Angela Law

animal lover, gardener, knitter, and gourmet cook
 
motorcycles, small business ownership

back to work order

It’s Brian’s first day of self-employment and, already, I’m ready to send him back to work. Things started off well enough today. He went for his usual morning run with Lizzy and then even took Alice for a run around the block. He got Jake ready for school and got him on the bus. The Jake thing usually sets me back 15 minutes (therefore causing me to extend my work day by 15 minutes), so this was nice.

Lunchtime rolled around and Brian wanted to put the bike in the shed for the winter. He was outside for a bit and then he called me from his cell to tell me his bike was stuck in the yard. And stuck, it was–up to the frame. We tried pushing and pulling, but nothing worked–it just made a bigger trench in the yard. We were able to slip a brick under the back tire and this helped a little, but still, no luck. Then, we threw some cat litter in the hole and this gave us just enough traction to push the bike out of the trench and onto a piece of plywood on another spot of the yard. We’re hoping the ground either dries up or freezes (without snow) so that he can get the bike in the shed for the winter.

This set me back 45 minutes. I would have rather gotten Jake ready for school.

books

candles burning

This was a book started by an author named Michael McDowell (who died during the writing of it) and finished by Tabitha King (otherwise known as Stephen King’s wife). I thought I’d give it a whirl, but the book took me months to read. That is not normal for me. I kind of enjoyed it while I was reading it, but I just never felt like picking it up. It sat for a week between readings quite often.

But, then I got the new Stephen King book, Lisey’s Story, so I had to sit down and finish reading this book once and for all. In the midst of this revelation, Brian’s dad lent me a James Patterson novel, so I guess I’m going to have to read that before I start on the new Stephen King because I want to get it back to him. But, judging from past Patterson novels I have read, this won’t be much of an issue. I have just the opposite problem with his books–I can’t put them down. Besides the fact that his stories are interesting, he writes these really short chapters. So, there’s always time to read “just one more”.

Back to Candles Burning…Yeah, I guess I really didn’t like it.

auto

enjoy it while it lasts

I took advantage of the nice weather this weekend and finished cleaning the insides of the vehicles. I also washed and waxed the Highlander today. What a pain in the neck! I can see this isn’t going to happen very often. When I had my Scion, I used to wash and wax it all of the time. It was all glass on the roof (and it also had the plastic front and rear bumpers that are so prevalent on today’s cars) so there wasn’t much surface area to wax and it could be done quickly. Of course my Scion was the only car I ever made an effort to keep clean and look what happened to it.

movies

defending your life

We caught this one last night. It was pretty light fare. I’m sure it was a great date movie in its day (1991). The movie is about what happens to you after you die–basically what you go through in order to prove yourself worthy to “move on” (go to heaven?) or whether you have to go back to earth and try it again (reincarnation). No hell here, folks. The movie wasn’t laugh-out-loud funny, but it was amusing. Unfortunately, not a sophomoric joke in sight.