Another Monday Morning

Over the weekend, my lovely wife helped my rearrange my office (her eye for spatial arrangement is much better than mine), and this morning I'm consolidating some things and reordering what gets stored where.

I hung a new painting behind my desk, so instead of the industrial/warehouse-type office I inherited nearly four years ago, it's now an inviting place, rather than what my wife described as "a soulless box that sucks the life out of you."

Okay, it wasn't quite that bad, but it was rather utilitarian. Her creativity runs toward decorating, and I'm liking the result.

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The little car which we got for our daughters to drive is in the tire shop this morning, awaiting the seasonal change-over to summer tires. It's the last of the three vehicles, and then we're done until late October when the studded snow tires go back on.

It's to be above 50 again today, and AccuHunch predicts we'll flirt with 60 on Thursday. East-facing slopes are already sprouting some green; some of the trees are showing tiny buds, too. Summer is so lush and abundant here, it makes up for the long winters. June is a spectacular time to be in Alaska, as all the plants burst into almost-tropical growth as they soak up all the water and minerals left behind by the melted snow.

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Speaking of daughters, they both went to the range yesterday and called for a ride home when they ran out of ammo. Between the two of them, I think that came to about 400 rounds of .22.  Now Younger Daughter, who used my rifle, wants one of her own.  I told her to remind me when her birthday approaches. :)


That's about it for this morning; thanks for stopping by!