That is what I did today… I got out and did my walk… was already damn windy when I got out there but faced it and backed it anyway… On the walk saw this huge “puffball”
Not sure what is in the dark? must have been the strap or ? something? it was windy..
I also saw a blue bird exit from this…
I don’t’ think it is a save place for a next but she did and it had a next in there? didn’t both to see if the little ones were still there or not?
I had breakfast… not a great one but filling, hard boiled egg, some cheese and toast… Need to remember to get some more juice?
AFter that I started to get around for a dragline day… figured I should go ahead while the ground is not backed to a hard pack to do the other part of my little project for under the stairs and landing… I got that started and moved some of the dirt to be saved to refill that hole. The it was off for lunch… We are an exciting couple… anniversary day and we went to Whataburger for lunch… We should have gone out to a nice place or more “upscale” yesterday but that didn’t happen either? Anyway I got back after lunch and got back on my “Dragline” project… (shovel)… in the process I noticed this…
Guess the snake away didn’t keep this one away far enough? Will have to have them circle the shop as well as the house… this was over by the shop … while I was noticing this I rememberd that the dirt was settling away from the west foundation of the shop and that was a perfect place for these guys to hide… so I turned on the water and figured to fill up those cracks a bit with some of the dirt I was digging… like 2 projects for the work of one? well not really turned out to be double work…
So this was the trench I dug out… it is deeper than it looks in the picture… lot of single handle work and in an awkard spot too?
This was where a lot of the excess went… and the water running… I used the old irrigation line technique of mudding in… hope it works to some degree and I did a lot of excess digging and stiring to get it all to good mud to fill in the cracks as much as possible… it was a much bigger crack than it had looked at the start… and I had to shovel off the edge so I could work some mud up under the apron on the foundationn…
That crack ran the full length and was maybe 18 inches deep in most spots as well as 8 to 10 inches wide… but I got it filled and mudded in to the end… let that settle and then maybe have to get some lighter silt/sand to refil a bit more…
At about 4:30 I put the tools up and sat down at the radio with the door open and spotted this “varmint” on the oak tree outside… sure glad we don’t have trees up close to the house anymore of they would be making looking for ways to get in like they did in Duncan…
The bands were not open for me, but I could see that others were spotting a bit of activity? strange how it moved around and maybe I missed the best shot I had by having that sandwich? or ? working? oh well another day to capture more of the contacts… I did get some confirmation in from the weekend for my 6 and 10 meter work… I may have to put up the vertical I have and give it a test? Didn’t figure it would be much more than a good portable for travel days but I may have to try it out and see if it works better than my wires?
Again , thinking about it being our 41st anniversary… what did we do for dinner? (and I offered to go or get anything)… I had a ham and cheese sandwich and she had a peanut butter sandwich… again… we just were not all that hungry and couldn’t come up with anything that sounded good…
That was the day.. now I am sore and tired and figure I will work on somethng else tomorrow? probably an oil change and paying bills?
WD0AJG