I’m not nearly as sore as I should be, but I’ve been front-loading Aleve. And the effort it took to load 2 of the 5 fifty-pound bags of sand straightened out the kink between my shoulders that’s been there for, oh, six months, so not all ill winds blow no good—and I quit before I had a heart attack, eh?
Today we thought we had a line on some good basalt, but alas, we drove out 18 miles, past Long Lake and up above Nine Mile Falls…and it turned out to be a gravel pit. Wah! However—we have 5 tons of rock arriving on Thursday, white river rock, which will do the dry stream bed, and will require a lot of wheelbarrow action. Most of them will be big rocks, too, head-sized to potato-sized, which you cannot shovel, so we will have to glove-up and pitch those up onto the lawn and hope to make a sort of a long-distance pile.
We were disappointed about the rock, and are about to conclude we will have to get that last bit of basalt we want the old-fashioned way: steal it. Once again the masked marauders in the silver Forester will try not to get chidden by the highway patrol for stopping on the highway and taking rock.
We maintain we are saving people who need to pull off from hitting a nasty fallen rock. It’s odd—you have to get along the roadsides early in the spring, because the stuff has a way of starting to disappear about that time of year.
Is early spring when the highway department can turn its attention from snow removal to road maintenance? Or is that road removal and snow maintenance? 😛 Pre-emptive Aleve or Advil strikes can save you from a lot of pain.
Road maintenance…? There is such a thing near Spokane? We haven’t even gotten the road stripes repainted since the snow plows removed them, so on some streets it’s more a matter of negotiating as to who takes what part of the road.
OTOH, they’ve decided to rip up several miles of I-90 on the edge of town, while 2nd street is still mostly missing downtown—snow fell, the crews left the project, and some intersections that should have a stoplight are still a case of “After you, Alphonse? Oops! Sorry about that.”
My front yard (one cannot call it a lawn) needs a few feet of new soil and sod for grass. Want to tackle that next? 😀 what it will get are about three bags of soil spread wafer thin and some grass seed and fertilizer, plus water.
On the other hand, the Great Gardening Experiment is starting to show…sprouts, tiny shoots just above the soil. Not sure yet about two of the veggies, but two are doing well. A bit of luck, and home-grown tomatoes, bell peppers, green onions, and maybe radishes should be available eventually.
I am given to undrrstand that fresh granite has a delightful, varied crunch and taste, while basalt is best with a bit of lava sauce for flavor, as it tends to be dry. I’m not sure. O think the Horta had one too many petroleum cocktails….
If it’s only 3 bags, put the dirt in a fertilizer spreader and you’ll get good general coverage.
Oh, almost forgot — Amazon shipped Conspirator, Deceiver, and Betrayer yesterday and today, and they say the books should arrive btwn the 8th and 12th. Books *usually* arrive sooner than said, so Friday or Tuesday!
Tonight, I actually have time to *read*!
A couple of days ago, I read a little about Japanese lang. and grammar. Hoping to test my language mettle with something non-European, plus it’ll help my understanding of anime and culture there.
Amazon just told me my copy of Betrayer shipped – very excited!! We are all very excited over at Shejidan, where it will be the May Babbler read. I haven’t noticed people have said much here about it, but you should know we are jumping up and down.
Aren’t we still following the ’30 days after release silence’ rule?
Please do not do spoilers for 30 days! Give people a chance to get their copies and read them!
No worries! there is a spoiler thread at Shejidan where people who’ve read it are confining their comments, and I doubt anyone would violate that rule here 🙂 I only wanted to say that we are all very excited.
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You guys are the best!
Methinks you should call the local high school track coach and offer free practice to his or her shot-putters 🙂
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