Camouflage

Looking for mushrooms today at my folks I almost stepped on this little guy



I know mom was nearby, we saw her cross the drive from that spot when we pulled in.

Go fly a kite!

Sarah got a new kite at Menards today, about 10 minutes into flying it the wind seemed to die and we struggled to keep it airborne. Unfortunately tomorrow’s forecast calls for little wind.

Homework

I’ve been avoiding it all week, but it’s almost Friday and still I have a major work load and my entire day tomorrow is booked with design reviews. So I’ve been working since I came home at six-thirty, my VPN connection is thru Oslo, Norway so speed is just not happening; however with two computers running here I’m getting quite a bit done.

A test I didn't study for

I received an odd phone call this morning, the gal in HR asked me to come to her office.
I had been selected of a drug screen. No worries here, I’m clean, I don’t do drugs…..anymore. Just glad I could go and didn’t have to wait around. When I worked at AutoDie years ago they had the same random testing. They would send you to the clinic right across the street for your test, when I worked afternoons there was a guy who sat there for almost six hours before he went, nothing they could do about it.

Whats going on

Not much going on my way this week so far. I’ve been staying late at work, finishing up designs I have reviews for on Friday . By the time I get home at 6:30 or 7:00 have some dinner, well lets just say I'm done for the evening. I’ve left my laptop at work the last couple of night just so I don’t spend all night working, even thought I found my self researching H8 fits for a 28^mm hole this evening, which by the way is +.033^mm its hard to stop.

House cleaning, literally

On the northern exposure of my attached garage was a nasty film mildew, dirt and who knows what. I don’t have this problem on any of the other northern walls, could have been caused by the close proximity of a recently removed spruce tree. The pressure washer made short work of this unsightly mess.

I have no morels.

Hiked a few miles this morning in search of morels, only to return empty handed. This has been one of my most disappointing seasons so far. Years ago I never found them this early, but the last few years I have, my hope is that its just not happened yet.

Day off, sorta

After falling asleep around six this morning my wife brings me my cell at 7:30 saying its been ringing, messages from vender's. Make a couple calls and back to see the sandman. 11:00 rolls around and I'm up again and out of bed. I have a new laptop with a VPN (virtual private network) card which allows me to work from home, too slow for serious design work but lets me access my work email and files. So I spent a couple hours taking care of business. Ross had his school work done, so we drove over to Gross park. Nice walking trails cover the park land, we spent an hour or so hiking around. When we finished up there we drove to a vender that I do work with to look at a couple of jobs. All and all, a nice afternoon, now I have to go finish a few jobs outside, my work is never done!

Off to bed

I've been up now for a little over 24 hours now, got a call at 9:30 last night about trouble with a tool at the shop. Left there at 3:45, just trying to kill a few minutes before the Mrs. gets up and I'm off to bed.