Afternoon
@WildBill
@PinkyNotTheBrain
You good....?....
Is it still morning for you
@Lil Dab ......?....or have you had a lie in......
It's 4pm here...and I gotta be ready for 6pm...so I'm thinking...more jobs or try to catch up on an hour.............
Hopefully I can have the same amount of success as yesterday, but with a little less problems.................... whether outside or stuff I need to do in the house.
I finally got my lawn mower back from the repair man Friday afternoon. I tested a bit that afternoon, after the horrendous rains. it was going to be slow going. Testing was halted when the stupid low pressure front tire popped off its rim. Knowing how stupidly difficult it is to reseat and reinflate, I left it for Saturday.
Naturally, they're just had to be junk that got in between the tire and the wheel so it wasn't going to seat no matter what. I haven't done my my service work on my pressure washer, so I had to take the wheel and tire combo off and take it to the local car wash. Went ahead and washed the car while cleaning up the wheel and tire. Then came the fun part while at home. To get this car to seat on the wheel I have to loop a tie down ratchet strap around the tire and cinch it down extremely tight., to force the bead of the tire onto the wheel. No idea why they don't have an inner tube!
Finally got the damn thing to seat and reinflated the tire! It was S L O W going. After about two hours I was probably only 2/5th done with the entire job. I normally mow the median between my fence and the highway, but close to the highway I had a bunch of patches of Indian Paintbrushes wild flowers, so I just mowed the part close to my fence.
Really, all it did was show me that I have
several other projects to do!

Got to remove some low hanging branches on two of the trees.
My HUGE Crepe Myrtle that got killed from the artic freight train, never game back from any of it's shoots. I estimate it to be about 20 years old. Normally they stay as bushes but with this ones age it was differently a tree at about 20 feet tall.
Kinda like this one and mine had the bed around it also. It was definitely quite the loss.
Damned Gophers and torrential rainfall have just got my entire yard rough as hell! It seems that when I get torrential rains the water likes to go into the Gopher tunnels and erode them away. And that's pretty easy to do with this silly ass sandy soil! Sometimes after a hard rain, I will find "sand blowouts". That's where the water flowing through the Gopher tunnels breaches the surface and deposits the sand on top of the surface!



I never heard of such a thing and naturally never seen such stupid crap!
The rehab of the front part of my yard is definitely going to be quite a job. The backyard is just going to stay the way it is and work with what I got. While ideally, I would like to add a bunch of compost and organic fertilizers at the same time that I rehab, I definitely have other priorities for the money involved. If I can find the equipment I need to rent, I may just till up The entire yard with a tractor and a large tiller behind it. I'm only going to do that if I can also rent a roller to tow behind the tractor to Flatten and pack everything down level.
That may wait until I can also repair my driveway into the property and around the shop. I would have already had it repaired, if it wasn't for just
one thing! While it's mainly a rock driveway some pool in his ridiculous thought process thought it was a good thing to pour a thin layer of some sort of concrete over the top of some sections of the driveway. On the driveway between the shop and the house I can see impressions from a tracked vehicle in the concrete like surface. I can't just add stuff on top, it would screw up the flow of water over the property even more than it is now. That means I have to bust that crap up, remove it, do something with it on the property and then replace it with fresh crushed limestone rock and then pack it!

At least I definitely have a place to put the busted up concrete and rock. I'm just going to put it on the other side of my shop And make either a road or a pad for something later on. With all the tree cover no grass grows there.
Since I'm out of fuel and I only run ethanol free fuel in the mower, I think I'm going to do my best to get the grow room finally ready. Or at least get it a lot closer.
I really have got to get the next grow going. Not only to meet obligations, but I want to make sure I have plenty of bud on hand to be able to make my old neighbor some medicine for what's probably going to be the end of his life. While his prostate cancer has shown a reduction, it seems that the cancer has metastasized into bone cancer. I haven't asked where, with the recent outreach from his wife was for the increase in pain from the bone cancer. From what I understand, bone cancer can be quite painful.
I guess my old neighbors ears were burning! His wife just texted me saying how well the new oil works.