Hot and humid, chance of rain. Yesterday was the same, but it never rained on me. Even though it was 90F+ it was ok in the shade with a breeze.
So that’s where I spent my afternoon and evening, in the shade of the overgrown trees and bushes in the back yard. I pruned. I cut. I stacked. I chainsawed… and it looks better. More importantly, the branches around the power, data, and telcom lines have been cut back.
That gave me access to the broken fence, and allowed me to do some half @ssed repairs. I decided to do something, since I had the stuff, and the neighbor (who owns the fence) hadn’t done anything. Took an hour and wasn’t hard. I used a metal post support thing driven into the ground at the base of two posts, and put some long fence pickets along the top rail and across the posts so as to reinforce and force the panels to be straight… It worked pretty well. If I could find them, I’d put in another post support or two. Eventually I’ll find them. Or the neighbor will decide to fix the fence. It’s far from perfect, but it will do for now, and it was cheap.
In order to do that work, I had to fix my string trimmer and pole saw. I put a new bump head on the string trimmer. And I think it was low oil in both power units that kept them from running. Changing the oil in the dirty one, and topping up the oil in the other got them both running. 2 stroke engines are easier to run, although the 4 strokes are supposed to be better. 4 strokes need the oil and regular gas. 2 strokes need oil IN the gas. I’d like to be standardized but I bought what was cheap in the auctions. Small gas tools are like PCs in that you need n+1 to keep n running…
I ended up cutting the grass in the back yard with the string trimmer again. Too long between mows, and I can’t get the mower through it. I pulled up the collard plants, and weeded the herb garden too.
All in all, a pretty productive afternoon and evening.
Today I’m doing indoor stuff in the morning, mostly auction, but also some hobby website work. I will continue with the office cleanup project as well. I’ve got jury duty Tuesday so I have to get some stuff done today.
Stay busy, work to improve your situation, and stack. The world is more unsettled today than it was a few days ago, and that trend is likely to continue.
nick
(title is because D1 was on a trip with a girlfriend and her mom to Florida, but she’s home now…)