Good side:
Vacuumed the whole (new) house to pick up all the random plaster dust in the corners from previous demolition. There's a little more to come down, two doorways to open up and one to be moved over, but it made me feel better. That's important. :)
Cut back the privet hedge along the driveway. If they survive and start to grow in spring, I'll cut back the rest come May. Lowered the top of the hedge to about 2' off the ground so the sun can get to the driveway and I won't have to shovel as much next winter. Maybe I can rig up some big sheets of mylar next winter to reflect sunlight onto the driveway so it'll melt faster. I never did dig out the place this winter, just waited for it to melt. It was good to be out in the fresh air. While loading clippings into my handy dandy pickup-trailer I kept feeling my foot hit something. Turns out that in the middle of the lawn there was a cut off fence post that the frost had brought up above the surface by an inch or two. REally odd. Got my sledge hammer and knocked it back down below the surface a bit. I stuck a stick down inside and it's pretty deep so I didn't bother trying to pull it out. Too much work, some other day when I get my fence post jack perfected. :)
Spent several hours picking up other trash and debris that's surfaced over the winter and recent rains. It's astonishing to me that after three+ years of picking up silverware, old cans and stray kid's toys that I'm still finding stuff. I collected about a five gallon bucket's worth of stuff. The place would be an archaeologist's dream in a thousand years but right now we're just getting rid of junk. :)
Then I got to looking at some rocks that I always have to avoid with the mower and thumped them with my big iron digging bar. I was hoping to just knock off some of the hight spots, but ... they moved! They weren't bedrock!! I pried up about six rocks and set them as the base of a (future) rock wall by a (future) water pond. Filled the holes with dirt and felt I'd accomplished something permanent. I'd never realized how rich and dark the soil there is. I'm going to have to plant some veggies there when the time is right, it looks really good.
The back of the truck had several boxes that needed to be transferred to the barn, and an air compressor in need of some repair. The boxes were heavier than I'd anticipated and I was more tuckered out than I'd thought I'd be. The air compressor is in need of more repair than I'd thought as well. :(
Actually, most of the day, I was killing time just piddling around and puttering. Because:
Bad news: Looks like the company that built our kitchen cabinets may be about to go under. They've been storing them for the last couple years and we've paid for them so I didn't want to lose them. Went over last Thursday to arrange delivery for this morning. 9:30, no truck. 10:30, no truck. All afternoon, no truck. I'm not impressed. Hope I can get these guys to bring them over here, I don't want to lose them. They're all custom and we paid an arm and a leg for them. :(
Guess I'll have to go by their office tomorrow morning if I don't hear anything early. I don't trust these guys on the phone.
Still need to tackle that electrical and framing work in the barn. Hoping to take another run at it tomorrow.
Well, that's it for now. Need to go soak my sore muscles. :)
Doug
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