Long, long list

So I hit the ground of my nine day staycation with both feet, literally, starting off early Saturday with 13 laps around the middle school track.  My legs felt dead and heavy for most of the run.  I also had a sharp pain that gradually mellowed in that same spot on my right side that hurts during dragon flags.  I finished the distance, which is all that mattered.

When I got back Cindy had already cleaned the chicken coop which was nice.  I jumped right into weeding the property.  After finishing up I ate breakfast and started on the first of many small projects of the day.  I wanted to set up my new Pentair Dorado pool cleaner.  I made a video out of it although there wasn’t really much to the process.  The most impactful part of the video is the appearance of the pool at the start and how it looked three hours later.  The bristle design of the vacuum scrubs as well as sucks, something my Hayward Navigator could never do.

I also shot a video outlining the install of my super cheap $28.99 security camera I bought to replace a dead one.  The camera mounting hardware sort of sucked and only allowed you to adjust the angle of the cam EITHER left/right OR up/down, but not both.  In some situations that could be a real problem but with where I was putting the camera a downward angle was all that was required.  The 1080P picture quality was good, superior to the 720P camera it replaced.

So AFTER I finished these two projects I constructed my to do list which had a total of 15 items on it.  Once we got back from a late morning Home Depot/Dunkin Donuts ride with the dogs I just started digging into projects left and right.  None of the projects were massive, it was just a collection of things that I have been on my “need to get done” list for awhile but had not for one reason or another.

I changed the oil on the Prius, installed new seat covers on the Tacoma, did some 3D printing work and a number of other things.  By the time Saturday ended I had knocked 6 or 7 things off the list.  I thought that was a good total for one day.

Sunday morning Cindy and I did our second Dunkin Donuts ride in as many weeks.  However this time Cindy was on her road bike instead of the Segway and I was on my Msuper.  We carried a FAST pace for most of the ride, averaging over 20 mph for a lot of the time and even touching 25 mph briefly when Cindy wanted to race.  It was a fun ride for sure.

I dug back into the list, knocking off items as much as I could.  One sad task was cutting down the apple tree that has been part of our property for well over a decade.  Hurricane Irma partially uprooted the tree.  It was already not in great shape but it never recovered after the storm and was totally dead.  I had a tinge of sadness in my heart as I cut it to ground level and drug it to the fill pit to be unceremoniously tossed in with all the other organic debris.

By the time we left for dinner I had only three items left on my staycation list, all of which I hope to knock out today.  Sunday night we went to Cheesecake Factory for Cindy’s neice’s 18th birthday.  All of Cindy’s local family was there so it was me and five females.  I had a couple Miller Lites to take the edge off and the end result was a good time by all.  I don’t think I had patronized the restaurant for around three years, when Katie turned 21.

This morning the roofers arrived bright and early and are currently unleashing hell on our old roofing material.  The house is one big noise factory with somewhere around a dozen guys busting ass above us.  The company we are using is expensive but good, really good.  I am looking forward to a life under cool, durable, and reflective metal for the foreseeable future.

Time to get back to work!