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Home Improvement
Jul. 27th, 2020 03:50 pmIt has been a busy couple of days here. We spent a lot of time tearing down and rebuilding a fence. When Kitty was still around, and for a little while after, we had dogs, so there's a disused dog run, and building off that is the veggie garden. When we put up the fences, Fox was working alone and so it was, unfortunately, not the best job. So we pulled up the posts and tore down the fencing around the dog run, built up a stable new fence around the garden beds, and got most of the work done. But when we called it quits on Sunday it was insanely hot and we'd been at it since early that morning.
Then the tap in my shower failed and was allowing water to leak everywhere, so that was a late-night, too late for Home Depot thing we had to take care of the next day. I like the new tap though, I didn't realize how much I was having to twist and wrench the old taps to just get the water to shut off. And Fox ended up needing to go to the neighbor's again to re-run some CAT cables because her dog chewed through the ones he ran back in March. She's still working from home and needed that on Sunday as well, but it's not that hard and Fox doesn't seem to mind helping her out.
It's almost August, which means it'll be September soon, which means it's almost October. I started looking around for some October reads, hoping for some new horror/thriller stuff. The top comment on this Reddit post is a gold mine. I like Stephen King just fine, but I've also been reading King novels most of my life and want something different. I will probably see about picking up the anthologies mentioned. I've read some pretty long works recently, just finished The Poisonwood Bible, and currently on The Priory of the Orange Tree.
I took a couple of days off from running last week, as I thought I might, but I'm back to it this week. If nothing else, it allows me to eat more than if I were more sedentary. And I think I'm definitely going to run a personal half marathon that weekend, just around here, and see how much my time has improved. Fox said for a more authentic RunDisney experience, he can always chase me around on the tractor with some balloons tied to the back so I can panic thinking I'm about to get swept. Then go home and eat my own bodyweight in pancakes. HUZZAH.
Then the tap in my shower failed and was allowing water to leak everywhere, so that was a late-night, too late for Home Depot thing we had to take care of the next day. I like the new tap though, I didn't realize how much I was having to twist and wrench the old taps to just get the water to shut off. And Fox ended up needing to go to the neighbor's again to re-run some CAT cables because her dog chewed through the ones he ran back in March. She's still working from home and needed that on Sunday as well, but it's not that hard and Fox doesn't seem to mind helping her out.
It's almost August, which means it'll be September soon, which means it's almost October. I started looking around for some October reads, hoping for some new horror/thriller stuff. The top comment on this Reddit post is a gold mine. I like Stephen King just fine, but I've also been reading King novels most of my life and want something different. I will probably see about picking up the anthologies mentioned. I've read some pretty long works recently, just finished The Poisonwood Bible, and currently on The Priory of the Orange Tree.
I took a couple of days off from running last week, as I thought I might, but I'm back to it this week. If nothing else, it allows me to eat more than if I were more sedentary. And I think I'm definitely going to run a personal half marathon that weekend, just around here, and see how much my time has improved. Fox said for a more authentic RunDisney experience, he can always chase me around on the tractor with some balloons tied to the back so I can panic thinking I'm about to get swept. Then go home and eat my own bodyweight in pancakes. HUZZAH.
