Life Of Ease

At least when I'm not at home working my ass off for most of the long vacation weekend. Sheesh! Last Tuesday was no hot shower day, so Wednesday, the first day of vacation and the day we had chosen to see Roman Art of the Louvre at the Indianapolis Museum of Art was filled with big, huge trucks in our drive (we got a new tank of gas - $1200 - but they didn't re-set it so it could still fall over any minute, blow up and destroy the house - we're undecided as to whether this would be a good thing...and the furnace guy was there for hours fixing the parts he broke last week, just in time for the cold snap) and a guy going in and out of our house. Sometimes he wiped his feet, and the cats were freaked for days.

I dug the canna bulbs out, about ninety feet worth. Yeah, it damn near killed me, but it was supposed to get cold and wet the next day so there you go. Thursday was house cleaning and dinner eating (no, I did manage not to get in Birdie's way in our tiny kitchen). I celebrated having hot water again by doing huge loads of laundry.

Friday we finally got around to fixing the back door. She of course expected to be in and out and then we'd fix the woodstove, but it took nearly all day. I stayed out of her way as much as I could, doing other chores. We worked ALL day on it and fell asleep really early.

Saturday we finally got up to the museum and spent three pleasant hours looking at statuary nearly two thousand years old. Cool.

And DIDN'T it just get cold that day. Brrr! Winter has hit, so yesterday, instead of finally taking a day off, we got the stove going, which meant closing off the rest of the house and firing it up till the stove black I had applied burned off. Seems like we did a better job of putting the thing together than last year. Burns well, and looks a lot better with the new blacking.

Writing? It is to laugh. I didn't even do my homework.