Saturday: Strawberry festival

Today Ben and I went to the Owego Strawberry festival. It sadly didn't have many strawberries and did have a lot of people. It seemed to be more of a reason to have a bunch of craft vendors on the streets than to celebrate strawberries. But, we did have some strawberry shortcake and some chocolate-covered strawberries so not all was lost. Also, even though it was busy they did a good job with traffic control and shuttling people, so that was nice.

Friday: tools

Yesterday I learned about my new favorite tool...an automatic zip-tie puller-to-the-right-tension and smooth-cutter. It was amazing.

Ben is trying to fix his computer. It is frustrating, as normal. :( It doesn't help that I haven't unpacked some of the rarely used boxes yet.

Tuesday: one thing

Today I was running around like a chicken with its head cut off. At one point I was convinced that I had lost a part. This meant looking stupid in front of a bunch of people, but not really anything else. I told God I needed one things to go right, and then wondered at myself because several things were going right...it was just that the things that were going wrong were going wrong. Anyway, it turns out that the things I thought I was missing hadn't even been received yet. This totally brightened my day and even helped today. I guess I got my one thing from God. :)

Monday: Work

I'm trying to teach myself that a stressful day doesn't equate to a bad day. I'm also trying to leave work at work for the night.

I'm going to be helping out on another project (MH-60) while someone takes maternity leave. I'm excited that I can talk about this one a bit more, but the program is much more stable so there might not be much to talk about.

Sunday: shopping

After church today, Ben and I went shopping. This is actually a pretty normal event since they shopping stuff is about 25 min away from home but only about 5 min away from church. Anyway, stuff took a little longer than normal, and Ben and I hate shopping. It was annoying this time too.

But, we now have a lawn mower, food, and some more extension cords.

With the lawn mower, we were able to mow about half the lawn. The other half is still to squishy. (Too little grass, too much damp dirt). This is Ben mowing the lawn. I was trying to be sneaky so it is taken through a screen)

Saturday: a lovely day

Today was a lovely day. We did some chores, but I just had a really good time hanging out and doing stuff with Ben. The chores included some quick cleaning of the basement that resulted in a much better looking basement. I love cleaning that does that.

Friday: basement

Well, Ben wasn't feeling well today and we were thinking it might be the heat. It isn't super hot out, but it's been warm. And the computer room is even warmer. So, we moved the "office" to the basement. Not quite as pretty, but more windows if needed and naturally cooler.


Here is Flurry enjoying the fact we're downstairs now too. That fur coat is probably a pain sometimes.