Time Capsule not Decreasing in Size

Hi everyone.
I have what seems like a silly question. When my computer is doing backuos to the Time Capsule (over a wifi network), the disk does not appear to be getting smaller in size. What I mean is that the time capsule drive I use is still saying "26.51 GB available." My last backup was a relatively large one (~9 GB). In looking at the Console, and verifying this by entering the Time Machine, all the backups have completed successfully, so I'm not all that concerned about it.
What started this was that I needed space on the drive, so I was fiddling with things, at first moving to another drive, but realized that didn't have enough space on the drive, so I switched back to the old drive, deleting files on the drive (not from Time Machine) that I no longer needed, as they were taking up the most space.
Here's the code from the last 2 backups.
7/25/13 6:30:45.489 PM com.apple.backupd: Starting standard backup
7/25/13 6:30:46.043 PM com.apple.backupd: Network destination already mounted at: /Volumes/Time Machine Backups
7/25/13 6:31:12.020 PM com.apple.backupd: QUICKCHECK ONLY; FILESYSTEM CLEAN
7/25/13 6:31:15.671 PM com.apple.backupd: Disk image /Volumes/Time Machine Backups/Michael’s MacBook Pro.sparsebundle mounted at: /Volumes/Time Machine Backups 1
7/25/13 6:31:15.717 PM com.apple.backupd: Backing up to: /Volumes/Time Machine Backups 1/Backups.backupdb
7/25/13 6:33:38.972 PM com.apple.backupd: 11.19 GB required (including padding), 26.51 GB available
7/25/13 7:31:49.752 PM com.apple.backupd: Copied 6.0 GB of 9.2 GB, 3035 of 3035 items
7/25/13 7:59:53.893 PM com.apple.backupd: Copied 3064 files (9.2 GB) from volume Macintosh HD.
7/25/13 8:01:02.591 PM com.apple.backupd: 226.6 MB required (including padding), 26.51 GB available
7/25/13 8:02:47.490 PM com.apple.backupd: Copied 1586 files (10.2 MB) from volume Macintosh HD.
7/25/13 8:03:20.976 PM com.apple.backupd: Starting post-backup thinning
7/25/13 8:03:20.977 PM com.apple.backupd: Found partially deleted backup - trying again to delete: 2013-07-11-173054
7/25/13 8:08:17.373 PM com.apple.backupd: Deleted /Volumes/Time Machine Backups 1/Backups.backupdb/Michael’s MacBook Pro/2013-07-11-173054 (196.9 MB)
7/25/13 8:13:57.279 PM com.apple.backupd: Deleted /Volumes/Time Machine Backups 1/Backups.backupdb/Michael’s MacBook Pro/2013-07-23-230340 (11.2 MB)
7/25/13 8:13:57.279 PM com.apple.backupd: Post-back up thinning complete: 2 expired backups removed
7/25/13 8:13:58.597 PM com.apple.backupd: Backup completed successfully.
7/25/13 8:14:32.035 PM com.apple.backupd: Ejected Time Machine disk image.
7/25/13 8:14:32.463 PM com.apple.backupd: Ejected Time Machine network volume.
7/25/13 8:30:44.670 PM com.apple.backupd: Starting standard backup
7/25/13 8:30:45.986 PM com.apple.backupd: Attempting to mount network destination URL: afp://Michael%20Payne@Extreme%20Pleasantville._afpovertcp._tcp.local/Time%20Mac hine%20Backups
7/25/13 8:30:46.722 PM com.apple.backupd: Mounted network destination at mountpoint: /Volumes/Time Machine Backups using URL: afp://Michael%20Payne@Extreme%20Pleasantville._afpovertcp._tcp.local/Time%20Mac hine%20Backups
7/25/13 8:31:13.196 PM com.apple.backupd: QUICKCHECK ONLY; FILESYSTEM CLEAN
7/25/13 8:31:17.883 PM com.apple.backupd: Disk image /Volumes/Time Machine Backups/Michael’s MacBook Pro.sparsebundle mounted at: /Volumes/Time Machine Backups 1
7/25/13 8:31:17.894 PM com.apple.backupd: Backing up to: /Volumes/Time Machine Backups 1/Backups.backupdb
7/25/13 8:32:43.664 PM com.apple.backupd: 226.6 MB required (including padding), 26.51 GB available
7/25/13 8:33:54.800 PM com.apple.backupd: Copied 945 files (10.2 MB) from volume Macintosh HD.
7/25/13 8:33:54.964 PM com.apple.backupd: 215.9 MB required (including padding), 26.51 GB available
7/25/13 8:34:31.278 PM com.apple.backupd: Copied 821 files (7.2 MB) from volume Macintosh HD.
7/25/13 8:34:38.722 PM com.apple.backupd: Starting post-backup thinning
7/25/13 8:34:38.722 PM com.apple.backupd: No post-back up thinning needed: no expired backups exist
7/25/13 8:34:38.744 PM com.apple.backupd: Backup completed successfully.
7/25/13 8:34:50.291 PM com.apple.backupd: Ejected Time Machine disk image.
7/25/13 8:34:50.546 PM com.apple.backupd: Ejected Time Machine network volume.

The inside and outside of the sparsebundle are two different things.. when you delete old backups they remove space from inside the sparsebundle but that space is not recovered to the TC.. nor is space used on the TC until the space is used up again inside the sparsebundle.
Pondini has some info about it.
http://pondini.org/TM/A8.html

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pompeygreg wrote:
I have a 500GB Time Capsule which I use solely to back up my Macbook. Time Machine is giving me an error message as below:
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Yes, I do!!
Never mind - Google is my friend!
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