Likely to be hot and humid today with about a 60% chance of rain.\u00a0 \u00a0It was humid as a sauna yesterday, both in Houston and here at the BOL.\u00a0 My shirt was soaked, and my shorts were wet from the waistband to the hem.<\/p>\n
After loading up the truck, I headed to my pickup.\u00a0 \u00a0Got a very nice grill for $40.\u00a0 \u00a0Really nice.\u00a0 Basically the same as my grill at home but with a lot less wear, and the upgrade to built in lights.\u00a0 The auctioneer, and judging by his comment while we loaded it, the seller, both seemed to be upset it went so cheap.\u00a0 Wife cooked dinner on it last night and it worked perfectly.\u00a0 \u00a0Very happy.<\/p>\n
I surveyed the downed tree, decided I would get my mower back together and cut the grass first, then tackle the tree since the tree guy is coming (eventually) and he can take care of any parts I don’t do.\u00a0 \u00a0That worked well.<\/p>\n
When I did get to the tree, my chainsaw was cutting like butter.\u00a0 Limbed the whole thing, stacked the small and crooked stuff in the burn pile, and cut what I could for firewood.\u00a0 \u00a0There is still about 16ft of trunk I’ll leave for the tree guy, and the standing part.\u00a0 \u00a0I might try to just leave the part that is still standing.\u00a0 The pole saw (mini chainsaw on a stick) attachment for the string trimmer engine worked great too.\u00a0 \u00a0It make getting the high limbs easy, and made cutting the low ones that were holding the trunk in place a lot safer to cut, being 10ft away in case it rotated.<\/p>\n
Even though it fell next to my garden, the potatoes survived.\u00a0 \u00a0One mound is thriving, the other 3 are surviving.\u00a0 \u00a0Berry bushes are not.\u00a0 \u00a0Peach tree still has green fruit growing, so the animals haven’t stripped it yet.\u00a0 \u00a0I hope we get some fruit from it this year.<\/p>\n
Had a nice fire on the dock after playing games with wife and D2.\u00a0 \u00a0We played the LoTR version of Monopoly, and Rummicub.\u00a0 \u00a0Then I went down and watched the (not very) distant lightning.\u00a0 Radio was pretty good, New Zealand had a segment produced by the BBC World service about religion and politics in the US that was interesting for the 45 minutes I caught.\u00a0 \u00a0No Cuban stations, and the ham bands were quiet with just the built in antenna.\u00a0 \u00a0Just before coming in, I caught about 20 minutes of the Worldwide Country Music show and heard some old school country, and some gospel.\u00a0 \u00a0Nice change of pace for me.<\/p>\n
I’m hoping we don’t get rain today.\u00a0 Don’t have a lot of time today before we need to head home.\u00a0 \u00a0I can’t stay an extra day as we have a swim meet and I have to get back out to my client’s to re-pull the cable.\u00a0 \u00a0Even a short time up here, mostly spent doing hard work, was nice.<\/p>\n
Don’t forget to stack up some good times.\u00a0 \u00a0They will be real important if TSHTF.<\/p>\n
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Likely to be hot and humid today with about a 60% chance of rain.\u00a0 \u00a0It was humid as a sauna yesterday, both in Houston and here at the BOL.\u00a0 My shirt was soaked, and my shorts were wet from the waistband to the hem.<\/p>\n
After loading up the truck, I headed to my pickup.\u00a0 \u00a0Got a very nice grill for $40.\u00a0 \u00a0Really nice.\u00a0 Basically the same as my grill at home but with a lot less wear,<\/p>\n