Good Morning All. Partly cloudy and 75°, humidity is back up to 93%, quite high but not unexpected with all of the residual moisture from the recent rains, and the lack of any wind to dry things out. Some areas were dry enough to start mowing again yesterday. Spent some quality time pressure canning another batch of green beans yesterday. I had one failure out of the seven pints. I'm not sure why but I get one every now and then. Looks like another batch Saturday. I worked a bit on cleaning up the debris from earlier crops to add to the compost pile. Lot's more to do.
One effect that all of the rain and cooler temperatures has had is that the tomato plants are going wild.
They have outgrown their cages already.
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While the camera angle doesn't quite show it, they are taller than I am at 5'4".
Thanks for the likes and comments yesterday regarding the minor progress that I have been making despite all other tasks;
Tom O, Rick, Hughie, Gary, Chad, Karl, Moermusic, Justin, Guy, Troy, Tom, Sherrel, Garry, Patrick.
Just a banana nut muffin for me this morning Flo. I lost four pounds in the last week and I want to keep the streak going.
Between the pool, gardening, canning and honey-do's yesterday, I didn't get much time in the train shed. I painted and added a few more details including the roof stuff and a few more front porch items.
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In the second picture you can see some of the rest of them, trellis with vines, dog, boy, stack of tools etc. The white blob on the left is an ice machine. The fruit crates include tomatoes, bell peppers, apples, melons and oranges. The green scoop is in a pickle barrel.
Tom O - I can't speak for your son's friends in Austin, but here in the North Texas area, if you don't have a job, it's your own fault. There are jobs everywhere and I don't mean entry-level McDonald type jobs. Plenty of those as well. Many of these snowflakes want a job paying what they were making before, and are unwilling to take a few $$ pay cut. Fact is that many of those jobs still pay more than unemployment (with extras) but they just got lazy during the pandemic. The unemployment will run out soon enough. I keep reading and hearing about Covid fears; get the damn vaccine people. It's available to anyone anywhere and it's free!
I agree about the stock market. Capitalism works no matter who's in charge.
Moermusic - Child care is one (of several) reasons that we chose early on to be a single income family. It changed a bit when my wife got a weekend job as a live-in home health care person, and was able to work from 6:00 pm Friday through 6:00 pm Sunday and got paid 48 hours a week. At the time my workplace was on a four day ten hour shift schedule and things worked out for us. The lady eventually died so that job ended and we worked out something different. By then we needed to start saving for our kids college and she got a regular job and we had to use day care for our son for two years. Even though the girls were both under ten years old, they were able to let themselves into the house after the school bus dropped them off until I got home about 30 minutes later.
Gary - Looks like you have your work cut out for you on the deck. Too bad that work will interfere with your progress.
Patrick - Good for you finding the leak. At 38" that shouldn't be too hard to fix. I can get mine (when I know where they are) at 52" using a scuba mask and holding my breath. Hmmmh! 14' diameter isn't a standard size. No wonder you are having a hard time finding a replacement liner. None of my reliable liner suppliers carry that size.
Everyone have a great weekend. Stay safe.