the little wild kingdom

[flowerbug]

Proves that you can still teach an old dog new tricks!

*woof!*



i just finished another bag - it was a less full bag. one more to go. i will start the last bag tonight and hope i can finish it tomorrow. it will not be as easy because it is a bag of Yellow Eye beans that are harder to shell out. Purple Dove are by far the easiest bean i have to shell.

a much worse than Yellow Eye bean to shell out are a variety called Venda, which is a great edible bean, but the seeds are long and skinny and they do not fall out of the pod, you have to do a fair amount of work to get each one out.

i found a few pods of those recently in a bag of beans i was shelling and put them aside with the rest of the Venda beans so when i get back to that box of beans i will finish those up. they will probably be the last beans i shell out, but there are a few more beans outside still hanging on the fence that i may sample to see if they are worth trying to shell out or not. there might be a few in those pods that are worth it...

 

[flowerbug]

i'm almost done. about an hour to go if i don't get distracted...

 

[flowerbug]

yay! done with shelling, now can move on to the next part, sorting and getting new selections pulled out and set aside, and then pictures. probably a few weeks yet. this week is looking more busy than i'd like.

 

[flowerbug]

it was a busy day today. the main event was getting the lawn mower taken over to the guy who said he'd look at it. seems to be a nice person so we'll see how this works out.

he said he'd probably have it back to me next week, but i said there was no rush as we don't need it until spring. then he replied that he needs to keep things moving and he has time so that is that.

i was a bit worried going to take it because it didn't quite fit in the trunk and i was in a hurry and did not want to put it in the back seat via another method. so i rapidly grabbed a piece of fabric from the rag box and tied the lawn mower to the trunk lid and hoped that nothing bad happened along the way. i did take it easy and avoided some of the bigger bumps, but i still didn't like the sound of the trunk lid niddling (there's a made up word for ya "@digitS' from TEG" - ah, humbug, someone already made it up and it means something completely different) around, ok, what about nidgling? ah! yes, that one does not exist already, the meaning of the word is: both the sound and action of something bumping against something else, especially when it is caused by doing something silly like tying something down with an old bit of rag because you're in a hurry to get it delivered..., ok people, your mission is to now try to use this enough that it gets picked up by the dictionary.

on the way home the car was making noises i didn't like (i hit a bump rather hard - bad me) so i looked under and around to make sure it wasn't something dangling, but didn't see anything. after getting home and having a bite for brunch i took the car to the mechanic and had him look at it. said it was probably the other muffler pipe that was needing some repair. after 14 years it's not a surprise to have things need fixing. so we're now scheduled for that and i told Mom that she may blow that pipe out at any time but as long as things aren't dragging she should be ok.

i did fix the visor that was coming down because the mechanic said he probably couldn't do it for cheap and that velcro would work. so i went to the parts store and got some velcro and that's now done. $5 i've now probably saved her (and indirectly me too) at least $500 in avoided mechanic fees and parts by doing simple things by using heat shrink tube, epoxy glue and now velcro...

it is so nice for my task oriented brain to be able to tick those items off the todo list.

 

[frustratedearthmother]

Good to get things off your list! Glad that your nidgling attempt didn't create further problems, lol.

 

[flowerbug]

Good to get things off your list! Glad that your nidgling attempt didn't create further problems, lol.

i was wondering several times if people should be driving behind me at all...

 

[flowerbug]

he called today saying it was ready. he doesn't want much for what he did. i'm planning on giving him extra. unfortunately things are so stacked up here that i may not be able to pick it up for a few weeks and he did indicate to me that he doesn't like things sitting around so tomorrow i'll give him a ring and see if either he can deliver it (for an added fee of course) or if it would be ok to come get it this weekend. also we have some mutual friends we're hoping to get together sometime at a local eatery so maybe he'll be willing to join us? never hurts to ask...

 

[flowerbug]

finished bench tile project so that can be crossed off my list (other than having the person come get it - which will be next weekend). it does need to be looked at again in better light to make sure there are no obvious glaring issues and wipe it down again, but generally for what it is going to be used for it doesn't need to be perfect (good thing, because i didn't have the right tools to do it well).

overall happy with how it turned out but it has been annoying having it in the way (in the garage or in the house) - this place just isn't big enough for two people working on projects.

will take a pic of it before it goes out the door...

 

[flowerbug]

picked up lawnmower today and had a few moments to chatter. for the price he charged and even with the extra $20 i gave him it still probably cost us a few hundred dollars less than what it would have had we taken it to the place we bought it from.

 

[flowerbug]

added new project to website about winter things. eventually will get pictures rounded up and put there.

https://www.anthive.com/project/winter/

but for today the image was:

i went out to take pictures of some other things and this was waiting for me.