(written on the 11th from notes taken last night, and I don’t know if I’ve got all my chronology right)
I was up in time to wish Heather off this morning without being bleary eyed, so that was good. 🙃 (I think I gave apple core pieces to the horses and mucked out the barn a little bit first).
Then I grabbed my jump pack to start Rover because he was dead. 💀
I noticed last night that I had left his power inverter on for at least a couple of days, and that had drained the battery down (not sure why since there was nothing charging from the inverter? 🤷).
So I jumped her over and left him running for a little while, and then I decided to move him so he was parked parallel with the track of the Sun for the day in an effort to hopefully have him cook a little bit less. 🤞(Not that I would know if he cooked less today, because, gratefully, the temperature was quite cool today 🙏).
With Rover out of the way, that gave a little more breathing room for the horses to munch in that part of the yard and hopefully have them chewing the weeds down a bit.
Darn Fiona just wants to keep nibbling on the short grass until she’s basically chewing dirt. 😆 I think River does the same thing sometimes, but it seems to me that Fiona is absolutely merciless, leaving the poor grass stubs to get dried out by the wind and cooked by the sun. 😬
I want her to eat all the tall weeds, but she’ll only take random mouthfuls of that. 🙃 I think things would turn out a fair bit better if I could stake her out, but we’re not set up for that at this point.
I actually gave the horses a double munch this morning. 😊
And while they munched, I continued a rather frustrating search that I started… yesterday? to figure out how to bed in non-perforated foundation drain pipe. They make the stuff, so why does nobody anywhere teach you how to install it?
The only corrugated pipe laying information I could find on Google, YouTube, etc. (other than AI, and I don’t trust AI much at all yet), was how to bed in perforated corrugated drain pipe. That’s not very helpful because perforated drain pipe has a completely different function and purpose than non-perforated drain pipe. It’s designed to need gravel as a base below it to enlarge the diffusion area.
Non-perforated drainpipe isn’t designed to diffuse water anywhere or collect it from the ground. It’s designed to take water from One place and drop it off at another place without anything else happening between.
Basically, my question is whether or not it can be direct buried or if it needs to be bed down with rock or sand.
If you go read Stack Exchange or Reddit posts or whatever, some people say to just go ahead and direct bury it, but they’re random people and not professionals.
Anyway… Eventually, I was able to get a hold of a guy who supposedly worked with the stuff, but he seemed confused but eventually said that it was fine to just direct bury it.
So I guess if we’re going to direct., we should probably just make sure we compact The living daylights out of the bottom so that the pipe can’t settle in some places and create low spots and high spots.
Texted with Cory a little bit, and he asked me the following question, which has had a profound impact on me since:
“Have you ever contemplated what it means to truly love Jesus Christ and Heavenly Father with all of your heart, might, mind, and strength?”
I texted with him a little bit about it, and I also talked to my mom a little bit about it as I let the horses munch. I also talked to my mom about our travel plans, timing of meeting up and how, etc. There are also some potential scheduling conflicts to consider and figure out with family both way out west and in Arkansas.
After spending a good little while outside, I headed into the trailer and spent a whole boatload of time working on my file organization project. I downloaded a duplicate-file-finding program and found something like 100 gigabytes of duplicate files.
I guess I shouldn’t really be surprised, because I did take backups from other drives and put everything all on a single drive, so duplicates are to be expected, but 100 gigs is a lot!
Removing the duplicates and trying to organize all the files and folders more effectively is time consuming. 🙃
But I made great progress. 🙏
Zora’s wound is looking really good today as well. 🎉🙏
After hanging out with Heather in the trailer and then chatting with Hans while he was out working on horse stuff, I finally hopped in Rover, had to jump start him one more time, and headed out for Temple Thursday. 🙃
As I was driving on my way toward JH Keith Park for my bi-weekly bath and natural air conditioning preparation, I chatted with my mom and our friend Roseanne about a topic I’ve been wondering about for a long long time–what it means to preside.
It was a helpful chat, and after chatting with them, enjoying my refreshing bath, and heading out on my way, I listened to a YouTube video someone sent me on the same topic.
Super good.. Super helpful. 🙏
I spent the 3 and 1/2, or so, hours of the drive praying, pondering, listening to YouTube videos on that topic and other somewhat related topics.
It was a good drive.
I didn’t leave until after the sun was almost down, because I wasn’t in the mood today to drive with the sun in my eyes for the whole trip. Leaving later also meant that since I hadn’t written anything in my journal before I left, I didn’t even arrive at my parking area until quite late, and I was just too tired to do anything more than take notes.
Granted, in the past, I’ve written my journal with my eyes closing and my head nodding off, so I can’t really use that excuse, I guess. I chose to only take notes.
I ate dinner, veged a little bit, and crashed.
And I did really well not using my phone to text or look stuff up, etc. while driving. 🥳
🙏
Lift the world.
Bring it on.
~ stephen
Lift the World 