Today and tomorrow will be rough days for North and South Carolina and Georgia. Hurricane Florence will be headed ashore. Y’all stay safe and good luck.

Yesterday I “moved in” to a new phone, a Samsung Galaxy S9. It seems quite different than my old S7. So far, I’m neutral.

Speaking of neutral, I’m feeling pretty neutral today, blah. It’s almost the weekend! The weather looks very clear today, I think it’s a day I can ride my scooter to work.

Yesterday afternoon, I started on the overhanging trees on the back property line. My left forearm is very sore, I think from chucking pieces of wood over the fence. I’ll probably wait till Sunday to do some more.

Have a great day!

Humpday. I went for a run/swim. Fed the animals pictured above, and those not pictured, outside. I shaved and showered and made my coffee and lunch. I feel that I’ve accomplished enough for today.

Who called it? I called it! See the orange X circled below? Yesterday it was a yellow X, much closer to Cayman. It’s the storm that we had last weekend and earlier this week.  

Although the forecast predicted rain all week, it all moved away and now there’s a 60% chance it will become a storm. And the weather looks pretty good today too!

Now it’s time to head to work.  Blah. Have a great day!

I should have taken a “Before-I-Trimmed-The-Trees” picture, but I didn’t. I didn’t think the change would be so drastic. Above is an ‘after’. Before, you almost couldn’t even see the yard. The poincianna (sp?) tree near the middle was twice as big, covering the area to the left, and was practically touching the porch where I’m stnding to take the pic. Out of the frame to the left, there were two (three maybe?) small mango trees that I cut down. They were weird, scrawny trees, that reached out oddly for the light, covering the cactus bed, the round  circle of rocks thing on the left. Another practically covered The Jamaica Apple tree in the lower left corner.

In the picture, you still can’t even see our back fence. The trees on the property behind ours reach way over the fence and steal the sun from my wifes’ screen house, (that shed looking thing). I’m going to trim those as well. A lot. They’re mostly nasty, scrubby trees with thorns. It will be a rough job, almost guaranteed to scratch me and make me bleed. Don’t care, I’ll get it done. If it ever stops raining. Then the picture above will be the “Before” pic in my upcoming after I trimmed the back trees pic. You’ll be able to plainly see the fence after that.  

It’s supposed to rain all week, I predict this rain will move away and create another tropical weather system that will head north. Hopefully not a hurricane, but probably a tropical storm. That’s my prediction.

The wordpress App has practically totally quit working for me. Images fail to upload. I don’t know what happened. Maybe I’ll uninstall and reinstall it, see if that does any good.

Have a great day! And stay dry!

Yesterday, between rainstorms, I neatly trimmed the heck out of our trees. in the back and side yards.

I really like the pole trimmer/electric chainsaw I bought.

My pole saw, the saw comes off, and becomes a chainsaw

We, (the wife helped, even running the chainsaw!) really opened up the back yard to more light, and neatened up the yard a lot! And there’s still lots to do.

I know you lumberjacks out there are saying, “That’s not a chainsaw, it’s a little toy!” Well, it gets the job done, and I was originally planning on getting a big ‘ol gas chainsaw, but gas engines, when they sit around, tend to not start and need a lot more maintenance than electrics. Plus, I’ll hopefully only need it once a year. I’m happy with the one I got!

Here, it’s very rainy, with rain expected all week. It rained a lot yesterday.

Now I gotta go make my lunch, and get ready for work. Have a great week!

Tropical Storm Issac, soon to be Hurricane Issac, is headed our way, looks like.

The WordPress App is giving troubles again. I’m posting thiss from the browser. I don’t know what happened. Images won’t upload, it also says the post failed to upload, when indeed it did.

Now I’m going to go chainsaw some tree limbs!

Have a great Sunday!

Today, I mowed the yard, the architect came buy and has started the quote for the plans for the ‘under-room’. After that we went and I bought an electric chainsaw/ pole trimmer. The chainsaw can go on the end of a long pole, for reaching high branches.

We also had lunch at Seve Mile Burgers, a new burger place.

It was quite good, I had a burger and fries, then ordered another burger. My wife says you can tell a good burger when yu don’t have to add anything, no ketchup, mustard or mayo, it’s good just the way they serve it. This was the case.

We did some gocery shopping and came home, and I found out I needed “Bar and Chain Oil” for the chain on the chainsaw, so we had to run back to town and decided to take Sheba for the ride.

Sheba loves a ride in the car.!

Tonight it’s steaks on the grill and tomorrow, major tree trimming.

Have a great evening!

This morning to the east was crystal clear, no haze, no clouds, the crescent moon looked extremely sharp and clear, much better than normal.

To the west was the opposite, huge thunderhead clouds, bright lightning and loud thunder.

I took Sheba on my walk/swim this morning, and made her “Stay!” on the end of the dock while I swam.

Then we came back and I showered, dressed, made coffee and out on the back porch to post and saw the above rainbows. I say rainbowS because there were really two, and the almost make a complete arch across the sky.

Yesterday, as you may have read, started off yukky, but after a great beach lunch I felt much better. Today, I feel much better, and it’s FRIDAY!!!!!

Have a great weekend!

Got up this morning, went for my run/swim, Sheba (our dog) ususally wants to come with me, but not this morning. Too lazy.

I need to make my lunch, but I just can’t seem to be able to. Too lazy.

I’m trying to post a post but it’s very difficult and I can’t think of anything. Too lazy.

I’m going to work, but I really really don’t wanna. To lazy.

I’m too lazy today, Sheba’s too lazy, as far as I can tell, everyones too lazy.

Let’s just cancel the day today, and go tomorrow.

I thought yesterday was going to be a lot worse than it was. I saw the new architect, and it went well I like the guy. And I got my modem replaced so now I have internet again. Both were much less painful than anticipated.

Yesterday morning, I thought yesterday was going to be hell day.

I called the phone company, told them my new modem wasn’t working, The receptionist, (who I’ve been talking to quite a lot he last few days, she’s the good one.) said she’d call the tech and call me back. She called back, said bring the modem in, but don’t go in the front door go around to the side where the trucks are ask for so-and-so. So-and-So. I went, and So-and-So took my modem in the back, and in a half hour with the modem (a modem) all programmed and ready to go.

Why couldn’t thaat have been done last Friday? Or Saturday? Also the room was FULL of modems. I knew they had modems in the store! On the phone, they seemed to say that the planest modems only existed on the technicians truck.

I got home and made a nice little wood and brass thingy to hold the modem.

That’s my WiFi access code in the tape, so you’ll have it when you come over.

So now all is well. And it’s time for me head off to work.

Have a great day!

I am sick with disappointment about my internet still being down since Friday.

After repeated calls, I finally got a new modem yesterday afternoon, It was bad. I’ll be taking it back today. Couldn’t log on to access the settings, couldn’t connect to the internet with a computer plugged directly into the modem. All the lights worked though, it looked fine, as long as you didn’t try to use it!

Today I’m meeting with a new architect, starting from scratch. The old architect ripped me off completely.

Does anyone else have this much difficulty whenever they try and do anything? Is it me?

Had a good run/swim this morning. I think my foot’s back to normal.

I’ll post this when I get to work, where there’s wifi. Have a great day!