New Power Tool !!!

Isn't it great, a new chainsaw. It'll come in handy when we're sawing railroad ties into shorter lengths for the terracing we're doing to the slope in our backyard. I went with Karcaw and his wife to Sears to look them over and purchase this one. Karcaw felt so manly asking for chainsawS. Not only one chainsaw but yes multiple chainsaws. Arrr!!! Then we got home, opened the box and figured out quickly that the oil is not included :P. How unmanifying! A quick trip to WalMart for some oil solved that problem. But alas a great deal of day time was wasted. Anyway, here she is my awesome new chainsaw. I thought about putting on a swimsuit and oiling up for this pic but that may have been too much.

My hubby finished changing the oil in our vehicles this morning, again making a mess of the garage floor. One day we'll get the oil pan in the right position under the car.

Which reminds me...

I need to buy a miter saw! I need a shop counter or work bench or something in the garage... and a miter saw is just the power tool I need to build one. Sounds like a good enough excuse to me. Not good enough you say, well we will need one this summer to build the fence right. :) They looked so nice there at sears today I should've bought one. But I restrained myself... A chainsaw is enough power, for now.

Look Ma, I Split My Blog!

So only 1 day in to this Blogging thing and alread I've decided that I needed to split it. That way people that want to read about my foundry hobby don't have to sift throgh my other interests and activities.

It's an awfully gloomy day outside. It makes me feel a bit better knowing I'm not wasting a perfectly beautiful day sitting in front of a computer. But it also means my kids are inside... I watch a 4th kid 3 to 4 days a week. They're a little hyper but I think they'll make it to nap time. Ah Nap time, MY favorite time of day.

My house is a disaster... I really need to have someone over so that I feel the need to clean it. I'm the type that only cleans if I have to. ie... we're out of clean clothes, we need to eat on clean plates or we're expecting company. And you should see my embarrasment when we have unexpected guests. I don't know why I don't like to keep house, it's really not that hard. I just would rather do anything else, even nothing. I think back to my childhood though and I see my mom lying on the couch while the house went to pot and I even remember visiting my grandma who spent long days lounging on the Dick van Dyke style sofa. But instead of my kids seeing their caregiver on the sofa all day long, watching Soaps, they see her infront of a computer playing videogames. I don't know why I'm so embarrased by it either. I've been in houses that were 10 times worse than my place, and most the time I don't think anything of it other than "it's obvious that someone lives here". I live in my house and filth happens, when it gets too hard to work around I clean up for 30 minutes or so. My daughter emptys the dishwasher and I load it everyday, I SWEAR! you wouldn't be able to tell with the amout of dishes we go through.