Showing posts with label feel the burn. Show all posts
Showing posts with label feel the burn. Show all posts

Saturday, February 17, 2007

A long day but a sweet reward

I'm exhausted! We spent the day working HARD. So, it's the good, satisfying, I-accomplished-something kind of exhausted.

We worked on Ruby-proofing the backyard. There are still two areas that need attention but we worked on the most important ones. I cleaned out the dog run, powerwashed everything, and we put a 1/2 yard of gravel in it -- nice and clean . . . see:


She'll only be in there when we are gone for a long enough time that we can't leave her in the house (like if Greg's out of town and I'm at work all day) The dog house is WAY too huge for her but we'll make do for awhile. Tomorrow morning, I'm going to go get a nice bale of pine shavings to fill the bottom of the dog house with to make it cozy for her if she has to be out there when its raining.

Greg fixed one gate that was broken and cut wood for the bottom of our deck (the one over the creek!) because the gap was fine for labs but Ruby could go right under it. I stained the wood and he'll put it up tomorrow morning.

Gosh, when I put it in a list, it doesn't seem like much but it was and it took all day -- well, just shoveling the gravel is a ton of work! (almost literally!).



Allens/Rufous Hummingbird
Originally uploaded by egret's nest.
When I was cleaning up and Greg was taking his shower, I saw this new friend at my feeder. We get Allens and/or Rufous Hummingbirds cruising through in late January and February. They are smaller than our normal Anna's hummers and have a bronzey-orange color to them. Utterly gorgeous. This one was VERY hungry -- he kept coming back and eating even though it was getting pretty dark. There was another hummer chirping at him from a tree nearby -- I couldn't see if it was another A/R hummer or if it was an Anna's who was miffed. But, from the size, I think it was an A/R. It's not a great picture but I was so excited to get it.

The kids had sleepovers with friends tonight so Greg and I went out and got Chinese food from our local, awesome Chinese restaurant. It's soooooo good! I order it online and we run down 20 minutes later and it's waiting for us and still hot when we get home. We watched National Treasure tonight (We love Netflix) and after we were done eating, we had drinks and popcorn. I figure after the amazing labor my body did today a martini is only fair!

And now to bed. Tomorrow is a big day and Greg and I are gonna be SORE!

Friday, August 25, 2006

Warm ups at Soccer


Warm ups at Soccer
Originally uploaded by egret's nest.
Tonight was the last night of Summer Soccer. Traditionally, the parents take the kids on in an end of session game. One might expect the parents to go easy on the little guys (this is the 6-8 year old group). Well, not these parents. We trounced the little blighters 6-3. Yours truly scored two goals! Gage scored one goal. Ruth did some great mid-field ball handling. It was really fun.

Gage had a hard time with the loss. But, that's what happens when you start the trash talk at home.

Gage to me -- "Mom, we're gonna kick your butts!"
Me -- "Gage, you can't talk that way to me."
Gage -- "But Mom, we ARE!"

Totally fun session! And, the kids are moving up to Intermediate in the Fall, I guess. Their coach is really pleased with how well they've progressed this summer. Yay!

Gage at SoccerGage is really loving soccer -- it's important to him and the highlight of his week.

Ruth enjoys it and is good at it. But, she doesn't live for it. Ruth at Soccer

Saturday, July 29, 2006

Progress




Sometimes it helps to see where I've been to apprecitaed the work I've already done and to help me focus on where I need to go.

Friday, July 28, 2006

Morning Walk

Walk: 1.7 miles; 45 minutes

Location: East Hilton Drive Walk

Observation date: 7/28/06
Notes: Beautiful morning. The wren was scolding me for walking so close to her area. Beautiful start to the day. I heard the owl but reading the descriptions, it could only be a GHO -- the deep thrumming whoooos were amazing. And, I heard a response from much farther away.
Number of species: 8

Great Horned Owl - Bubo virginianus X [click] (Listen to the recording of the Pair Calling on this page -- it could be the owls I heard! Wonderful!)
Acorn Woodpecker - Melanerpes formicivorus X
Western Scrub-Jay - Aphelocoma californica 1
Chestnut-backed Chickadee - Poecile rufescens X
Winter Wren - Troglodytes troglodytes 1
American Robin - Turdus migratorius 1
California Towhee - Pipilo crissalis 4
Dark-eyed Junco - Junco hyemalis 10

This report was generated automatically by eBird v2 (http://www.ebird.org)