Beautiful and warm, sunny and blue sky.\u00a0 I hope. [very nice, getting into the 80s with clear skies and cool breezes]<\/p>\n
Yesterday was very nice.\u00a0 68F at 9am, 82 with a cool breeze in the shade in the afternoon.<\/p>\n
I spent the afternoon outside.\u00a0 I got the electric chainsaw back out, and took the time to sharpen it.\u00a0 Made a HUGE difference even though it was my first time sharpening and kinda haphazard…\u00a0 Cut up the remaining branches, and took another of the multiple trunks off one of the chinese cherries.\u00a0\u00a0 That wood is certainly dense.<\/p>\n
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.\u00a0 I took down about half a dozen limbs that were either dead or too far over the neighbor’s yard.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 By the end of the afternoon, I was getting pretty good at throwing the sandbag over the high limbs to get the rope over.\u00a0 It is a workout.<\/p>\n
Cut up the branches with the electric chainsaw (very handy, fairly quiet, not intimidating, recommended.)\u00a0 Threw the debris on the heavy trash pile.<\/p>\n
Today if it’s still nice, I’ll get up on the roof and trim back those branches, and start in on the sprinklers.\u00a0 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.\u00a0\u00a0 They were originally installed poorly, with 12″ pop ups completely above the earth.\u00a0 In other words, a dozen sprinkler heads like cans of tennis balls, sticking up where we don’t need them.\u00a0 I keep tripping over them, breaking them off, and catching the hose on them.\u00a0\u00a0 I could leave a couple of risers for drip irrigation in the future, I guess.<\/p>\n
Number two daughter turns 9 today and she’s bouncing off the walls.\u00a0 Fortunately, I’d bought a bunch of stuff prior to lockdown, and amazon is still open to deliver stuff that my wife ordered.\u00a0\u00a0 Even without a get together with her friends, she should have\u00a0 a good day.\u00a0 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.<\/p>\n
The new version of my NVR software eats hard drive like crazy.\u00a0 By default it records a constant stream from each camera.\u00a0 That’s a lot of data…\u00a0 Even setting up ‘record on motion’ for all the 3mpx cams didn’t save enough disk space with the three 8mpx cams streaming constantly.\u00a0 I LIKE them capturing everything, but I don’t have the space.\u00a0\u00a0 So I ordered an 8 TB surveillance drive from amazon.\u00a0 Only $220, which is astounding to me.\u00a0 The surveillance drives are built to handle the 24\/7 writing and constant use, and they cost a bit more.\u00a0 Interesting to me to see the different drives being built to different specs for specific uses.\u00a0 I’d say that was a sign of a mature market.<\/p>\n
Oh, and I threw out a couple dozen shelf stable entre’s from Dinty Moore, completes, and a couple from an indian company.\u00a0 They were\u00a0 bb 2014 1nd 2015.\u00a0 While still sealed and under vacuum, the egg dishes had turned uniformly brown, and the meat dishes looked pretty gross.\u00a0\u00a0 The indian dishes actually looked the best.\u00a0 They all smelled ok, and probably wouldn’t kill you, but I’ve got food that isn’t nasty looking.\u00a0 They were WAY in the back on the shelves in the garage.\u00a0 High heat is probably to blame for the changes in appearance, oh, and the extra 5 years….<\/p>\n
Dinner was late and needed to be quick and easy, so frozen cheeseburgers, cottage cheese, tomato, onion, and a pasta side dish.\u00a0 Flavored pasta dish was bb 2016 in a foil lined paper pouch.\u00a0 Tasted just like it should.<\/p>\n
Stay in, Stay safe.<\/p>\n
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Beautiful and warm, sunny and blue sky.\u00a0 I hope. [very nice, getting into the 80s with clear skies and cool breezes]<\/p>\n
Yesterday was very nice.\u00a0 68F at 9am, 82 with a cool breeze in the shade in the afternoon.<\/p>\n
I spent the afternoon outside.\u00a0 I got the electric chainsaw back out, and took the time to sharpen it.\u00a0 Made a HUGE difference even though it was my first time sharpening and kinda haphazard…\u00a0<\/p>\n