I'm a little slow today, so bear with me. My normal pattern for the day is to be up by 8 AM and do some writing before I start to work outside. I then come in when it gets dark, grab something to eat, take a shower, and then settle down to write for an hour or two. I have one program I watch every... Sign in to see full entry.
Tuesday, December 13, 2022
Monday, December 12, 2022
I have to make a quick trip to Live Oak this morning to pick up a special tool e need and check on the availability of a few other things we will need very soon. I've been reading your comments on my "Hate" story, and things change in tone as of this post today. So far, most of this has been about... Sign in to see full entry.
Sunday, December 11, 2022
More Property Photos
Whew. I guess I was more tired than I thought. I fell asleep watching #OnPatrol (a live program riding with cops from across America and the things they run into) and woke up at about 8 this morning to open the doors for the dogs. I made my normal posts here, and the wife asked me to come back in... Sign in to see full entry.
Saturday, December 10, 2022
A Tree Pictorial
To better illustrate what we are doing/have done, I'm adding four photos of the job at hand. This is "The Tree!" Until yesterday, you couldn't see that mobile home in the background and you couldn't see the bottom three to four feet of the tree. The Top of the "The Tree." These vines are EVERYWHERE... Sign in to see full entry.
Friday, December 9, 2022
Another long and grueling day outside cleaning the yard. Today, it was a smaller area, maybe 35' x 45', but I literally found two old lawnmowers that were deep in the weeds and "tangly vines" as my wife calls them. I had waded out into that mess before but never saw the mowers. The vines and... Sign in to see full entry.
We have been super busy all week cleaning the backyard and it is finally beginning to show. We are trying to add more fencing that will allow us to completely fence in our yard. Right now, we have about 70% of the area fenced, but the southeast corner is twice the jungle the rest of the area was,... Sign in to see full entry.
Thursday, December 8, 2022
It's another nice day here in the armpit of Florida. It got down to 55 last night, but we are heading up to 82 again this afternoon. If I saw the extended forecast right, we have another week just like this last one before we have another cold spell of highs in the low-60s and lows down to 38/40. It... Sign in to see full entry.
Wednesday, December 7, 2022
We worked until very late last night and we are both up early this morning to get back at it while the sun is warm and kind to us. The front of the house must be hand-painted for a number of reasons, but it is now almost done. This paint job is strictly cosmetic to make it look better. In a year,... Sign in to see full entry.
Tuesday, December 6, 2022
Good morning. After a long, LONG day yesterday, my wife made me go to bed early (10 PM vs my normal 1 AM) and I feel better today. We worked outside until well after dark and got about a third of the front of the house hand painted. The color is a darker, brighter blue than I had been told it was,... Sign in to see full entry.
Monday, December 5, 2022
We started painting the house yesterday. It's a bit darker blue than I thought it might be, but it will still look good. The front of the place needs to be hand-painted, which is being a royal hemorrhoid due to having to do it on a fourteen-foot ladder, but like everything else here, it is slowly... Sign in to see full entry.