Cool and damp. Getting warmer later. It was fairly nice all day, but the humidity was high. Sweat running down my back just standing around… yuck. And likely more of the same today.
Did some of my stuff. Got some Halloween stuff done, but first thing on the list today is getting a bunch of stuff out and set up. I’m well known in the neighborhood for my decorations and that is a good thing. I’m the guy with the great Halloween display and the cool Christmas stuff, not the weirdo waiting for the end of civilization. I’m the guy who helped everyone out with plumbing parts after the freeze… meatspace baby.
We’ll probably get around 150 kids if the weather is ok. And I’m dressing up this year. Been growing facial hair to help sell the costume. It itches. I don’t have a lot, and some of the facial scarring keeps hair from growing on one cheek, so it’s not symmetrical, but it’s the first time I’ve ever had sideburns. My indian friends think it looks good. Some of the younger guys think it looks good. Everyone else thinks it looks silly. I’m undecided. Change is sometimes a good thing. Hard to try something completely new at my age. And I’ve been growing it for a couple of months, because it’s so thin and slow growing, so it looked even worse than it does now, as it finally looks intentional. My oh my, don’t it make ya wanna cry.
Did some weeding in the raised beds. The collards continue to do well, so I pruned them and weeded that bed. And surprise, surprise, the watermelon started to grow! It’s got vines and flowers. Also, one pepper plant and one cabbage survived, and are growing now. I weeded that bed too. The biggest bed, that has the herb garden, is really only growing chives and the grape vines this season, but they are doing ok now. Both vines had frozen back to the dirt, but they are climbing the trellis… and even better, one of my potted citrus, that I thought was completely dead, is sprouting leaves and they are not growing just from the root stock but from the tree. The other herbs are doing ok, other than the rosemary. I can’t keep a rosemary bush alive for more than 2 seasons. So it looks like I might have more garden than I thought. Hooray.
Anyway, plan for today is more Halloween, some shopping at Lowes, maybe a dumpster run on the way out of town, and finally back up to the BOL. Crew will be there around 9am to start the actual foundation support work with the helical piles. That should be interesting to watch. If I get the plumbing parts I need at Lowes, I should have stuff to do all week while they work on the foundation. If not, the list of other jobs is long and varied. I’m sure I’ll stay occupied.
And I’ll be stacking more canned goods up there. That will let me increase the stacks here too. Stack it up fellow ants. Don’t be a grasshopper.
nick