The weather got hot, and things around here slowed to a crawl. The bathroom guy, last I heard from him, is delayed (no big shock there.) I cut a few more holes in the ceiling of the bathroom before deciding to let the hired guns take care of the rest. I got the trim and door finished, and most of the hardware installed.
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The first time they shipped my toilet. This is exactly how it looked when I opened the box.
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The second time they shipped it. Crazy what an inner pack and some padding will do.
The second one was fine.
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Other than that, it's just be a march of mowing the yard, picking bugs off my plants, and murdering jumping worms.
Oh yes, they are everywhere now.
I'm not 100% convinced that they only came in on the dirt. I'm now finding them everywhere I had spread mulch last year. The soil right below the mulch is grainy, like coffee grounds. Nothing wants to grow in it except other invasives.
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Chandos got a new sack of catnip.
She was thrilled.
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I wound up working from my Sister's place for about a week.
I had had supervision.
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We celebrated Mr Horse's birthday with a jelly donut. He loves jelly donuts.
He only gets one on his birthday.
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Jewel weed, North America's native impatient, is in full bloom
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Found some Ghost Pipes up in the woods.
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Pulled some of the early potatoes. They did ok, considering the crappy July we had.
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Jumping worm castings. All that pebbly poo is not a good sign.
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It's a little hard to see here, but a big limb came off my Big Oak tree.
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My tiny Zinnias are doing ok.
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String beans are about the only thing I've gotten out of the garden in any quantity.
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I went out to a public event, which was Super Weird. (And super geeky.)
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I've played with my bees quite a bit. They seem to be doing well, but I don't know how much honey there will be for us humans. July was rough on them.
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And I found a stick bug on my marigold. That was pretty neat.
I've seen a couple around here in the last few years.
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My hope is that the bathroom guy can start soon. The roof stuff sort of needs to be done when it's not snowing.
