The national forecast shows us on the edge of a weather system. Usually when that happens, we don’t get the weather. Local forecast calls for clear and dry. I would like some more dry weather for a couple of days at least.
Yesterday was nice out, cooler and a bit less humid. It was 60F when I went to bed.
I got one auction closed out, and made decent money on it despite some very poor pictures and low prices. I’m taking some of the leftover items to the other auction house, where I’m sure they will do better. That’s today’s job, get stuff to the auction house, and to and from storage and my secondary location. Not only did I remove the stuff in the entryway, I got several bins off the patio too.
Foyer is clean and empty, ready for piles of cookie boxes.
Progress has been made. Always at the expense of something else on the list, but ‘them’s the breaks.’
Today was also haircut and shave day. Still got the ‘stash and chin beard, but my cheeks are smooth again.
I also took a tiny bit of time to do more cleanup in my office. In this case, sorting some of the auction receipts, and fixing a couple of small things. The ‘fixing’ mainly involved cleaning up leaking batteries, and getting the contacts working well again. It did get a couple of things off the desk and surrounding area, so that is a good thing. Baby steps are still steps 🙂
Out in the garden, I’ve been adding my used coffee grounds to the raised beds. Can’t hurt, might help. The potted limes are in bloom, well, “bud”. Flowers soon enough. The collards are about the same as they were. I haven’t harvested anything from them at all yet. They seem to do much better in the second year for me so I’ll wait. I expect they’ll start growing enough I feel ok harvesting leaves soon. The grapefruits were and are delicious. Big, juicy, almost sweet, needing only a bit of salt to moderate the bitter. The Meyer lemon is still producing big and sweet juicy lemons. For all the rest it’s getting to the point I need to start planning the planting… and get a couple of areas ready that I blew off last year. I want more stuff in the ground this year and hopefully I’ll get more out.
I don’t want to tempt fate, but we were expecting a cold winter. Fat squirrels, white tipped ears, etc. So far, we’ve only had a couple of nights dip below freezing, and not by much. I’m glad, as I didn’t have to cover and heat all the citrus. I’m concerned because it didn’t kill off the vermin.
Speaking of which, mice have been eating the poison baits in the attic. The ‘evidence’ is too small to be rats, I think. I’ll refresh all the bait boxes over the next couple of days in case, and maybe set a couple more pads or traps. If you don’t have stacks of rodent and pest control already, get some in… they won’t be going away, and they typically prosper when the humans get to fighting. You don’t have enough food to share.
Just one more thing to stack, so get going! Keep stacking.
nick