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Heat Wave

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Today was our day to go into the city to do our big shopping trip.

We didn’t finish.

We currently have more weather warnings. This time for heat!

I took the above screenshot shortly before 4:30pm. We might actually go a bit higher before it starts cooling down. 30C/86F is hot enough, but check out the humidex expected for Monday! 40C = 104F

We’ve been getting enough rain lately that our municipality has removed the burn ban, completely. No restrictions at all right now! We have lots that needs to be burned, but with the heat, who wants to be around fire right now? :-D

And we don’t have air conditioning in the van anymore, nor even working fans in the console.

It did make the trip into the city … interesting!

We managed to get to the Walmart and the Costco to stock up. After gassing up at the Costco, we were going to go to a couple more places. Then road construction and detours had us doing a route march through residential areas (why are they designed to be such mazes???) before we could back track, go back through the construction, and finally take a road that would get us to the street we needed, albeit at a different spot than I was originally after. By that time, I was done. We just went home.

Part of the reason I was okay with doing that is because my daughter asked for an extra trip into the city, which we’ll be doing tomorrow. She’s buying us a new stove! Since we’ll be in the city again anyhow, we can also pick up the rest of the stuff we need for the month.

Considering she is using her savings and had to quit her job, I am extremely grateful that she is willing to do this for us. The stove we have has only three working elements right now – we stopped using the 4th when we saw sparks every time we turned it on – and even those don’t heat up well, among other issues.

There isn’t much in the monthly shop we need to get, though. The freezer and pantry are stocked up again. We also have lots of cat food and litter – we’d run out of both, completely, as of this morning! The only things left are the items we don’t want to get in bulk quantities, like fresh fruits and vegetables, or ingredients we can only find in various ethnic sections of a grocery franchise we regularly visit now.

With the current heat wave, getting work done outside is going to be difficult. Unless I start getting up at 5am, while it’s still cooler (well; not so much over the next few days). I might just have to start going that. Which means, no more staying up until 2am!

It would mean kicking cats off my bed, too. :-D

Oh, to have the life of our cats! <3

The Re-Farmer

Clean up: more basement progress

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The girls did a wonderful job in the basement, while I was baking bread! They got the big stuff moved back to the now-bleached and dry corner, the wire mesh over the counter to the unfinished bar, and a lot more cleaning, sweeping, scrubbing and vacuuming of cobwebs. :-D

Here are the before and after shots.

The wire mesh is up, and the more fragile items, and things potentially harmful to cats, are starting to be put into here. Eventually, a door of some sort will be rigged up, so the cat’s won’t be able to get in.

The pieces of Styrofoam at that long shelf were taken out of the windows. They were put in for the winter, before we moved here. They are cut to fit so snugly – and so much stuff was in the way – that we hadn’t been able to get them out before. Now, when the insulation around the outside of the house it moved away until next winter, there will be natural light in the basement.

Also, my daughters are hilarious.

Too funny!

Also, I guess I don’t have to ask what they found while cleaning.

I don’t want to know what the “mystery meat” or “soup” was. :-D

The table, shelves and cabinet are now all cleaned up and usable again.

They also started to haul stuff outside, including all the garbage bags.

A trip to the dump soon is definitely in order!!

Since I was down there anyhow, I checked out an old radio/record player that’s against another wall.

Except the record player part is gutted.

What about the radio? I was curious, so I stuck my phone around the back and took a blind shot.

Huh. Amazing. It hasn’t been completely gutted!

I have no idea what this is supposed to look like, but I’m sure there are parts and pieces missing.

For now, we have no plans to move this thing anywhere. I admit, for me, it’s more because I don’t want to deal with all the stuff shoved behind it.

Bit by bit, it’s getting done!

The Re-Farmer

I love it!

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Yesterday evening, my older daughter told me I needed to go check out my rocks.

After some initial confusion, having already completely forgotten that I’d spray painted some rocks in the yard bright orange, I went and took a look.

Then squealed with glee.

Somewhere in between cleaning the eaves and working on various other things, she took the time to grab some stencils and a can of spray paint from her supplies, and made my day!

:-D

The Re-Farmer

Having some fun

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As I mentioned in my previous post, today’s snowfall was perfect snowman snow!

My daughters agreed.

They called me upstairs without telling me why, to see if I would notice their new friend.

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His name is Nail.

Rusty Nail.

For some reason, there was a rusty nail on the roof, so they incorporated it into their little snow dude.

Yes, they made a snowman on the roof, outside their window.

Then used ink to make a face.

As we were talking about it and how the snow is perfect for making snowmen, they started commenting on how they should make a big one in the yard.

Then they promptly headed out to do exactly that.

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Here is my older daughter, adding the final touches.

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Meet Eunice.

I wonder how the deer will handle seeing it there?  It’s right near the feeding station.

When they were done, my older daughter came in, but my younger daughter stayed out to pet the outside cats.

Then she made this, facing my office window.

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I’m told it’s not finished yet, so it doesn’t have a name.

Apparently, it needs abs.

I love my daughters.

The Re-Farmer