Went home early on Monday, called off Tuesday, normal off Wednesday. We knew it was going to be a thin August. Having a new surgeon will help eventually, but it takes time. The unexpected slack left me with the urge to work vigorously. So, I dug three more Vs for the front yard, and two trenches in the back. Strangely, although my back is strained, it also feels a little better. I will watch it carefully.
The clover Vs are adding up, as are the clover.
The first back trench yielded a lovely, large stone, and a very corroded axe with a degraded rubber handle, as well as a lot of rocks. The buried hatchet is not new, but I don't know how salvageable.
The guy and son came to cap the chimney, now have a flue, and I cleaned the firebox reasonably well. Then added some very dense insulation foam scrounged from work just this week. I don't think we'll be getting a lot of drafts this winter. Fire box still rusty, but much better and not caked with ash. I suspect it is original with the house, so must be kept, as a ship's bell. And if we really want to burn a yule log, well, it's safe - the chimney is apparently good for another 80-100 burns. That should take us through the next 30 years easy.
Huge pile of ash over the very back beside the compost heap - which I knew was going to be a problem and why I left it until last. Lots of dog/cat turds, and plastic enmeshed in some kind of florist agglomeration. Coco mat liner, looks like. A trash pile. Moved most of the ashes to the side near the garage, maybe try to grow something, maybe make my bottle wall there. But the cleared and soaked area - clover next year, strawberries planted the year after, and Strawberries in Three Years!
Sunflowers, however meagre, are still alive out front.
It's not that I do that much most days, but that I go out there every day and do something. Then I do research. Trying very hard not to do anything really stupid. Rage, rage against the ignorance. I take afternoons when it's too hot, and do a whole shitload of nuthin'.
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That's the secret to success - do a bit every day. (This tends to work for other things as well!)
RR,
Like eating an elephant. Which I wouldn't do, because I like elephants alive. But the analogy holds.
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