4/6/2026 – Just a Pop-in

Just a quick pop-in today. This is Mom’s super busy time of year with her job and mandatory overtime in May, and trying to get the spring yards and gardens in shape before hot weather arrives.

Things Mom did on her days off last week:

1. Took Dad to be “test fitted” for a wheelchair. He was not happy. The time is coming, perhaps as soon as the end of this year. Oh, the changes to come.
2. Pulled out tubs of gravel from the fountain to track down a leak. Found it. Easy fix – the liner had been pushed down allowing water to slowly trickle over the top, down the arbor bed that has drainage pipe underneath and out and across a back cement walkway to run off, potentially, into someone else’s yard. Nope. Cannot let that happen.
3. Scheduled a backflow sprinkler test, an oil change, and a Chewy order.
4. Verified Tessa’s vet appointment for the 10th.
5. Saw Millie the skinny raccoon and noted that 1) she looks better with some weight on her, and 2) she had a female friend alongside who seemed very much a wild raccoon and who’s surely teaching Millie how to be a wild raccoon herself. Millie did not touch Mom’s shoe. Good girl!
6. Spread 14 cubic feet of bark mulch after all transplanting and seeding was done. Another 12 to go next weekend will finish the job, weather permitting.
7. Hand cut a wide strip of sod and freed a sprinkler head out of the overgrown grass.
8. Moved a big boulder (because someone had to) and pulled/pried out an old rusting bird feeder pole to be replaced next month with a sturdy wood beam. Next will be removing 20-30 bricks and digging a big, deep hole.
9. Touched up paint on the arbor.
10. Countless loads of laundry because someone named Mom forgot that a treat of turkey luncheon meat gives a certain orange and white boy the poops.

And wouldn’t you know, Mom only has 20 more things to do on her list. But hey! She says she’s already ahead of where she was last year at this time. You go, Mom!

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A Colehaus Cats flashback:

2025 – No post
2024 – No post
2023 – No post
2022 – No post
2021 – No post
2020 – Monday Matinee
2019 – No post
2018 – Finally Friday
2017 – No post
2016 – One Word Wednesday
2015 – On Watch
2014 – No post
2013 – No post
2012 – Personal Drinking Fountain