All Hallows Eve.
The night when ghosts, goblins, and witches are free to roam the land of the living and beg for precious tidbits from kind strangers.
Or in this day and age Lady Gaga, Spiderman and something from Angry Birds.
Every year I post this link to my Facebook page to give people a little history of this special day (hey, knowledge is power).
Have a spooktacular Halloween!
It started off as a very promising day. One filled with accomplishment. With the unusual warmth of October and bright blue sky, it was hard to fight the urge to run outdoors and complete some last minute fall cleanup.
For this particular day, the mission was to remove the 5 tons of leaves that had carpeted the property. With his handy leaf blower, Rick started on the smallest area of the property just behind the house. After 10 minutes, the back door opens and a frustrated voice asks if a circuit had been tripped. Looking over all the breakers and discovering nothing amiss, I went back to my chores in the kitchen only to discover that the electrical problem had invaded some of the appliances, a few of which were quite important to day-to-day living, like the refrigerator. And the dishwasher. And the coffee maker.
Being that it was a Saturday and not having an electrician as a BFF, we moved appliances to other outlets and ran an extension cord to keep precious food from spoiling.
Perplexed but unable to do anything until Monday, leaf blowing commenced, with fingers crossed that there would be no more interruptions of the electrical variety.
Only when the day was starting to wind down did we discover that one other part of the kitchen had become electrically incapacitated.
The beautiful light fixture over the kitchen table was somehow rigged up to the faulty wiring on the other side of the kitchen.
Of course this makes perfect sense. Aren’t all homes wired in some random order that when you flip a switch in the bathroom the dishwasher starts? No? Hmmm, must just be us.
After 2 weeks of dealing with a slightly disorganized kitchen (which is not good for someone with a slight case of OCD), the electrician was able to diagnose the problem and voila, we were back to normal.
No more extension cords scattered across the counter or washing dishes by hand. The coffee maker was tucked back safe and sound in its little area by the toaster.
All is right with the world.
Weekend. What a beautiful word. I know I’m ready for it.
Relax and recharge, my friends, you deserve it!
I did something that I rarely ever do.
I spoiled myself.
Not just little spoil, but kinda big spoil. You know, where you hem and haw and ask yourself if you really need “such and such.” 99.9 percent of the time I answer no, of course, and move on in life knowing I was getting along just fine without… whatever it was.
And I really couldn’t afford my gift to myself, but I just couldn’t pass up the once in a lifetime bargain I was getting. And really, I was saving up all those Amazon.com point “dollars” that I had been accumulating for the past few years to buy something that I really wanted. And I really wanted this.
So as my special birthday present to myself, I bought a new camera.
It’s the newest Rebel camera from Canon, and people, let me tell you, this thing is the cat’s meow!
Yes, it had a hefty price tag, but there was a special going on that included an additional zoom lens. When I did my research and found out the full retail value on this camera and both lenses, I did the math. After using my points and the special deal that was going on, I got everything for half price. I would have been a fool to pass this up.
Now I’ve only scratched the surface on how to use the darn thing, but once I figured out how to zoom in on my lovely Nuthatches, I was in love, love, love!
With the holidays closing in, I’m going to have plenty of test subjects to try it out on.
Thor & Calie will be very relieved to not have the thing in their faces all the time.
It’s been a tough week, but I think we’ve finally got it figured out.
“It”, is where to hang the Squirrel Buster.
Instead of seeing this all the time because we didn’t have it far enough away from the tree…
…we get to see this.
It’s sooooo good to see the Nuthatches, Chickadees and Woodpeckers again.
Well, I did see them this summer, but not like this. Actually staying still for a nanosecond so I could enjoy them.
I might able to get through the upcoming winter after all with a little bit of sanity.
Well, as much as a person can with 4 tons of snow and temperatures in the subarctic range.
I’ll just wing it.