My normal pattern is to pay the bills first after getting paid. This time I am doing things a little different. I went ahead and ordered the new camera and the shade fabric for the solarium before paying the bills. I'll get around to paying bills tonight.
I also ordered some landscaping staples. Completely disgusted by the price of them at local outlets. Harbor Freight used to carry them but not any more. Hard to believe how much stores charge for little pieces of bent metal. To get a decent price, I had to order 500 of them. Oh, well. Chances are I'll never have to order landscape staples for the rest of my life. But at least ordering that many they come out to $.06/each (including shipping). They're also longer than average. Average length is 4" and these are 6", so they should hold really well.
I had already ordered extra batteries, a charger and a memory card for the camera a few weeks ago. (When I thought I would receive the correct camera the first time.)
I still expect that I can pay the bills and be able to put a decent amount in savings this pay period.
Though I am happy milder weather is coming up, so the utility bills will decrease. One hope for the shade fabric (in conjunction with the insulation) is that it will be easier to keep the house comfortable with less effort and cost.
Just sticking with the same pattern of saving posts as a draft and adding to it, rather than making multiple posts in one day.
I was planning on getting to the gym tonight. Then this afternoon I started having pain to both sides of my lower chest or upper abdomen. Not sure of the cause but no medication has helped. Figured if I felt better after walking the dog, I would go ahead and go. I'm back from walking the dog and not feeling much different. Probably nothing big but going to skip it just in case. No urge to make anything worse.
I think instead I'll stick around here and work on getting more of the irrigation system going and clean house a bit more before daughter comes over tomorrow.
Will probably compromise by doing some weight lifting with the dumbbells tonight.
Okay, it's after 7. Took a lot less effort so far to get the second irrigation zone up and running. However, I suspect there may be a pressure leak somewhere. I'm letting it run for a few hours. Maybe tomorrow I'll be able to locate any leaks better. If there is no pressure leak that means one style of new sprinkler isn't going to work in that zone. More likely to work in the front yard, which is smaller so has higher pressure.
Installed the metal straps on the compost tumbler door to keep it from warping in the sun. Seems to work fairly well. I am already seeing faster results from using the tumbler as opposed to the compost pile. 2-3 more weeks and I think this batch will be useable. Now that the door will stay in place, I do need to open it up every day or two, tumble it and aerate the contents. I have air holes drilled in the sides but if it's not being tumbled the stuff on the bottom starts going into anearobic decomposition, which is not so good for the soil. Not really bad because once it gets mixed in the soil it will be aerated.
Need to cook dinner, clean house a little and go to bed.
I also ordered some landscaping staples. Completely disgusted by the price of them at local outlets. Harbor Freight used to carry them but not any more. Hard to believe how much stores charge for little pieces of bent metal. To get a decent price, I had to order 500 of them. Oh, well. Chances are I'll never have to order landscape staples for the rest of my life. But at least ordering that many they come out to $.06/each (including shipping). They're also longer than average. Average length is 4" and these are 6", so they should hold really well.
I had already ordered extra batteries, a charger and a memory card for the camera a few weeks ago. (When I thought I would receive the correct camera the first time.)
I still expect that I can pay the bills and be able to put a decent amount in savings this pay period.
Though I am happy milder weather is coming up, so the utility bills will decrease. One hope for the shade fabric (in conjunction with the insulation) is that it will be easier to keep the house comfortable with less effort and cost.
Just sticking with the same pattern of saving posts as a draft and adding to it, rather than making multiple posts in one day.
I was planning on getting to the gym tonight. Then this afternoon I started having pain to both sides of my lower chest or upper abdomen. Not sure of the cause but no medication has helped. Figured if I felt better after walking the dog, I would go ahead and go. I'm back from walking the dog and not feeling much different. Probably nothing big but going to skip it just in case. No urge to make anything worse.
I think instead I'll stick around here and work on getting more of the irrigation system going and clean house a bit more before daughter comes over tomorrow.
Will probably compromise by doing some weight lifting with the dumbbells tonight.
Okay, it's after 7. Took a lot less effort so far to get the second irrigation zone up and running. However, I suspect there may be a pressure leak somewhere. I'm letting it run for a few hours. Maybe tomorrow I'll be able to locate any leaks better. If there is no pressure leak that means one style of new sprinkler isn't going to work in that zone. More likely to work in the front yard, which is smaller so has higher pressure.
Installed the metal straps on the compost tumbler door to keep it from warping in the sun. Seems to work fairly well. I am already seeing faster results from using the tumbler as opposed to the compost pile. 2-3 more weeks and I think this batch will be useable. Now that the door will stay in place, I do need to open it up every day or two, tumble it and aerate the contents. I have air holes drilled in the sides but if it's not being tumbled the stuff on the bottom starts going into anearobic decomposition, which is not so good for the soil. Not really bad because once it gets mixed in the soil it will be aerated.
Need to cook dinner, clean house a little and go to bed.
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