I’ve tried to be good.
Long sleeve shirts, long pants… trying not to touch my face…
To some degree, I’ve succeeded. But I’ve also failed miserably.
Why do I say that? Well… little me is covered in poison ivy patches… even places that were covered. 😶
Ummm… 😶😶😶
Gratefully, I’ve managed to keep it out of the private parts and mostly off my face. A little bit on my forehead, one of my earlobes, but boy is it all over. 🙃
I’ve tried to take My work clothes off the first thing when I get in the house, and then I take a shower, but somehow, I’m still managing to spread it all over me. I’m not sure what I’m missing, but… The patches keep expanding instead of receding. 😅
I spent most of the day Friday down in the lower field working on stuff, not getting much of anything done, honestly, despite being there pretty much all day. It’s been wet outside, and though it was supposed to be dry today, I think there was a fine mist for much of the day.
It meant it took a massive amount of effort to keep the fire going, burning the branches off one of the trees I’d cut down.
I spend a while trying to clear out the vines from the ground around the deck, the roots and the leftovers that are sticking up above the ground, so that when I put down the mulch barrier, it’s much more likely that the roots are smothered and the plants die below it.
That’s my hope at least.
But it’s a massive amount of work to do by hand. I’m going to try using our tiller probably on Tuesday. I just don’t want to damage the roots of the trees, but it’s going to take an eternity to get all this stuff done otherwise.
And I don’t know how much more poison ivy my body can handle. 😅
We’re at that point where I don’t even know where the oils are coming from because when the vines are so close to the ground, you don’t know which ones are poison ivy and which ones aren’t. None of them look like poison ivy. That’s what’s weird. The only times that I’ve felt like I was dealing with poison ivy in the last couple days has been when I can see the curly hair thingies coming out of the roots. But pretty much all I’m dealing with now is roots… So… 🤷
But I’ll keep going till I’m finished, even if that leaves me with poison ivy rash through Christmas vacation.
Funny, I’m going to be out of Arkansas for two Christmases in a row.
And I’m feeling like maybe I’m getting the sense that it’s time for me to leave Arkansas…
I don’t know. My transition out of automotive work might come quicker than I thought, might come before I have anything to replace it with.
I guess we’ll see.
Jim came down and finished up the wiring for the breaker box that I bought, and we got everything hooked up, but there was still no power. After a quick phone call to Liz, we learned that that particular meter was shut off, so… That explains why there’s no power. 😅
Anyway, I worked on stuff outside down there in the lower field until it was almost dark, and then I headed home.
I think I worked on my little parable thing in the evening before crashing with a long day of work waiting in the morning.
Lift the world.
~ stephen
Lift the World 