Couple more weeks, B will be back. Only to return again shortly and FINISH his move. That's the big news.
The weather and various sundry other projects are interfering yet again, with this year's garden. It's been cool & rainy; to the point I mentioned I might be making a batch of chili today. (High 61) I am trying to organize spaces in the house, to make room for B and his "stuff" - which has been severely thinned down.
That entailed taking a couple fine days (garden isn't tilled to plant) to burn cardboard & a year's worth of magazines I'd collected. On a couple days a week, I do have opportunity to recycle - BUT - I have been told in the past that when the recycler is full-up, it either gets burned or goes to the landfill anyway. I still smell like smoke especially from the glossy catalog paper. Next rainy spell, I'll dig around and try to find how to cancel the catalogs. Again. Seed catalogs aren't too bad; I usually only get 1 a year.
I've mentioned a friend of Hol's who runs a land development company; he's been coming out to work as much as he can - he needs the money, since he can't get people to work for him. And we're getting things that need to be done; DONE and "off the list". Like mulching several problematic Virginia Pine "reservations". Cleaning the ditches to prevent run-off damage to the road/driveway. Creating additional drainage at Hol's. We'll probably use him, as much as possible over the summer/fall. He has other paying jobs, but this work is getting us much closer to the desire "infrastructure" plateau or goal we've been looking for.
C is here again this weekend. We have some last bits to finish up in the studio and tools to put away. Choosing positions for artwork; soon to hang. We are discussing replacing the current bookshelves with custom made versions to match my work cabinets. We still have ceiling (quadriphonic) speakers to hang for the ever present music in that room. Waiting on cell signal booster to help with streaming music (studio is maybe 50 ft lower than the house on the hill/cliff). Hol is quite set on making things work - if at all possible - with C. I'm just getting out of her way, unless something physical happens. Neither of us are fans of that crap. And B's means of dealing with it are "extreme", so he defers to my decision.
The rain and cool temps are certainly making everything happy. Mountain Laurel is blooming now. And Mother Nature is doing her "take over everything in sight" thing. There are hundreds of jobs around here, to keep all of us busy for quite some time. So much so, I've been entertaining the idea of a "tenant farmer" to help. God forbid we ever add animals (beyond the 6 geese that were left here - and we're not fond of them either. Eggs are rare; they're mostly ganders.) I'm on day 2 of recovery from the burning session and should be A-OK tomorrow. It was a lot of bending and twisting and my pile of stuff was TOO BIG. It's been windy a lot... and last year's fire warnings was enough to make me over-cautious.
So it's housework for a bit. Deep cleaning things I haven't touched in awhile. Like my enameled dutch oven. It gets a workout all winter. And here comes the rain again. Time to let weather-shy kitties in.
