Door – sorta

I swung by “Second Use” today on my way home because it’s still October and clearly I think I have all this extra time to fit in a quick home project [quick home project mwuahahahahaha].  I had seen a door on-line that would fit the gym door where I had taken out the warped interior door that would no longer close.  Not having a door on the gym all summer was no big deal but working out in there this week I wanted a door.

I got the door home.  I got the door to the gym.  I chiseled off the lip around the hinge because I need the door to swing the other way.  I hung the door on the current hinges and it didn’t close.  I really need to make new cut outs in the door so the knuckle of the hinge is flush.

Off came the door and into the gym in went until I can get it hung right.

sleep sans poodles

All the visiting pups went home Friday night, all within 30 minutes of each other.  Katherine arrived from Hawaii and Albert and Allison from Los Vegas.  Their taxi pulled into my driveway just and Katherine and I were driving up the street.  The baggage, doggy and car shuffle took about 30 minutes and then Missy and I were again alone and heading to bed.

I slept in on Saturday, it was 7am before I knew it and there were no poodles pouncing on my head.

This weekend was pretty mellow.  I got a few things done around the house, tackled a challenging downspout issue in the middle of Saturday’s downpour and got the pool cleaned out yesterday after a very sad football game.

Except for a lovely walk around Greenlake early Sunday morning I hardly left the house.  It was that kind of weekend.  Plenty to do but more just relaxing and enjoying some down time.

There was a playoff game between the Yankees and the Angles on Saturday night that just kept going and going.  I think it was 14 inning by the time the Yankees won.  Yesterday’s Seahawks game was horrible, in a this is so boring it’s putting me to sleep kind of way.  Arizona had scored twice before our quarterback even got on the field.  It just went down hill after that.

Saturday there was some crazy rain.  Pouring down, my driveway looks like I should cast out a hook kind of rain.  But it was still warm out.  Fall rain has arrived but the temperatures are still pretty mild.  Yesterday was beautiful.  The light in the evening against the trees changing color was breath taking.  I stood outside watching the light in the clouds and wishing for a better camera.  Those kind of pictures just do not come across well on my little digital camera.

Fall has arrived, the colors are here, the rain is here.  Summer was long and beautiful and I am very thankful, but I like fall also and plan to enjoy it.  Fall definitely means fewer outdoor projects and more indoor projects for the next few months.  Any by indoor projects I don’t just mean the studio/cafe that will be ramping up in November and consuming a lot of time and energy but indoor projects at home also.  It’s hard to believe I’ve been in the house six years already and I was noticing this weekend that some of my walls could use a new coat of paint.  Come on indoor projects,  bring it on!!

Over-Seeding

Fall is the only time I really put any energy into the actual grass yard at my house, besides mowing all summer.  This is actually Missy yard, it’s where she lounges in the shade, where she plays with her friends and why I must over seed it in the fall.

Today started out mowing and pupping* the back yard then putting down the four bags of organic seed and sod starter compost.  Once those four were down I realized I needed more and headed to Lowes for four more.  I poured four more bags on the yard and worked it all into the grass focusing on some of the larger divots from the dogs.  After all eight were all spread out I knew I could have used more but that will be in for this year.  I over seeded with 10 pounds of seed designed for direct sun.  It think this may be why my yard (Missy’s yard) stayed greener than previous years.

*pupping: Long ago abbreviation from list making. Pick Up Poop was reduced to PUP, which now its just how I refer to it.
Pup, pupped, pupping.  As in: Can you PUP today its going to rain.

Fog rolls out

What a beautiful weekend.  I woke early Saturday to the sound of rain.  By the time I got up and made coffee it was done.  I got an early start on projects.  Pulling out veggies in the garden and discovering the Raccoons or Squirrels or both had gone ahead and harvested most of the corn, consumed it and left the cobs all over for me.

I didn’t get as much corn as I had hoped as you may recall the Raccoon destroyed a lot of the stalks earlier this summer.  My back yard is completely fenced in, at least a six foot fence, my neighbors garden is in his front yard, fenced in by a cute little decorative picket fence, a fence I could step over.  His corn is huge, ears that Dumbo would be jealous of.  No Raccoons have even bugged his garden.  In fact I am sure they have traipsed right past that beautiful garden to climb my six fence and destroy my garden.  I can only assume it is so I can continue to have a blogging topic.

I did salvage some of the corn before pulling it all out and had some for dinner tonight, yummy!  I got a lot of the veggies pulled out.  There are so many ripe still good tomatoes on the vines so I only pulled out one before I stopped and will pick them this week and then will finish pulling them out.

I got the yards all mowed and was at Lowes quite early this morning, dropped some of my overtime money on sod soil, grass seed to over seed some vinca minor starts I’m gonna plant in front to sore up a little hill and a few other things for projects (cement patch and black top patch.)

I filled holes in the back yard (Missy and friends yard) with the soil.  By the end of summer the dogs do quite  number on this yard.  But it is theirs, so I fill all the divots and overseed it in fall.  Last year it worked quite well and I used a seed that was for full sun and hot areas and although the grass finally died in spots it stayed green much longer then the other yards.  This gives Missy cool grass to lay in during the summer.

Thing is the two bags of soil didn’t fill nearly all the little holes so back I went this evening and bought four more bags.  But after all the work before today’s “Gorey” football game and a 2.5 mile walk with Missy all I had in me was the energy to unload them and take a hot shower.

I stopped working in the garden about 1pm to come in and watch the Seahawks lose to Frank Gore, well the whole 49ers team but really it was Gore that did them in.  Two long touch down runs, 79 and 80 yards.  Crazy.

Since I have to be at work at 5:30 tomorrow morning, I be heading to bed here soon even though it’s not even dark.  I am exhausted enough however I don’t think I’ll have any trouble falling asleep.