Good Morning All. Partly cloudy and 70° on this Friday morning. Supposedly we're in for some thunderstorms this afternoon and early evening. Could be severe with the conditions being what they will be. Current radar is showing widely scattered rain all over, but I doubt that any is actually hitting the ground at this time. After a high near 90° today, things will cool off for a few days.
We did decide to do the weekly grocery trek today instead of yesterday, things just weren't coming together right. I finished up planting the Mother's Day planter box yesterday, with begonias, petunias, and some other "cascading" plants that my wife bought, to go with the Coleus that I had already put there. Me, I have Parsley, Sage, Oregano and Thyme planted. All of the herbs but the Parsley are perennials. Rosemary, chives and Basil have their own dedicated pots.
I put my new cordless mini chain saw to test yesterday, cutting between 75 and 80 1"-3" low-hanging branches from the double row of Hackberry trees along the east side next to the road. That was the limit before the battery ran out. I have a second battery, but I was not interested in doing more. I'm paying my two grandsons to come by Sunday to clear them all out, plus many many more that I need to cut by then. I'll also be cutting down two dead trees for them to pick up and haul while I have the help here.
Out in the train shed yesterday, I mostly rehabbed some of the trees that
Chet sent me. Various bits and pieces of foliage had fallen off some of them during the 1800 mile trip with UPS. Didn't plant any more yet but it's coming.
I did take some new pictures of some old scenes to post today.
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Mikey - Thanks for the insight on the electric substation.
Nice looking shelves. Great way to recycle old fences.
John -
In most cases, they are more concerned that the style, size, setback and especially the height fit into their standard requirements. At least with our Post Office. Where I live, the mailbox is over a mile away, and there were 11 separate mailboxes in a motley row along the side of the road, but all fit their standards. The homeowner who lived behind this collection, didn't like the slipshod appearance of them in front of his house. So he built a large brick and mortar structure to house them, and also bought new boxes for all 11 users. Everything is still fine, except the stick-on numbers have long since faded and are no longer visible. Hasn't bothered our long-time mail lady, as she knows which ones are which. I did notice a few years ago, that she or maybe the substitute guy, had used a felt tip marker and put the individual numbers on the inside of the door. A side advantage of this brick structure is that we and the other patrons no longer have to replace our mailboxes periodically due to damage from vandalism.
Hughie - I have been reading with some interest about something called "Alberta 51 Project". Without getting political here, I was just wondering if it has widespread support, or is it just a fringe thing??? Heck! Have you even heard about it???
Well, I need to eat my words, as it sprinkled for about 10 minutes as I was posting these words.
Everybody have a great day.
