I Think –
I think Dennis and I need a brick in our pants. This wonderful weather is keeping us moving beyond reasonable. Dennis always takes a nap about an hour after he has been up. It’s his tradition. While I await his company, I find busy work. Today’s busy work was taking on two of the slider doors in the patio porch. Nothing is as hard on looking through a window when the sun is streaming as . . . a dirty window. I managed to get two out of three knocked out before Dennis came outside to see what I was up to. Of course we sat on the patio and enjoyed the breeze and cooler temperatures.
I had asked neighbor Jan if we could use their driveway to get our pickup backed close to the north side of our house. The young fellow at Fleet Farm had loaded our garden dirt for us yesterday. Today it was our turn to get the back of the pickup unloaded with as little of a walk as necessary. One of us on of each end of the 40 lb. bag worked out well. You all know we have had a lot of rain. These last ten bags at Fleet Farm had been on a pallet outside during all of it. I dare say they weighed a lot more than 40 lbs. When I released my end of the bag to have it placed on the pile, there was water draining out of the corners. We met our objective: the dirt is here, ready to use when the work area dries out a bit.
Multipurpose and not in the way of day-to-day activity.
Dennis has had an idea for the patio porch for some time. He had made a run to the lumberyard before the weekend. Today was the day for some execution of that plan. Our 12′ x 16′ patio porch seems to end up with less floor space than originally thought of. We like things handy, but handy compared to cultured needed some attention. Today with brackets, electric drill and various bits and some of Dennis’ newly acquired lumber we set out to tackle the project. Two objectives were in place. The cats needed a way to get down from the rafters when the pickup is out of the garage. Napping cats could care less if the vehicle a few feet below them is idling and about to move out. The second objective was to allow for some storage area for items that we use often and want close at hand. That may include Koi food, shears for cutting plants, Nicholas’ B-B gun and bug spray, etc. Some of the boards were warped, but I can assure you my bubble on the level was right on.
The last task was to get Santa tucked into his box and take him to the back garage. We have a two-wheel trailer in the garage and he is laying down in it and taking a nap until called upon. That was a great project to get him up and running and getting a clean suit for his nap didn’t hurt either. With him enjoying the free-for-all in the patio porch, we still have a huge amount of harvest dust complete with the pink corn chaff that finds it’s way into town. We enjoy coming and going with doors open in the porch. More than likely, the harvest mess would have loved to settle on the red velvet.
We have had a great day. No bleeding, no swearing and a great feeling of satisfaction. Neighbor Jan came over to see what the noise was all about. She thought that the cats would have a hay day. Of course not one cat came out and expressed some curiosity. Not to worry, in the dead of the night, the felines move about. It will be interesting to see what takes place in time to come. It is time to take the brick out of our pants and settle down to decide what is for supper. Dennis’ thought: a fried egg sandwich. I second that.