It was finally warm enough, long enough, that the ground was unfrozen and I could dig a post hole for the new mailbox. The snowplow driver had taken ours out, pole and all. So, I bought a new mailbox post and rented a post hole digger. Post hole diggers are amazing pieces of machinery. You set it up where you want the hole, plug it in and beams of ( Read more... )

It was a productive weekend.

Friday Night: My wife and I attended a political meeting in Westfield.  ChautAction is co-ordinating efforts to lobby the county legislature to pass a resolution opposing any cuts to the Great Lakes Initiative.  We were representing Chautauqua County Women's Action Group.  I'm actually the new webmaster.  County ( Read more... )

I actually managed to get quite a bit of yard work done after work and before dark.  I picked up all the fallen branches from the current storm. :(  stacked about half the remaining firewood; tore apart the damaged stairs and salvaged all the re-usable lumber; rebuilt the entire framework for the staircase.  It's a vast improvement on the yardwork ( Read more... )

Thursday, April 7th -- I have some vacation time coming, so I took two days off to make it a long, long weekend.  I could really get used to sleeping in after four consecutive days of it.  Most of Thursday was spent doing the sort of errand running we normally do on weekends, including a shopping trip.

Friday, April 8th -- Home repairs, honey-dew ( Read more... )

Friday, March 11 -  It was such a nice day out, our CEO decided to take the rest of the day off... and close the facility 3.5 hours early!  Since I knew my wife wouldn't have lunch prepared, I stopped at Sullivan's Charbroil to pick up a couple of fish dinners for take-out.  They were advertised in the local paper as a place to go to for Lenten ( Read more... )

Friday, September 4th -- Took dinner over to our friend's house and made dinner there while catching up on all the episodes of Person of Interest that she had taped for us.  One more session to finish off Agents of Shield and we'll be totally caught up.

Saturday, September 5th -- Errand running.  Dinner at Denny's.  The Opera House was showing Mr ( Read more... )

Friday -- We had the day off from work as Employee Appreciation Day.  And we got tickets to the Erie County Fair.  Unfortunately, I couldn't go on Friday because our refrigerator died.  Fortunately, we noticed while the food was still cold, so we pickled, canned, made cheese and yogurt, had a huge salad for dinner, filled the chest freezer to ( Read more... )

I is jenius!  :)  It was too hot this weekend to do anything but sit in front of the fan.  So, I sat in front of the fan and sorted out the utensils drawer.  The drawer is the catch-all for anything that isn't a fork, a knife or a spoon.  You dig for what you want and try to extract it from the tangled mess of everything else that's in the drawer ( Read more... )

Fri, Dec 12 -- I have to use up my personal days before the end of the year, so this was a day off for me.  I had hoped to make contact with a friend with a pick-up truck to pick up a snow plow and generator in Buffalo.  We had each other's home phones, but not cell phones, so we kept leaving messages for each other all day.  Finally ran into him ( Read more... )

Wed. Nov 26th -- The SNI 5K Turkey Trot was that morning.  I can't run anymore, my knees aren't up to it.  My boss gave me an "I don't know if you can do this" assignment.  I could have done it, if people bothered to enter the correct data.  I figured out what I needed to get the numbers I wanted, but I don't know the formulas.  So Tuesday I'm ( Read more... )