Everything is better on the mountain.

Hard to believe it’s June already. I left the condo around five this morning. First I dropped off a check for the framers and then went to buy another seven bundles of shingles so that the roofers can finish. It was raining quite a bit, but I did manage to take a few interior pictures.

Liz was supposed to come down and check out the house, but it was a hectic morning for her, so I headed back to the condo. I helped her load up the car and we headed straight to Monteagle. Fortunately Luke slept the whole way. As usual it was nice and pretty when we arrived up on the mountain. I went for supplies at Piggly Wiggly while Liz nursed. After everybody had lunch we went for a very nice walk on the Mountain Goat Trail. We actually drove down to Pearl’s and then walked towards campus,taking advantage of the shadiest portion of the trail. We only saw one other walker, which was rather surprising.

The afternoon involved just kind of hanging out. We drove to campus and checked on the goats, although I didn’t take any pictures. The babies sure have gotten big quickly. We walked around the center of campus for a little while. It wasn’t too hot, but was a bit humid. The light was lovely though.

I dropped Liz and Luke off at the cottage and then headed to the Mountain Goat Market to pick up dinner. Liz got a sandwich and I had a small cheese pizza. Luke got a bath since he peed all over himself while getting his temperature taken. He has been running a little warm these past few days, but not in the danger zone.

Rained out.

I arrived at the farm around 6:15 this morning. Thunderstorms and flash floods were in the forecast, but it was not raining. I cut some grass, cleaned up some lumber, and brought some crushed up concrete blocks into the garage for fill. Laudel, who runs the framing crew, arrived around 7:45. We chatted for about three hours. Around 9:30 he called his guys to see where they were. They told him that they had driven about halfway to Columbia, then turned around because of the rain. They promised to come finish up tomorrow. After Laudel and I finished talking I went to the roofing supply place in Columbia and ordered materials for the roof. The roofers are coming on Thursday. From there I went to the lumberyard and got tape for the windows. Unfortunately I didn’t take any pictures of the house today.

I got back to the condo pretty early – around 12:30. Luke was nursing. He was fairly fussy all afternoon and only took a little nap. We did tummy time with him just a few minutes ago.

Eight weeks!

He slept from 10:00 last night until 5:30 this morning. Hopefully that will happen with greater regularity. He was a little fussy when I got in this evening. Liz said he didn’t sleep great today. The picture below was a calm period before a major meltdown.

Morning walk in the park.

I haven’t posted much about Luke recently, mainly because I haven’t been around too much. We have gotten in some quality time today though. A bit of that time occurred on the changing table. He had a couple of monster bowel movements this morning.

We took him on a walk at the AG center as well. Even by eight o’clock it was pretty warm and sweaty. It was very nice to be out though, and he seemed to enjoy it.

He spent a little time relaxing in the pack and play, but then got fussy.

E duobus unum.

And two become one. I had tried to keep my “Life Blog” and my “Luke Blog” separate. I actually spent a lot of time and energy trying to do so. After much frustration I finally thought I has succeeded. I won’t get into the technicalities, but the problem was that even though the blogs were separate, the previous/next post listings at the bottom of each post showed posts from both blogs, regardless of which one you were looking at. There seemed to be a couple of solutions, but I failed when attempting to implement them. So I have given up and decided to merge the two. Actually I am about to try to do it. I need to remember what all I did to separate them in the first place.