Sunday, June 24, 2007
Week Past 06/18-06/24/07
Another late entry. Sun 06/24 I got a call from my co-worker giving me a heads up that his wife might be due. We're not expecting it until last week of July or early August. Anyways, it's supposed to be my day off and we had the day planned with my parents. I realized that it's hard to really "enjoy" what you are supposed to be doing when you are "on call" or anticipating a call to go to work. I was a worrywart. We went to lunch after mass and blocked out the thoughts to relish the food. Then went to Lowe's to walk off the extra pounds gained and buy their discounted perennials that W saw. That's when the call came. My co-worker had to bring his wife to the hospital. I need to report for work to cover the remaining hours before we close. I rushed W to finalize what she wanted to buy and drop them off at home.
Before I closed shop my co-worker called to inform me that it was a false alarm. That's good as it won't be pre-mature and though it's inane it also solves my scheduling dilemma for the week. Coming back from work I had to help W transplant some of the plants we just bought lest they wilt.
Way to go to end the week.
On a side note, while we were parking at the church my Dad asked, "Is this a anticipated mass?" I was caught off guard. I said it's a Sunday and a morning at that. I hope it's just one of those instances where you just lose track of the day in a week. You're retired and basically your day would be much the same... I hope ...
That's the week past...
Before I closed shop my co-worker called to inform me that it was a false alarm. That's good as it won't be pre-mature and though it's inane it also solves my scheduling dilemma for the week. Coming back from work I had to help W transplant some of the plants we just bought lest they wilt.
Way to go to end the week.
On a side note, while we were parking at the church my Dad asked, "Is this a anticipated mass?" I was caught off guard. I said it's a Sunday and a morning at that. I hope it's just one of those instances where you just lose track of the day in a week. You're retired and basically your day would be much the same... I hope ...
That's the week past...
Sunday, June 17, 2007
Week Past 06/11-06/17/07
Wed 06/13 I miscalculated the amount of work needed to plant the perennial seedlings that W bought. I also thought there were only twelve seedlings. Turned out there were twenty six. Thinking it would be a breeze I volunteered (that was before I realized my numbers were wrong) to help when W decided to plant them as her exercise. We started around 4 pm. Break for dinner then I continued on 'til past 8. The reason it took us or me that long was the first holes that W dug was small so I still had to do some digging. When I asked her to make it bigger it was way a bit bigger. No comment on that. Since our soil is clayish I also had to amend it with manure and humus. Pic at left shows the seedlings planted near the rocks. Three in each rock. They are barely discernable. Hopefully in a couple of weeks I'll be able to take new pictures showing their growth and the change in the landscape. Pic at right is W's landscaping as I mentioned in my previous blog and below as seen from tne deck's stairs. She did additional improvements.
Sunday, June 10, 2007
Week Past 06/04-06/10/07
The day has finally arrived, Fri, 06/08, I picked up my parents at the airport around 5:30 pm. Took them home to drop off their bags and pick up W for dinner. Took them to King's Buffet for a Chinese buffet ... burp. Looking at them at their age (late 70s early 80s) I thank God that they are still lucid and can walk without any assistance although Mom has knee problem that slows her down.
W and her staff had their outing Sat, 06/09. The venue was same as last year's. This time I didn't go but took my parents instead to shop for their needs. The temps this week are high and a bit humid. It's good for my parents since they can't stand the cold temps. Summer is really here.
Our desktop computer just conked out last week. Ryan one of W's staff tried to recover the system to no avail. I'm grateful for his efforts and time spent trying to revive it. I need to buy another internal hard drive so we can access the existing one and recover our files. I also called my brother Jo for advise on the hard drive. Right now I'm doing this blog entry on W's laptop.
W's also been busy in the garden doing some plantings/landscaping of her own. So she did one corner plot as shown in the pic with a birdbath. It's still in progress.
Sunday, June 03, 2007
Week Past 05/28-06/03/07
Sat 06/02 was W's birthday. Her staff threw a party for her at home. I call that "sipsip":). A slang used in the Philippines equivalent to bootlicking. It was supposed to be a surprise? but they can't get a hold of me? to be an accomplice. So they had to inform W of their plans to make sure she'll be at home. They brought the food, drinks and the invites. It started at 3:00 pm 'til 10:00 pm. They also cleaned up afterwards. Our front door neighbor who, we didn't know, was also hosting a party had their guests park their vehicles a long ways off since we started early. Pics below would better describe the event. Some of the guests also took a walk in the park and posed for "Kodakan" moment. The lake in our backyard is designated as The Haas Lake Park.
Finally the birdhouse has an occupant. A friend of W gave her two birdhouse (for Wrens and Chickadees) as a gift when we moved to our new home. I put up the Wren's first about three weeks ago. Sat I noticed two birds busy flying back and forth from the woods to the birdhouse with what looked like dried twigs or grass in their beak. They were at it the whole morning busy building a nest inside the house. The birdhouse, last pic, becomes a birdhome. 
