Day 1198: Very warm Sunday
Jul. 2nd, 2023 11:58 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
eve_primeToday was fun. J and DG played Magic a whole bunch online, as D had also done earlier in the day before going to work, and DG won $500, so he decided to treat us for dinner. And since AA is off doing dog-sitting, DG was up for trying the Highlands, which is in the same shopping center as the Safeway and so only about two blocks away. (There doesn't seem to be anything vegan on their menu for AA, hence his delay in trying it, even though it's the restaurant closest to the house they bought a year ago.) So we all walked over there and sat outside, figuring out how to crank up the big red parasols over the tables to get enough shade, and we had a nice dinner together.
On our way home, we stopped in the Safeway to say hi to D, but he was on a break. His fun coworker A, to whom I'd recommended Hester, had looked it up and found two books by that name - so I just dashed home and brought back our copy to lend to her. Then DG went home to enjoy indoor air conditioning, while J and I went out to his backyard to enjoy breezy, shaded heat. It was lovely, and we read outside for a couple of hours. Well, I did - he started their new book club book and lost patience, as it's apparently very slow.
Then he thought it was too cold and dark to go work on the fence we needed to stabilize (the one behind his house is falling down, and there's nobody living on the other side to help). I pointed out that it was still plenty light outside for reading and it was *ahem* 82 degrees, so hardly cold. I think he was influenced by having just eaten an ice cream sandwich. So I put my book down mid-chapter and we went out and fixed the fence, hurrah. This involved walking around to the other side (which is about six blockx away) to nail a strip of wood across the gap then back to his side to add a few more nails. If it falls down this year, it won't be this section. So we actually finished something on the do-list for the day, too.
On our way home, we stopped in the Safeway to say hi to D, but he was on a break. His fun coworker A, to whom I'd recommended Hester, had looked it up and found two books by that name - so I just dashed home and brought back our copy to lend to her. Then DG went home to enjoy indoor air conditioning, while J and I went out to his backyard to enjoy breezy, shaded heat. It was lovely, and we read outside for a couple of hours. Well, I did - he started their new book club book and lost patience, as it's apparently very slow.
Then he thought it was too cold and dark to go work on the fence we needed to stabilize (the one behind his house is falling down, and there's nobody living on the other side to help). I pointed out that it was still plenty light outside for reading and it was *ahem* 82 degrees, so hardly cold. I think he was influenced by having just eaten an ice cream sandwich. So I put my book down mid-chapter and we went out and fixed the fence, hurrah. This involved walking around to the other side (which is about six blockx away) to nail a strip of wood across the gap then back to his side to add a few more nails. If it falls down this year, it won't be this section. So we actually finished something on the do-list for the day, too.
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Date: 2023-07-03 02:25 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2023-07-04 10:04 am (UTC)- cut down all the blackberries that are in the way; they grow back every year and we can only do a few at a time because yard debris pickup is bi-weekly and we have just one bin
- get a wheelbarrow or something so I can move the heavy stones down at the end to some better location
- figure out what to do with two potentially salvageable wooden structures and move them accordingly
- determine which should happen first, the fence replacement or the concrete-pouring (so the blackberries cannot grow back yet again)
- hire my neighbor and his crew to do the concrete step
- find a new fence contractor since we lost faith in the other one and negotiate with the neighbor about paying for it
Now, THAT will be an achievement! :)
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Date: 2023-07-07 06:44 pm (UTC)Yesterday got pretty hot here, I think about 95 but for sometime in the afternoon, I felt chilly - how strange.
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Date: 2023-07-09 12:28 am (UTC)Not sick, feeling SO much better. :)
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Date: 2023-07-09 07:08 am (UTC)One reason it's good that J. and I live in different houses is that I'm too hot when it's 72 inside, and he's too cold at my preferred 68, ha.
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