Biopt6
Monday-10-21-2013
I used up the materials I bought and got this far. I need to go to Home Depot tomorrow for the rest of the deck boards.
10-22
Craig Lyon came to visit me today. I expected him around ten o’ clock. I made a trip to home depot and bought 25 more 2X4s, and was back by ten.
Craig got here around eleven and we had a good visit.
10-23
I hit it early this morning, and, by one, I had the rest of the boards down. Here’s what it looks like now.
Opie wouldn’t reach across the gap to eat. I had to move the dishes to this side of the gap. Everybody’s a critic. I’ll close the gap when I get time.
10-24
I mowed John’s yard today. Mike called me and said he was dumping some firewood, so I wanted to get done with John and have Mike help me with
a few things. We went to Tower Mart and got gas, then, we started my push mower, and the splitter. Once we got it going, I towed it around back.
We split most of the big stuff in the yard, and threw it on the porch.
Later in the evening, I put the last clamps on the chain link fence, trimmed some trees, and called it a day. He left me a spark plug wrench/ air cleaner
tool, so I need to take off all the air cleaners and wash them.
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10-25
The receipt above is for two bags of grain. There is tax on the one, because it is used by horse owners, and horses are considered a taxable luxury. Thanks.
This is what our critters eat. Goat, ducks, eighteen Canadian honkers, etc. I went early this morning and got feed. When I got back, I got out my grinder
and put in a diamond bit, and sharpened my chain saw. I cut up some of the mulberry branches I removed to accommodate the deck.
After a short break, Denise and I went up to Johns. She showed me where to find the nut rakes, and I picked up the branches I trimmed the day before.
The nuts are good, and I would like to pick them up before I finish mowing.
No energy today.
10-29
Denise caught me with both dogs this morning.
I took a couple days rest. Didn’t accomplish anything over
the weekend. I did make a good stew Monday. I was doggysitting.
I did some things
outside, but I can’t remember what. That is one of the reasons I try to make an entry every day. Today I worked on the front steps. I attached them
to the deck and built up the surrounding area.
I put the tractor to bed with the battery
charger. I had to pump up the right front tire. I hope it isn’t leaking.
Now I need to go back outside and hook up the
float charger. That will keep the battery full without overcharging. We aren’t
expecting rain.
I can leave the float charger on ‘til I need
it again.
10-30
Denise and I went to Contractors Warehouse to
price patio sliders. We found one we like for three hundred fifty dollars. I’ll
probably borrow from
Denise until I can pay her back. She gets
paid Friday.
10-31 Halloween
Denise and mom working on the computer. Patricia is a crocheting fanatic. She has hundreds of patterns she got off the internet.
Maria called me today and asked me to take
out the tree that had fallen in the breezeway. It was a foot in diameter, and
fell against the above wall.
I didn’t have the strength to haul it out,
but Maria said she and Robert would do it.
I have never seen an Oleander that was that
diameter! Dangerous to burn. The smoke is highly toxic.
She asked me about the pool pump, and I told her
I would take care of it. It is a large pump because of the sand and gravel
filter that it uses, plus there
was a solar panel, requiring more power. I
called my neighbor, Tim, and he said he would order it Monday for around 250
dollars, including a seal.
November first, Payday for Denise! We went to
HD Supply and ordered a slider for the back deck. The guy talked me into 22
extra dollars for
“Low E” glass.
Checkin
on the dogs J.
Looking back in the store.
The job’s never done ‘till the paperwork is
finished. The guys delivered the same day, and put it on the porch for me J.
I got up early, and by one o’clock I had
siding on, and the door in.
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I was exhausted, but Maria called, and gave me
250 dollars cash. I will close for today. I need a rest!
Sunday, 11-3
Got the rest of the OSB up, and replaced the
trim.
Now I can rest!
11-4-2013
I am resting today. Denise and I moved the
old slider around back, then she went on daughter duty. I made another beef
stew. In a few minutes
I need to add the meat to the veggies. I
will take pictures of my scrap pile. I am amazed how much construction trash I
created!
11-5-13
I took another day of rest. The pool pump
should be ready today. Tim called me at four and had the motor. Denise was at
singin’ Lori’s. Picked her up at
five.
11-6
Finished up putting the pump back in. I had a
little trouble figuring out the valves, but finally got the polaris moving. I
left it to run, and went back up
around four.
I set the timer to shut off the motor, and I
didn’t like the way it sounded, so I moved the pegs around to give it 24 more hours,
and I will go back tomorrow and see what
the problem is. Will close for today.
Thursday 11-7-2013
The wiring diagram for the timer was online,
so I checked it. It was ok. Robert and Maria showed up today. Robert helped me
with the pool.
He got out the old pool cleaner, and I
photo’ed them side by side. I asked Tim to try to find an old Polaris. They
work better than anything.
The pump is working well, and after twenty
four hours, the water has gone from muddy to crystal clear. The cleaner doesn’t
reach the whole pool.
Let’s see what tomorrow brings.
11-14-13
Once again, I am getting
behind in my writing. A couple reasons. First, I have
been really busy with the tractor, the deck, and the new sliding glass door.
I am not a young man anymore,
and my physical limitations are increasingly frustrating. My brain doesn’t work
the same, and that is a problem, also.
When I finish at the end of
the day, sometimes I’m too tired to take pictures, or, write.
The other thing is that my
little laptop is so full, and I am short on virtual memory, the “word” program
goes into auto-recovery every few minutes.
I am in desperate need of a
new laptop. I have given up on the idea of owning the full blown computer
system, as I have the minimac that Steve brought.
It does everything that I
need, and I thought that I could get away with this laptop for writing only,
but the new programs take up too much space.
I will struggle along with
what I have until my finances are caught up again. I will continue to take
dated photos, and try to describe them briefly.
The solids
are settling out of the wine.
Beautiful fall colors, looking towards the oranges. There are lots of oranges.
Looking back towards
the house from the oranges.
Fall colors
at the neighbors.
Denise’s weird “hybrid” is still blooming. Beautiful colors in the lower half of the
orchard.
Sunday,
I smoked a turkey for Tim.
Thanks for
helping with John’s pool.
Patricia’s
Halloween Tree.
The decorations are crocheted.
Topped off by a wicked witch. HE HE HE A half
dozen ghosts, each one different.
Tombstone
candycorn and pumpkin mummy (daddy?)
A wise owl raggedy Ann
A bat in the belfry
GHOSTS GHOSTS GHOSTS GHOSTS GHOSTS GHOSTS GHOSTS
I was
supposed to have a lazy Sunday, but Mike showed up, and we ran the splitter
half a day.
http://youtu.be/mINyheffhN8 Mike splitting wood
11-11-13
I got out
today and closed in the upper area. Cutting and measuring were difficult and
tiring. Caught my puppies cheek to
cheek. J
Wednesday
was payday. Paid my bills, and cooked. Laid around and accomplished nothing.
11-14-13
Finally
closed in the eave on the west half.
Reattached
all the tin.
Saturday a
piggy shaped meat loaf.
Mike and I spent the morning splitting wood.
Sunday, I fired up the tractor and
moved some firewood. I pulled that stump, and poured lye in the hole.
I put the
charger on the tractor, and took a shot of two lucky pigeons on the way in. I
went out after dark and put the float charger on.
11-18-13 Monday
I spent the day covering everything, in
preparation for the first rain of the fall season. It has been several months
since we had rain, and
I have the earth torn up, so it will be
interesting to see where the puddles are this year.
I’ll take some photos of the storm tomorrow.
I may have fixed the problem I was having
with virtual memory. I was trying to find out what was using up all the memory,
and I went to
“documents” and found nothing but I checked
“recent documents” and there was a copy of everything I have opened since Todd
got my
laptop back to me. I couldn’t find an easy
way to delete them all, so I spent a half hour deleting them one at a time.
Later, I found that I could
delete multiples through “Filezilla”. This
speeded things up, but now on startup, it runs slow. I guess I’ll have to
bother Todd to find out what’s cookin’.
11-19-13
We only got the slightest splatter of rain.
It came before we woke up this morning. It made water spots on everything, and
a little collected on the rim
of the inverted wheelbarrow.
It is nearly one o’clock, and nothing in
sight. If we get anything significant, I will write a few more lines.
I went out earlier, and cut some more
branches out of the two mulberry trees that are crowding my chestnut leaf oak.
It is really starting to lean.
I’m watching the five o’clock news. Still no
sign of rain, and nothing on doppler.
6:30
It’s raining (sprinkling). We were promised
one half inch. Come on mother nature!
Can’t see outside, so I paid my property
taxes online.
Now I’m broke. Might as well go to bed!
11-20-2013
We got .78 inches of rain total.
I went turkey hunting today. Can’t get a
cheap turkey without spending thirty dollars in groceries.
I was cleaning up the photos in this
(biopt6). I got an hour’s worth of work done. The program kept going into “autosave”.
It finally dumped all
my changes. Apparently I haven’t solved the
virtual memory problem. I just really need a new laptop! It just went into
autosave, and
I have done almost nothing.
I will close biopt6, and begin pt7.
To be continued