We had not been using our Roomba that much until this spring, when I thought I’d turn it loose on the dog hair that piles up. Roomba would clean half a room before stopping and complaining: its battery would no longer hold a charge. I remedied that last month when I purchased a replacement battery. Now Roomba is back to cleaning like a pro, sucking up “dog-hair sandwiches,” as I like to call them.

It’s nice to have a vacuum that does the cleaning for you!

It was a weekend spent outdoors.

Friday evening I stopped by the Seaboard Music event to meet my neighbors and hear some music. Saturday morning the kids rode their bikes while Kelly and I Rollerbladed up and down the streets in our neighborhood.

Then they went to a birthday party while I pulled on boots and waded through Cemetery Branch creek picking up trash along with six or so neighbors. We picked up many bags of trash and got that section of Cemetery Branch looking great. Unfortunately, we had to stop before we worked further downstream, as I suspect that’s where all the trash is (and the homeless people). After the stream cleanup was done, Kelly told me that the Dolls had invited us over. I got cleaned up and we all spent time visiting with them, heading home around 8 PM.

Today we talked about going to the pool or going biking, but instead Kelly took to weeding the flowerbeds and I mowed the lawn and sprayed the poison ivy. Before we started though I recalled finding an injured baby opossum during my morning walk, so we all piled in to the car and went to fetch it and deliver it to an animal rescue place. The kids really enjoyed helping out an injured critter and so did I.

After lunchtime piled into the car again and headed to Five County Stadium to take in a free Mudcats game. In spite of the 90+ degree day in the sun and the kids’ lack of understanding of the game, we all had a great time.It was surprisingly affordable, too, so I think another baseball game is in the cards.

Now I’m home and quite tired. But, hey, I earned it!