07 September 2008
100 Starfish in a Row
08/09/08 06:01
Not much news from last week. Everything was pretty quiet on the home front. Doug put in a new light fixture in his bathroom. Yikes - now I can see it really does need a good scrubbing. He also fixed a light for Barbara. We had been over there and the light would not stay on, so he bought a new plug and switch and it is as good as new. We are almost done re-hanging the pictures and shelves. We have a few more in the computer room and one more in the front room, but then that is it! No more pictures and no more changing things around. Poor Geiger does not know from one day to the next where anything will be.
Geiger has been busy hunting grasshoppers. We have let him out in the backyard more often as he has not tried to run away. The grasshoppers are out and he finds them worthy opponents and good eating too. Cosmo and Sesame (Barbara's cats) are still busy catching birds, snakes and mice. I was over there yesterday to pick berries. When I cam in, I heard Barbara talking to someone and thought she had visitors. Well she did have a visitor how not of the human kind. Cosmo had brought in a snake and she was busy getting it out of the house before I showed up. Did you know that I HATE snakes? The timing was not so good, but she did yell a warning so I waited out front until she had the snake safely released in the back.
It was a rough week for Doug. Wednesday he had to go into the shop at 10:00 in the evening (the middle of the night for us). Then on Thursday he had to go back to the shop in the evening again to deal with a lighting problem. (They have decided that he'd be in charge of all facilities issues so now he's the one they call whenever there is a problem with lights or plumbing or trash collection etc.) Then yesterday he had to go in again for a systems issue. It was scheduled to take an hour between 10:00 and 11:00 but he was actually in the office until 3:00. So much for getting stuff done around the house.
The pictures below are from the same day as the jellyfish pictures. Barbara and I were getting ready to leave, when I noticed some kids on the beach working hard at something. I went down and noticed they were taking the starfish they found high on the beach and lining them up in a row where the tide would get to them. So if anyone was curious what 100 starfish in a row looks like - now you know.
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Geiger has been busy hunting grasshoppers. We have let him out in the backyard more often as he has not tried to run away. The grasshoppers are out and he finds them worthy opponents and good eating too. Cosmo and Sesame (Barbara's cats) are still busy catching birds, snakes and mice. I was over there yesterday to pick berries. When I cam in, I heard Barbara talking to someone and thought she had visitors. Well she did have a visitor how not of the human kind. Cosmo had brought in a snake and she was busy getting it out of the house before I showed up. Did you know that I HATE snakes? The timing was not so good, but she did yell a warning so I waited out front until she had the snake safely released in the back.
It was a rough week for Doug. Wednesday he had to go into the shop at 10:00 in the evening (the middle of the night for us). Then on Thursday he had to go back to the shop in the evening again to deal with a lighting problem. (They have decided that he'd be in charge of all facilities issues so now he's the one they call whenever there is a problem with lights or plumbing or trash collection etc.) Then yesterday he had to go in again for a systems issue. It was scheduled to take an hour between 10:00 and 11:00 but he was actually in the office until 3:00. So much for getting stuff done around the house.
The pictures below are from the same day as the jellyfish pictures. Barbara and I were getting ready to leave, when I noticed some kids on the beach working hard at something. I went down and noticed they were taking the starfish they found high on the beach and lining them up in a row where the tide would get to them. So if anyone was curious what 100 starfish in a row looks like - now you know.
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