Saturday, April 8
Apr. 9th, 2023 03:16 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
gottawonderToday I am grateful for:
Very nice weather. Very warm for April.
My Sweetie worked with the contractor to get one part of the trim done inside the windows. There is much more that will need to happen yet, but that one part is done.
It was pretty annoying to have to keep the cats and Roxy from interfering with their work, but we managed. I had to put them in the bedroom, until they needed to do the bedroom window, so then they all had to go to the sunroom, you get the picture.
Then we went to the transfer station with all the winter's accumulated garbage/stuff from working on the house. It's been most of the winter since we last went.
Nice to get rid of it all.
Chatted with the woman who works there. It's been the same woman the whole time we've lived here, so about 15 years now.
I wasn't very happy to see that there was a ton of stuff in the burn pit again that was not just old pallets and yard waste. One of those huge television screens, a broken aquarium, couches, plastic stuff, even scrap metal.
As much as I like the woman who works there, part of her job is supposed to be keeping people from throwing things that aren't supposed to be burned into that pit. I know that she is afraid to enforce the rules in case someone decides to retaliate against her in some way. She's had a hard life, and I don't exactly blame her for worrying, but it upsets me to see stuff like that being burned too.
People are dicks. They KNOW that stuff isn't supposed to be in the burn pit, but they can't be bothered to dispose of it at the proper landfill area (which, to be fair, is now a very long distance, and you have to pay to dump things there).
We came home and raked up a lot of the hay that has built up in Hollywood's pen over the winter, and burned what we could. The rest was too wet, and we piled it up to allow the snow to melt (hay insulates the ice underneath it).
Then I spent some time grooming the ponies. Their manes are so thick that it is a real job to get through them.
We came in and watched "The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent", which was pretty hilarious. It was basically Nicolas Cage satirizing himself and his career. A bit. It was a lot of fun, more so if you've watched a lot of his films over the years.
I learned that Al Capone Ran a Soup Kitchen During the Great Depression and served free meals to thousands of unemployed people every day.
https://www.history.com/news/al-capone-great-depression-soup-kitchen
Very nice weather. Very warm for April.
My Sweetie worked with the contractor to get one part of the trim done inside the windows. There is much more that will need to happen yet, but that one part is done.
It was pretty annoying to have to keep the cats and Roxy from interfering with their work, but we managed. I had to put them in the bedroom, until they needed to do the bedroom window, so then they all had to go to the sunroom, you get the picture.
Then we went to the transfer station with all the winter's accumulated garbage/stuff from working on the house. It's been most of the winter since we last went.
Nice to get rid of it all.
Chatted with the woman who works there. It's been the same woman the whole time we've lived here, so about 15 years now.
I wasn't very happy to see that there was a ton of stuff in the burn pit again that was not just old pallets and yard waste. One of those huge television screens, a broken aquarium, couches, plastic stuff, even scrap metal.
As much as I like the woman who works there, part of her job is supposed to be keeping people from throwing things that aren't supposed to be burned into that pit. I know that she is afraid to enforce the rules in case someone decides to retaliate against her in some way. She's had a hard life, and I don't exactly blame her for worrying, but it upsets me to see stuff like that being burned too.
People are dicks. They KNOW that stuff isn't supposed to be in the burn pit, but they can't be bothered to dispose of it at the proper landfill area (which, to be fair, is now a very long distance, and you have to pay to dump things there).
We came home and raked up a lot of the hay that has built up in Hollywood's pen over the winter, and burned what we could. The rest was too wet, and we piled it up to allow the snow to melt (hay insulates the ice underneath it).
Then I spent some time grooming the ponies. Their manes are so thick that it is a real job to get through them.
We came in and watched "The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent", which was pretty hilarious. It was basically Nicolas Cage satirizing himself and his career. A bit. It was a lot of fun, more so if you've watched a lot of his films over the years.
I learned that Al Capone Ran a Soup Kitchen During the Great Depression and served free meals to thousands of unemployed people every day.
https://www.history.com/news/al-capone-great-depression-soup-kitchen
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Date: 2023-04-09 09:02 pm (UTC)