Rain

Yup.  It's raining today.  I mowed my lawn yesterday because they were calling for 80% chance of rain today.  They called for possibly severe storms though and it's just been a nice steady rain with misty, drippy bouts in between.  Not complaining, believe me.  I'll take the steady mild rain over the frog-chokers that wash everything down the drain.

I'm actually mowing grass now rather than just weeds when I mow, so the grass is coming up nicely.  Everything likes this wet weather, including my roses which are currently totally covered in blooms.  The blooms are so heavy they're bending one limb down.

I'm taking a break from house hunting for a few weeks. I'm pretty set on what I want now,  as far as features, size, etc.  We decided to take a break because I really want to buy in June.  Finding something now would not put me buying in June.  So we decided to start again in May. This weekend, I've been doing my usual puttering around the house . . . and cringing when I think about packing all this stuff to move.  I think I'll spend the next several weekends starting to clean out, and throw out, everything I don't plan on moving.  I'm also looking around at my early-graduate-student furniture and thinking I'm going to be purchasing a good bit of furniture for my new house.  Good thing I've gotten my credit card balances down so low right now. 

I'm also noticing that I'll have to have some repair work done on this house before I sell it, if I decide to sell it.  At the very least it needs to be painted throughout.  There are also some minor cracks showing which I'll have to have looked at.  I've had the foundation checked and been told that the foundation is fine, so just a normal amount of settling is probably making the cracks show up, but I'll have to get them looked at.

I'm cripping around the house right now because I pulled a muscle in my back this morning lifting cat litter.  Yes, yes, I know the proper way to lift things.  I just don't always use it.  And usually when I don't, I regret it, like this morning.  Hopefully it will be okay enough to exercise this afternoon.  I've been using my little exercise machines three times per week since February 1st, so I don't want to break my routine.  It's too easy to break it and not go back to doing it.  So I'm diligently exercising.  I want to be at least cardiovascularly fit before I go hiking this summer, even if my weight is too high.   The weight is another matter I'll have to work on, but that's going to require a diet change, which is more work than the exercising. 

The cat-kids are pretty lazy today.  Yesterday they were outside wandering the backyard for a bit.  This picture was from yesterday morning, before I got the grass mowed, and you can see that it needs it.  It's nice and green and growing fast.

I guess that's all today.  Laundry calls.