“It’s provocative, it gets the people going!”. Welcome to Thursday September 1st 2022. Can you believe it, September already. That summer sure went fast, even when some days seemed to drag on. We had a really nasty dry patch for about five – six weeks, and then we’ve had about five inches of rain in the last ten to fourteen days. Our beige, crispy, straw like lawn is green again and needs to get cut seven days after the last time I cut it. Prior to that it hadn’t been cut since the first week of July.
Have you seen the devastation occurring in Pakistan with the glacial melt and excessive rainfall? Spectacularly horrifying. There’s just no way to contain the millions, if not billions of gallons of rushing water out of the mountain regions there. That’s with only a cumulative 1.3° temperature increase. Windstorms, floods, droughts, fires, and hurricanes. It will all get out of hand faster than anticipated. Seriously frightening. Something like 50,000,000 people displaced as of a day or two ago. I believe I read there were approximately 1,400 dead at that point. Could be more by now. Horrible, just horrible. I’d tell you all to plant more trees, but it’s the giants like Shell & BP, and industry of their ilk that need to change, not so much us. My planting ten trees on my property cannot outright the half a million barrels of crude they dump into the ocean with a minor spill. Or the escaping methane the drill rigs leave exposed and what not. Depressing, truly upsetting to dwell on. Hey! Welcome to the Nile, or D’Nile as we call it locally.
Yeah, so Thursday. Heading into another long weekend, and then back to school. I have a shelf/play centre to build for the kids on my bench in the garage. I was going to use L brackets and hang two shelves, but I thought, perhaps I could build something nicer for the front room, than two low slung hanging shelves. Think asymmetrical cubbies, with a playable top surface for the kids toys, and open storage, with light and airy feet so I can get under it with a vacuum, and to retrieve fallen toys. Will offset the legs so the unit can be placed directly against the wall under the window sills, and infront of the baseboards. Fit snugly beside the fireplace and opposite wall of windows. One open half cubby to not block the light from one set of windows that come much farther down the wall. It’s a weird space, with lots of constraints. Going to try dowel construction this time too.
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