And I might be doing it in the rain today. Forecast has us in the rain/possible T storm category for today and tomorrow. Yesterday stayed mostly overcast and muggy. I was certainly sweaty, and the garage door tech was dripping. Today will likely be the same, with more chance of precip.
I spent all afternoon and early evening at the rent house involved in fixing the garage door. I did get the two rotten trees removed, through blunt force. I used my survival saw from the truck to cut one root, but otherwise just pushed them over, worked them loose, and tore them out of the ground. And ended up sweaty for my efforts.
Today I’ve got a couple of small items to pickup, and I need to get my Ranger battery sorted. I may put the slightly smaller battery from the whole house gennie in the truck so I can drive the truck to get the new battery and then on to do the pickups. Or I guess I can use the Expy, since the items are small. Getting the pickups done and my tools and supplies together for the rest of the work I need to do at the rent house will take most of today, but will set me up to crank them out tomorrow. I’m pretty sure the universe will intervene in my plans though.
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My renter has her sister and niece in town and staying with her. The sister is an immigration lawyer from MN. She was wearing a necklace that said “Smash the patriarchy” in gold script. We had a brief chat where I was watching my p’s and q’s. She lives in a reality that is almost completely different from mine. How the heck can that work? I know that my reality and the checker at HEB’s reality only intersect in a few places, but I’m pretty sure the world we both inhabit has a high degree of congruity. I’m not at all sure of that with the sister.
She’s intelligent, articulate, passionate, and absolutely living in a different world. Her world doesn’t have Tren de Aquaa in it, or stash houses where 14 people are held captive with the women being prostituted and the men forced to work as day laborers just 2 miles from her home. It’s filled with people unfairly caught up in dragnets while just trying to live their best lives and an oppressive government that is headed by the worst human alive. All while she’s married to an engineer, and brought her daughter to Houston to ride horses on Spring Break, and owns rental property.
If she thought about it, her head would surely explode. But they don’t seem to.
Stack. Prep. Build under and around, because they are righteous holy warriors fighting against civilization as we know it, and there are a bunch of them.
nick