Now with some furniture and the grill out. Not seen: potting bench.
Lots of landscape work and sod needed next. 🌸 🌺 Garden, also not seen, is off to a great start. 🪴
Our new back patio is ready for use. We assembled our new patio furniture today and will set everything out tomorrow. The furniture was easy. Breaking down all…the…cardboard for recycling aged me 😂 Next up is to refresh the landscaping.
My wife got her Moderna dose #1 today and didn’t feel like a meal so I ate out with our 12 y/o son. Dinner topic: the properties and use of hydrogen.
Photo: a very well done Manhattan. 🍸
Today’s project: stain, seal and then assemble a potting workbench for my better half. She likes it so I’m happy 😃
N.B. We’re keeping it inside a couple of days until the backyard work is finished. 🪴
Current view.
New patio, work day 2. Yesterday was a rain out but this morning the concrete was poured, stained and patterned. Tomorrow it will be cleaned. Next week individual ‘stones’ will be dyed and the whole thing sealed. Happy so far.
As my wife says we are “finally” putting in a patio expansion in the backyard. The forms and rebar are complete. They might have to wait until Friday to pour the concrete due to possible rain Wednesday and Thursday.
Rainy days and Mondays
Icing (pea-ing?) my knee. I was up on a ladder for a bit after dinner and when I finished the left knee had something like a contusion on the outside. A painful ridge. But I didn’t hit it on anything. Not sure what it is other than a sign of getting older. 😞
It looks like all of our Indian Hawthorne succumbed to the record cold. It’s a shame as they were fully mature and well shaped. Our foundation trees (oak and live oak) all made it as did our Japanese maple. Not sure about the crepe myrtle yet. 🌳🤞
The redbuds and ornamental pears are blooming right on schedule in spite of last month’s record lows.
Of masks, Manhattans and Stella. 🍺 🍸 😷
A rarely used possession out for a brief trip. 🚙
I haven’t washed my car in months. A perfect morning to watch other people work. 😊
Made a 150 mile round trip drive today to trade my VHF/UHF radio for a better one. Got a great price on my trade (only 8% less than what I paid for it). The weather was perfect for a drive in the countryside so that was an extra bonus.
Morning cortado. Enjoying our new local indie coffee shop.
A dietary wickedness but delicious indulgence while waiting on an order of Carnitas to go.
It makes me really happy to see the city is continuing to expand our large network of exercise paths. This extension starts at the northern city limits and extends to the east. 🏃♂️
From just below 0F Tuesday morning to nearly 70F Sunday. It is hard to process all that happened from last Saturday.
After diving into this plate of asian comfort food I shoveled off our driveway. Our house faces south so the sun takes care of the front but most of the drive is fully shaded. I feel I earned dessert. 😉
Our dog’s constant position.
The latest from ERCOT makes it sound like added capacity today will be minimal. If the power cuts continue apace part of our house will fall into the 40s tonight. Hopefully homes completely without power will see some relief though.
Our primitive and often sole source of heat today and it will continue tomorrow. Cell service is overloaded so virtually no connectivity when the power is out. Electric consumption in Texas is way down but production is down dramatically. We put 5 blankets on our bed so far.🤷♂️
Electric demand is outstripping supply due to record low temps here which also knocked some power plants offline. 5th outage just now. Power on for 40 minutes then off for 20 minutes. Tomorrow will be worse with temp ~0F. Can’t reply with an image so posting… @khurtwilliams
18F but our daughter and friend are headed out for some cardboard sledding. Still waiting for the predicted heavy ❄️ 🛷
This is a new scam to me. It arrived posted from Canada and was addressed to my wife’s maiden name. It looks like a new variation on the Nigerian scams.
