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I’m constantly surprised by how much wildlife I see around our house here in VA.  Considering the fact that we lived in rural Maine for so long, I expected to see a lot less wildlife around here.  But every few days I see a fox crossing the road, or a few deer here and there.  A few days ago there was a fox cutting across our front lawn.  That was a first; I’ve never seen one that close to the house before.  I was a little bit concerned about how I’ve heard that foxes carry rabies and I considered whether or not to shoot it but my wife convinced me to just leave it alone.  I guess as long as it doesn’t try to approach us or our dogs I should just let it be.  My wife was a little bit critical of my attitude – “look, isn’t it cool, lemme shoot it!”  Her attitude is “look, isn’t it cool, leave it alone!”

My wife has been encouraging me to find a local contractor to work on repairing the leaky basement walls.  She found a website called clicksmart that helps people find local certified experts to help them find service providers.  Part of their website focuses on contractors that provide remodeling, heating and air conditioning, roofing, electrical, general, plumbing, painting, and/or flooring services.  For example you can go to their website and find Cincinnati Contractors if you live in Cincinatti and need a contractor.  Local to here I would be looking for a Virginia contractor.  We live in a very small town and I did not expect to find our town on their list, but it was there, and it actually listed quite a few contractors!  So I’ll be giving them a call to get some quotes on fixing our basement.

Every time it rains hard, the water drain at the bottom of the outside basement stairs gets clogged with leaves and the water raises up above the door sill and drains into the basement.  We put a door mat with large gridded holes in it to try to keep it from getting plugged up, but it still happens too often.  I think we are going to have to break down and put in a basement entry door over the top of the stairs to just keep the water from going in there.  I hate to do that because then we are blocking out the best source of light from the basement, but it is a pain to have to keep cleaning up the flooded floor down there and keep the dehumidifiers running and the big fans going to keep the basement dry.  So, I guess I’ll be saving my pennies to get this situation taken care of as soon as possible.

My brother just sent me a pair of Nikon Monarch hunting binoculars as a belated birthday present.  Seems odd to me that he doesn’t seem to remember my birthday until his own birthday is approaching!  I think he’s figured out that if I don’t get a birthday gift from him, he’s not going to get one from me!

The box that the binoculars came in indicated that he bought them from the Internet site opticsplanet.com.  They sell a large variety of really high quality Nikon binoculars.  These binoculars he sent me are really something special!  They are Shockproof, Waterproof, Fogproof, rubber-armored. I’ve never had a set of binoculars this fancy before!  I know they are designed for hunting, but I’ll just be using them to enjoy watching the wildlife in my own backyard.

I’ve gotten pretty disgusted with the amount of people at work who call in sick just because they have accumulated some sick time and want to take the day off, even if they aren’t really sick.  It puts a hardship on the rest of us at work that come in; we have to do our jobs and cover for them too.  I know they’re not really sick because I frequently see them later in the day – maybe during the lunch hour at a fast food joint or sometimes if they’re really stupid they’ll stop in at work to say hello to some friends.  It’s a miracle they don’t get fired!  And it is tough on the morale of the people who have a strong work ethic and only call in sick if they really ARE sick.