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From ***Daves blog. This was done in three long trips many years ago. Driving a load of portable toilets to Phoenix & hauling back sodium nitrate to Utica, MI (about 35 years ago). A meandering round trip to Hendersonville, NC in 1976 in an old Champion motor home, which I let my oldest son drive through West Virginia before I realized it was all downhill going South. And I didn’t know the brakes were crapping out! The last was a flying trip to FL for my mother’s hip replacement surgery. I flew to Orlando & then drove to Zephyr Hills. I found driving through miles of orange grove at 3AM in the summer can be nauseous from the citrus oil.

Wood chips

  Did I mention that I have this mountain of wood chips from some trees we had taken down last fall? We used some as mulch around some of the trees,but there is a lot left. I have been chipping some for composting today & also did some branches Mary brought back from the trip to the mailbox. I put the chipper up on ramps to give more clearance under it so I don’t have to rake stuff out so often.
  We cleared a table in the hobby room so we could start on some yard art work for gifts. Traveling tomorrow.

Sitting in the dark

until I decided an hour and a half was long enough to wait for Consumers to restore my power. So I started the generator up. Boy am I glad we bought that when we moved in. The dome was already wired for it when we bought,so we thought it might be a good idea to get one. It’s been a fun week what with the water softener, bathroom faucet and now the power failing. Oh,yeah. The power also knocked out the phone line too. At least we have the cell. Hope to get back to painting barrels tomorrow.