Lt Rain
59°F
15°C
Humidity 67%
Wind Speed E 6 MPH
Barometer 29.97 in
Dewpoint 48°F (9°C)
Visibility 10.00 mi
Last update 14 Sep 5:05 am MDT
Finally, rain. 0.15 inch through the night, which is the best since early June. Cooler. The rye seeds will be happy. I got the most of the rest of the verge sunflowers pulled and the rye seeded. Sunflowers closer to the house will remain as bird feeders for a while yet. Autumn is very welcome.
Full days at work setting in, having to get used to it again. Have to go in this morning for a Mock Code. Knew it was coming, and I would be required, so fine. Woke up extra early for no good reason anyway. Wired and tired.
An unexpected offer of a lump sum for a pension from a previous job arrived. We're going for it, since it means we fix the back porch and turn it into a utility room/second bathroom, move the washer up from the basement. Whatever it costs in taxes and penalties will be easily saved in whatever a hospital stay would cost for a fall/broken hip. We both worry about those stairs, and neither of us getting younger. So, we'll be doing maths and talking to contractors and seeing what happens.
As plotted here, skip to second half.
The rain continues this afternoon, bringing down leaves from our short seasoned tree. Jackets out and shorts away!
7 comments:
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Hail Autumn, well met. Cheers to getting the laundry machines up on your level. I wonder would glass bricks be especially cold in winter? Or do they provide decent insulation by themselves?
Nimble,
Can't be worse that the gappy crappy wood that is there now.
As you think about the stairs and making them less necessary, I think about how in a technology company and technological role at 15,794 days old, I'm going to have to think about what kind of work I can still do when I'm 19,500 days old. There'll be all sorts of young'uns biting at my ankles. At 23,200 days old hopefully I'll still be employable.
Maybe you could put one of these in the new bathroom/laundry room?
Read this a few moments ago and thought of you and your gardening: http://whiskeyriver.blogspot.com/2016/09/you-are-only-person-i-can-talk-with.html
Phil,
It's a genuine worry.
Gentle,
Perhaps just slightly out of budget.
Crow,
Ah, perfect. More sunflower images later today. You folks who come and read are the people I can share this with.
""You are the only person I can talk with about the shade of a cloud, about the song of a thought - and about how, when I went out to work today and looked a tall sunflower in the face, it smiled at me with all of its seeds.""
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