A busy Monday
Sep. 20th, 2010 23:16![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mapsedgeLet's see. Somewhat better than normal day at work, which is to say that I didn't spend at least half of it frustrated or angry.
Once home, I finished the grain harvest - *cough* er, I mean I mowed the back yard. All the real grasses go dormant in the August heat and the goose grass, chickweed, carpet weed, creeping charlie, and one other I haven't been able to identify take over. The yard is coming back again, though, and that's nice to see. I'll mow the front tomorrow.
Got the gutters mostly cleaned out so the next time it rains they hopefully won't overflow. Katie helped there - she did the gutter over Jami's window, where it leaks into the garage if there's overflow. She also spent some time in the garden, cutting back the roma tomato plant and the cardinal vine.
I checked over the roof. The hail from Saturday did leave a few dings but nothing to make me worry about leaking. The chimney cap looks like a gold ball, but is otherwise undamaged. The new roof on the dormer looks like we installed it last month instead of a year ago.
I'm having real reservations about a vegetable garden next year. There was a hell of a lot of work and money that went into a harvest of many tomatoes, several onions, and fewer than a half dozen sweet peppers. We've nothing put up because we don't can. Every year, the harvest starts to come in just as the heat arrives so we don't get into the garden to enjoy what we're growing. We also stop tending as the weather gets hot so by this time of year - September-ish - the garden as a yard focal point looks like shit. It seems an awful waste.
I'm tired and feeling a little down, so I'm going to just stop. I've started several topics that would have served no purpose except to dig a deeper hole: day-job, income, taxes, Seamlyne. Too much, not enough, too many, too slow. In that order.
It's time for bed. It's been time for bed for about an hour now.
Once home, I finished the grain harvest - *cough* er, I mean I mowed the back yard. All the real grasses go dormant in the August heat and the goose grass, chickweed, carpet weed, creeping charlie, and one other I haven't been able to identify take over. The yard is coming back again, though, and that's nice to see. I'll mow the front tomorrow.
Got the gutters mostly cleaned out so the next time it rains they hopefully won't overflow. Katie helped there - she did the gutter over Jami's window, where it leaks into the garage if there's overflow. She also spent some time in the garden, cutting back the roma tomato plant and the cardinal vine.
I checked over the roof. The hail from Saturday did leave a few dings but nothing to make me worry about leaking. The chimney cap looks like a gold ball, but is otherwise undamaged. The new roof on the dormer looks like we installed it last month instead of a year ago.
I'm having real reservations about a vegetable garden next year. There was a hell of a lot of work and money that went into a harvest of many tomatoes, several onions, and fewer than a half dozen sweet peppers. We've nothing put up because we don't can. Every year, the harvest starts to come in just as the heat arrives so we don't get into the garden to enjoy what we're growing. We also stop tending as the weather gets hot so by this time of year - September-ish - the garden as a yard focal point looks like shit. It seems an awful waste.
I'm tired and feeling a little down, so I'm going to just stop. I've started several topics that would have served no purpose except to dig a deeper hole: day-job, income, taxes, Seamlyne. Too much, not enough, too many, too slow. In that order.
It's time for bed. It's been time for bed for about an hour now.