I spent three hours last night (1:00am – 3:00am) with the Bonasaurus, and she still did not stay asleep when I put her down in the crib. Wonderful. As a result I was pretty tired all day.

I met with an arborist today to show him all the tree-things (removals and pruning) that I wanted done. He definitely agreed that the large tree on the side of the house that whips around precariously in the wind and rain should come down before something really bad happens. He agreed with everything, pretty much, although he thought we should leave the black walnut which is by our back door. I wanted to get rid of it because it seemed like a silly place to put such a tree and the limbs and leaves directly affect the neighbors roof. He though that we could prune it better and see how things worked out rather than axing it. I see his point, since it is a nice tree otherwise, but I think I will just get rid of it and stick another japanese maple there.

Speaking of japanese maples, the arborist saw the one I bought for Haley’s memorial, a “spring delight lace leaf” acer palmatum dissectum, and said “that is awesome”.

He emailed a quote for ~$950 which is in the range thought it would be.

I searched for my car keys for a while, but I did not find them, although I was not searching in a optimal manner. I did find maybe other things like watercolor tubes that had been obviously delibrately put in mysterious places. The Bonasaurus searched with me at times and managed to find all sorts of fosilized food bits.

I did some yard stuff before Amanda got home with LK while the Bonasaurus rampaged in the backyard. I removed all the remaining wall-of-waters from the tomatoes, put up the cages, and staked the cages. Also did some pruning of the tomatoes. And weeding in general. The morning glory is still freaking everywhere and will undoubtedly take years to get rid of.

We had leftovers for dinner. The kiddies are now asleep. Amanda went up to read in bed, but I imagine she feel asleep instataneously (hmm, spellcheck is not croaking on that word).