It’s just too damn hot, even by 9:00 am it was sweltering out of doors. I had to wear a wrist band to mop up my sweat because it streams down my face into my eyes blinding me if I don’t. Luckily I have several large trees that provide shade (which provides me with many days worth of work cleaning up leaves. But that’s an October post waiting to happen), so I don’t have to be in the direct sunlight 100% of the time. But when I am, woah baby! It’s hot. Stinking hot. Too damn stinking hot. Make your knees weak if you aren’t careful. Not to mention the dust the mower & weed eater kicks up that applies itself to my skin like a powdered donut. I feel grimey. I feel crunchy. I have grass bits embedded in my legs from the line trimmer. I am just about ready to hose off, then go for a family swim.
This is the second grass cutting for all of July, so I haven’t had to suffer much with it, which is nice. I think I’ve spent more time cutting the grass at the cottage, pulling weeds, and weed eating up north in the month of July than here at my own home. Weird. The mosquitoes up north have been especially bad this year. I wonder if that bird flu, avian flu has attacked the mosquito munching branch of the bird population? Because, woof! It’s like a wall of buzzing bastards when you head outside after sun down, or walk out into the woods. Not here though, here the bug population has been just fine.
So I took the plunge yesterday and drove all of our old tech out to the technology recycling dump, and pitched all of it into the dumpsters. It cost me $20.00 to dispose of a dehumidifier because it contained cfc’s. So not bad at all. The basement, and several closets got a good clear out. On my way out of town after I hit the dump, I stopped off at Golf town to look at some second hand woods for my golf club collection.
I am amazed at what folks are willing to spend on a single club. Some of them are upwards of a grand. That’s nuts. I bought one $75.00 previously owned Tayler Made wood, and I found a second slightly different one (which was new, but not crazy expensive) to round out my golf bag. I never even gave woods a thought before I played on Thursday. Most of the Par three courses need a driver or 9 iron, a wedge, and a putter. So that’s mainly what I use to get up, down, and over a fairway no matter how long or short the hole is. Seems I needed at least one more club to do it. I learned that in the field, so I’m comfortable getting the club to sort myself out. I’m hoping to get my wife, and a couple friends of ours to go out and play in late August. Fingers crossed we can make that happen.
Another plus is that our garage is no longer filled with busted tech items, so I’m back to having a clean shop! Yes. I have one bag of garbage to go to the curb Monday night, but otherwise the garage is now free & clear of crap. Besides the children’s outgrown snowboard gear that I’m taking to a trade in place come October, I have gotten rid of every box, every piece of styrofoam, every scrap but of metal, piece of junk/litter that I can think of. I have one more set of drawers I should go through, but it is currently housing my saw blades, and dado stack, and a few other lathe items, so it’s not really something I can toss away right now. I’m happy. I’ve gotten the space to a place I could only have dreamed of just a few short years ago. It’s taken ten years to get it there, but I am feeling relieved that I got there. I hate having to wait and do things piece meal, but having kids has taught me patience, and the art of the “long game”. Do things gradually over time and a good number of people will never notice. Or not until it’s too late and everything is long gone, out of sight, and out of mind.
I’m going to hear up to go for a swim now. Hope you have a happy and/or productive Saturday yourselves. Oh, and thanks for downloading my books. I don’t know if you will actually read them, I’d like to think that you will, but I’m happy to see that number of downloads ticking up on a semi-daily basis. Makes me smile anyway!
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