This weekend we managed to get the canopy off my new-to-me truck. It's a huge hi-canopy with screened sliding windows and a nice little internal light; aluminum, so it's moveable, but it's not easy.

We set up 2x4s across the bed under the canopy, then from one side of the bed to the immediately-adjacent strawpile so we never had to take its full ( Read more... )

Mom and brother showed up Friday night. Saturday we went into town and picked up my new (to me) truck, spent a long time doing the transfer papers and insurance since there's definitely a staffing bottleneck in the city, at least on Saturdays, and drove her home. She's lovely. Driving her is also going to take some getting used to, this is a very ( Read more... )

I'm so tired lately. Still. We've had some grey and rainy days - well, grey and drizzly on-and-off - which is great for the garden. They tend to be days I want to sleep in, maybe from so many years in landscaping where we often got rainy days off.

I don't ordinarily want to sleep in, though, and this has been many days in a row. I'm not completely ( Read more... )

I want to talk about my relationship stuff right now. I'm in a situation where my boundaries have been trespassed so the bubble they protect needs to get bigger. I need to compromise less, to be, well, not less understanding but less willing to bend. I need to pull harder on Threshold, my primary relationship, and invest more time and love into ( Read more... )