Took us longer to find parking near the venue than it did to walk in, vote and leave. But, on the plus side our civic duty is now done and I can go on about my business. Yay! Getting in as the doors open is far superior to having to wait in long lines after 5:00pm rolls around. Kinda silly they put our voting station inside an active elementary school during day light hours though. Lots of weirdos just wandering your school unchecked. That’s a liability just waiting to occur. Yikes. Big yikes. Also no parking available on site during regular school hours, so not so hot for those with accessibility issues. But I digress.
Today is Thursday, the second last day in February. Can you believe it? Snowing again too, but not so very cold as it had been before. I think I can be proud of February. Not only did I vacation with my girls alone (mostly) for five days, but I got a fair amount of work done, and I took apart the wooden racks, purchased & assembled the new metal racks, and spend a considerable number of hours tidying up the garbage wood, cut-off, and general trash that had accumulated over the preceding decade or more. Plus, I recaptured some open floor space, and opened up the head space around my work bench. I have a couple small tools to find a suitable home for, but that task is about 98% complete. Good enough to be done, but I could always do more type of thing. The small items are jars of screw & bolts that need a proper home, and a whole array of hand clamps that need a final storage solution where they are easy to grab when working, but are not in the way of anything else behind or below them. That’s what makes the fix tricky. It requires some thought, and careful planning. But not so much as to freeze the project dead, stopping all progress in its tracks. A fine needle to thread if I do say so myself.
March Break will be upon us soon, and with that comes the potential for sun burns to the face with the heightened strength of the near spring time sun. I do love to sit by the boiler watching the fire, keeping the sap at a rolling boil. Pulling ice from the sap buckets, filtering the sap, pouring the sap, the smell of the cotton candy smoke when you splash a little to wildly onto a hot surface around the boiler. And sometimes we get a secondary bonfire going to dispose of work/construction materials, and old junk (a la my wood cut-off, and old garage bits). Usually water logged furniture, torn mattresses, old dressers, and magazines, and some times even an old textbook or two that nobody would take off my hands. I’m no pyromaniac, but I enjoy a good bonfire session. The best was the decades old roof trusses that I had to man handle into the fire every time a five foot section burned clear through. They are big, but mostly empty. Still heavy though. Pushing and pulling those about in a bonfire is no joke. Gotta watch for all those nails, screws, and truss tie plates with those barbs on them. Proper footwear required! And a crappy jacket that you don’t mind getting a little singed.
It’s out there just a snowing today. Temperature has been holding a 0°C, so it’s real good packing snow. First started as massively fat flakes too. Makes the trees look real pretty too. I’m just about sick of snow, and shoveling but I can still enjoy the view of a undisturbed snowfall across my lawn. Not for long, but I can, and that’s the point. Ha.
I’m just about done talking your ears off, so I’m going to eat breakfast, and go check some work emails. Ciao Bella.
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