How Do You Spell Tired? L-A-M-B-S

Yep, the long awaited season has begun!  I won’t say much about it as lambs and poultry are Bet’s thing.  Just that I did a lot of helpin’ out last night and boy howdy I’m extra groggy this morning.  Dirt?   Extra cheery.  No lambs lost, though it was touch and go with two.

So how’d the four day weekend go?  We got a ton of stuff accomplished and Dirt has the first side of the fence for the gate up.  He “planted” the magnetic whatchamadiggy that senses a car leaving and opens the gate.  The gate that isn’t up yet.  That isn’t purchased yet.  The power line has been strung out on the pasture fence line for the gate. 

All that and he worked a little on my porch on Friday!  He made my vinyl panels and hung them. 

It was suggested that I get a particular tool for my scraping and sanding.  I researched, and low and behold the Real Farmer, Cliff, was right, I need Rockwell’s Sonicrafter to do this job and many others that are in our near future.  So my sanding and scraping is on hold until it arrives from Amazon sometime at the end of next week.

But I did work on the sanding scraping project.  Its true that for me on the screen porch there was nothing left to do.  But eventually the whole house gets done this spring and so the outside walls must be nakedized. 

Much to Dirt’s occasional chagrin I have plants that climb on the house.  His chagrin is only occasional because when they bloom he likes them and when it is blazing hot outside but cool on the inside without air conditioning he really likes them. 

But admittedly they are hard to work around when work must be done.  So I spent Friday cutting back and untangling my clematis on the northeast side of the house. 

Which of course led to redoing a much neglected shade garden.

I leave you with that update on things around here Clever Reader, I tell you all about the goings on in the Hippy Hot Hut a bit later this week.  For now, I’m out to the Market Garden to see how much the wind blew ’round the floating row cover.  Once this row cover is finally shredded and I need to purchase replacement, I’m going to go with the heaviest, not just for the increase in temperature protection but for durability.  I originally bought the thinnest so that I would have maximum light transmission but it is like working with toilet paper, cheap toilet paper.  I have it doubled up in so many spots to cover tears and holes that I don’t have the light transmission I thought I would any way.  I’ve used the thicker stuff before, and now, I prefer it.

I wrote that this morning before I caved from pain.   Called the eye doctor and luckily they had a cancellation.  The short of it.  Excoriated Eyeball, aka Corneal Abrasion – severe enough to warrant a complete scolding by the eye doc – he threatened me with scar tissue that would permanently effect my vision. 

No contact lens in the left eye until it heals and I get new contacts.  No reading, no computer, (shhh I just took this little minute to tell you why I won’t be on the computer.) evidently no knitting either as I thought I could do it without looking, not so much, wowie zowie it is killing me. 

Better eye protection while working especially in the greenhouse, no waiting five years in between contact lenses and no rubbing while they are in.  Oooh I’m an eye rub-er  major.  Okay, I’m done, my eye is watering even though I’m closing my eyes a lot. 

The eye heals quick – I hope so, I could go nuts.  Oh and pictures for the above when I can see.  And a humorous complaint about what those of us who can’t see two feet in front of us go through at the eye doc. Well, and are not decision makers.

One or two, two or three, one…. two…. back to one….