July 29, 2011

  • The Beast Is Still At It


    TALES FROM THE BRAT FARM

    The Beast, never satisfied when he starts a project, has now redone the whole thing.  His concerns over the salt we might have been ingesting with the water softener going to the whole house's water supply set him thinking.....and designing in his mind....a way to forego it.  He ended up taking out the softener, adding two charcoal filters to the water supply and now is going to hook up the water softener to the hot water tank ONLY.  However, the only place he can put it now with the limited floor space in the garage and everything we have installed (sink, shelves, cabinets, work table) is under the house in the crawl space.  I told him that would mean he would have to go under the house even to put the required salt into the water softener but he said there was nothing else he could do.  Since it doesn't seem to use up much as it is (for the whole house water supply), using it just for the hot water makes more sense to him and it will use even less.  Let's hope so.  It gets really gross under there.

    I told the Beast we should have put some concrete down there when we first bought this house but he's put down some plywood and says its not worth the money it would cost us.  Oh well.  It's HIS project.

    See how he can complicate his life?  I will say this much....the charcoal filters installation looks very professional.  He did a great job on it and it's totally out of the way but easily accessible for when he has to change the filters. 

    I've been watching the Ancient Aliens and other special documentaries related to that idea on the History Channel today.  They have some very convincing arguments for aliens having been here thousands of years ago.  And they were all over the world.  It's food for thought.

    Chewlee sat in my lap today and said to me, *Grandma, I need to talk to you.*  When I asked her what she wanted to talk to me about, she said, *There is a ghost in my bed.*  I was a bit taken aback and said, *IN your bed?  Are you sure you weren't just dreaming that?*  She then said, *There are a lot of people in my bed, Grandma.  I don't know if I was dreaming.  How would I know?*  Good question.  I asked her if she wanted me to get some more ghost and monster spray for her and she brightened right up.  She clapped her hands together and said, *Oh, would you, Grandma?  Would you get me some?*  So I promised her I would and she could tell her ghost that she was going to get some so he should get away while he can.

    After our *talk*, she returned to her normal, happy self and played her games on Pogo.  All this was while she sat in my lap.  She's like a wiggle worm when she's in my lap and, after a while, I had to make her take a break.  With her, that means she either eats and drinks something or she has some treat, like ice cream or the fudge bars that Grandpa bought for her.  We ended up sharing a fudge bar.  She ate about half of it and then told me I should finish the rest of it before the *juice* started running. 

    She was ready for her mother when she got here and we had to go get her bathing suit out of the washer for her to take to school tomorrow.  It's *water day* and I have no idea what that means but it definitely involves the kids getting drenched out on the playground, I'm sure.  That will be fun for her because she loves getting all wet.

    The Princess is going to have 11 days off of school and has decided that she is going to take a couple days and go with Chewlee to the ocean.  Chewlee loves water of any kind and she loved the ocean when they were down there last.  She'll enjoy that and I will have a few extra days off.  I think the Princess told me that Chewlee will start preschool (the REAL type of school) on August 15th.  That is going to mean a slight alteration of my evenings with Chewlee, I'm just not sure which yet.  I'll have to wait and see.

    The Beast bought me a surprise.  It's a huge container for my coffee.  It looks like an insulated plastic beer stein in shape.  It has no BPA in it at all.  I'm guessing that the Beast read about that and got it for me to help with my health.  It was really a sweet idea.  It holds about a half pot of coffee in it.  It could hold more but I figured half is more than enough.    I haven't finished the first one I poured today and it's still warm.  Nice, huh?

    Love you all.  Stay safe and keep the hot weather protocols, okay?