Catching up on things. Friday was Tax day… I had to finish up my taxes so that was a bad day. You work hard, you save money then you have to pay more to the government. Not that I don’t feel some obligation to pay my fair share but our tax system is out of control. Would be much better if it were based on “Consumption” with a limit on the bottom end and not the top. The Fair Tax system sounds nice, it may not be the best alternative but much better than current… just take out all the loopholes that help only the politicians and small select groups…
I also took that huge pile of drift wood to a neighbors “burn pile”. Since I am inside city limits I can’t have a huge bonfire so it was easier to take it and add to their pile outside the city limits. I had put a little more on there from cleaning up in the back and cutting out some stuff that needed to be trimmed out.
Late in the evening I grilled up some marinated ground sirloin and baked potatoes that were pretty good… since they come 4 to a package we had 2 and froze two in vacuum packed bag using our new vacuum sealer…
Yesterday was a slow start day. I think I am aching from the wood collection and hauling but it was necessary.
To start I made a trip to Tractor Supply and picked up a repair part for the trailer I have. Over the years I had bumped and banged the tail light on the driver side such that it was now broken… well broken real bad and didn’t work so replacement was the option.
This was the removed piece… it did have a partial red lenses on it but that and the missing half allowed the wired to corrode and the connections didn’t work anymore…
This is the replaced unit with the wiring all tied back and ready to hit the road… and it works!
I just wish the mount had a bit more protection around it but it was not an expensive trailer anyway.
Once that was fixed I could make my run to Lowes , again, to pick up the remainder of the topsoil and a few other parts to work on…
I got all the topsoil in the raised bed and got the misters and sprinklers all set. I had to add several and fix some old ones I had saved back but now we need plants…
You can see that I also bought a fire pit that was on sale. We might put a setting area at the end of the stairs and have a few fires in the future? if I can get the energy to build that seating area up there? Then again we might just set this out in the yard and have a small fire at times? when the grass greens up a bit… ?
So that was my day and I ended it again doing some radio as I did Friday night… slowing adding more foreign countries and states to my Worked All list.
WD0AJG