Pretty decent Saturday

[johnridley]

OK, I did a pretty decent amount of cleaning in the garage, built a whole new set of hanging shelves to hold the tents and folding chairs. Last year I put them in the attic of the garage, and when I took them down this year there was an ant nest in there, which I didn't see because it was dark, but I picked a tent up and a few thousand ants fell on me. Bleh. Also it's hot up there (like 130*F or higher) and that's probably not good for the tent fabric.

Also, I finally got the angle grinder out and got all the rust off the older of my two hand trucks, and painted one side with rustoleum. I'm going to have a royal blue hand truck, because that's what color I had in the basement.

Also spent about 3 hours pulling weeds. It's time I should have spent months ago, but better late than never I guess. I did discover that we've got some volunteer cucumbers growing. We plant straight 8s, which I believe breed true, so they should be OK. There are only 4 plants but last year a half dozen plants generated about 10 times more cukes than we could ever eat anyway.

Also sprayed roundup on a strip around the pond (being careful not to overspray or get any into the water) and I'll be putting down fresh mulch tomorrow over that area.

After dark I gave up and started moving stuff in the media room; the crud in there is never going to get properly sorted or any more of it thrown out, so I'm just cramming it into corners or against the walls so we can at least roll the screen down and use the projector.

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[mbcrui.livejournal.com]

I need to resume the roundup attack on the burdock in the field behind the house. The cats and dog have been coming in covered with it.

And if I get my hand son the nephew whose bright idea it was to make burr-balls and throw them at each other, I'm going to make him pull burdock until his arms fall off.