Laboring Day

September 4, 2006 (12:39pm)
68º F, Calm and sunny, S wind 5 mph.

Good afternoon,

A laboring day that we are laboring on. The weather is cooperating and so are the mosquitoes. Sounds like some rain can come tonight and then the cool weather - at least 10º F cooler. Will like that and it will make it easier for the snow to start coming down! ;-) At the moment, the sweat comes down too well.

We really didn’t do much yesterday - Sunday a time of rest. Actually for me at least it was a time of procrastination. Just could not get my tail in gear for some reason. We did go to church but that is about it for the day. The pastor was rather long winded again and that will change next week when he has a time line to maintain, the second service will be back again for the year. I really had a hard time keeping on task after about the first 5 minutes or so.

I have been playing with the posts again. I have the second hole down as far as I am going and the post in it. Have to plumb it up and get it in the correct location, the backfill it. This time the soil is rather dry, but the rocks are still there. I didn’t go down as far as it had planned, since I ran into the layer of stones again. They are very closely packed together, so expect they will provide a good foundation for the posts. You sure know when the stones are there too. The posthole digger bounces and jars the body to the core. In the process I found a wasp nest and a bat hanging in the trim work. Dispatched both, but ran out of wasp spray so had to pick more up at the store yesterday. The bat surprised me and it didn’t like me messing with it.

Paid a snag (for us, but not really a big snag) of bills today. The one that hurts is the LP cost. I really don’t like that at all, especially since the price of oil and it’s by-products is going down. Bet the contract doesn’t! Wish I had a crystal ball and could buy at the time it will be the lowest price. Hope to get a bit less dependent on LP this year again. Last year we didn’t use as much as in the past, but we had a warmer than normal winter too. I think the smaller space heaters will help some this year as they will be on line for the whole winter. Got to get beating on trees though.

We ran across this old gal in a store window in Menominee while up there a bit ago. We thought she was kind of cute and reminded us of a couple of the gals at church in the quilt group. Well one in particular. Needless to say, the store sold fiber arts supplies. Fortunately it was closed (thanx to a difference of time zones between Michigan and Wisconsin) or we probably would have a couple more bags of stuff to bring home. Maybe another day.

Our part-time neighbors were up Friday for a few hours. At first it didn’t make a lot of sense to me, but there was an afternoon Packer game with lots of leftover tickets for sale. Many were re-sold for less than the face value or what they were originally bought for. Judging by the results of the game, it might have been better to not go and save the money. The Pickers are really having a tougher than usual time this year. Oh well - it’s just a game - to some of us,
Time to get a-going.

In Christ My Saviour,

Chris <><