a year. He had already done some damage, causing some of the cooling fins to clog, leaking out a little Freon at the same time. I am not a carpenter. Anyone who knows me will tell you that fact. This didn�t stop me from doing the best I could, as sloppy as that was. I bought 4- 8�x4�x4� posts, and 6- 8�x 6�x1� facing boards, and made a 3-sided frame that will (hopefully) keep Tony�s emissions from causing any more damage. No, I won�t post a photo of it here. I just don�t do a good job pluming up corners and such, so it isn�t very well made. It is sturdy, though. And if Bony wants to still hit the compressor, he will have to find a way to shoot his stream about 2 feet past the facing boards. I would have trouble doing it myself, even with a full bladder. I�ll let you know how it works�. I also did the following (while Leas ewas doing her magic straitening up inside the house) : 1. Washed Lease�s car. Vacuumed the interior, Armorall-ed� the vinyl and the tires, and Windexed� the windows inside and out. 2.Did the windows and interior of the Hillbilly truck (no since in washing it, is there?) 3.Planted most of the perennial Prairie plants that I started indoors back in February (coreopsis, rudbeckia, galdaria, and some others I have now forgotten). I have enough left to plant a few around the building at work, too (not like our new Governor will appreciate the savings to the taxpayers or anything ;) 4.Cut down all of the dead canes from my rose bad. I have lost a few plants, so they will need to be replaced in the coming weeks (unless they decide to send new growth up from the soil. I am not holding my breath on that possibility) After all that was done? Lease and I had a great meal�. Digital photography has totally changed how I shot photographs. Take Codeman�s baseball games, for instance. In the old days, I would shot something like 5 or 6 rolls of film for the entire season. In those, I hoped to have enough good shots to give every parent on the team a decent photo of their boy, playing on Codeman�s team. Now? I shot over 250 photos between Friday�s game in Springpatch and Saturday�s double-header here in Mohall. I haven�t had time to even start editing the mass of this effort. I did grab a few shots out that I liked to post here, and edit a couple of photos of KB hitting his home run for his dad. I need a day off, just to catch up a little here. Oh yeah, that�s right- I just took a day off Friday. O.K.- I need another day off. I will leave you with three photos: First, a shot of a brick fountain in Springpatch, not yet filled with water. This is also a sneaky way to get a photo of Lease into my �journal�, too�
This shot is an example of how I don�t plan enough when I put things into my garden. The pansy at the bottom of the photo was put in last fall (the new Icicle variety that can survive winter), without thinking about where I had spring bulbs planted already. It is trying to bloom, even though I didn�t give it much of a chance to start with:
I will leave you with one last shot of the boy at yesterday�s game. I shot this as he was headed to the batter�s box in the 6th inning. I usually try my best to stick my lens into an opening in the chain link fence so that none of it shows up in the image. And sometimes I use the fence to add to the image. I also played with my photo editing software a little bit, jacking up the saturation and sharpness to make this image look far from real:
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