List wasn’t enough
I had my weekend list all ready to go. It wasn’t overbearing considering I had an extended three day weekend to accomplish my tasks. The problem was the list evidently wasn’t enough for me. Saturday morning after I got the weeding done Cindy, Elsa and I went to my office. I had some after hours work to get done. Cindy spent that time cleaning my office which was nice. Elsa seems to like going to my office as well as she repeatedly ran excitedly up and down the halls, it was very cute. We also hung a shelf in my office to give me a better spot to display stuff like some of my cars and 3D prints which de-cluttered some other surfaces in the office which I liked.
After the office visit we went to Home Depot and picked up three 2 x 6 x 16 pressure treated boards. Getting those home in the Tacoma that has a six foot bed was a delicate operation since the boards extended a full 10 feet beyond the bed of the truck. When we got home Cindy and I worked on getting the boards hung across the orchard. I did this to add some more rigidity to the structure. This took awhile and this was the first of two rather large non-list items we did over the weekend. On Sunday I bought some more 2 x 6 to put in the intermediate supports you see in the picture.
Saturday afternoon it started to seriously look like rain but I started to mow anyway as it was one of the larger list items. I had some light rain drop on me for periods of time but nothing strong enough to make me stop. The new bahia sod we put in grows like weeds, in one weeks time it is already 7-8 inches high at spots.
Sunday was again a busy day. As I continued tending to my to do’s Cindy was tirelessly out in the orchard working on stuff, it is a very large area. She has been working on landscaping the spot for now going on three weeks. Sunday evening I finally got out to ride the demo Veteran Sherman wheel I was sent, the EUC with the biggest battery pack on the planet. All those batteries also make it the heaviest wheel around, tipping the scales at more than 80 pounds. I was immediately impressed and just how stable at speed the wheel felt.
I was originally hoping that by Labor Day I would have the list items mostly done, and I did, so I came up with other stuff to do. I did get to go out on an early ride to DD first thing which was the quickest round trip I ever had. The top speed I recorded was 36.5 MPH and the wheel felt like it had plenty more to give if I asked it to.
During the afternoon, with my list pretty complete I looked at the pool cage and was disgusted by how green the rails looked. I grabbed the electric pressure washer and did a speed pressure washing session. This was not one of my full sessions which takes hours when I use the gas pressure washer, I didn’t pull anything off the deck, I just moved stuff around. I also could not reach the highest parts of the pool cage as the electric washer doesn’t work well with extensions and is also about 1000 PSI less than the gas model. The “speed” run still took two hours. It was good enough to buy me a few months until I do a full session once the temperatures finally start to drop. My aching lower back did not approve of the task.
After I got done Cindy and I headed for an afternoon run to DD. As we did we drove through some hard rain. However when we returned a deluge event began, dumping at least 3-4 inches of rain on the property in a couple hours. The familiar standing water spots returned instantly and the pool was filled to the brim. It’s crazy how intense yet isolated these rain events in Florida can be. When I checked with some co-workers today they said they hadn’t seen a single drop.