It's Sunday! Funny how that happens this time of week.
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I babysat last Sunday because my grandson had a cold and the firstborn had to take my granddaughter to her martial arts lesson. My grandson just had to share the cold - though, since toddlers tend to do that, I wasn't really much surprised once I realized that the nose and throat had not actually been just reacting to the generations of dustbunnies in my environment.
The cold will go away soon enough. Possibly sooner even than I think. Everything else is going rather well.
Does anybody else find it odd that somebody would use red pepper in cat food? My cat won't eat it - but I didn't realize I still had one can left until I got home from my grocery shopping and found he hadn't eaten more than a couple of bites of what I had given him in the morning. I promised him I would never buy the stuff again.
My MacBook is almost behaving right now. The weather has cooled off substantially, and I still have the window behind my desk open a bit. The sounds of the storm going on outside are a pleasant background to the radio, which is currently playing Donovan.
The storm is a fairly normal one for this time of year. A bit more wind than usual, but not much. Lots of rain - but this IS the Pacific Northwest on the west side of the Cascades. The weather forecast is for it to last through the weekend, and I only know that because I listen to the radio in the car - I'm not looking at the weather site I have bookmarked until Monday.
We've started parking Squatty on my daughter's end of the parking lot - the trees in the complex are moderately old and large limbs have been breaking off of several of them when the wind blows. And the parking spot closest to me is right under a tree. The trash bins are next to her, and the trees are farther away. I am also willing to concede that sleeping toddlers are heavier than sleeping infants, and been there, done that.
I did get the NN14 memberships paid for on this check; also my phone bill. That's the nice part of cashing out vacation time rather than actually taking a week off.
I did take two days off this past week. I went to a get-together in Alsea on Oregon Gal's goat farm. It had started raining fairly heavily by then, so most of the people who said they would be there didn't show up (only one who did was local - the other three of us were from Portland). I grew up about 20 miles from there, one direction or another. It was nice.