Good Morning!!!! 61F @ 8:15AM. Mainly sunny. High 86F. Winds NW at 10 to 20 mph.
Hope everything works out on your Mini 2, Ron. I really like the new big display for the app. Before, I couldn't see the battery meter, leaving me to guess how much flight time remained.
Sure am glad I have all these projects to keep me busy, especially with the stay-at-home restrictions in place. I can't imagine what people in large apartment complexes are going through, being cooped up for weeks at a time with nothing but the internet and a TV, and perhaps a few old fashioned books, to entertain themselves.
Sure hope everything's OK with our MIA members. Drew, hope the docs quickly figure out how to reclaim your good health.
The decomposed granite I've used around the house acts as a mulch, holding moisture in the soil. But unlike organic products, it won't burn once it dries out. In a climate that gets enough rain that the mulch stays moist, it probably doesn't matter. Here, we're pretty much done with the rainy season, and with temperatures headed into the 90s this weekend, organic mulch just acts as a fuse, conducting fire to whatever it touches. I feel sorry for my neighbor.
Got maybe ten feet of trench dug yesterday, all of it through solid rock. I think I understand now why the trench for the original conduit disappeared under the driveway, there was probably easier digging there. I'm also learning that this tractor is enough bigger than the old one that it's more difficult to use in close proximity to the house, especially since the boom is so tall it can easily hit the eves when working close to the tractor. So far I've avoided that, and I think I'm through the worst of the rock and almost into where the sprinkler lines and that such have already been buried. That means I'm back to pick and shovel for most of today, but it also means I'm pretty close to finishing the excavation.
The bulldozer neighbor will be down to collect his monster trench machine, and on the way home will stop at my bodyshop neighbor to dig a few trenches for him. The battery in the thing is long dead, so I'll probably have to help him jump it with the truck.
The Kubota dealer was supposed to have called back with a date for when the repairs would be complete on the old tractor, but not a peep from them yesterday. I'm planning to drag the trailer along for this weeks grocery run, and will just swing by there and pick it and the repair parts up, then do the work myself once the work for the solar system is complete. That small tractor may not be as strong as the new one, but in tight spaces like I'm in right now, it would have been a lot handier.
Hump Day sure came early this week...:confused3:
