10-29-2026 — Beastly Beauty
Howdy all. After yesterday, I am pretty beat up. With the little work I did, and spending a couple hours outside as the lawn service team did their work, my allergies kicked in full force for the evening/night. Tough breathing. And then the muscles and joints made sure I knew I had did a little weeding and clearing myself. Not a fun night trying to sleep. But, around 3:30 or so, sleep kicked in, and it was 7:15 five minutes later??? As I worked to get out of bed, and do my morning rituals, I was glad I had moved the trash cans to the curb the evening before. Waste Management has been arriving earlier and earlier the last couple of months. They picked up at 8:35 today.
I did have time to grab the broken shower head unit from the 2nd bath and bag it and toss it in one of the cans as their truck was approaching. I haven’t tried to install the new one quite yet. Still sore and tired. Maybe tomorrow..
It is a pretty day outside, other than the air quality making some haze visible towards the horizons.
A friend wanted to see fall color, so her it is.
Even the fluffy clouds look nice.
And some nice back-lit leaves too.
24 hours after Weaver’s Lawn Service removed virtually every leaf from the backyard. They look pretty in the sky. But they look like trash on the grass!!
This part is not that nice. And yes, it is beastly breathing out there.
Oh, BTW, it is noonish, and a solid 72 degrees outside. May see some rain, for the first time in weeks, later this afternoon/evening. It would be nice to rinse the air some.
I’ve started another list of things to do, now that the “handyman” list is getting closer to all crossed off. Still need that showerhead, and my 3-panel hair-cutting mirror hung, and the cable-chase fixed in the hall. I will do the first two sometime soon. The last involves getting down on the floor to work on the chase. Not something this old man can do.
The new list has things like, another hair-cut, get outside and remove hoses for the winter, and bring the snowblower from the shed to the garage, and get my indoor garden refreshed for the winter. I’ll likely remove the oldest tomato plants, and plant new ones, and then plant sunflowers (mini ones) in another of the containers, and basil in the other.
Yep, I’m preparing for that long, long winter. It won’t be fun, but even with the difficulties, I want to Enjoy Life