Pleef!

Let me tell you that water sealing a huge kids' fort on a Monday afternoon is sucky. And sticky, too. In case you were wondering.

My eyelids are kinda sticking to my eyebrow area/ridge on account of trying to paint the "ceiling" area above my head. I'm gonna have to figure out a better way to do that.

And dammit, it's like, 90 degrees out there!! These kids owe me. Big time. :)

But in the meantime, a couple pictures of Saturday. We went downtown to the Farmer's Market by the Festival Square and they have this lovely public fountain thingy.

Fort!

Finally done. This morning, out there at the crack of morning. :)

Shopping At Goodwill

Oh I love going into this "high end" Goodwill shop near my house. Since I live on the edges of the rich folks' area, we get some really really good donations at this Goodwill. Silk for 3.99. Things that have never even been worn. I popped in there today because I remembered I hadn't been in a long time and spent 100 bucks on stuff for school in the Fall and for summer fun wearing, too. Mostly skirts. Happy happy, joy joy. Fringy red sweater thing. Sigh of happy.

I had something clever I was going to post this morning, but now my brain has gone away from clever and into "annoyed with contractor and happy with shopping and ready for lunch" land. So that's what you get.

Circle the Wagons: Day Two

'Cuz the fort aint built yet. In fact, it doesn't LOOK much different from what it looked yesterday. Yes, they leveled it off using the fort leveling gadgets. That took a long time and I'm mostly good with that because if you start it off right, it will be better.

But why is it that every. single. contractor. type. in the world can't understand the radical notion that "I'll be by in the morning" means coming by BEFORE one in the afternoon? It means, like, MORNING?

It says on the directions that it will take 20 hours. However, I'm pretty sure that's 20 hours of actual work. Magic fort-building elves don't come by every few hours and hammer in a notch or two. (At least, not by our place. Those damned elves never stop by here).

Oy chihuahua. At this rate, it will be pushing it for the fort to be done by babies' birthday.

Fort Construction!

Has begun! We have a very nice guy coming by to put together Fort Monkey (maybe? I have to think up a good name. Maybe a name contest....). He started this morning and we have decided more needs to be done to level out the ground where the fort will be. So he's gone now, but will come back tomorrow.

Here, then, is phase 1 of fort building. I really hope it will be all set and done by babies' birthday on June 27. I want to have a 3 year party that day and so if it's all done, it will be a cool birthday present instead of those boxes that are killing the grass. :) The dead grass is where their tent was. Yup. We like killin' grass around here. But it's convenient, because that's where I want the tower part of the fort to stand. As you can see.

Sick day has gone pretty well but tomorrow, I think they're going to school 'cuz they are NOT sick anymore. At least not today. Maybe tonight, when darkness falls, the fever will come back (I hope not!)