9:48pm Thunder & Lightning all around us—the power went out for @ 3 seconds awhile ago, and we’ve been having trouble with the satellite signal. Heard a giant boom right before the power outage. Temps still warm and rain fairly steady, hard at times. Finally, rain. You can practically hear the lawn applauding!
Until @ 6:00pm the day was warm & mostly sunny, with occasional wind (geez, I sound like the Weather Channel); actually ‘warm’ is not accurate. It was quite hot in the sun, and whenever the breeze stopped you could really feel the heat. I had to water all my newly planted stuff twice today because the earth was being baked.
My work energy was sporadic, but I did manage to plant (swap out) a couple trees, outline the front flower bed w/David, remove rocks & plastic from under a front tree, and take a few pictures. One picture subject was the trench David dug from the garage to the shed, with a split to the *greenhouse site. Super hot day, and he’s breaking ground in the hard-packed, gravel-covered driveway. He also tilled up more sod near the driveway and along the walkway to the front door, and finished edging the garden fence with posts along the bottom.
The menu called for dinner out tonight, so @ 6 we headed to the Mexican restaurant in Lexington (had a coupon). Not thrilled (e.g. burrito vs. enchilada) but willing to go back to try something not on the “combo” menu. The other excitement of the day was Tessa & Vince getting nose-to-nose with the snapping turtle, who had ventured out of the water and was heading down the western slope. I came to see what they were barking at & sniffing, and when we saw the turtle David & I put the dogs inside and let the turtle hustle back into the pond. He is so prehistoric.
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| 'T' stands for 'Tessa' and 'Turtle' and 'Trouble' |
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| He can't catch a break from the paparazzi. |
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| "...and this is how I beat the hare." |
Yesterday started out interesting, as we had a 9:00am meeting with Joe & Linda of 'Chamber/Uptown of *Galion' to discuss new *business potential. Discussed an office supply store opportunity, and walked the streets to view properties ‘for rent’. There is much more research and number crunching to do, but it’s all sounding fairly
*greenhouse site: David was planning to build me a greenhouse between the garden and large outbuilding.
*Galion: The town to our west. Ironically, Galion was a town my dad had experience with back in the day, and when we first talked about moving to Ohio, he jokingly warned us to "stay away from Galion". His words were very wise, in hindsight...
*business potential: After so many months of freedom from employment, and coming off the successful sale of our previous business, we had made the decision to be self-employed again instead of look for routine jobs.
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