It's Summer already! Turned my head and Winter and Spring dissapeared from North East Ohio.
By Matthew E. Bugno
Saturday, June 26, 2004
Just a little bit of this and that today. Hope all are having or will be having a great weekend.
Well hot damn it is summer. Do you think maybe I could keep up with this simple little web site of mine? Bookie. I look at it and it seems to be a chore! I know it is not.
Been awhile since the whines and chuckles have been written down. The yard is shaping up real nice this year, the biblical deluge of the summer of '03 are not to be so far this year. Marsha Lee and I are going for the ease of maintenance needs, plants that require too much work are being ripped out and nothing being put in it's place. Last year we ripped out an entire bed of English ivy from the east side of the house and off the wall due to it holds leaves and irritating flying rats known as English sparrows, the damn things nested in it making a irksome racket and poop mess all over the side of the house. Don't ever use English ivy unless you need a ground cover in some wooded lot. Use Baltic ivy instead - much nicer habit and not so invasive. Marsha and I decided that the 500 year old ivy green cottages in Whatever shire, England are being held together by the ivy, not the bricks or boards!
Oh ya, Marsha and I took the grandchildren, Michael and Sydney, to the Mill Creek Park extension farm to see the baby animals. They have one every year, it's the spring "Baby Shower". Sydney took some great pictures of the babies. You should have seen the baby goat! He was so Cute. Got every one on a tractor for a great picture that I still waiting for my next door neighbor to print.
The wedding happened a couple of weeks ago. Nice casual, relaxed ceremony. Very simple and quick, just how I like it. Tom do you take Laura as your bla bla bla, Laura do you take Tom as your bla bla bla. I now pronounce you man and wife. Turn around and let me introduce Mr. and Mrs Thomas Murphy. Laura is Miss Kelly's friend for years and the live together with Laura helping Kelly get around and do her daily routines, kinda hard to wipe your butt when you're stuck in a wheel chair with no fine motor skills. David Bowie as Ziggy Stardust said it all in the chant "Ch ch ch changes". Cause this is a tough time for the three to interact as a family together. I hope it all works out to the benefit and pleasure of all concerned. That includes all of the extended family!
Marsha finished detailing the living room over the winter and spring this year. My it looks great. Reminds me of the Arms Museum tours that I took as a child. That is one of my favorite houses in the world. If in the area go see it. I hear that they are also going to make it handicapped accessible in the near future. As for the walls the only thing that I think they need is a coat of low gloss varnish to make them look very Arts & Crafts era. If I bother to take a picture I will insert it some time soon. We also stripped the floors in the main section of the house of all the nasty wall to wall carpet. Found a great way to make a beautiful renewable finish on the floors, they were in acceptable shape, by using tung oil and turpintine! Lay on about ten thin coats and voila! I see you all need some pictures of this soon, just to see how nice the rooms came. Marsha is so darn crafty and "artsy fartsy" in the best way as to be an asset to our home. Hope our house becomes a museum someday.
I pulled out the batterey operated lawn mower this spring and found that it won't hold a charge. Damn Damn Damn. I like my yard to look good and that lawn mower made it look as if a lush green carpet were put down. I went through some hoops to get Sears to honour the warranty. Seems for some reason the have no knowledge of me even though I purchased it on a Sears card. I have this lawn mower for my asthma and now I can't even mow my lawn anymore. My son, Rocco, has been a blessing this year with all his help in the yard. He's done the yard every week, helped with all the big stuff and put some pea river stone mulch down for us in the way back of the yard. Need to put a picture of all that in hear too.
Well on to a close. I just got up a bit ago and need to activate the launch sequence for personal hygiene.
Hope to see you soon again.
Matt seems to believe that the world some how revolves around his psyche, spinning in a grand scale as measured by the universe. Now if I could just find the keys to the van I could check my theory out.
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I thought I had some really good ones though.
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I am finding the need to get a cup of coffee and move the brain as well as the bones. Simple minds need simple things. I don't even put cream and sugar in my coffee in the morning because it is requires too much mentation to even get the crap in the cup. Usually when I try there is sugar and creamer on the counter after my first try. Then a smack on the arse from the wife for being a slob.
