Weekend

The more I work, the more I want to just veg on weekends. But the more I work, the more I need to get things done around the house on weekends!

With the late run I'm doing at school this year for the next three months at least, I'm now working from 6:30AM until about 6:30PM and if I get more hours at Aspire, that will be 12 hour days, five days a week. At my age, I wonder how long I can keep it up! It sure does feel good to be back to work at school and driving. I have great routes this year again including my new afternoon primary run which has a very special student on it, namely my grandson Mason!

So you can see I've got a pretty wild schedule. Friday afternoon I was able to spend some time with my friend Bev as we went shopping at BJ's and then out to lunch for Chinese buffet, yummy. I did find a pretty neat gadget for my Ipod that I just hook up to my cigarette lighter, then I can simply place the iPod in it, tune the FM station in that I've selected on my iPod and we have tunes. This gizmo also charges the iPod so will be great for long trips and short trips as well.

Mason came over Friday as usual to spend the night with his Dad and me. We had pizza and wings for dinner. I had been mowing the lawn, a 3-4 hour project if I do part of my Mom's lawn and also I keep adding more lawn now that I have a repaired and fully functional riding mower. Mason fell asleep while waiting for the pizza/wings to be delivered. Friday was his first full day of school so he was pretty tuckered out.

Saturday morning, Cory had to go to work for a couple hours. Mason decided he just wanted Fruit Loops for breakfast so I didn't have to do the blueberry pancake thing as usual. I was trying to get some laundry done and cutting up a pineapple and make a banana bread to use up some old over-ripe bananas. Mason decided he would like to help, adding ingredients and peeling the bananas. Only a half of a banana ended up on the floor, but now that my house is remodeled, the floor is much safer to eat off, so we just washed the banana off. Mason thought that was pretty funny, I just thought it was practical. Cory called and asked if I would bring Mason over to his jobsite so they could spend more time together. After a quick drive, Mason was up in a bulldozer riding around with Dad and I went home to get more mowing done.

Saturday night was Cory's big annual bonfire. After some sprinkles and light showers the evening cleared but was fairly cold and damp. This was the first time I've been home for one of Cory's big fires and I even walked back to take some pics. I was in bed by midnight with plans of riding today with the local Women On Wheels (r) chapter. I'm still debating if I want to do that or just spend more time at home mowing and getting a few more things done around the house. It's a cloudy morning and rather cool so I'm not really in the mood for a big ride. Another thought is to just meet up with the group at their first stop and just riding to Springville with them to meet up with other members of the group. Then I could head home and get more done. This would be a two hour ride at least. Of course the big decision is always should I take the FJR or the Venture. I spent a number of hours loading another 600 tunes on my iPod yesterday so I know I have more good music to listen to no matter what I decide.

The pool is closed now so it's really beginning to feel and look like fall. The nights are getting darker so much quicker now. Cory is starting to cut up the firewood and will be splitting it soon.

Once again I'm not able to upload the pics. I'll try to post them later. Drats!