Category: lakehouse

Cool and damp, then warm and damp. Yesterday at the BOL was the nicest day of the year. Cool, crisp, sunny and bright. More please.

Did my thing at the BOL in the morning. Tried to do a number of things in the afternoon, but mostly spent it trying to clear a drain.

Today, I’m sleeping in a bit, the back at it.

Dunno what happened to the post, or if I wrote one. Not really sure. Meds kicked in for my back and I went to sleep. Thought I did everything I usually do…

Stack something!

nick

Cool and damp to start, but should warm up and the local forecast calls for sunny and clear. Yesterday was nice, despite some overcast and a bit of coolness. Today should be nice too.

Did Easter with the kids. As long as they want to do kid stuff, I’m willing to play along. Our “big” meal was Saturday night, so they could head home in the afternoon Sunday. Kids have stuff to do this week.

I got the outdoor stuff mostly done, and even started on moving stuff around and sorting, but didn’t get any “real” work from the list done. That is the plan for today.

If I can get a couple of things started, even just to prep for the next visit, I’ll feel good about staying up here. There is a lot to do and we’re busy for most of the next couple months worth of weekends. I will probably have to come up mid-week at some point, if only to cut the grass. I really need to crank out a few things to feel like I’m making progress.

I need to look at some of the stacks here too, it’s been long enough now that some of it might be aging out. Fortunately, my storage conditions are actually better up here than at home. Still should probably rotate some things.

There’s always more to do.

And to stack.

nick

Mid 70sF and probably damp. Maybe even wet. We apparently got almost 4 inches of rain on Thursday, and there was water on the garage floor when W arrived. It was mostly cloudy when I arrived, but the forecast is for rain. Lake is very high.

I did a bunch of things in the morning, including writing checks and going to the mailbox. I also did some ebay correspondence. Then I got the truck loaded, two new propane bottles filled, and headed out.

When I got here I did a quick and brutal mow of the front and side areas. It was pretty dark when I finished so I bet it looks bad. The grass was about 18″ on the side area and I mostly pushed it over with the mower. It has to look better than the overgrowth. If not, I’ll mow again. Weather permitting.

And if the weather is nice, I’ll do outdoor stuff, including hanging some cameras and pulling cat cable, as well as getting the mower serviced and put to good use. If it’s not nice, I’ll do inside stuff. There is plenty to do.

Too much really. I need to find some stuff to outsource. I can’t do it all, even if I could do the work. I just don’t have time.

I will do what I can in the mean time.

And stack.

nick

Cool and damp, possibly with moisture from the sky. National forecast has Houston on the southern edge of the possible rain and T storms part of the country. We usually don’t get any when we’re there, due to the difficulty of predicting just how strong the pressure from the Gulf of America is. Today is supposed to be pretty much like yesterday, with the area of rain moving south for Saturday, and presumably also Easter Sunday. I hope we don’t get rain, and that the micro climate at the BOL keeps the rain away too, as I’ve got a truck bed full of stuff.

Yesterday was like so many days lately, where I start with a plan, but fail to execute. Most of the day got eaten by other things, like cutting my hair and ebay stuff.

Turned out I didn’t have to hold myself ready to get D2 from school, so I went to the shop and did a bunch of organizing and arranging. I needed to get the shipping dims and weight of a big thing I might have finally sold, and to get to it, I needed to clean. I also assembled 2 sets of metro rack shelves to put some of it on, instead of just stacking it on the floor. If I palletize and ship the items, I’ll finally have room to get the rest of my storage unit cleaned out. All in all, less than I’d hoped, but decent progress after all.

Today I hope to do a trash run, LP gas refill, and recycle the catalytic converters that are in the bed of the truck. Those things are all near each other. Then I can load up with stuff for the BOL and head out. W plans to take the kids up sometime in the morning. Early afternoon is more likely. We’ll spend Easter at the lake, which is becoming a tradition. Everyone seems to want steak for our Easter dinner, so that will be a bit non-traditional, but we’ll hide eggs (more money than candy in them this year) and play some games together.

I’ll have a list of stuff I need to work on, but that might be limited by weather. There is always more to do than I have energy and motivation to do.

That is the story of my life though.

Always be working. Always be stacking.

nick