(written on the 8th)
I spent the majority of the day working around the greenhouse area, cleaning stuff up, trying to get it under control and decent looking.
I disposed of several of the garage storage shelf container thingies that I had taken from the garage when we moved. A windstorm damaged all but one of them, I think.
I had hopes to rescue them, reuse them if I could, but… I had no place to put them, and mother nature did her thing.
I got the weeds mostly burned out Aunt pulled out from the actual Greenhouse area. There are no longer trees growing inside the greenhouse. 🙃
I gathered up branches and roots and all sorts of stuff and burned it.
I moved a bunch of stuff that was outside and put it inside my little shed In preparation for the coming rain storms.
I spent some time working on my Volkswagen Beetle getting the fan system wired up to a toggle. That is now done, and I now have a functioning radiator and AC condenser fan. You just have to remember to turn it on. 🙃
And then back off, but the turning it back off is the easier part, as when you get out of the car, you’ll hear the fans still going until you actually manually turn them off.
Reminds me of the days in New Zealand where we did that for our Austrian friends’ van.
I spent some time working on clearing out the part that I’m reclaiming that the woods took over where the trusses were located. Another couple hours of work, and that will be cleared out completely, I hope, with the chance for the weeds to grow back and to be a part that can be mowed and hayed instead of trees and vines.
Why does Google keyboard capitalize so many random weird words?
🙃
Funny little story… I hooked up my jump box to my Civic to charge the battery so I could have power overnight for my fan and to charge my cell phone, and then I promptly forgot about it. That’s not a good thing because in order to have the jump box in the Civic, the hood has to be open. And little me decided to drive into Pea Ridge without remembering that the hood was partially up, and not being able to see that it was partially up because of the shape of the car and the darkness.
So as I was driving probably 40 or 45 mph down Lee Town road, my Hood flew up to say hi. 😅 smacking against my wiper blades and windshield and what not.
Oops.
There aren’t any shoulders on Lee Town road, so I kept going looking at the little space between the top of my dashboard And my hood to make sure I wasn’t driving off the road or hitting anyone.
I pulled over to the first side street, which is like this private neighborhood with only six houses on it, and wouldn’t you know it, first car that comes by needs to pull in, so I pulled right back out to get out of their way, kept driving down the road until I came to the next place I could pull out.
Shine the light on my windshield, and miraculously the windshield itself wasn’t smashed. The crack that’s in it finished cracking all the way to the edge, but amazingly, there was no big smash in the windshield.
The hood was smashed up in a few new places, but it was already a pretty gnarly Hood anyway, so… whatever. It’s a piece of crap looking car that just keeps going and going and going and has great AC.
Yes, I’m tired of having crappy looking vehicles. But I can get over it for now. I don’t owe anything on it.
Another miracle is that the hood actually closed. 🎉
So it’s a little uglier, but still just as functional, and the crack finished cracking, and it cracked the direction I would have preferred it to crack, so we’ll call it a bonus.
🙃
I bought some food because I didn’t have any food left of any substance.
Apparently I’m starting to get sick. While I was on the skid steer doing some stuff in the cleanup effort, I started sneezing a whole bunch. The way it came, I’ve come to recognize as a likely cold or some kind of virus coming on.
Probably only an hour or two later, I had a really bad, really swollen sore throat.
So I went outside to one of my bins that has my medicine stuff in it, took a vitamin c and a multivitamin And an extra B12, and I called it good. Hopefully I don’t get really sick, but I guess we shall see.
Lift the world.
~ stephen
Lift the World 