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keljonma
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Although we were overcast this morning, the sun has been shining all day.
Which means, no-show Paul missed a great opportunity to finish the roof job.
Some guy came to the door and asked TR if we needed help finishing the job. He is really looking for scrap and offered to take everything under the overhang.
That is some funny guy....my garden hoses, plant stands, yard tools, the lawnmower, and my extra plant containers. I don't know what he saw in that area that made him think it was worth anything.
I told TR get the manure fork and chase him away. (I was obviously feeling a bit coffee-deprived cranky this morning.)
This guy is also interested in all the junk the landlord still has laying around the back farmyard (left over from the days when this was a dairy farm). Maybe the metal in the hay elevator and pull-behind trailer has some value.
But seriously they have been sitting out there since the early 80's, so I am not sure they wouldn't disintegrate once someone brush-hogged around them and tried to move them. This will be the 4th guy to ask about the junk in the yard in the 1 1/2 years since we moved in. TR told him to check with the landlord next door; but we know he told the other guys that he wasn't interested. Can we spell junk HOARDER? 
This morning, TR said he saw some rabbits eyeing up the strawberry plants. Since the day turned out to be so nice and sunny, we decided to spend a lot of the early afternoon outside. So before TR left for work, we got some deer netting put up around the bed.
Then TR cut part of the back yard grass. Most of the yard is still 'grass up to my knees', though. Unfortunately, the handle connection snapped on the lawnmower, so TR duct taped it together long enough to get a path out to the porch swing out near the beehive.
Before the storm late yesterday, I brought my container gardens into the mudroom. I see today that some of them need to come back into the sunroom. They are not doing so well outside with all this water we have been getting. And the weather forecast is calling for more later...today, tomorrow, and all the way through Sunday. Although at this moment, it does look like that yellow shiny orb might appear once more on Memorial Day Monday.
Jon called and gave TR the information for the tux for the wedding. TR will get fitted here, and get his final fitting iand pick up the tux n Austin days before the wedding.
I haven't made any definite move to getting a dress yet. Although there were a number I saw online that I liked.
Today I have a ton of stuff to do, but just no desire. I think it is because I took out toooo many good books from the library this morning and they are calling my name. But I am going to hang a load of laundry and get something done first....
ETA: Our friends Ron and Pat became first time grandparents this past week-end, to an 8.5 pound baby boy who came 3 weeks early! Baby boy and his parents are doing well. Praising God that everything went well.
Which means, no-show Paul missed a great opportunity to finish the roof job.
Some guy came to the door and asked TR if we needed help finishing the job. He is really looking for scrap and offered to take everything under the overhang. That is some funny guy....my garden hoses, plant stands, yard tools, the lawnmower, and my extra plant containers. I don't know what he saw in that area that made him think it was worth anything.
I told TR get the manure fork and chase him away. (I was obviously feeling a bit coffee-deprived cranky this morning.) This guy is also interested in all the junk the landlord still has laying around the back farmyard (left over from the days when this was a dairy farm). Maybe the metal in the hay elevator and pull-behind trailer has some value.
But seriously they have been sitting out there since the early 80's, so I am not sure they wouldn't disintegrate once someone brush-hogged around them and tried to move them. This will be the 4th guy to ask about the junk in the yard in the 1 1/2 years since we moved in. TR told him to check with the landlord next door; but we know he told the other guys that he wasn't interested. Can we spell junk HOARDER? This morning, TR said he saw some rabbits eyeing up the strawberry plants. Since the day turned out to be so nice and sunny, we decided to spend a lot of the early afternoon outside. So before TR left for work, we got some deer netting put up around the bed.
Then TR cut part of the back yard grass. Most of the yard is still 'grass up to my knees', though. Unfortunately, the handle connection snapped on the lawnmower, so TR duct taped it together long enough to get a path out to the porch swing out near the beehive.
Before the storm late yesterday, I brought my container gardens into the mudroom. I see today that some of them need to come back into the sunroom. They are not doing so well outside with all this water we have been getting. And the weather forecast is calling for more later...today, tomorrow, and all the way through Sunday. Although at this moment, it does look like that yellow shiny orb might appear once more on Memorial Day Monday.
Jon called and gave TR the information for the tux for the wedding. TR will get fitted here, and get his final fitting iand pick up the tux n Austin days before the wedding.
I haven't made any definite move to getting a dress yet. Although there were a number I saw online that I liked.
Today I have a ton of stuff to do, but just no desire. I think it is because I took out toooo many good books from the library this morning and they are calling my name.
But I am going to hang a load of laundry and get something done first....ETA: Our friends Ron and Pat became first time grandparents this past week-end, to an 8.5 pound baby boy who came 3 weeks early! Baby boy and his parents are doing well. Praising God that everything went well.
