Buzzkill prevention thread {capture and kill the bad juju}

[too larry]

Also moved all the roofing from the house on Saturday, the windiest day of the year so far. Not my choice, but the pile in the side yard was all in the front yard and heading east. It doesn't look like much, but I could make an exact copy of the house. If I had a lot of boards and stuff.




Heard a really scary story about a man not turning a sheet of tin loose fast enough after the wind took it. He's had three surgeries so far. That was wearing leather gloves. My only close call was when a half sheet came over the cab of the truck toward me. It got caught up in the open door, so I was able to corral it.

 

[too larry]

I got the busted corner of the shed cleared out.

 

[too larry]

I cut the broken oak and a leaning Chinaberry tree that was threatening the shed. I got both out to the road. I like the red wood of the chinaberry. It's a soft wood though. Never heard of it being sawed for lumber.

 

[too larry]

Today was the last day to get debris to the road. I feel like they will have no choice but to extend it again. I'm not near through, and I'm sure there is a ton of folks in the same boat.

Anyway got all the compressed board shit out of both sheds and to the road.

 

[too larry]

There are two kinds of debris they will pick up. Trees/vegetation, and building materials like boards, siding, roofing, etc. The two are not supposed to be stacked together, since they go to different places and are picked up by different crews. One of my neighbors is tossing building debris in with the trees. Not cool. I went along and got most of it out this afternoon. Not really that much shit, but I don't want to give them a chance to reject it.

 

[too larry]

I have the shoulder covered for about half of my 1/4 mile section.

 

[too larry]

Started the garden fence. Yesterday I got the little patch where I had the Indian Broad beans last year. I used the same wire. lol



I found a bean pod stuck in the wire. Seeds look like they would sprout.




Today I got about a 1/3 of the fence around the big garden done.

 

[too larry]

I found my garden stash. It did take a little elbow grease to get it open the first time. The tray trash was still smokable.

 

[too larry]

Last few days been working on the garden fence. Once I got on the south side, I remembered that I had cut some trees off the wrecked fence, but hadn't moved them. I put two RTV loads out to the road. There are a few more trees along the edge of the rough that I plan to ease down there when no one is looking.

It was so nice not having to open gates for the past seven months. I went wide on the side with the blueberries, so the gates didn't line up exactly like they were before. If we do what we used to do, we will walk around the fence when going to the graveyard.

 

[too larry]

No pictures, but I brought the bag of saved stuff from the burnt house up to the porch and the wife went through it. She found lots of family pictures and some of her school records when she was a kid in Germany. Also located her late brother's jewelry. She had worried about it being in the shed for years. So that is one less thing she can worry about. I'm glad to say the save pile was about 20% of the trash pile. Making progress.

We need to go through everything in the shed. I've been easing around the edges throwing shit away, but need to stick with it.

 

[too larry]

Two more tubs from the shed gone through by the wife. Three shirts for the thrift store, two for the cats and a big bag of trash for the rest. Two tubs of stuffed animals in the on deck circle.

Roofers e-mailed saying they will be here in the next two days to measure sheds. Weather is looking wet though.

More trees to the road. The big longleaf and a few oaks by the rough.

 

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[too larry]

Eating smoked meat is dangerous. I bet that cat didn't live long after that.

 

[too larry]

Roofers came to measure yesterday. Will be 2-3 weeks before they get started, weather dependent. I got the two big trees that were leaning over the shed, but there are a ton of small ones that all have to come out.

Speaking of debris, the trucks came around yesterday and got about half of my piles. Kind of hope they stay away for a few days so I can haul more out there.

 

[too larry]

Last night I was talking to one of my board members. He had a debris removal crew at his place yesterday, and they told him they would pick up whatever was put to the road by the end of May. He's in town and I'm out in the county, but I'm talking his word for it, and will keep dragging.

 

[too larry]

After looking at the pictures you might say, "Larry, this isn't your garden thread." And you would be right. But I did do some hurricane recovery out in the garden today. Straightened a bunch of tomato baskets. Some were easier to deal with than others.

 

[too larry]

I should have drug trees to the road, but I spent all day in the garden.

 

[cannabineer]

I should have drug trees to the road, but I spent all day in the garden.

Drug trees are a popular topic on this site.

 

[too larry]

Drug trees are a popular topic on this site.

Are my roots showing? I'll have to do a touchup. Cover up your redneck in just five minutes.

 

[cannabineer]

Are my roots showing? I'll have to do a touchup. Cover up your redneck in just five minutes.