OK, I admit that I did sleep pretty hard the other night… that was way more ditch digging than I would want to do unless there was a gain for me… my gain? I hopefully won’t have to repair my coax and cables this summer… I am not saying how many times I have had to fix them but I wouldn’t do all that labor if there wasn’t a good reason…
Yesterday… was another headache day… I started out with the weed eater, to mow down that tall decorative grass…
I got started on that project and got the grass in front of the house, around the water feature, cut out… I moved up to the ones above and got on clump cut down and laid the trimmer down (running) and it died?
I tried pull starting and it would almost start but not keep running then I noticed that it seemed to be locked in and the blade was turning all the time I tried to start it???? A little more looking and figured that the auto clutch was locked down… and then it appeared there was some push out on the plastic housing.. oh boy… I packed it up and made a couple stops to check repairs before lunch and found it would cost about half of a new one to get this fixed and might take weeks to get that done… and of course it was just off warranty… so rather than fight with it… I would just get a new one after lunch and pay the few bucks more for an extended warranty on the next one…
Of course we had another exciting lunch…NOT! and then I went back and picked up a new trimmer. I may try tearing the old one down and fix myself or maybe not? I did get back to the Grass trim and got the rest of the clumps mowed down.
On another note… I have been trapping sparrows that think they are going to invade the Blue Bird boxes I have… I have a neat little trap that fits in the door and slaps the hole shut when they hop in… then I just get an old Wal-Mart sack, go open the door enough so they fly into the sack and … poof or rather WHACK… they are gone. I am getting maybe 1 to 2 per day… and even with all that I have more than I can deal with… I did see , what I think were anyway, Purple Martins flying pretty high up this afternoon… might be they are moving through or checking out the available housing spots… once I see a few on the houses I have then I will pull the doors off so they can pick their apartments… for now I have to keep the damn sparrows out…
When I went back to Lowes for the trimmer, I spotted this in the lot… I think it is a Girls Jeep? Nothing wrong with that… I have seen a few others in town… One had a sticker on the back about a Girls jeep too…
Today, since it was supposed to be BAD weather, Sherrie didn’t want her car out in the hail so I had to take here to work… which is ok, it gives me an excuse to not start any project too early… ha. Since I was in town anyway I stopped at McD’s for a quick breakfast… you know they serve oatmeal and juice… ( but I didn’t have that… ha!)… I did see this Cowboy (must be a real one as he had his spurs on?)
He was having oatmeal! so he was eating right… Back in my day, most of the cowboys would keep a pair of ‘hush puppies” to wear and drive in and swap off the boots until they needed them…
When I got home I let the dogs out and went out side to WHACK another sparrow… and do a better job of sealing up the underground conduit ends in case it does rain here… that probably diverted our chance for rain? When I came back in the house I caught this…
I tell Sherrie to not leave her pillow out as the little dog will use it… she likes pillows and it appeared she really liked this one…
I then went back in for lunch. Today we had a invite for free pizza at the new Pie 5… We had eaten at one in Dallas last winter and they are pretty good… Anyway when we got there the line was out the door… but free pizza??? worth the wait… as we entered we were greeted by Josh Fields at the door explaining that it was a chipotle style pizza as you can pick and choose what goes on the pie and then it is done in 5 minutes… It was a bit slow but worth the wait… we had pizza for left over too…
They have an outside eating area ( smartly placed on the “north” of the building so it won’t be in the burning sun this summer… might bet used… was used today but it was not hot out either…
After lunch I made a run to get the jeep filled, then pick up some things for the kids… seems they are running out of taco shells, a special thing for them as they can’t get this thin type out where they live and we will be making a trip soon so I was collecting… actually I about wiped out one Wal-Mart of all the big boxes…
I hope this is enough for awhile… They said get all I could get… oh and they wanted a bunch of the tortilla that they can cook as they need them… those are in the middle…
I also found out that …
Once I got the load in I swung down main street and was shocked to see we have a new business here in Stillwater??? not sure where they can find water clear enough to use?
Yep we have a Dive shop… hummm… I haven’t see too many areas that the water is clear enough to see your hand in front of your face? but maybe there is… I am not looking in the right spots… or they travel further east?
I got all that stuff home, re-packaged and some in the freezer and then worked on some finance stuff and computer work… oh boy… before I knew it I had to head back on to pick up Sherrie … On the way in I spotted this…
Maybe they didn’t like them? not sure if they were pink or orange? But if someone can shinny up a pole, there are a decent looking set of BB shoes up there… ha!
Anyway we had alarms, and sirens and all kinds of things going off this evening but right here… we didn’t get much of anything other than a little wind… We did get to see constant coverage of the storms on local TV… for 5 hours… or more…I didn’t stick with it… and the most annoying things is the cable TV warning… like we need that along with all the other crap going off and it was way louder than the regular TV and didn’t have anything of substance on it other than the national weather service issued a warning… what was worse…. our warning was for Creek and Tulsa county… ? what’s up with that… at least the cable could customize it a little so it only went off for Payne county and was only a bar on the screen with the verbal warning or something…That think totally took out the TV channels and you couldn’t change channels when it went off… oh well, we were warned…
So we have had our first real spring set of storms and the TV coverage for that blocks out everything else… sure glad I don’t watch much TV… At least these storms were early and hopefully the weather radio will not blare all night long… ha!
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