Nothing a little tape can’t fix.

Luke seems to really enjoy things that spin. We first noticed this a couple of weeks ago as he stared at the ceiling fan in the cottage. There was a little spinning rotating thing that came with his pack and play, but you had to move it by hand, and it was pretty lame. So a couple of days ago I ordered him a new one off Amazon. It arrived today and I started messing with it this evening. Although it was very highly rated, it had a couple of shortcomings. First, it didn’t include anything to dangle from it. To remedy that I took a couple of little bits from the old device. Second, it wouldn’t mount to his pack and play. For that I just used some shipping tape to attach it to the old post. He has been laying down and watching it for the last little while. It seems to make him pretty happy.

Siding day two.

I was a little late getting to the farm this morning. It was about 6:30. While it wasn’t hot yet it was plenty humid and we were quickly soaking wet. My dad had the idea to set up a fan outside and that provided some relief. Unfortunately my power strip wasn’t working, probably due to getting wet last night, so we lost a lot of time plugging and unplugging various tools. The rain also made a muddy mess of things. We focused our energy on the back of the house as it was fairly easy to reach. That went pretty well. The new nail gun was a huge hit. My dad left around noon and I went to lunch at a burger joint I had never been to before. The burger was great, the fries were mediocre, and the milkshake below average. I ate outside because I was pretty dirty and also didn’t want to get spoiled by the air conditioning. After returning to the house and tidying things up a little I went to the lumberyard to buy materials for the front porch. Since delivery was only fifteen dollars I chose that. Everything should come tomorrow. The electrician came by to drop off some supplies just as I was walking out to build some scaffolding. He said that I could borrow a couple of extension ladders and a platform instead. That will be great. Then we talked for about an hour and a half. He is a very nice guy and that was enjoyable. Plus it was super hot and I didn’t feel too much like working. After he left I moved some siding into position for tomorrow and built a cutting rack that should save a lot of time. Lastly I loaded a bunch of trash into the car and hauled it back to the dumpster at the condo.