Memorial Day

Remember those who fought.

Remember those you loved.

Remember those no longer with us.

Remember the good times, and the bad.

Remember to pass on their stories.

Remember.

Weekend wrapup

The weekend was a nicely productive one. Spent most of it working in the yard along with Jeff, weeding, mulching, planting. Today prior to cutting grass, I moved a tarp that had blown off a pile of random firewood that ended up in the lawn. Two snakes slithered out, keeping me in their gaze. The snakes didnt bother me, what did was the patch of 'earth' under the tarp that resembled a huge ant colony. After grabbing the snakes and tossing them into my neighbor's weedpatch yard (I did not want to be making sectional snakes with the tractor, and, unlike Jeff, I dont mind having snakes around) I dug around in the loamy earth looking for ants and found none. Now, unless this is something that the snakes had done (nesting? I'm no Samuel L. Jackson expert when it comes to snakes, I just know the difference between a snake I can pick up or one I should avoid) I think this might indicate a subterranian termite colony or something bad. I hope not. I'll be keeping an eye around the area just in case. Anyone in my readership have any ideas?

Today was an unsettling day for me for the first half. I was bumming about the loss of Mom (as usual), couple that with Memorial Day, some very bad news I read on LJ earlier and the fact that I seemed to be running over landscape rocks due to my failing eyesight and getting slapped with low hanging tree branches made me lose it and attack an offending tree by crashing the tractor into it repeatedly. Yeah, I get like this sometimes. With Jeff at work and my awkward headspace, I retreated into the new trailer where I had been earlier in the day. The a/c was on (gotta give it a trial run!) and it was quiet. I gathered my senses once again, by that time a good friend came over for a visit and I mostly reset my brain. Jeff came home, we had a nice dinner and I got more grass done until I somehow snagged a steel cable in the yard (dont ask) and had to take two of the three blades off the mower deck to untangle the mess. By that time it was too late to finish. Everything got put away and I have been taking it easy since.

I am finally getting the replacement wheel/tire for the Stratus delivered tomorrow. It's been on order since early March, and I'm actually happy, since the scheduled backorder receive had kept on getting pushed out, all the way to mid July. I have a spare wheel on order to prevent such nightmares from happening. I did the same for the MINI. There is a good chance that these extra wheels will sit in the garage until the cars are no longer with me. It's insurance.

I'm getting some gauges and other goodies for the truck. I either lost or had given away some gauges I had (namely trans temp and a voltmeter), so I bought replacements from Summit. I most likely wont receive them in time to install them prior to my shakedown cruise with the trailer next weekend, so I will not push the old truck too much over the mountains till I know things are not overheating below the floorboards.

I made a bumper sticker for the trailer:


"R V Having Fun Yet?" There seems to be a certain amount of bad punnery that goes with camping.

I have some long hours to put in this week, so it's time I hit the 'post' button and haul my ass to bed. G'nite.