Cool and damp.\u00a0\u00a0 46F when I went to bed and saturated.\u00a0 Don’t expect that to change much in a couple of hours.\u00a0\u00a0 Yesterday it did get a bit nicer over the course of the day, but still pretty wet out.<\/p>\n
I did do a couple of errands.\u00a0 Drove around.\u00a0 Took a bunch of trash and got rid of it.\u00a0\u00a0 The city decided to just skip recycle pickup the week of Christmas.\u00a0 The week when most people have a ton of paper and cardboard trash…\u00a0\u00a0 Fortunately I have access to some dumpsters that I do use occasionally for construction debris, or when we make more trash than the city picks up.<\/p>\n
Ordered the trailer rental for getting the geotextile and stone\u00a0 I won up to the BOL this coming weekend.\u00a0\u00a0 Stone is about 3000 pounds worth according to the seller.\u00a0\u00a0 Dang.\u00a0 Guess I better bring my pallet jack to move the stuff off the trailer.\u00a0\u00a0 Worst case, I unload it piece by piece.\u00a0\u00a0 I did have to do that once before when I bought a couple pallets of flagstone for a walkway.\u00a0\u00a0 No help loading.\u00a0\u00a0 No help unloading.\u00a0\u00a0 Moved every piece from the pallet to the truck, and then from the truck to a pallet in the driveway when I got it home.\u00a0\u00a0 It’s not fun <\/em> but you might be surprised what you can do if you do a little at a time or break a big job down into little pieces.<\/p>\n That is prepping in a nutshell, btw- a massive job that you accomplish one smaller task at a time.\u00a0 There are ways to shortcut the effort or time, copious amounts of money applied to the problem will make it a whole lot quicker and easier, for example.\u00a0 But for most of us, it’s a gradual process, with mostly continuous forward progress.\u00a0\u00a0 Might not be smoothly continuous progress, it might go in fits and starts, but as long as it’s progress toward the goal, it’s good.\u00a0 And there will be reverses as well, but they are ‘learning opportunities’ and a chance to fix a mistake and be better for it.<\/p>\n So get busy.\u00a0 Start on the little things that will lead to the big thing getting done.<\/p>\n And stack it high.<\/p>\n nick<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Cool and damp.\u00a0\u00a0 46F when I went to bed and saturated.\u00a0 Don’t expect that to change much in a couple of hours.\u00a0\u00a0 Yesterday it did get a bit nicer over the course of the day, but still pretty wet out.<\/p>\n I did do a couple of errands.\u00a0 Drove around.\u00a0 Took a bunch of trash and got rid of it.\u00a0\u00a0 The city decided to just skip recycle pickup the week of Christmas.\u00a0 The week when most people have a ton of paper and cardboard trash…\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n