Beautiful and warm, sunny and blue sky. I hope. [very nice, getting into the 80s with clear skies and cool breezes]
Yesterday was very nice. 68F at 9am, 82 with a cool breeze in the shade in the afternoon.
I spent the afternoon outside. I got the electric chainsaw back out, and took the time to sharpen it. Made a HUGE difference even though it was my first time sharpening and kinda haphazard… Cut up the remaining branches, and took another of the multiple trunks off one of the chinese cherries. That wood is certainly dense.
Then I moved to the oak in the front yard and got out the “High Limb Saw” or chain saw in the middle of a long rope. I took down about half a dozen limbs that were either dead or too far over the neighbor’s yard. By the end of the afternoon, I was getting pretty good at throwing the sandbag over the high limbs to get the rope over. It is a workout.
Cut up the branches with the electric chainsaw (very handy, fairly quiet, not intimidating, recommended.) Threw the debris on the heavy trash pile.
Today if it’s still nice, I’ll get up on the roof and trim back those branches, and start in on the sprinklers. We’ve removed bushes and some beds in the front of the house and have a whole zone or two of sprinklers that should be capped off. They were originally installed poorly, with 12″ pop ups completely above the earth. In other words, a dozen sprinkler heads like cans of tennis balls, sticking up where we don’t need them. I keep tripping over them, breaking them off, and catching the hose on them. I could leave a couple of risers for drip irrigation in the future, I guess.
Number two daughter turns 9 today and she’s bouncing off the walls. Fortunately, I’d bought a bunch of stuff prior to lockdown, and amazon is still open to deliver stuff that my wife ordered. Even without a get together with her friends, she should have a good day. I thought about sending cupcakes to all her school friends, and having them do a zoom vtc while they ate them and got a goodie bag, but we couldn’t get it organized in time.
The new version of my NVR software eats hard drive like crazy. By default it records a constant stream from each camera. That’s a lot of data… Even setting up ‘record on motion’ for all the 3mpx cams didn’t save enough disk space with the three 8mpx cams streaming constantly. I LIKE them capturing everything, but I don’t have the space. So I ordered an 8 TB surveillance drive from amazon. Only $220, which is astounding to me. The surveillance drives are built to handle the 24/7 writing and constant use, and they cost a bit more. Interesting to me to see the different drives being built to different specs for specific uses. I’d say that was a sign of a mature market.
Oh, and I threw out a couple dozen shelf stable entre’s from Dinty Moore, completes, and a couple from an indian company. They were bb 2014 1nd 2015. While still sealed and under vacuum, the egg dishes had turned uniformly brown, and the meat dishes looked pretty gross. The indian dishes actually looked the best. They all smelled ok, and probably wouldn’t kill you, but I’ve got food that isn’t nasty looking. They were WAY in the back on the shelves in the garage. High heat is probably to blame for the changes in appearance, oh, and the extra 5 years….
Dinner was late and needed to be quick and easy, so frozen cheeseburgers, cottage cheese, tomato, onion, and a pasta side dish. Flavored pasta dish was bb 2016 in a foil lined paper pouch. Tasted just like it should.
Stay in, Stay safe.
nick