Sept/Oct 2023 Island Trip – Day 3

Last night was the final night of our planned power outages. Only 3.5 hours instead of the anticipated 8. While our local power company is in a very important support role for this mainland work, the efficiencies help their reputation in a situation that no one enjoys.

I did a batch of cleaning, rearranging, and mowing today:

• The area where one of the cabinets, adopted yesterday, had been on the wall was in need of rehab. There were mud wasp nests, more dead pill bugs, mats of spider webs, and rodent droppings needing eviction.
• Then the neat table, and items on it holding the cabinet in place, were distributed to their new homes. Next I took a long suffering dust buster and went after spider condos at the interface between the ceiling and walls of the upper barn, where my pest company owner had been eyeing the day before… I need an serious extension to the shop vac!
• Many garden tools were rinsed off and put away for the season.
• The early morning rain did not magically clean the truck bed, so I repositioned the truck, still ass downhill, where the pump room hose could reach it, and it is now clean. Not clean enough to picnic on, but clean enough for a beast of burden… and to deliver a table to a gal in the next couple of days!
• I mowed for, probably, 3+ hours today. Again, it’s amazing how much can be accomplished when the grass isn’t growing inches an hour. There’s maybe an hour left. And that’ll be it until late March/early April.

Tomorrow is trending toward social with a morning jam delivery to my AN, and an afternoon visit with friends for a cuppa tea on their amazing deck with an unsurpassed view.