Today was somewhat restful. Our grandson was over last night, and had me awake at 5AM. That’s not an ideal Saturday morning wake up! But we hung out a bit and talked, which is great as he is not yet talking fully. Interesting stuff comes out of that kid. When his parents came at noon to pick him up, we took them and their friend who came with them all down to Casper’s to get ice cream and then go play at the park next door. Casper’s is where Red Button ice cream is made, and they have a shop at the factory where we were able to get eight ice cream treats including banana splits and the like for only $22.
Playing at the park was good fun with the kids. I knew grandson was not going to chase me around in the soccer pitch, so I picked him up, and carried him to the middle where he would have to chase me back. It was all good times from there as everyone got involved in running about and racing each other. Only thing was, I made the mistake of running a race against my two daughters. Everyone in the family assumed I never run, till I did, then they found out I do. Or at least, I can, just fine. I just hope they don’t come to expect that from me more often!
We came home and packed up all the stuff that had been piled onto the dining room table, and got it boxed for an eventual move. When the time comes, we don’t want to be swamped with it. We would rather just have a few personal items and the furniture to pack, and the rest of the decorative and less often used stuff already boxed and set aside. That said, still no nibbles on the property over the road. I don’t know if that is because the agent handles them, and only forwards the serious offers, or because there is no serious lookers at all.
My farmer friend came by with his backhoe and dug the hole for me to put in the water monitoring spout, which is just a 2 1/2 inch black drain pipe. I have to test and measure the water below the surface much the same as one would check the fuel on an old Farmall tractor. Only it has to be surface down measure rather than bottom up.
I split a bit of firewood on the log splitter today, too. The wood I split was all for next year’s pile. It is still wet. I need to cut down to length the wood intended to finish off this year’s pile. More than half of this year’s wood is cut and split and stacked, with only a bit to go to hopefully have enough. If not, no worries! There is always that pile I have been setting aside for next year, in a pinch!
Tomorrow we plan on a quick clean up in the library and the panty, which should go easy. I have some water to top up for animals. Then I think it will be an easy day. We’ll just see what takes us along.