Late Summer Vacation 2011, Part 1

It has been a long week last week. It has been extremely hot. The air has been very wet, yet there has been no rain (apart from a storm that passed through Muncie last Friday). I have done no yard work for the past two weeks: But then, the yard has been in status because there has been no rain in Fairmount at all until this weekend.

Most of the yard is still brown from lack of rain … except for the crabgrass, which has been growing in hugh clumps throughout the yard. If the yard ever recovers — and I don’t see that happening until September, the way the rain has NOT been falling — I will do another weed/feed/seed on the lawn in preparation for winter.

Today is the start of my second summer vacation. I have nothing planned, apart from working on my driveway and taking the cat to the vet. I know she will not like that! She didn’t the last couple of times.

I have been working on the weeds that have been growing in the driveway next to house. I bought a stirrup hoe to cut the weeds under the gravel. The hoe works well in tearing up the weeds in a strip of gravel in the middle of my side of the driveway. It cleared up nicely, but I was so enthusiastic in hoeing that I found myself with a blister in the middle of the palm of my right hand! Ouch! I will have to put a pad on that hand when I start work on the weeds again tomorrow morning.

I have also been working on my personal server, Nabiki. I have installed a hard drive with more than three times the capacity of the old disk. That is the good thing about hard drive technology: If you wait long enough, the price comes down on more capacity. This will make my server a true storage area, since it has more than enough space for my needs. But I will have to plan how the storage will be set up.