A day in the life of....: May 2009

Broken limbs, Mom's Day walk and white trash pool party

It was hot this past weekend...smoking hot. So after umping in the oppressive heat, I got a call from B asking me to bring home a kiddle pool. Me and my infinite wisdom decided it would be much more enjoyable for mom and dad if this kiddle pool had a little more room in it.

And so, our white trash pool fun has begun!

We take lots of walks, and Mom's day weekend was no exception. We like to loop our walks past the Martinez fountain near the police station to give the dogs a chance to cool their paws, and catch a drink. Oskar and I got Mom a bunch of flowering plants (and some hostas for under the orange tree) and finally her first set of diamond earrings for Mom's Day this year...the idea being, watch beautiful things grow as a remembrance of your first mothers day...including, the earrings. But the highlight was carrying Oskar into the bedroom, him perfectly holding the card out as mom sleepily looks up.

Our last big rain brought the latest huge limb tumbling down from our neighbors big Eisenhower next door. Thankfully the new incredibly strong fence they just put in was able to take the brunt of the crushing limbs weight when it struck right in the fork of the limb. If the old chain link fence is still there, I'm not sure we are very pleased with the result. As it was, luckily no damage was done to the vehicle.

saved by the new industrial strength fence they just put in. can you even see the suv?

Oskar 8 to 9 month cuteness photo dump

ROOOOOAAAAARRRR!!!

"you must been farming long....you're huuuge!"

goalless walk down semi-country road

Bella meets a jackass....not named Daddy

B suggested we walk down Franklin Canyon Road, a road we use a portion of, but only head in one direction....Saturday, we choose the path never traveled. Reef encountered her arch nemisis...anything large in four legs, and apparently there are pirates waiting for the river to flood again. Found a nice little nursery with some poor street signage, and lackluster pot storing strategies, but nice product for only slightly more than the local orange box.

We rewarded ourselves for walking 7 miles, by looping the walk by Kinder's for a sammich.

Work update:

B's company is struggling and some major changes could be coming soon.

I've landed a 4 week job taking field measurements and verifying as-built drawings for the entire campus of 12 buildings for the California Dept. of Public Health Care in Richmond, Ca. Good money for contract work...some strange experiences measuring in labs and test mice storage facilities, including full HAZMAT gear: tyvek suit (doesn't breathe well....at all) gloves, booties, mask, hair net...even sanitizing tape meausre, laser, pens and measuring board. Rooms and rooms we meausred full of mice in little boxes waiting to be shot full of viruses. Some of the males even get bored and start to pick the hair off his neighbors face and neck. Then we went to the laboratories to the rooms full of swine ful, HIV, rabbies, west nile....you know, all the good stuff.

I was a bit nervous at first, but like Leo said "those vials and beakers don't sneeze".