{"id":9172,"date":"2022-08-31T05:08:58","date_gmt":"2022-08-31T09:08:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/?p=9172"},"modified":"2022-08-30T22:55:15","modified_gmt":"2022-08-31T02:55:15","slug":"wed-aug-31-2022-aint-nothing-but-a-thing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/2022\/08\/31\/wed-aug-31-2022-aint-nothing-but-a-thing\/","title":{"rendered":"Wed. Aug. 31, 2022 &#8211;  ain&#8217;t nothing but a thing&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Maybe not hot.\u00a0 Maybe only pretty warm with some moisture from the sky&#8230;\u00a0 supposedly rain for the next 7 days, but given that it&#8217;s Houston, some people will be getting rain, and some won&#8217;t.\u00a0 It&#8217;s a bit harder to guess what the weather will be like a few hours north at the BOL, which is where I&#8217;ll actually be.\u00a0 Since we&#8217;ll be digging trenches, it would be nice if the forecast of light rain was REALLY light.\u00a0\u00a0 The lake needs rain, but I&#8217;m selfish.\u00a0\u00a0 The following week we&#8217;re digging a big hole for the septic, so NO rain next week would be ideal.<\/p>\n<p>We certainly got some rain here yesterday.\u00a0\u00a0 It hammered down and we got more than an inch at the house.\u00a0 We didn&#8217;t have any flooding on our street so it wasn&#8217;t long enough.\u00a0\u00a0 The yard is a squishy mess though.\u00a0 Everything will probably grow crazy amounts, and split open like a fat tick.\u00a0 Gah.\u00a0\u00a0 Dry, then too wet.<\/p>\n<p>Did more cleaning and organizing, since I was confined to the house.\u00a0\u00a0 Poked around in the garage, and didn&#8217;t find any dead critter.\u00a0 I did find some chocolate milk boxes scattered around.\u00a0 I think that is what was dripping, not body fluids.\u00a0\u00a0 It certainly stinks like rotten something, but I think the something is milk.\u00a0\u00a0 I sprayed it with clorox cleaner, and I&#8217;m letting that work over night.<\/p>\n<p>Today&#8217;s agenda is &#8211; work.\u00a0\u00a0 Get some stuff done around the house, load up, head to the BOL in the afternoon.\u00a0\u00a0 Plan is to stay\u00a0 there while the electricians are working, then have the family join me for the long weekend late Friday night.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll be doing stuff while up there, mostly plumbing I think.\u00a0\u00a0 I think I won&#8217;t want to do much outdoors if it&#8217;s raining, even a little.\u00a0 LOTS of plumbing, including the replacement gas lines and the bathrooms.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ll see how it shakes out.<\/p>\n<p>Stack some stuff.\u00a0\u00a0 Stack some skills.\u00a0\u00a0 Worst comes to worst, stack your enemies like cordwood.<\/p>\n<p>n<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maybe not hot.\u00a0 Maybe only pretty warm with some moisture from the sky&#8230;\u00a0 supposedly rain for the next 7 days, but given that it&#8217;s Houston, some people will be getting rain, and some won&#8217;t.\u00a0 It&#8217;s a bit harder to guess what the weather will be like a few hours north at the BOL, which is where I&#8217;ll actually be.\u00a0 Since we&#8217;ll be digging trenches, it would be nice if the forecast of light rain was REALLY light.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/2022\/08\/31\/wed-aug-31-2022-aint-nothing-but-a-thing\/\">&nbsp;&raquo;&nbsp;Read more about: Wed. 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