Off The Beaten Path

What a difference a few days can make. Monday and Tuesday it was 90 degrees with 90% humidity and last night it was in the 40′s and the high today is only predicted to be in the 50′s! We were very happy to see a little rain fall yesterday as it was getting so dry just the dogs walking around their houses kicked up dust. Now if we could just get things to quit breaking down around here and money to start growing on trees, we could maybe get the dogs hitched up and say that fall training has arrived too!

Huge birthday wishes go out to Mark’s Grandma Idell O’Brien. “Gram Dell” is 90-years-young today! We hope you have a great day Gram and we’ll see you in a couple weeks at your party!!!

Buster preserves?

I think I’ve mentioned that poor Buster feels a little slighted in the human contact department with both Mark and I working full-time and having to spend about 2-3 hours outside doing chores after we get home from work at night. For a cat, he’s pretty social, usually hanging out with us wherever we are except for his late morning and afternoon snooze on our bed soaking up the sunshine streaming in the south facing window. Last weekend while I was getting canning jars unpacked to put up my last batch of pickles, I caught Buster sitting in the box I was going to put my unused jars back into. Hmmm, Buster preserves? Naw, I’d rather preserve him and have him around for a long time. He’s a pretty cool cat, but we can do without the cat puke and hairballs.

Now this is Mark’s type of forecast…there isn’t an 80 degree reading in it! I guess it is September afterall.

From Wunderground:

	Wednesday Mostly sunny. Highs 68 to 73. Southwest winds 5 to 10 mph.
	Wednesday Night Partly cloudy. Lows 48 to 53. Southwest winds around 5 mph becoming southeast in the late evening and overnight.
	Thursday Partly sunny with a chance of showers and thunderstorms in the morning…then mostly cloudy with rain showers likely with a few thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs 63 to 68. East winds 10 to 15 mph. Chance of rain 60 percent.
	Thursday Night Rain showers likely. Lows 45 to 50. Northeast winds 5 to 10 mph becoming northwest after midnight. Chance of rain 60 percent.
	Friday Breezy. Cloudy with a 40 percent chance of rain showers. Highs 58 to 63.
	Friday Night and Saturday Mostly clear. Lows 40 to 45. Highs 57 to 62.
	Saturday Night Partly cloudy. Lows 38 to 43.
	Sunday and Sunday Night Mostly clear. Highs 60 to 65. Lows 43 to 48.

With Mark’s new TV hanging on the opposite wall from where the old TV was, we had to rearrange all the furniture in the main room of the cabin. While changing things around every now and again is good for the mind, it’s not so good if you are a cat named Buster. With the rearranging we have changed poor Buster’s favorite laying spots. He used to love being on top of the loveseat and walking back and forth rubbing against the wall moving a hanging thermomter, listening to it sliding around…well that ain’t happenin’ no more as the loveseat has been moved to another wall. He also used to love laying on an end table that was at the entrance to our bedroom…well that ain’t happenin’ no more either. Buster’s most favorite thing in the world was sitting on the loveseat while Mark was sitting in his recliner so they could have “Mantime”. For those of you that are new blog readers the photo at left is what it used to look like, although new-at-the-time puppy Takum was infringing, hence the look of disdain on Busters face…well, that ain’t happening no more either.

Buster, ever the people-cat that he is, took all of about an hour to figure out how he was going to get his Mantime..

Buster has found a new way to enjoy "Mantime" with Mark...watch TV with him!

Yesterday afternoon while Mark was working on the new generator shed, I was working on cleaning out and rearranging the woodsheds. There were a couple of pretty large pieces of cedar for the sauna that needed splitting so I got to do that…

There's a bit of a look of determination, eh?

While I was splitting the wood, Takum, the nice boy that he is, thought he’d help me stack it.

Takum and Star "helping" mom stack wood.