OK peeps, I did it! I cut off the hair. The plan began several years ago to fulfil my childhood dream of having my hair super long like the country singer Crystal Gayle...well, I didn't want floor-length hair, but I did want it to my waist. So after several years, I got there a few months ago! I'd only come close once before when I was in grad school, and when I was about a year away, I heard about donating long hair to make wigs for children who suffer from long-term medical hair loss (Locks of Love). So I cut it off back then, and kept it about shoulder-length for a year or two, then decided to start growing it again. So starting sometime in either 2002 or 2003 I made the decision not to cut. This time, I got about 16 inches taken off...a pretty big cut! I've got a few pics up in my photos area now.
Today is also irrigation day...hopefully there will be no flooding of the neighbors today! (See June 13, 2006 and June 15, 2006 for details on irrigation and the Great Barn Flood of 2006 respectively). Michael is gone the bulk of the day today playing soccer, so I'm in charge of the water during the daytime, and he'll once again be in charge at night. This is a good arrangement since tomorrow begins Orientation Week at my work. I'm really excited to have the new students arrive this week and the returning students show up next week...working with the students is what makes my job fun. I'm really not the administrator that wants to sit in silence behind a computer all day...I live for the interaction. Anyway, back to our story...
Today's other "surprise" is playing the game called "what IS that smell?!" There is a pretty strong, weird odor in our enclosed patio that wasn't there yesterday (or any other day, for that matter). Sometimes, I think that I have a sensitive nose, because Michael usually doesn't notice odors that I do, so I didn't mention it to him. When he brought it to my attention, I knew it was real and it was a problem. We've only just started to do some picking up out there...we typically use the space as a mud room--a place for dirty shoes to live so we don't track mud and alpaca poo in the house, and for a lot of storage of miscelaneous stuff (the little greenhouse for starting seeds, the alpaca store, all our bags of fiber, extra folding chairs, etc). So there is a lot of clutter that could be an easy hiding place for something weird to start smelling. My guess is there is a dead mouse someplace, but if that is the case, it could be in the baseboard heaters along the wall in that room. So, in between checking on the water, my job is to try to solve the mystery of "what IS that smell?". Can you see why I'm writing a big, long blog?!
ok, ok, time to check the water.
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