Hot and humid, but less of both than Houston proper. It got plenty hot yesterday but I did a bunch of work anyway.
Weeded the garden. Not seeing any veg plants. Could be a total failure. Well, I’ll learn something in any case.
Cut the grass, did extra string trimming for the big holiday weekend, and poisoned the ant mounds I felt comfortable using the poison on.
Cut the grass in the adjacent community lot and boatramp too. I was on the mower, had enough gas, and was feeling pretty good. It coincidentally let me explore an unimproved version of my lot. I’m pretty sure it was deeded to the HOA because of the little creeks running through it. There would be some challenges building on it. Nothing you couldn’t overcome for lakefront land, but not as simple as throwing up a house. Anyway, we missed the community cleanup event so I felt like it would be a good deed in advance of the busiest weekend of the year.
You might guess I was feeling pretty good. I’m headed home today because I think I’ve finished with this cold. Cough may stick around for a while, but I felt pretty much normal all day.
I’ll get a couple more things done, after sleeping as long as I can, and then I’ll head home to reload and head back, in a couple of days.
My buddy is giving me more contractor names, so maybe we can get moving. Or maybe it will be more of the same, but at least it MIGHT move.
FWIW, this is apparently a great time to be a contractor. More work than you can do, and people are resigned to paying high prices. If you can get the stuff to do the job, Robert is your father’s brother…
If you think you might need work done, you better stack up the stuff you will need. Because it might not be there later.
So stack it up. And start collecting names of contractors and tradesmen. You will need them eventually, and it can’t hurt to be known to them. Meatspace.
Oh, turns out there was some petty crime drama at home while I was up here. More on that later.
Stack it up!
nick