Off doin’ stuff…

What an incredible string of beautiful days we’ve had! For over a week the temps have been mid-to-high sixties with cloudless or mostly-sunny skies and hardly any wind. The nice weather was supposed to start ending tomorrow, this is after all still February, but now they’ve revised the forecast to more of the same. So thank you, Al Gore, for finally coming through for a buddy. I owe you a solid. Neighbor L was saying this morning that so far this winter is tracking a fat 20 degrees above normal day and night and I see no reason to doubt her.

So the mud dried and we finally got that big ATV trailered up and brought to town. D&L just bought themselves a brand-new pickup, and I said something I probably shouldn’t have…“A sparkling clean new pickup and a trailered quadrunner: We look like tourists.”

And D said, “I was just thinking the same thing. I hate that.”

Speaking of D&L, I got a picture of that adobe damage they had from the pinhole leak in a galvanized fitting that shouldn’t have been there…All the way down to the earthbags, but it could be worse. A leak like that on an exterior wall would have been disastrous, what with all the straw bales.

Also, alas I might have been wrong about a new pressure regulator fixing the Lair’s oven. Because I just installed one and the oven still isn’t working right. I’m going to try one more thing before giving up and hanging myself.

Finally, I’m rushing through lunch at the moment because I have to go back to D&L’s and help unload their big pellet stove, back from the shop and hopefully no longer misbehaving. So, busy beautiful day! Me like.