Back Off or Off The Back

Calling in a sick day.



I spent all morning cruising new blogs about sailing and boats in general that I found by hitting *NEXT BLOG* at the top of the blog page. YES, they were all in English. Blogger must have made a change somewhere and only put blogs similar to mine. I found this from Lu's blog and found a whole bunch of women and babies blogs (go figure). After I got three in a row in English I knew something had changed in THE *NEXT BLOG* ZONE. Went back to my blog and YES YES, blogs about boats and travelers, all in English. I like this change!!! I found that after numerous next blog hits, they might start to veer off subject, like boat blog to canoe blog, to kayak and then change to hiking etc, etc. So all you have to do is go back to your blog and start over.



My back has bothered me for the last day or so (wonder why?) and my plan for the day was to take the morning off, rest, eat a 800 mg Ibuprofen at lunch and get to work. Well, I went up, cut one 12 ft furring strip freehand on the table saw and it fit great, so great that I decided to take the rest of the day off too. That makes sense doesn't it? I might wait, on the wood splitter plan this weekend too.



Be better to back off the back a bit before breakage.

Rainy all day and dark as hell up in the attic. My back hurts like hell too.

WAHHH!!!

Green

I was never sure how the stonework that Bicky and I did was going to turn out when I used a concoction of sand and mortar and just brushed it into the seams. At first it seemed like it would never last, so porous that I thought it would break out and be a mess.

Well! That didn't happen but it seems to be a perfect environment for moss. We love it green.

Now when a tree stops being green that's not good. The tree behind Luca only had about 35% of the whole tree go green, and very thin at that(shadeless). I've daily had to pick up fallen branches and with a lot of roots that were rotten and holding bugs it was time to put it and us out of it's misery.

It's been a very nice outdoorsy weekend for Micky and Bicky. I love working the land as much as I love the challenge of keeping a boat safe at sea. My life just happens to be centered around the land right now. Log splitter next weekend.

One more thing...this computer has given a lot of grief and failures to log on this weekend. I WILL, only take so much of that shit before I'll throw in the towel. You've been warned.

Let's Smoke

The day after Thanksgiving was such a perfect clear and crisp day that I avoided the attic again and started burning leaves. Bicky had blown most all of the leaves near the house into a couple of huge piles while I was on Pahoo. Instead of hauling away I figured I'd burn this year. It also gave me the opportunity to mulch all the remaining leaves and lawn with the lawn tractor while keeping an eye on the piles. After Bicky got her kiln loaded up with jewelry she came out to keep smoke watch which gave me the opportunity to mulch all the way down the driveway which hadn't been touched by rake or blower all year. I managed to keep the frickin gas blower running long enough without me throwing it in the woods to finish the driveway.

A day filled with smoke was a good day indeed!
I think I'll see if they have a splitter available today, it's another beautiful crisp day here on the hill.

Attic Update

We hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving Day. I actually didn't do anything in the attic yesterday but I did get all the firewood cut and ready to rent a splitter.

With no money paying jobs at hand I've been spending my time working on the attic. It has to happen any way because last Christmas Bicky and I gutted this whole space figuring I'd have plenty of time to rebuild and insulate. Of course that means I'd wait till the last minute so I'd be forced to get it done. Instead of planning a new layout of bedrooms, bathroom and game room I decided to open the whole space as one large room so if we had to sell next week there would be a *wow* factor of stepping through the door and seeing such a huge space, the potential buyer could think "Wow this is huge, we could make this into....bla bla....





I'll more than likely do a little bit of electical work for a few outlets and some lighting but only just enough for use as it is. Working at my pace it will no doubt be a few more weeks before I call it enough done.

A Glass Post

Melted glass center piece by Bicky, white roses left over from last weeks tenth wedding anniversary. Her kiln is a serious contender for attention. Not everything she puts in the pot comes out as she wants. Molten glass has quite a few peculiarities that she is just thrilled to be learning. The beep, beep and click, click of the kiln timer is never quiet for too long.

Happy Bird Butcher Day!

Thanks Scott....For Bringing Me Back To Reality