Jeff Schaller's Diary


Jul 20	"date night" - afternoon with Lisa; Laurie came over to watch the kids from 2:30 till 6:30; we went to Webster park and hiked around a little bit; Lisa took pix, I found a geocache :) then we went to Bazil for dinner

Jul 14	mowed; Lisa to mall; filled baby pool with water for (mostly) Morgan pulled some poison ivy and other weeds from the back pachy

Jul 12	sleepover at Mallory's for her birthday; I took Morgan and Jessica; Jess slept with 8 other girls in their large tent! smores, sparklers, outdoor movie, 5:15 wakeup time! next was Morgan's swimming class; took Jess along with, directly from Mallory's Gunner's graduation party right after lunch

Jul 11	Dale Carnegie graduation went fine; the bird waited for the next day, by which point some other animal had "taken care" of it for me :) went to Macy's after work today to get some replacement cargo shorts Lisa gave the girls baths and trimmed their hair, on top of preparing dinner and changing the cat's litter box, all before I got home! <3

Jul 9	came home; Megan arrived moments later -- all turned into chaos gave Morgan a bath, then Jason; then dinner; then Lisa gave Jess a bath my todo list for the evening was: bird (dispose of dead bird in back yard), dishes, work on Dale Carnegie graduation speech for tomorrow morning. So far (9:20 pm), I have the dishes done; DC next, as the bird will have to wait for tomorrow. It started downpouring the moment I stepped outside earlier to (a) cover the grill (accomplished, with a wet head), and (b) dispose of the bird. It also took Jason a while to settle down to sleep; a "phase"!?!

Jul 6	Morgan's first swim class of her 2nd session at the Eastside Y; same class as she was bumped up to last time, for more confidence FCDSN pool party at the Tumminelli house might go to a Rochester Geocacher Brunch Bunch tomorrow

Jul 5	called G&G for his 98th birthday Jean from JT gutters cleaned and repaired the 2nd-level gutter/downspout; from Angies List stayed up too late finishing a movie (TV via laptop hdmi)

Jul 2	dear diary: file this one under "things I never imagined I'd be doing". Also under "post-hoc apology to my neighbors for the light, sound, and smell pollution". A while ago, Lisa requested that I buy several large bags of large beans to put into our sand table so that Jason could play with new textures; so I did, and she did, and he did, and life was good. Until. 9:15 tonight, Lisa says "oh, I forgot to tell you", with a really chagrined look on her face. Somehow, water -- lots of water -- had managed to get into the sand table, which had encouraged nature to take its course, which resulted in disgusted half-sprouted beans and the most god-awful smell, second only to Jessica's house-clearing GI-induced diaper (wow). So, out with the gloves, shovel, and buckets I go. 3 buckets of "beans" later -- I found myself thinking as I dumped them into the compost bin: "I don't like what I'm doing _now_, but I may really regret _this_ later..." -- I was hosing off the implements and sand table and toys that had been buried in the "sand" table. Time for a shower, now :)

Jun 18	Morgan's pre-K graduation!

Jun 17	Lisa gave me a haircut after we gave the kids a bath (showers); registered Morgan for another round of swimmign lessons

Jun 16	Happy Father's Day! Lisa made breakfast for lunch (waffles, eggs, bacon); making corn bread casserole and ribs for dinner, followed by black forest cherry cobbler (and a glass of wine!) took the girls geocaching this afternoon after the rain cleared out; found 3 of 3 that we had time for! oh - and Morgan did an awesome job in swimming class -- jumped into the adult pool from a starting block!! also was the first day that I didn't wear a swimming suit and play in the water with her. very proud!

Jun 15	Morgan to birthday party we all went to the Zoo to see the baby lion cubs; they didn't want to come out today; smashed some SPZ designs into some pennies for possible future geocache trade swag; Morgan splashed her feet in the stream/water area there, then decided she wanted to sit down in it.... ate outside, then fire pit with smores in the evening

Jun 14	cleaned lower gutters; removed dead mouse from garage; trimmed plants away from front walkway

Jun 12	mowed after dinner and baths; pulled up a bunch of weeds around an apple tree in the back yard off for Morgan kidney ultrasound tomorrow morning

Jun 10	took the day off to help out around the house took Morgan geocaching and to the Strong Museum in the morning, before lunch and her preschool. failed to find the cache, but had a nice hike (before it started sprinkling) Goodwill dropoff and Wegmans on the way home from dropping Morgan off trimmed two bushes in the back yard to get them off the house Lisa to pick up Jess from school and take her birthday shopping while I feed Jason and pick Morgan up from school

Jun 9	Morgan's swimming lessons, followed by 2 geocaches near the Y -- I spotted the first, she spotted the second (before I did!) played outside while putting things back on the deck - table, chairs, grill, sand table (now housing mostly beans), and playhouse smores around the fire pit!

Jun 8	changed the furnace filter, changed Morgan's ladybug nightlight batteries with her assistance; put Kathleen's baby shower pix on a CD to bring to her; having the Morrisons over later tonight

May 27	all these are for over the Memorial weekend Lisa took the girls to Brockport and Springdale Farms for FCDSN calendar pix; I fed and played with Jason at home Took the kids geocaching (didn't find the one behind the Bayview Y), then to Ridge Park to play for a bit whole family went to Lake Ontario Beach Park to play on the sand for a bit; was busy with some sort of BBQ cooking contest Brusters for some splurge ice cream :)