A Little of This and That

I think my muse has left the building. I've had a difficult time this week coming up with anything new and exciting to blog about. But here goes nothing anyway.

Josephus Awrightus comes over most every Friday night for dinner and a nice visit. We look forward to his coming, he's a fun person to be around with his quirky sense of humor (quote from his 5th grade teacher). This past Friday was no different, except we got a bit of a surprise when he came through the door. He had gotten a hair cut. More like an Army buzz cut, his long curly locks were gone and in their place was a what we called in the "old" days, a butch hair cut. Seems his roommate's mother got a look at his hair fairly recently and told him she was coming over in a few days and give him a haircut. Now Josephus Awrightus tells us he wasn't really growing his hair for any purpose, but he just never got around to a haircut. Matt's mom was true to her word and his long hair is gone. I can't wait for it to get just a little bit longer, because I love his curls, and when it's just a little longer, his receding hairline isn't so obvious. I'm afraid most of the men in our family have that in common--retreating hair.

I realized that once again I have let Baseball season slip away from me, and haven't kept up with my favorite teams like I should. So I watched a game on Saturday since no one else was around to get annoyed. At last check, the Rockies were in a pretty good contention for the National League Wild Card spot in the playoffs, and since they were only about 3 games out of first place, could actually come out on top in their division. Mariners, however, probably won't make it. They're a long way out of first place, and not close for the Wild Card spot, either. Let's hope that if the Rockies make the playoffs, they do well, but don't choke when it counts like they did two years ago.

Sunday we traveled to Heffalump and family's coastal home for a visit, to go to church with them and deliver their #2 son's birthday present. Pink Avenger & her husband (still thinking of a good handle for him) came along for the ride. We had a good visit--Heffalump fed us well, the kids were a pleasure to be with, and I even snuck in a little nappy after church. After dinner we went for a walk along the river. We must have been quite a sight, 6 adults, 5 boys and a baby in a big jogging-type stroller strung out for a block or two. Most of the way we were hidden from public view, except for a blue heron, ducks and sea gulls. It was a lovely walk, and the rain which had been our nemesis throughout most of the day, managed to stay away as we walked.

Monday was Labor Day, and uneventful around our house. We kind of puttered a bit. I started re-organizing some of my genealogy files, found a couple of things I had been looking for which had been mis-filed in with census records or histories, or somewhere. I'm hoping more things will turn up as I make new file folders, go through the old ones, and make things easier to find. They weren't hard to find before, had I put them back where they belonged, but I often pulled records to use in a genealogy class I was teaching, so they are all over the place. Not for long, though.

Ezre's old room is becoming my craft room, and recently I decided on the "look" of my new digs. I'm going with a red, white and blue color scheme. The walls where the closet and windows reside will be painted a bright red, while the other two large walls will be painted white. The cutesy sunflower wallpaper border will be replaced with something reddish, hopefully a patriotic theme, just on the two white walls. We'll be moving the sewing table in from the laundry room and setting it below the window. I will make curtains for the room, in a red-white-blue color scheme. I have a new floor lamp, navy blue since they didn't have red, a new bookshelf, and other storage areas for all yarn, fabric, cross stitch thread and cloth, etc. Looking forward to the day it's done!