The Weekend

It's Sunday, the day I traditionally never blog.

So here I am on post 4. A typical leftyblog would be yelling Hypocrite! Hypocrite! right about now. Go figure.

Had a great day yesterday. Lot of housecleaning in the morning; it was the Midway's "Neigbhorhood Cleanup Day", where the district council gets a bunch of trash companies to pull a bunch of industrial dumpsters and garbage trucks into the huge empty lot behind the University Rainbow, and charges $10 a load to let you dump stuff off. It's a huge event locally, and I took full advantage. The main floor of the house verges on presentability; I'm going to work on the second floor starting soon here.

Then we went to Sponsels, a huge apple orchard in Jordan, MN. It's an annual event for us; daughter got to go on a horse ride, while son and I took a hayride into the orchard to pick a couple pecks of apples. These apple orchard trips used to involve me reaching up as high as I can (I'm 6'5) to get the good apples, the kind the short rabble can't get to, and hoping the kids are waiting around with the bag. But this time Son scampered up into the upper branches before I could tell him not to, and brought down a peck's worth of the most gorgeous Connell Reds I've had in years. Ate at a nearby diner, came home and watched DVDs.

But today - more painting.

And less blogging...