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9/1/2010-Sunshine and Blueberries
What a nice day it turned out to be. I walked out the door this morning thinking that it was going to pour all day long, but by lunchtime the sun was shining, the birds were singing, Heather was on her second six-pack. You couldn't have asked for a more perfect summer day.
I think this still counts as summer, doesn't it? The Julia seems to think so too, and I haven't noticed any equinoxes around here lately, so I'm pretty sure we're right. Is that right way to pluralize equinox? Equinii maybe? I suppose I could look it up, but I care less about the answer than you could possibly imagine. I mean I'm all for knowledge for it's own sake, but not when it interferes with my taking another sip of this delicious rum & coke that I'm working on.
Those god damned chickens have been eating my blueberries. It's taken two years for my blueberry bushes to start producing, but every time I turn around the chickens are snatching them out from under me. I may have to kill the chickens, or the blueberries, or both. Actually that sounds like kind of a harsh solution. Something tells me I'll probably pet the chickens and buy my blueberries at the market.
So we had a tiny little job yesterday. Just picking up one of our little barges down in Ballard and bringing it back to the yard. Actually I guess for us it's the big barge, but in the grand scheme of things it's still pretty small. Well, whatever you want to call it we picked it up and brought it home, so it's ready to fight again another day. Come to think of it I probably ought to go give it a once over tomorrow and maybe sweep it off real quick. Not that it's really dirty or anything, but it never hurts to tidy things up a bit.
Speaking of which the 8's engine room is looking less and less like a bomb went off. I think I mentioned that Heather and I installed a couple new lights in the area where we painted, so it's looking rather fancy these days. Right there looks fancy anyway, the rest of the engine room is full of the stuff that got pulled out of that area so that we could paint, so one of these days we're going to have to deal with it. I suppose I could just paint it all gray to match the deck plates, but that might constitute a tripping hazard. It's not even anything especially important, just oddball lengths of wire and pieces of hose, but you never know when you're going to be out on a job somewhere and need just that particular piece of hose. My collection of parts has saved the day on more than one occasion, so I suppose it's worth figuring out a new home for it all.
I received a stinging reprimand the other day about that photo that I thought was a new one. It was pointed out that the photo was not new, and had in fact been used mere weeks ago. Well, you win some, you lose some I guess. Let's see if I can't do better this evening. Here you go, this one ought to be pretty self-explanatory. See you later on, Brian
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