Summer Southwest Monsoons
Jul. 23rd, 2005 09:13 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
billeylerToday feels like the monsoon is finally upon us...about two weeks late, but I'll take it! Hurricane Emily may have had the final push to move that high out of the way. 9 in the morning, 77, overcast and 50% humidity.
Already spent a couple of hours doing yardwork this morning, since Mike took off to go white water rafting at 7. You'd think in a desert there wouldn't be that much to do, but oh no...I have to be the gardener-guy and have drip irrigation everywhere!
Finally finished hacking the ivy away from the deck to that I can weatherproof the outside of it. More slow-go on the stiles and railing, but once that's done, the deck proper should be a cinch. Hope I can at least get the rails done by noon, so I can start on the deck boards.
Then of course is the priming and painting of the lower edge and the underneath. I bet there's sanding I'll have to do. And of course that will morph into all the trim on the house that is sadly in need of sanding, scraping, priming and painting. Ugh.
Had been looking for a stray Spanish Broom to transplant back in the bare-ish part of the back and found one when I was clearing the ivy away! Yahoo! Finally, something I didn't have to go out and buy.
Time to get busy again!
Already spent a couple of hours doing yardwork this morning, since Mike took off to go white water rafting at 7. You'd think in a desert there wouldn't be that much to do, but oh no...I have to be the gardener-guy and have drip irrigation everywhere!
Finally finished hacking the ivy away from the deck to that I can weatherproof the outside of it. More slow-go on the stiles and railing, but once that's done, the deck proper should be a cinch. Hope I can at least get the rails done by noon, so I can start on the deck boards.
Then of course is the priming and painting of the lower edge and the underneath. I bet there's sanding I'll have to do. And of course that will morph into all the trim on the house that is sadly in need of sanding, scraping, priming and painting. Ugh.
Had been looking for a stray Spanish Broom to transplant back in the bare-ish part of the back and found one when I was clearing the ivy away! Yahoo! Finally, something I didn't have to go out and buy.
Time to get busy again!
