In the garden, and RAIN!!!!
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UPDATED: Thursday, December 25, 2025 04:27
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Quote:Not a day of rest for me!
Originally posted by Brenda:
Another Sunday
It was supposed to be cooler today so I was hoping to rake up and bin up after yesterday's weed whacking. But I wound up being delayed (thanks hubby. not!) and working in the heat of the day. Plus it didn't seem like it would be such a big job, I guesstimated somewhat less than a binful, but it wound up being two PACKED binsful. I kept seeing more things to rake up, like the branchlets that the star pine is always dropping, and decided to finish with a sweeping. Phew!!!
But anyhow, that's done and tomorrow I need to go in with hubby for his Dr appts take care of hubby's DMV renewal and finally take in our tax papers and I will have taken care of the most pressing chores.
On the plus side, we have been enjoying garden-fresh tomatoes nearly every day this past week. I roasted some tri tip again yesterday and made extra, so today we had roast beef, tomato, spinach, onion and mayo sandwiches on toasted sourdough, and even tho I can't taste much even I thought it was pretty good!
By Tuesday it'll go up to 90s- 100 for the foreseeable future, so my outdoor work is either going to be limited to watering or at 9AM!
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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE someone poor - William Blake
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LOL Doesn't every project you set out to do end up taking longer than yu thought it would? I don't remember a single time where I finished something and said "Wow. Look how much free time I have that I wasn't expecting".
I mowed the back yard, got the siding and downspout extenders back up temporarily for the rein expected in the next 36 hours and did a little cleanup in the garage since it was starting to look like a bomb hit it with all the simultaneous projects going on at once and the empty shed clogging up what space I did have.
Super hot and humid today though. Grossest day outside we've had in a while.
Rain tonight won't give any heat relief, but the rain storm coming in tomorrow night will. Tonight's LOW temperature is going to be closer to the high temperature most days next week than today's and tomorrows high is. Should be perfect weather to wrap up the outside work I wanted to get done this year.
That being said, if I don't make it outside for a single second tomorrow I'll be okay with that. I think it's a light day with a little indoor cleanup tomorrow.
The crack in the shed looks great. I was tempted to try putting another layer on it seemd to dry so fast, but no sense in doing that and not giving it a few days to dry if I can't do anything outside until Tuesday anyhow.
That vinyl cement patch has a really cool consistency to it. Supposedly as long as you prepped the surface right it's supposed to be twice as strong as the concrete that surrounds the crack.
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Originally posted by SignyM:Quote:Not a day of rest for me!
Originally posted by Brenda:
Another Sunday
It was supposed to be cooler today so I was hoping to rake up and bin up after yesterday's weed whacking. But I wound up being delayed (thanks hubby. not!) and working in the heat of the day. Plus it didn't seem like it would be such a big job, I guesstimated somewhat less than a binful, but it wound up being two PACKED binsful. I kept seeing more things to rake up, like the branchlets that the star pine is always dropping, and decided to finish with a sweeping. Phew!!!
But anyhow, that's done and tomorrow I need to go in with hubby for his Dr appts take care of hubby's DMV renewal and finally take in our tax papers and I will have taken care of the most pressing chores.
On the plus side, we have been enjoying garden-fresh tomatoes nearly every day this past week. I roasted some tri tip again yesterday and made extra, so today we had roast beef, tomato, spinach, onion and mayo sandwiches on toasted sourdough, and even tho I can't taste much even I thought it was pretty good!
By Tuesday it'll go up to 90s- 100 for the foreseeable future, so my outdoor work is either going to be limited to watering or at 9AM!
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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE someone poor - William Blake
It's only gotten to 76F today around me.
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Gotta get up and get some supper and watch some tv.
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Oh... Right. I forgot about another new toy I got. Caught a major sale on a huge 16TB external hard drive. I know I still could have waited even longer and got an even better deal for more storage, but space has gotten a little tight around here with my other/quicker/smaller storage solutions and the fact I back up everything twice and the super important stuff 3 times. Plus, at that size there's really not a reason for me to wait any longer. Prices don't really go down much outside of sales because over time the hard drive sizes just get larger to keep up the same price point and now that I have my first drive ever that's over 5TB by quite a bit, I can't even imagine how long it would even take me to come close to filling that up or even come close.
A lot of work on a decades long project is going to have a 4th backup now, and once I get everything properly organized and cataloged I should have a spare 1TB and 2TB drive laying around, which for me is a quality of life improvement that I've put off for too long.
I'll be doing that tonight and while I clean up the house tomorrow. Most of the time spent on it will just be background noise while transfers are taking place. I'll have to figure out a good spot for it now though. Although I'd love to have another small drive that is self powered by the USB cable, this is a large drive that requires an external power source. And they still make those STUPID BIG BRICKS at the end of the plug instead of putting it in the cord, so you end up losing 3 outlets on a power strip instead of only one.
Once I get that thing totally organized it won't be powered on very much, but I would like to have a proper home for it that doesn't require unplugging something else or having a cord floating in the air as a tripping hazard like it is right now.
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Out for my walk. Got a couple of things to do today.
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Back from my walk and got a call from the physio office, appointment moved up to this afternoon. Which is a good thing. I can feel it around my right shoulder blade more than my arm.
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Physio went well and the therapist gave me some exercises to do at home.
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Got some cleaning done. Deeper than usual, but not close to everything.
Taking forever to transfer the files to the new backup too. Hopefully that's done by tomorrow night.
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Time to trench out the side of the slab where the crack was so I can get it cleaned and tarred. No rain in the forecast for at least 4 or 5 days, so I'm not going to try to put up the new J-channel and get the bottom layer of siding back up until it's had several days to bake in the sun and cure.
I'm also going to use up the vinyl patch I've still got left on the crack inside and see how far it gets me. It may or may not do the trick. If I have to pick up some more I will, but hopefully I won't since any excess would probably go wasted unless my buddy could use some on his place.
Because of drying time, that might be all the outdoor work I can get done today. Lawn doesn't need mowing and it would be too wet until tomorrow anyhow.
And thankfully, even in the areas that aren't covered in rock and weed fabric, I think it's late enough in the year where weeds aren't going to be a problem anymore until next spring.
Oh well. Plenty of cleaning to do inside if I can stay on target. 
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