Three weeks into summer break.

We are all still alive and well. Three down, six to go. This minor heat wave is making outdoor time a bit stressful. Not do much fun playing the farmer wannabe when the temperature goes way up. Had dome minor rain last night here, along with thunder & lightning. Not much though, as it didn’t last long. Ground was very dry when I woke up, so that’s not an ideal sign of much precipitation.

The TelMax people have begun to drill in order to run fiber optic cable in our whole town, so those Vermeer drilling rigs are all over the place along with huge reels of orange and blue fiber optic lines. The vacuum trucks are y far the loudest aspect of the operation so far. According to the spray paint, flags and guide holes, we should end up with four new holes on the front lawn, to match all of the streets water shut offs, and gas main shut offs, road signs and lamp posts that we all ready have. Marginally less grass to mow I guess. I flagged down our homes water shut off, so I hope they don’t hit that either.

I am mostly done with report #2 of (6) six, for this busy season, which ends in late September, possibly spilling into early October. Good to get the work in, and done before the weekend comes. I like to swim and hang out with my kids guilt free on weekends. God damn why can’t we get passed Covid, so many things I’d like to take my kids to, and to go experience together. Theme Parks, indoor go cart rides, movies, bowling, indoor rock climbing, a mall for an air conditioned stroll. Gah! So dull with those things stricken from the list of potential day trips and fun family time. Not that with this heat we’d ever turn down a swim, or a splash through the creek at the farm looking for fish, toads, minnows or crayfish. That’s always an adventure!

It was a busy week to ten days or so, four sell sheets, various print ads, one big report, five can labels (355ml & 473ml), icon illustrations and logo creation, and some compositing, as well as a 3D rendering for an updated product package. A solid ten days of heightened workload, followed by?… who knows what. Maybe some retail signage? New business development from another micro brewery? Packaging projects? Definitely more reports, that much I know for certain. Joy’s of freelancing I’m sure.