Today feels like the monsoon is finally upon us...about two weeks late, but I'll take it! Hurricane Emily may have had the final push to move that high out of the way. 9 in the morning, 77, overcast and 50% humidity.
Already spent a couple of hours doing yardwork this morning, since Mike took off to go white water rafting at 7. You'd think in a desert there wouldn't be that much to do, but oh no...I have to be the gardener-guy and have drip irrigation everywhere!
Finally finished hacking the ivy away from the deck to that I can weatherproof the outside of it. More slow-go on the stiles and railing, but once that's done, the deck proper should be a cinch. Hope I can at least get the rails done by noon, so I can start on the deck boards.
Then of course is the priming and painting of the lower edge and the underneath. I bet there's sanding I'll have to do. And of course that will morph into all the trim on the house that is sadly in need of sanding, scraping, priming and painting. Ugh.
Had been looking for a stray Spanish Broom to transplant back in the bare-ish part of the back and found one when I was clearing the ivy away! Yahoo! Finally, something I didn't have to go out and buy.
Time to get busy again!
- Summer Southwest Monsoons
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billeyler- July 23rd, 2005
2005-07-23 08:51 pm (UTC)
Now if they could design an automatic controller that didn't require you to pat your head and rub your tummy while reading chinse standing on your head in order to program it would be perfect!
2005-07-26 08:58 pm (UTC)
Two years ago, after coming back from convention and most everything I had nurtured into the summer was dead or dying from not being watered in 5 days during a heat wave, I bought a $25 auto-timer and a drip hose and started over.
What a difference!
Now I have three auto-timers and multiple drip areas and we can travel without concern! They ARE slightly more complex then on/off, but I think I've got the hang of it now...