Monday is typically the day that I have off from work. Lately my days off have been spent in pursuit of the ever-elusive whitetail deer. But since archery season ended (the deer won, by the way) Saturday, I had the whole day to spend around the house, chipping away at the Honey-Do list. Kim met her mom in Altoona to do a little shopping today, so after I shuttled Josie from one school to the other, I was off to Lowes.
I bought a couple of storm doors, 8 bags of salt for the water softener, and some plumbing supplies. Our front and back screen/storm doors have been in bad shape for a while. Neither one had a working handle, and the screen/glass parts were falling out of both. We knew that it was time to take action the other night when our 6-toed cat opened the front door to let himself in! (yes, you read that correctly–the cat opened the front door and came waltzing in for something to eat.)
It took me several hours, but I got the old doors out and successfully hung the new doors today! While I was busy door-hanging, Levi and the girls were playing in raking the leaves in the back yard. Actually, when Kim came home, they were using the leaf blower to see how long/high they keep get a plastic bag in the air. Then Levi discovered the facial distortion capabilities of the leaf blower. I’ll show you a couple of pictures. You’ll notice Josie’s wearing protective eyewear, Levi has his ear protection going, and Annabelle is conspicuously absent from the facial distortion pics. She thinks her brother and sisters are crazy. And yes, his mouth is actually that big.
I finished up the back door about 8:30, just in time to dive in to some math homework with Josie. While I am able to complete the homework, I’m afraid I’m over my head in terms of trying to explain the complexities of geometry to a student with limited English. Fortunately, we think we’ve found a tutor for Josie. I like working on homework with my children, but I’m no good at doing geometry in Mandarin!
All in all, it was a pretty wonderful day off.
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Sean Michael Murphy · November 16, 2010 at 1:55 pm
I’m dangerously close to installing some screen doors myself – wanna come help?