Today's work ticket
Take Quicksilver to a garage sale. I will give her a dollar for helping in the garden. I expect her to buy a stuffed animal with it.
Update: She bought a pair of sandals.
Plant more potatoes. I had a shipment of seed potatoes show up yesterday. I want to get four-hundred feet of row planted.
Update: One-hundred feet is about 100 "hills" of potatoes. I am averaging about 2 hills a minute. I work an hour and then rehydrate and sit under the ceiling fan for twenty-minutes. Lather, rinse, repeat. I don't think I am going to get to mowing today.
Plant the last four fruit trees. I have two Liberty/Bud-118 and one each Winecrisp/MM111 and Galarina/MM111 left.
Mow grass.
Heat
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I am not dealing with the sudden onset of heat very well this year. I need to buy some sweat-bands to keep the sweat out of my eyes. I am also thinking about purchasing a straw hat because I cannot find the one I wore last summer.
At least I can sweat. I worked with a guy who went through chemo-therapy and his hair fell out. He said the summer he had no hair was the hottest summer he ever endured. I think the damage to his hair follicles also damaged his ability to sweat.
Quicksilver Music Moment
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OJi-uKOlLV4&list=RDOJi-uKOlLV4&start_radio=1
ReplyDeleteAmazing Grace by the Pipes
Joe How did you store all your taters over winter? Did you plant any of them? Woody
ReplyDeleteYou'll give Q as much money (within reason) as is required, you miserable old so-and-so!!! And you'll LIKE it - or else!!!
ReplyDeleteI am peevish today because we are getting a windstorm and fricken snow again. My tarp lashings on the trailer gave way last night and it was flapping in the breeze this morn. As you are aware, I am the Ultimate Authority on ropes n' knots and such things. Apparently my Maker took exception and decided to teach me a lesson - a couple weeks before I was going to take the tarp off for the season. Lessons in humility are usually the most painful...
Can you buy me a treat at the garage sale too, Joe? It would go a long way towards restoring my deeply wounded pride...
:)
And stop working so hard! Yer making the rest of us look bad...
Digging 400 feet of spuds by hand is a lot of work. I used to do it but not since I was about your age. I got lucky and a friend gave me an old single row, tractor drawn digger that I fixed up and use. Sure made life easier. ---ken
ReplyDeleteBeautiful music! And yes, chemo screws up a LOT of body functions... sigh
ReplyDeleteEccrine (sweat glands) are not associated with or connected to hair follicles and the presence/absence of hair is unrelated to sweating.
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