Cool and damp, not impossible that we’ll get rain, but I hope not. Pretty nice yesterday for all my driving around. Got a bit overcast in the late afternoon, and we had a tiny bit of moisture from the sky.
I did get almost all my pickups done. I had one company that I thought was 9-5 pickup, but had closed at 3pm. So I’ll get that pickup done later. Got stuff for D2’s birthday, got stuff for my BOL, got some logging stuff, including a cant hook. Who orders a cant hook from amazon, and then returns it? I even had time to stop at Microcenter and pick up some photoresin, and my free microSD card… and I popped into a nearby store to buy a couple things, and they were blowing them out. Online from the maker, $8 each, marked $5 in the store, but discounted to $2 last visit, offered to me at $1 each. I bought them all. $70 for a lifetime supply or use them as gifts… score!
Got the kids to school for their show, and dressed up a bit to attend later. It was about what you’d expect from 6-8th graders. They did show noticeable improvement over the year. Still, I was glad I had my ear pro when it got screeching loud. I’m happy to support the school’s drama program and the kids. Everyone starts someplace. I just wish someone (with more actual knowledge of the subject than me) would work with them on audio reinforcement. I can play the tune and march with the band doing audio, but if I was going to TEACH it, I’d want more actual training and theory than I have. What I know I learned from necessity first hand, on my own, or in class 30 years ago, before there was much actual instruction in the subject.
Anyhow, got home, and now it’s time to face the weekend.
I’ll be going up to the BOL. I just don’t know when, or for how long, or what will go with me. If it’s pouring down rain, that will seriously limit me in what I can take up, and there is always a lot to take. There is plenty to do when I get there too. Hopefully, I can get the hose bibs installed. There are other things, like getting some seeds in the ground and making some progress on the sprinkler system, or doing more sorting and clean up, or breaking more concrete, that I can do too. Who am I kidding? There are ALWAYS more things that need doing than time to do them.
It would be nice to get the base for my 10″ dob assembled and get a look through it… or drop a line in the water and catch some fish, or get the crawdad traps set…. But I think I’ll be doing trees, water lines, sprinklers, and putting the walls back together where I had to open stuff up.
Whatever it ends up being, progress is progress.
And that’s true with prepping too. It’s very difficult to go from unaware to ready for the zombies in a short time. It’s a journey, not a destination. AND the path varies, and the destination keeps moving too…
Do what you can with what you have, and keep working to improve your position. Stacking stuff doesn’t hurt and it’s easy.
nick