And suddenly it's summer....
May. 26th, 2020 01:27 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jennlkTwo weeks ago, there was ice on the pond in the morning. Today, when I left for PT at 8:30 it was already 70F. It's over 85F (30C) early afternoon. Don't know how the lilacs and crab apples will like that quick change.
A quick set of errands after PT - the list was very short, and they didn't have two of the items on it. But they did have light handweights, vitamins were buy one get one free, and there was a pallet of birdseed in the spot where the pallets of random pet/animal stuff go. Still not a lot of rice or flour. The sugar shelves are about half full, no brown sugar, chocolate chips have been restocked a little, pasta shelves still empty, PB still creamy only.
PT has been extended, again. This time, three more weeks. They have hopes that we're now into the final stretches of rebalancing the muscles. Lots of small movements/many reps and light weights/many reps. Mostly just boring, and eventually tiring.
Saturday, J and I took the rill down. Well, mostly. There's still a layer of block and the fill inside it, but most of the structure of the old rill has been moved. The fill all went into the low spot out in the easement. We found two chipmunk nests (chopped leaves), multiple larders (a couple of pockets of acorns, three or four of sunflower seed, a couple more of mixed small birdseed), and four ant nurseries. And lots of earthworms and centipedes. Sunday, we ripped out the 25 year old treated wood front porch and replaced it with composite decking. Monday, he mowed the neighbor's yard - their lawnmower is in the shop, and the grass was getting *really* long -- they have a double lot, so that took most of the afternoon.
Then I mentioned that the AC compressor wasn't running. My assumption was that the breaker hadn't been turned back on, but there's such a pile of stuff in front of the electrical panel that I wasn't going to dig back to it. And then I discovered that the new breaker is in an outside box right next to the compressor. It's amazing how much better the AC works when the compressor is running.... not 80F in the house any more.
A quick set of errands after PT - the list was very short, and they didn't have two of the items on it. But they did have light handweights, vitamins were buy one get one free, and there was a pallet of birdseed in the spot where the pallets of random pet/animal stuff go. Still not a lot of rice or flour. The sugar shelves are about half full, no brown sugar, chocolate chips have been restocked a little, pasta shelves still empty, PB still creamy only.
PT has been extended, again. This time, three more weeks. They have hopes that we're now into the final stretches of rebalancing the muscles. Lots of small movements/many reps and light weights/many reps. Mostly just boring, and eventually tiring.
Saturday, J and I took the rill down. Well, mostly. There's still a layer of block and the fill inside it, but most of the structure of the old rill has been moved. The fill all went into the low spot out in the easement. We found two chipmunk nests (chopped leaves), multiple larders (a couple of pockets of acorns, three or four of sunflower seed, a couple more of mixed small birdseed), and four ant nurseries. And lots of earthworms and centipedes. Sunday, we ripped out the 25 year old treated wood front porch and replaced it with composite decking. Monday, he mowed the neighbor's yard - their lawnmower is in the shop, and the grass was getting *really* long -- they have a double lot, so that took most of the afternoon.
Then I mentioned that the AC compressor wasn't running. My assumption was that the breaker hadn't been turned back on, but there's such a pile of stuff in front of the electrical panel that I wasn't going to dig back to it. And then I discovered that the new breaker is in an outside box right next to the compressor. It's amazing how much better the AC works when the compressor is running.... not 80F in the house any more.
