Angela Law

animal lover, gardener, knitter, and gourmet cook
 
movies

what’s eating gilbert grape

You might think it’s his mother, but it’s not.

Brian and I caught this flick on HBO the other night. I rather liked it. Now that I’m on the Johnny Depp bandwagon, I’ve been watching a lot of his movies from years ago. They’re all pretty good. Leonardo DiCaprio was also quite impressive playing Johnny Depp’s mentally retarded brother. The story was about a dysfunctional family. For some reason, those types of stories are always interesting to me. So, if you like this type of story and you haven’t seen this movie, I highly recommend it.

motorcycles

dirt

The gods must be smiling down upon Brian. Not only did his motorcycle! motorcycle! motorcycle! arrive this morning, but it is not raining–the sun is even shining. So even though we’ve barely just begun working, we’re taking a break so he can ride up and down and up and down the street. We got an earlier start than expected so I’m not complaining–yet. But, our help is not able to make it today (because he is having back problems) so I suspect Brian will be taking more than his share of “breaks” throughout the day.

I’ve given him the biker moniker of “Dirt”. You can’t have a Harley and not have a biker name. Henceforth he will be known as Brian “Dirt” Law. He got this name for three reasons: 1. sometimes he just really needs a shower; 2. it seems like he ends up having to move a few tons of earth every year for our projects (maybe that’s why he needs a shower?); and 3. dirt is a phrase used to describe a bunch of individual tattoos on someone (because it makes their arm look “dirty”). while this does not apply to Brian (he has what you call a sleeve, not dirt), it’s still kinda funny.

motorcycles

not a cager, not yet a biker

Brian’s almost a biker. Zepka’s called this afternoon, so we went over there and checked out the bike (cool!) and did all of the paperwork. However, it’s not going to be delivered until tomorrow. It was pouring down rain when we got there and Brian hadn’t yet cleared out a spot for the bike, so he opted to have it delivered tomorrow. It’s not like he could ride it in this weather, anyway. So, expect a full report from me sometime tomorrow. Hopefully it will stop raining long enough for him to at least take it up and down the road a few times.

motorcycles

the latest

Zepka’s informed Brian that his bike might not be ready until tomorrow. Needless to say, they’ve been removed from his Christmas list and added to his shit list. It wouldn’t be such a big deal except for three things:
1. Brian took a vacation day today (apparently for nothing).
2. It’s going to rain for the next four days (starting late this afternoon), so Brian won’t get much riding time.
3. We have plans to work on the playhouse all day tomorrow (Jake’s not going to be home) and we have someone coming to help us, so picking up the bike tomorrow will surely mess up our schedule.

There’s a chance that the bike will be ready late this afternoon, but I’m not going to hold my breath. That would be the best case scenario at this point.

Stay tuned for updates…

do-it-yourself, gardening & landscaping, motorcycles

obligatory post

It’s been a few days since I posted, so I thought I’d catch y’all up on things. Note: I’m allowed to say y’all because I was born in Maryland, which is technically in the south.

We worked on the playhouse Sunday, Monday, and Tuesday. We’re where I hoped we would be at this point. It’s just too early to tell if that’s good enough progress. I would much rather be ahead of schedule, but it sure beats being behind. I have another milestone in mind for the weekend, so we’ll have to see if we hit that. This weather is surely going to screw things up. There is a lot of painting/staining that needs to be done–some of it starting this weekend. There are some things I can paint ahead of time, but other things have to wait until they’re attached. And it’s going to be too cold in the near future to be painting anything outside.

And speaking of the weather, it’s also putting a crimp in my gardening plans. I was supposed to put some cool-weather plants in this weekend, but seeing that it might snow, I’m going to have to hold off for a bit. I’m a teensy bit behind on some other garden stuff as well, but it’s because the playhouse is taking up most of my free time.

Brian is anxiously awaiting the call from Zepka’s saying that his bike is ready. Hopefully they will call today so that he can get the bike tomorrow morning. Again with the weather–it’s supposed to rain tomorrow afternoon and that’s not good weather for riding. He has tomorrow off so that he can tool around the streets and learn how to operate the new bike. Let’s just hope he gets the opportunity.