moving furniture
According to one story I've heard, thunder is the sound made when the gods are moving furniture. If so, there's a whole lot of rearranging going on right now.
I've taken two days off from work, yesterday and today. The main reason was a bunch of official and unofficial stuff regarding my truck. The official involved getting it inspected, an annual event here in NC but it's mostly exhaust emissions. I know some of the Northern states have a serious inspection where they make sure tires are good, brakes, lights, etc. In any case, once that was done I also treated it to an oil change and wanted to get a new gas filter but unfortunately they didn't have any in stock for my type truck. Bummer. It's not bad yet, but there's been two times in the past week and a half where the engine was having trouble sucking up gas.
I was able to get my registration renewed on the truck after the inspection so that official stuff is done for the year. The unofficial stuff was the oil change (it'd been nearly 18 months since the last one--I am so bad to this truck) and gas filter. I also made a run to the landfill to drop off 3 bags of garbage.
I've been chipping away at mowing my lawn also yesterday and this morning. Since it's over an acre and I use a manual mower I don't do it all at once, but rather split it into 3 one hour sessions. What with going to my girlfriend's place last weekend and all the rain we've had recently--including today, perhaps--it's been difficult to do any mowing and so it'd gotten VERY long and quite shaggy.
Since the daytime temps have been well into the 90s lately I was hoping to get a lot done early in the morning. Today I was out there at 8:15am, however it was already over 80 even then and so humid the spark plug just looked up at me when I tried to get the mower going and said "are you frickin' kidding? You want a spark out of me, today???" Despite the sparkplug's reluctance I did get 45 minutes of mowing in before deciding that a Lime Coca-cola and a book sounded a lot better than mowing and sweating.
If it does rain, instead of just doing this thunder and lightning thing, I might get some housework done. Both downstairs bathrooms are in very serious need of cleaning and I know a few carpets that haven't seen a vacuum in quite some time. At least I did the laundry while I was busy this morning. So something has been done inside...but there's so much more to do. LOL Always is, I guess.
Wow. It's definitely raining now. Noah would recognize rain like this!
I've taken two days off from work, yesterday and today. The main reason was a bunch of official and unofficial stuff regarding my truck. The official involved getting it inspected, an annual event here in NC but it's mostly exhaust emissions. I know some of the Northern states have a serious inspection where they make sure tires are good, brakes, lights, etc. In any case, once that was done I also treated it to an oil change and wanted to get a new gas filter but unfortunately they didn't have any in stock for my type truck. Bummer. It's not bad yet, but there's been two times in the past week and a half where the engine was having trouble sucking up gas.
I was able to get my registration renewed on the truck after the inspection so that official stuff is done for the year. The unofficial stuff was the oil change (it'd been nearly 18 months since the last one--I am so bad to this truck) and gas filter. I also made a run to the landfill to drop off 3 bags of garbage.
I've been chipping away at mowing my lawn also yesterday and this morning. Since it's over an acre and I use a manual mower I don't do it all at once, but rather split it into 3 one hour sessions. What with going to my girlfriend's place last weekend and all the rain we've had recently--including today, perhaps--it's been difficult to do any mowing and so it'd gotten VERY long and quite shaggy.
Since the daytime temps have been well into the 90s lately I was hoping to get a lot done early in the morning. Today I was out there at 8:15am, however it was already over 80 even then and so humid the spark plug just looked up at me when I tried to get the mower going and said "are you frickin' kidding? You want a spark out of me, today???" Despite the sparkplug's reluctance I did get 45 minutes of mowing in before deciding that a Lime Coca-cola and a book sounded a lot better than mowing and sweating.
If it does rain, instead of just doing this thunder and lightning thing, I might get some housework done. Both downstairs bathrooms are in very serious need of cleaning and I know a few carpets that haven't seen a vacuum in quite some time. At least I did the laundry while I was busy this morning. So something has been done inside...but there's so much more to do. LOL Always is, I guess.
Wow. It's definitely raining now. Noah would recognize rain like this!
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I may live in Canada now, but I know how hot and gross it can get south of here! Hang in there. (And hello from Michele's!)
I lived in Hickory and Marion as a child, and I still remember how I'd be soaking wet at the end of a hard-playing day of climbing trees :)
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Sure I can't entice you into rhubarb? I know once someone makes you eat something, it can ruin you forever for it. It took me 15 years to cycle back to raspberries.
You have reminded me that I really need to do some laundry and vacuming myself....but I think I will take the lime coke and book choice instead! :)
I wish I had the answer. I really do. Life would be so much easier.
Speaking of lawns...
Hey...I'm going to be posting a new storyling in Cyberia about you and Belinda Poodles (your "daughter") later today.
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