Idunno

  I had an old computer (a Sun Microsystems machine if you want to age it that much) at work once that when it was being set up I was asked what I wanted to call it. I said I didn't know in my British accent kind of way. Therefore it ended up being called idunno. Ha ha mister eng admin guy.

  Still that is how my mind is right now, I dunno is what I say to most things. What do I want for dinner? I dunno. What do I want to do to pass time later? I dunno. All the little things in life I seemingly have no answer for. It takes far too much effort some days to sort out all those small things. I have spend so much energy on the big things, making sure my wife and I's life is good and happy. Making sure I stay good at my job so the money keeps coming in. Even sometimes I'm not sure what game to play, shocking I know but I usually pick something. Then again when I do start playing I find myself going on far longer than I should and staying up late, usually because I'm playing the really hard bits of games right now.

  And with this with a quiet day so far at work I get interrupted with something to look at that has to be looked at now. Gah, why do these things happen at the end of my work day.

Presentable Gardens

  The past few weekends, along with chopping down trees, my wife and I have spent a considerable amount of time, effort and money getting the garden areas around the house in some sort of shape. We cleaned up the entire rocky area down the side of the house and got pots and beds all over it. Then came the weeding and mulching and clean up planting of the front beds. Then we moved on to the back which now just needs a bit of planting to fill in the gaps and more mulching. Also I should mention the little sitting area, complete with zen fountain, that we now have in front of the house. Along with the sitting area on the balcony and the chairs to go in the rock area and my hammock and my wife's captain chair that go under the balcony out the back. All in all several ways of spending time outside and enjoying the peace and quiet out there. Not to mention seriously improving the outside presentation of the house. It looks much better now than it did when we got the place. A lot of work my wife and I have done.

  She is really getting in to gardening and outside work now we are somewhere much quieter. I try to give her as much as I can to make sure this is a place she wants to live and it stays much better here than our previous place which was pretty much ruined by the neighbours we ended up getting.

  As for other things, Fudge yet again has sauntered through his latest round of chemo and blood tests as if nothing is happening. He is just a happy little guy that happens to have stuff happening to him that he doesn't really understand. He is enjoying all the extra fuss and special treatment though. Having him happily snuggle up to us at night is nice even if we do get woken up more often with him moving about. More Fudge in our lives is a good thing.

  So after our dinner of pizza and huge chocolate eclair it is time for us to curl up on the sofa together and enjoy our life together. There really isn't anything else I could ask for other to have this happy life with my wife.

Timber!!!!!

  The last couple of weekends I have spent some time with the neighbours and my wife chopping trees. As in chainsaw in hand taking down huge great dead or badly growing bits of wood. Some of them had to be a good 30 to 40 feet tall. Lots of noise, mess and back breaking work. Who would have though that I now own 2 chainsaws and could in theory call myself a real Oregonian now with all the chopping and burning (got to do something with all the little bits and branches you can't use).

  Yesterday especially my wife was out there with me all the time, helping out with clear up, lugging huge chunks of wood around and even with the help of a 64 year old female neighbour pulling over a huge tree that was growing the wrong way after I failed to completely pull it over myself. Neat trick to get a tree to fall the direction you want it to rather than where it wants to go although that large of a piece of wood is heaaaavy. I'm also learning tips from the neighbour on proper chainsaw handling including a few examples of what not to do.

  I'm quite proud of my wife for all that, she stayed outside for hours at a time with nary a complaint and suffered through the occasional dog noise from over the road somewhere and all the potential allergens. Given the migraine she had afterwards (probably from the possibly soy laden wrap we got from the supermarket) she certainly paid for it in the end. Poor poorly wife.

  Fudge on the other hand, considering he has now had 3 chemo treatments and another small bit of surgery to check on a lump (which turned out to be scar tissue) is doing really well. The guy doesn't even notice he is sick (well in theory) since he shows no outward signs of it physically or mentally since he acts like the happy little guy he always is. Good job Fudge.