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[Reesha]

Woohoo!!!! Massive thunderstorm in St. Louis. My kitty is scared and is hiding under the bed!

I will go to comfort her now.

[Zen]

You're going under the bed too?
I'm avoiding work. About to set a table by the side of the road with a "Free" sign on it. I hope someone takes it.

[Reesha]

Hehe, I coaxed her out with treats and she forgot all about the thunder! (well, at least until I stopped giving her treats)

[Crankin]

We did a fast walk on the Battle Rd. trail today. What a resource to have in my own backyard. I have only been there once and my DH had never been. I am really stiff from my crash yesterday, but I knew I needed to move. We were going to ride on the trail, but being Sunday, I was wary of Sunday riders, tourists, and little kids.
There were a lot of families riding. One little girl had on a little Discovery Team jersey! It's nice that some adult cyclists take the time to do slower riding with their kids. Of course there were the "Sunday cyclists," there, too, some who scared me because of their shakiness on the bike and the fact I had to jump off of the trail twice because they were weaving. We decided to come back early morning, during the week and ride the trail on our hybrids and then head over to the start of the Minuteman trail and explore that. The Battle Rd. trail is packed dirt, so you could also ride a mountain bike on it and then ride some other close by mountain bike trails.
It's nice to find new things to do in your own backyard.

[lph]

Erk. I just found the mouse that found its way into our bedroom one night last week and drove my dh insane cos he couldn't catch it or kill it, and me insane cos my dh was playing Search and Destroy in the middle of the night when I wanted to sleep, and that then ignored the mousetrap and disappeared.

It had curled up in my woolwear drawer and died. Erk. It was still intact, but most of my wool smells like dead rodent.

I am so glad I discovered this now and not when I'm packing for the mountains in a week, or worse, after the summer vacation.

So where is my dh when he's supposed to be around helping me with stuff liek this?

[OakLeaf]

At least my DH has a very good reason why he wasn't here to help me with the chainsaw this morning.

I did fine (with the electric chainsaw, anyway - too scared to fire up the gas one). We do find our competence when we're alone.


ETA: actually (and he will deny it now, I'm sure), he didn't want me using the gas chainsaw when I asked, last time a tree came down when he was home. He's always going on about me "not wanting him to help." Why don't men understand that women need to be competent to take care of ourselves? Then, when they're not here, it's "I'm sure you'll be fine" doing whatever thing it was they didn't want us doing when they were around, so that we have no practice at it.

[lph]

Heh. I'm fine doing the manly things with my dh around, more than fine, because we actively encourage each other to master new things, especially the classic gender role activities, but I wimp out a bit sometimes when my FIL and BIL are there too. But last firewood session up at the cabin my dh and I were there early so I got to play with the chainsaw for one full day first, and by the time FIL and BIL got there I wasn't giving it up Cutting down trees is a lot more fun than all the hauling that follows.

But if he's home when I find a large spider inside I do ask him to please remove it for me. The big ones freak me out. And I think he likes it when I screech a little and go "I really need a man right now!"