Yesterday I wrote an apology to my neighbor for damaging his lawn, and offering to take whatever steps he deems appropriate to repair it. Honestly, it should repair itself (grow back) in a couple of weeks, but his is very house proud and I don’t want to suggest he “just wait it out”.
Also spent time burning the dogwood stump. Got…1/4 of it gone, maybe. The wood is horribly wet from a winter of soaking up rain on the cut surface. This will take time.
I discovered today that in a moment of crisis, my brain tells me the right thing to do. Pity it didn’t insist on the right thing earlier.
I caught my pants on fire with gasoline while trying to burn out a stump. I also burned part of the neighbor’s lawn. He may yet get angry about that.
I tried to slap the flames out and it didn’t work. So brain supplied: stop, drop and roll. I did. It worked after a roll or two. Pants are damaged. Legs are not.
Yes, it was stupid. No, will never repeat.
I have been reading a series on Amazon ($12/mo all the enrolled kindle books you can read) that is like stealth conservatism.
The series is “The Girl In The Box”. It’s urban fantasy set in the modern day, with a lot of ancient mythology woven throughout. But the main character keeps running up against globalists and collectivists, and debating/fighting them. It’s glorious. And well written. I’m now reading book 54!
Only twelve days shy of a year strike-free, a truck hit the Kirkland Truck Eating Bridge westbound. But we are having a party on Sunday anyway. What the heck.
There will be cake, a drawing for a mini banner (shown), bumper stickers…now if only the city doesn’t ding me for a non-permitted gathering! 😂
Woke up to snow. Three separate times in one winter is very unusual for Seattle!
This little dog is a bichon - his owner wants him long and fluffy but after a certain length it became matted. And once that starts it usually gets bad fast. It was bad. :(. I salvaged what I could. She still didn’t truly believe I couldn’t brush it out even though I showed her a chunk of white felt I had removed from his back. His head is out of proportion to his body now. Maybe she will find another groomer. 🙏
For the first time since we moved into this house in 1997, I heard a rat chewing in the wall near the pantry. Went under the house in the crawlspace. Found a single rat in a snap trap, long dead. Turned a light on under there.
I have tried snap traps, the Ratinator, Dunk the Rat drop trap, Rat-X bait….nothing is working and I can’t risk poison where my dogs can get to it. And if they can, they absolutely will.
Hate this.
Wife, mom, keeper of animals, creator, author, autist, learner. Conservative in a blue state.