So most of today was unproductive other than doing the dishes and getting dinner for Gabi. Our favorite Chinese restaurant had moved or gone out of business and so we have been without our Asian food fix for awhile. Something today said, all right kilted get your butt out there and find a new Chinese place to try. So I found one, interestingly enough it is next to a sushi place we used to love to go to until it changed management…sigh…just can’t keep good Asian food in Carol Stream. Now the funny thing is when Gabrielle called me to find out if she needed to pick up anything on the way back from work, she was thinking of suggesting Chinese food for dinner…humm…scary how Gabrielle and I can connect at times. I bought a small assortment and the food wasn’t too bad, so I think we’ll end up trying them again. After Gabrielle came home we scarfed down chow and watched an episode of Cadfael (http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/mystery/programs/cadfael/) one of our favorite shows. I’m not sure what it was that caused me to do it, as I’m often the procrastinator of the family, but after the show I turned off the television and asked Gabrielle to help me in the yard. We mowed the lawn, pulled weeds, stacked firewood and generally got a lot done in the yard. Darkness was starting to fall and so we packed it in for the night, however, we discovered we didn’t have any village stickers for yard waste, so we made a pilgrimage to Jewel to pick up some and to replenish consumables.

After all that we came home and went plop. After a delicious dessert of fresh cherries, plain yogurt with honey and walnuts, I decided it was time to work on the website again. Naturally it is now very late but once I get started on something it is hard for me to stop. I ended up making a new banner logo for the photogallery (http://www.kiltedbehemoth.net/gallery2/main.php). It isn’t exactly what I wanted but it will work for now. It’s gonna take me some time and some trickery with Photoshop to create the image that I want displayed where the sunset picture is now.

I think its time for bed…so nite all and talk to you soon.

Karl

Getting up early sucks. So I was off today, but had to make sure I got up early enough to beat the garbage truck and the recycle truck and the lawn refuse trucks. Carrying heavy bags full of weeds, lawn clippings and general yard crap is not fun especially when its raining. Of course, it wasn’t just like two bags no it was eleven…argh.

Anyway, beyond that spent most of the day with a headache just vegetating but did manage to upload some photo albums. Feel free to wander through the pictures but keep in mind I haven’t had time to rotate all the wedding photos yet so you may be leaning to one side to view them. Actually, that makes me giggle so I just might leave them that way…nah. Well, I am off to bed, as I have to be up for work early in the AM. I’ve been thinking of starting a nursing blog/thread, so keep a look out for that sometime soon.

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For the last two days Gabrielle and I have been mowing, dethatching, overseeding, weeding, cultivating, sowing, seeding, fertilizing, mulching and every other gardening thing you can think of and we still aren’t done yet. Sigh. It has been a lot of work, but worth it to have the yard nice and hopefully we will have it shaped up nice enough to have friends over again for a BBQ. That is, as long as, everyone ignores the general state of disaster of the inside of our home. Let us just say that home remodeling is taking forever to get done, but now that I’m out of school there is a noticeable uptrend in things being worked on.

At least I’m learning a lot. I now know to not buy soil and mulch in bags from the store when you have a garden the size of ours 40 bags of soil and 40 bags of mulch is much more expensive than if I had just had bulk soil and mulch delivered and done the wheelbarrow and shovel method…ah well next time.