9/06/2012- I'll start with the new grand baby.
As I am writing this she was born about an hour ago via cesarean section at the Hospital in San Jose. Last weekend Sandy had called and talked to Stacy and basically she wanted her mom there!
Sandy has been having some health concerns due to the weight gain of the pregnancy and although not due until the 15th, her doctor had decided that the baby would be born the 7th or 8th because the baby had gotten out of the proper position as the baby was moving around inside.
So Stacy got the ticket, the car rental and was on her way Tuesday afternoon for an early flight out Wednesday to go to San Jose via Portland. While watching the progress of Stacy's flight with the online site "Flight Aware" Sandy calls me to say that after a doctor exam her and Erik are rushing home to get her things and returning back to the hospital to be admitted and that the baby was being born that day!
So when Stacy lands at San Jose and calls me I tell her the news and she gets her rental car and goes straight to the hospital where she's been since her arrival over 26 hours ago at this point.
Sandy gets admitted and they start inducing her labor a couple of hours later and after almost 20 hours of labor the doctor decided that even though small, the baby is having some difficulty passing through the birth canal so a C-section is done and now there's a baby girl 6 lbs 12 oz that at this point still has no name.
Stacy just called and is finally on her way to Sandy's apartment to get some sleep! She said that mom and baby are fine, just tired and so is she!
Our labor day weekend:
Before the baby drama other things had been happening over the last week. Starting with September 1st and the job we'd been putting off for this weekend since it had been so warm for the last couple of months and we wanted to have the time to get it done.
We had noticed last spring some "bubbling crude" but it sure wasn't oil, coming up near the are of our septic tank. It had been getting slowly worse so we knew it would be a icky job but we had to do it and we could also take the opportunity to upgrade our drainage field as long as we're checking everything out.
Stacy's father told us he thought the gunk rising to the surface was from a problem he'd had ten years ago when the septic system was first installed. I felt that if he knew there was a problem why he'd wait 10 years to mention it and why wasn't it just fixed then?
Oh well, now it must be fixed so Stacy and I have to do it.
So with our backhoe and shovels we and two days, got it done!
Top photo shows near the end of Saturday, day 1, the improved drain field getting covered but not finished until the bottom photo taken Sunday afternoon. A lot of work! Redo some line add to the length and reroute it to the new drain field, the clearing, trenching, building, filling, just a whole lot of sweaty smelly, disgusting, gross, almost want to burn your clothes afterwords kind of work.
And luckily neither Stacy or I are too worse for the wear either. Even with my concerns that working in all the dust and stink could make us sick it apparently didn't.
Then in addition to the real 'Birth' day of the new grand daughter, there was my birthday on the 4th where I officially became old enough for all those senior discounts all over the place.
As of today the 6th, 20, 091 days old, yes there's an app for that, and now 55 years old. The words senior citizen have new meaning now as that must mean me too! Where I sometimes could feel like it, now I am it!
So we spent the weekend working on the septic and I spent Monday the holiday installing my birthday present around our place. I had been really wanting this since Stacy and I are gone at work and Stacy's father at 90 is no longer a good 'watch dog' since he is usually either sleeping or the fact that doesn't hear anything going on anyway to notice any nefarious activities, that I really had wanted a security camera system.
Stacy had me help her pick it out online but now we have one and I am really liking it! While we have never had any problems, that we know about anyway, and something like that tree falling while we were in California would have been nice to know about before we'd gotten back. We supposedly had a neighbor checking on our place and he said he'd never seen it but the storm that caused it had supposedly happened several days before we'd gotten back.
No matter, now we can keep a better eye on the place and with the infrared lights we can keep an eye at night too.
I really did like getting all the Facebook happy birthday notices, I get email notices of things like that first letting me know there's a message waiting on Facebook so that night I took the time to look at them all, I think things like event notices are really what Facebook is best for, not all the stuff that really try to force connection through Facebook.
I also enjoyed talking with uncle Dennis that afternoon for a few minutes. It made it a bit tougher with my birthday being on a weekday this year to talk with people via the phone, but after all I was born originally on a Wednesday!
Till next time, Tad
As I am writing this she was born about an hour ago via cesarean section at the Hospital in San Jose. Last weekend Sandy had called and talked to Stacy and basically she wanted her mom there!
Sandy has been having some health concerns due to the weight gain of the pregnancy and although not due until the 15th, her doctor had decided that the baby would be born the 7th or 8th because the baby had gotten out of the proper position as the baby was moving around inside.
So Stacy got the ticket, the car rental and was on her way Tuesday afternoon for an early flight out Wednesday to go to San Jose via Portland. While watching the progress of Stacy's flight with the online site "Flight Aware" Sandy calls me to say that after a doctor exam her and Erik are rushing home to get her things and returning back to the hospital to be admitted and that the baby was being born that day!
So when Stacy lands at San Jose and calls me I tell her the news and she gets her rental car and goes straight to the hospital where she's been since her arrival over 26 hours ago at this point.
Sandy gets admitted and they start inducing her labor a couple of hours later and after almost 20 hours of labor the doctor decided that even though small, the baby is having some difficulty passing through the birth canal so a C-section is done and now there's a baby girl 6 lbs 12 oz that at this point still has no name.
Stacy just called and is finally on her way to Sandy's apartment to get some sleep! She said that mom and baby are fine, just tired and so is she!
Our labor day weekend:
Before the baby drama other things had been happening over the last week. Starting with September 1st and the job we'd been putting off for this weekend since it had been so warm for the last couple of months and we wanted to have the time to get it done.
We had noticed last spring some "bubbling crude" but it sure wasn't oil, coming up near the are of our septic tank. It had been getting slowly worse so we knew it would be a icky job but we had to do it and we could also take the opportunity to upgrade our drainage field as long as we're checking everything out.
Stacy's father told us he thought the gunk rising to the surface was from a problem he'd had ten years ago when the septic system was first installed. I felt that if he knew there was a problem why he'd wait 10 years to mention it and why wasn't it just fixed then?
Oh well, now it must be fixed so Stacy and I have to do it.
So with our backhoe and shovels we and two days, got it done!
Top photo shows near the end of Saturday, day 1, the improved drain field getting covered but not finished until the bottom photo taken Sunday afternoon. A lot of work! Redo some line add to the length and reroute it to the new drain field, the clearing, trenching, building, filling, just a whole lot of sweaty smelly, disgusting, gross, almost want to burn your clothes afterwords kind of work.
Then in addition to the real 'Birth' day of the new grand daughter, there was my birthday on the 4th where I officially became old enough for all those senior discounts all over the place.
As of today the 6th, 20, 091 days old, yes there's an app for that, and now 55 years old. The words senior citizen have new meaning now as that must mean me too! Where I sometimes could feel like it, now I am it!
So we spent the weekend working on the septic and I spent Monday the holiday installing my birthday present around our place. I had been really wanting this since Stacy and I are gone at work and Stacy's father at 90 is no longer a good 'watch dog' since he is usually either sleeping or the fact that doesn't hear anything going on anyway to notice any nefarious activities, that I really had wanted a security camera system.
Stacy had me help her pick it out online but now we have one and I am really liking it! While we have never had any problems, that we know about anyway, and something like that tree falling while we were in California would have been nice to know about before we'd gotten back. We supposedly had a neighbor checking on our place and he said he'd never seen it but the storm that caused it had supposedly happened several days before we'd gotten back.
No matter, now we can keep a better eye on the place and with the infrared lights we can keep an eye at night too.
I really did like getting all the Facebook happy birthday notices, I get email notices of things like that first letting me know there's a message waiting on Facebook so that night I took the time to look at them all, I think things like event notices are really what Facebook is best for, not all the stuff that really try to force connection through Facebook.
I also enjoyed talking with uncle Dennis that afternoon for a few minutes. It made it a bit tougher with my birthday being on a weekday this year to talk with people via the phone, but after all I was born originally on a Wednesday!
Till next time, Tad
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