No rain today but lots of wind.
Ron and I emptied the washtub and put the seaweed and “tea” on the new garden plot.
Cindy and her family buried her mother and SO today.
Ron drove Robert to and from the Hyannis store. I rode along to check out, and buy, a landscape rake at Home Depot. Works pretty well, even on wet soil.
Some intestinal distress today.
It rained all day, so I was working on MRS stuff instead of being outside.
Late afternoon, I went out in flip-flops to pick up the paper; it was cold and miserable. Being dressed inappropriately for the conditions threw me off balance. I’ve worked on the yard in weather like this, even worse. The thought that I’m getting older just annoyed me.
Ron offered to cook and brought home almost two pounds of gorgeous salmon steaks. While he started puttering, I turned on the electric fireplace, put a load of laundry in the washer and dressed to work in the rain: shorts, workboots and yellow slicker.
This was just about the ideal outfit for a mid-50 degree rain, and there was enough light to work. After a couple of false starts, I decided on final placement yesterday and was able this afternoon to put the two roses, three grasses and three strawberries in the ground. It was very easy going, easy digging and easy to get everyone out of their pots.
I tripped over something and fell, but one of the hydrangeas slowed me down, which didn’t do it any good, poor thing.
I saw one of the rabbits on the way back in.
I’ve been having trouble for weeks with a previously reliable VPN, SonicWall.
BSOD every time it ran for even a couple of minutes.
I tried every remedy I could find. One developer noted that it only BSOD’d when running over wifi.
So, yesterday, I bought a 50 foot cat5 cable online from Staples. Not the cheapest, but still pretty cheap, and I could pick it up at the store in Falmouth.
I’m not sure if the person who fulfilled my order was trying to be helpful, or if he was trying to upsell me, or just a self-important pain in the butt.
He started out by lecturing me about why I should be using wifi. He then lectured me about how the Comcast combination modem/router was probably at fault, that it was slow, etc.
Meanwhile, he was fumbling around trying to figure out how to fulfill a prepaid order.
I think some people should just mind their own business. Literally.
Harvard Business Review asks
We had quite a downpour today. Must have been 3 inches or more.
Glad I finished the root removal yesterday. It was horrible. Dodging the pine tree and the cable line, I ended up cutting several roots rather than continuing to excavate them. Still, the hole was quite deep by the time I was done.
Picked up the truck today. Alpha came with me, and it was nice to have company. Returned $26 of ridiculous purchases at Stop & Shop. Picked up quite a load of marked-down poultry for Edgewater and here, along with bread and produce for Edgewater and cookies for iCape.
Working on converting inline SQL to stored proc calls for MRS.
Watched the lunar eclipse last Sunday with Laura and Joe; Ron was in Woods Hole.
Truck needs the oil pan replaced. Big bucks. Got a Corolla for a loaner. It’s so low that I ran over a poor chipmunk today while driving Robert to work. In 50 years of driving, I’ve hit only three animals – three too many, to be sure – and wouldn’t you know it, one was when Robert was with me.
Ron and I are almost done with clearing the second arbor vitae roots.
Coffee Day today, got a cup at Cape Cod Coffee. New salesperson is really nice!
Gorgeous grass garden photos by Peter.
Bees love the goldenrod!
Managed to both transfer and renew the Santuit Pond Estates domain this morning. Things are certainly speedier nowadays than they used to be.
Ron drove Alpha and James yesterday and Robert this morning.
Picked up a couple of bargain hardy mums today and planted them in the front.
Brought a truckload of roots plus four bags from Laura’s yard to recycling today.
Lots of activity today at Ron’s Pond.
Made a good beef stir fry last night.
An instigator‘s value is “to make people think” when they would prefer to “(deny) that things were as they were.”
“You must refrain from your natural proclivity towards provocation.” (Americanah)