Intercoms and Squirrels

Every morning since the time change, munchkin has been waking up at 5am. I hear every little peep that he makes through our excellent baby monitor. So I wake up at 5am, and tell myself that he's ok and safe and then go back to sleep (Or at least try to) until 6am.

We wait until 6am to get him because that is "THE SCHEDULE" and I keep reading how every baby should be on a schedule. Besides, we can barely get him to stay awake past 7pm and if we wake him earlier and put him to bed earlier, I'll end up waking every day at 4am instead.

Our house has a built in intercom system, but every time there is rain with lightning it gets frazzled and only half of it works. The half that isn't working right now, is the speaker in our master bedroom. For some reason, my husband refuses to call the company that installed it and bought a baby monitor so that we could sleep in the master bedroom and still hear the baby.

Ok, he bought the baby monitor for my parents to use when they're watching munchkin but we've commandeered it for our bedroom.

The REALLY Funny part about the baby monitor (the store bought one) is that it picks up a local radio station. And I don't mean, a little bit of noise faintly in the background. I mean you can hear it all plainly. The later in the night it is, the more clearly you can hear the radio station. The reason for this is because our "high end" neighborhood is built about 5 blocks (as the crow flies) from the stations Gigantic radio tower. The Tower has been there since the 70's (maybe longer) and our Neighborhood has been here since the early 2004's. So it's really not the radio stations fault.

To remedy this, my husband, who is really an exceptionally smart dude, has put aluminum foil around the upstairs portion of the baby monitor (the transmittor) and the Reciever in our bedroom. And you know what? It's worked. The static and the radio station isn't as loud as it used to be.

I'd take a picture of it but the baby is sleeping right now and if I wake him, I don't get to pollute the internet with my witty drivel. :-)

The First three photos above are obviously taken at the 2008 Worlds Championshp Horse show in Louisville, KY during the $100,000 Five Gaited Stake. During the class, they strip the horses to take a look at their conformation. Now the points given during this portion of the class don't factor in a LOT, but it drags the class out so that everyone gets their money's worth. I definitely did.

The Last horse photo is of the winner "Breaking News" performing the gait, the "rack" which is an "artificial" gate taught to him by his trainer and he's really good at it. (obviously)

The Fourth picture is of a squirrel, doing squirrel things in one of the trees out back. Although the lens I used doesn't have the "foo" to get one of those great, close up, pictures showing every hair in his fuzzy hide, I think that the overall feeling is pretty nice.

The fifth picture is a reflection of the trees on the water in the creek in my back yard. Some day I'll have to blather on about why we're in the house and how much I love my back yard, but I'll spare you today.