Hot again, and again, and again. Humid too. 84F in the morning, but 100+ later. Humid too. Did I mention humid?
Did my speed run to get the staircase to the BOL. Picked up the uhaul trailer, got on the wrong freeway, corrected that, bought and loaded the stairs, and headed out. A couple hours and some to and fro to get the truck and trailer into the right spot, and a bit of rope, and the stairs are unloaded on the grass. There is a well positioned tree to help me get the thing up the hill and in place too. This stair will replace the concrete shitepile that I removed when I had the machines up there. It will be temporary until we get a deck designed and installed. Without something there we would have no direct access to the back yard, and down the hill to the dock and the lake.
I turned around and headed home as quickly as I could. Got the trailer returned, and switched to the pickup truck to head to Lowes. Did a bunch of head scratching in the aisles and picked up enough plumbing fittings that I should be able to cobble together a manifold for the sprinklers. Also picked up a few more electrical parts and fittings to complete the electrical replacement at the dock and dock house. Hopefully.
Electrical is first on the list, as is stairs… yeah I know. I’ll alternate if I get stuck, but stairs are really first. I will probably not have everything to finish the stairs though, so I’ll jump to electrical.
Plan is to head out today, stopping to pick up rigging stuff and hit one auction pickup along the way. I’ll take D1 and the dog with me this time. W! and D2 will join us later.
I’ll probably also do some raking and shoveling to clean up the front yard and new drainage ditch in between other tasks. I was in a big hurry with the machines coming off rent, and didn’t get everything as nice looking as I would have liked. It’s just red dirt, and without working sprinklers will STAY just dirt. Sprinklers are now officially moved up the list, as is getting a quote to sod the front yard… there’s always more to do…
So work to improve your situation. Think hard about getting away from big cities, especially ones with failing services, rising crime, or lots of violent amish and tatted up invaders. Several people that frequent this place have followed RBT and Barbara’s lead and moved already. The BOL is my effort. Better to move a little early than to leave it too late and get stuck.
Stay or go, in either case stacks will help, so keep stacking too.
nick