Wednesday October 21, 2009

Well, here I am again....I know! WOW!!!! Two blog entries in the same week. How long has it been since I
Have done that? I don't know either. Lets see.....Work! this week has been a good week thus far.
We got a big electrical vault set and a sewer mainline put back together. Sounds simple. At least when you type it out it doesn't take long, but what a mess and what a job. It is fun, because I haven't set to many large vaults like this. So it is a little bit new to me, but pretty much the same as setting a large manhole. The conditions we are working in are new for me as well. The water table being really shallow and being right in downtown Seattle (actually the Sodo District, but close enough) make it really wet when you start digging that close to sealevel. Lots of different layers of shells and black sand about 8 feet deep.
Jack's practices this week have been really good. He is feeling better, as is Luke.
Jack has really started to pick up on things at football these past 2 practices, I wish they had a bout 6 more games so he could really put it to use. He is starting to to have fun now that he understands it better and know how and what he is suppose to do.
Football game this Saturday, I don't know when or where yet, but I will let everyone in the world know as soon as I find out. I think it is the semifinals for their league, which would mean if they win they go to the championship game. I am not positive though.

Sunday October 18

Well, here I am again...for my weekely update. We had a pretty good week at work last week. Although the rain was of no help to us. We are digging some large holes for some large power vaults. The difficulty is that we are right down in Seattle where the water table is quite shallow and when you are digging in sand with water in the whole.....yep you guessed it the hole just gets wider and never deeper. The water just causes the sides to continue to cave in and fill the bottom up. Seems like you never get any where. We have to set well points down deeper than we are excavating, fill around them with rock, drop our pumps in and start pumping. The rock helps to filter the sand out so our pumps don't get plugged up. The other wonderful obstacle that is in our way in the storm/sewer pipe that is running through our ditch, that we have to remove and replace every day. Yeppp... you guessed it again with all the rain it has made for a wonderfully muddy wet mess. But! I you just keep trying to maintain and control it as much a possible...which isn't possible.
Jack has been sick with the same thing that Luke had last week. He has broncitise (spelling), a sinus infection, and water in his ears. He didn't play in his game yesterday, he actually didn't even go because of the weather. I went and watched the rest of them. His team won. It was their first playoff game and they won. It was a tough fought win, but they got it. I believe next week in the semifinals and then the championship if they win. I guess this is the first time that Tenino's minor league football team has made it to the semifinals.
Next weekend...weather permitting...I was going to see if anyone was up for going to the corn maze with the boys and I out at Rutledge farms and then take them to watch Where the Wild Things Are. Jack will have a game on Saturday, I don't know when or where yet, but when I find out I will let people know.
That is the update for me, on to another wonderful week of work in a wet muddy hole. Hopefully the rain will cooperate with us and give us a chance to get our work done this week.

Sunday October 11

Well, lets see.... this past week was pretty good. We worked nights up in Smokey Point. There is no way I could have driven that during the day when there is all the traffic. Working at nights, we missed most of the traffic both ways, but is was still a gruelling drive afte r working 10 hours. We are supposed to be done with that...again for now. Heading to the Sodo district in Seattle for our next job starting tomorrow. Hopefully that will go well and keep us busy through the winter.
So with that said the sleep this past week was very minor, about four hours each morning when I got home. I actually stayed at Gabby's, it would have been all I had to stay awake for another 35 miutes to get home. I don't know if I would have made that.
Go the boys on Friday afternoon, Luke had a good soccer game on Friday night and made two goals. We came home and I made them a nice dinner. Alfredo sauce on penne noodles with some breadsticks with garlic and butter on them. They wanted the olive garden, but since it was too busy, I made it at home for them. We ate at the table, with a candle and had a toast and cheered our glasses to a great dinner and to the 3 of us.
Jack's football game on Saturday morning at 9 was "c..o..l..d.." I think it was about 40 degrees when we got there. They played good and ended up with a tie. That put them in the upper brackett for the playoffs next week. It is tought to see how the coaches don't quite know how to play all the plays and make it fair, but I guess that is just how sports are now days. I still don't understand it though.
We had a great visit at grandma and grandpas after the game. Good sandwiches, apple crisp, cookies from gabby, noodls and salad. It was a great day and good company and wonderful visiting everyone. Thanks to Gabby as always for the wonderful and delicious cookies, and for making the drive down for a short visit.
This morning, watching mouse hunt, drinking coffee, jack is making a bagel with cream cheese for himself and them it is homework and reading time for him.
I hope everyone has a wonderful week out there.
Fall is definitely here, cold nights, chilling crips mornings, the sun is shining but does nothing for the warmth of the body or the house. Grey evening, dark earlier and earlier each day. I see how this makes people depressed. It changes so fast and can really put a damper on a persons mood and mind set. But for what it is worth it is also the holiday season which we all enjoy for various reasons. Some for the true family togetherness it brings to you house or your community or you work. For other is is about the music, the decorations, the candy and presents, the costumes, the turkey and gravy and santa clasue. No matter what is it and who it is we all know...no can deny, that this time of year does something to us all. Mentally, psychologically, and emotionally...we all feel it in some way or another and how we express it reflects upon those around us. So, it is here and we all feel, lets all make the best of it.

October 4, 2009

Well, here it is and update and another blog. So far my weekend has been nice and relaxing. I haven't done awhole lot,
a lot of cleaning around the inside of the house, got all my laundry done and finally hooked my camera up to the computer
again and imported all my latest photos. By latest I mean all those I have taken in the past 10 months...hahaha. No kidding!!!
Had some coffee and a bagel for breakfast, made myself a nice pasta dish last night with alfredo (I added fresh mushroom, garlic/parsley salt, and some cheese.) Put some Classico red vodka sauce on first and mixed it in, then poured the alfredo on top, sprinkled a little more cheese on top of that and then baked it in the oven and broiled it to crisp and brown the top. Then made myself some bread sticks with butter and garlic on them. It all turned out pretty damn good.
Jack had a good game yesterday afternoon, his team won 21 to 0. It is amazing to see how much the whole team has improved since their first game and the first few practices.
Went with Connie, Sue and Becky to see a really beautiful little house that Sue had looked at. It is really nice, the yard and the entire
layout of the house and the garage.
We are back up at Smokey point for work again, hopefully only a week or two and then we get to come back down to the Sodo district
of Seattle for a job that should last a couple of months.
The boys are doing good, it was nice to be working so close to home (Puyallup), I was able to make it to a lot of Jack's practices and spend time with them during the week. I am glad I took advantage of that time while it was available.
Yeta is doing well, he does like to be outside and spends almost of of his time out there. Last night the raccoons were at the door again and he doesn't seem to mind them to much. He walks right passed them and comes in to eat and then when he is done he wants to go back outside. He spent a good hour last night sitting on the porch rail, while a raccoon sat at the door looking in and waiting for food
(I am assuming). Yeta just sat and watched him the entire time. Neither of them seemed to mind the other ones presence.
That is about it for now.
The days are getting shorter and the nights colder. Fall is here and winter is coming....