Sunday, September 21, 2025

I was busy yesterday

I participate in a crew that does highway pick-up three times a year: Spring, Summer and Fall.

The straw-boss divided up the two mile stretch of M-50 into four sections and assigned men to teams for each section.

Yesterday I worked with Dan and Mark. Mark was exceptionally chatty, which is fine because somebody talking makes the work less boring.

Mark listens to a podcast put out by a VERY young priest somewhere down in Texas. The last podcast he listened to was on Luke 8:4-15 which is the parable of the sower who sowed seed on a field and some of the seed fell on the path, some fell on rocky ground, some fell among the thorny and some fell on fertile soil.

The only seed that produced a harvest fell on the good soil and it produced "...a hundredfold...".

The priest's homily took an unexpected turn when he asked his listeners to considered hearing "hundredfold" as "one-hundred percent loving God". 

Then Mark shared that he was born on December 30...and of course he had to look up Mark 12:30 out of curiosity. It reads "You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your mind, and with all your strength." 

Orchard reports

Saturday, I picked about a hundred pounds of Empire and Melrose apples to finish out the yearly canning of applesauce. I almost missed the Empire. The fell into my hand when I touched them. There were a lot more apples on the trees a week ago.

I got another piece of sheet metal hung on the deer blind. 

I dragged brush out of the tall grass where I had been unable to mow.

I got the mower-blade reinstalled. The "adaptor" I needed was a single 3/4" ID USS washer.

I set the mower deck to the highest setting and started mowing.

Dry and crispy


Image from NASA SPoRT-LiS

 
Close-up. I live somewhere within that white circle.
 

My door-to-door time was 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. with a 20 minute break to buy and gobble down a piece of gas-station pizza.

Good questions

Shamelessly borrowed from Midwestchick's blog.
 

8 comments:

  1. Heinlein's later books were all like that, just aimed to make you think.

    His young adult stuff was very good for young men to read., his polder stuff was very deep

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  2. Just think, if your pal Mark had been British he'd have looked for Mark 30-12 and found it didn't exist.

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  3. Heinlein can be very much hit or miss for me. But he does always make you think.

    Great job on the apples/applesauce!

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  4. Mr. Heinlein's book did get me thinking about his questions.. I still think about them.

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  5. Word of advice on gas station pizza. I once got a piece that had salty plastic bits that looked like the real salt on the same piece of pizza. I discovered this by scaping a molar that had something stuck to it. A "salt grain". I saved the rest of the piece and took it home to the wife for reporting. We forensically (heat) tested the salt to find that halfish, acted like plastic when heat treated.
    ALSO, we found the BEST gas station pizza at exit 188, I-40, just west of Nashville at a truck stop, like xlnt, pro, restaurant good. With REAL salt!

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  6. I've been a Heinlein fan since age nine. His books do tend to shake up a lot of preconceived ideas and cause you to think. That is one of the reasons I like his books so much.

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  7. Ah yes, the 'road crew' pick ups... Twice a year, and a PITA everytime due to the idjits not slowing down for us.

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  8. Pretty sure I live somewhere in that circle. It's part of your charm.

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