Around Waynos house

[DRIVEN]

I really like that. Nice job!

[wayno]

Thanks, it still took a while, it was also wider because normally I use 9"X6" pavers on the sides and the paths are 24" wide, these are 8" wide so I have less room as all my rows are 40" apart, that path is 28" wide, I had to remove one plant(volunteer) that was in the way.

The Seascape variety Strawberry I have the most of do three things, they make a lot of babies, and they make a lot of strawberries, and they are an everbearing type, they do not taste as good as other varieties, but beggars cannot be choosers when one is trying to replace ones crops in the middle of the summer from being contaminated with the White strawberry variety, I will remove at least half of that Seascape variety as other varieties make babies like the "Quinault" variety and a couple other varieties I have, I will know which types I like more after this years crop.

[Taterhead]

All that patio/walkway work is paying off. It’s looking really nice. I like it
Wear some gloves man. I wore through a pair of good leather gloves doing that little patio I did.


Northern lights pics are nice. It was actually visible down here in some places. My wife has pictures on her phone of the sky having an overall purpleish glow at midnight last Friday.

[wayno]

All that patio/walkway work is paying off. It’s looking really nice. I like it
Wear some gloves man. I wore through a pair of good leather gloves doing that little patio I did.


Northern lights pics are nice. It was actually visible down here in some places. My wife has pictures on her phone of the sky having an overall purpleish glow at midnight last Friday.

I tried taking a couple photos but my camera failed to get anything that showed Northern Lights, the photos I posted were my neighbor's photos he took with his computer phone, they came out nice and were basically what we were seeing, maybe slightly better, I do not remember seeing that much red, but the sky was changing constantly, at one point I could see curtains and that was when I agreed with him that it was likely the Northern Lights.

I had never seen anything like that in my life, the night before I thought it was a haze to the NE, that might have been Northern Lights also.

I know I should wear gloves, I did that last long row and the one before it, but I figured out an easier way to do it also which made things easier on my hands/skin.

[wayno]

I am still putting pavers in between my rows of plants, but I am running out of pavers for the sides, I did another row yesterday and used cut pavers for the sides, along with them 710+ pavers I got half a pallet of cut ones, I spread them out on the ground and mated them to another cut paver, if they made a square or rectangle I used them on that far back row out of sight for the most part, I still have enough 12" red squares to do two more short rows, I may just make the two rows without the side pavers and wait till the fall to finish them if I can find more side pavers.

I am also eating Strawberries now, that Seascape Variety is prolific at making strawberries and baby plants, it is amazing how 8 of them plants filled all of them rows I have since July of last year, one row is the bought Quinault Variety that I bought this year, 5 more were part of the original 16 plants, and 3 others are another Variety I cannot remember the name of right now, I have not got one strawberry from the other two Variety's yet, but they do have Strawberries that have not ripened yet.

I put 5 or 6 of the Seascape variety starts in temporary containers and I am even eating strawberries from them also, I will post photos when I download them onto the computer, it seems like a hassle to download them anymore.

[DRIVEN]

Man, I miss strawberries..

[wayno]

Here are the two rows I have dine lately.

The one on the right is the one I did first, I was not sure I would put pavers there as the Blueberry bushes kind of grow over the row blocking the use of the pavers, but it looked weird as dirt, at least to me it did.



This is the one where I used cut pavers on the sides as I did not have enough whole ones, I needed to use them somewhere otherwise they would be in the way.







And here are random photos of my ripening strawberries that I likely have already eaten most, even ones in small containers have good tasting fruit.

[wayno]

I made one very long train for my coffee table track, it is so long there are no straight sections long enough for it to be completely straight, normally this could not be done as after a point the cars would be pulled off the track sideways in a curve, but I figured out if I put another locomotive in the middle of the train it keeps the cars in front of it on the track because it is sort of pushing them while the front locomotives are pulling them so there mis not enough sideways pull to pull them off the track, all these photos show 4 locomotives in front, 5 boxcars behind them, then a Switcher locomotive, then a light brown open top car, an oil tank car, a long flatbed, a open car with a chemical container in it, then the caboose, it is 15 locomotives/cars long.







In this last photo you can see the 4 locomotives in the distance pulling the train towards the West, but the caboose that is closest to us is being pulled East, this would be impossible without that locomotive in back of the 5th boxcar(blue) and the light brown car in back of it, at some point the cars in back of the 4 front locomotives would have been pulled from that upper level into the lower level.

[wayno]

I have so many ripe strawberries I cannot eat them all right now, I ate everything that was ripe in 2.5 rows out of 8 rows and I definitely feel like I ate too much, but ripe strawberries taste so good.

[Taterhead]

We didn’t do strawberries this year but we have already enjoyed some cucumbers.

[wayno]

We didn’t do strawberries this year but we have already enjoyed some cucumbers.

None of my plants that are type like Watermelon and Cucumbers have grown recently, it got cold and they are all shocked, I am hoping we get back to sunny days soon, they will likely start growing again when it gets warm.

I have started about 30 corn plants in the house where it is warm(ground temp needs to be 70+ degrees), it appears close to 13 have started successfully, I only put the seeds/dirt in a dixie cup a few days ago(maybe 3 days now), a few are close to 3" tall already, I hope to be able to plant them or at least put them outside by next Tuesday at the latest, we are starting a warm spell right now that ends Sunday, Tuesday it starts getting warm again, but who do any of us know who can be so wrong about the weather and yet still have a job.

[wayno]

Maybe I need fewer rows of Strawberries, after one goes thru a period of time where one does not have many strawberries to eat because they got contaminated by a white strawberry plant, then it appears I went overboard, 8 rows of which 7 are producing more strawberries than I have ever had before, way too many to eat yet I try to eat them all.

I have been buying timers recently again for each row(have more rows than I have ever had and timers go bad), before I am done I believe I will have over 20 automatic watering timers, one is for the water outlet, I set it to be open once or twice a day for an hour, I time it so all my rows get watered during that time, then it cuts the water off, I do this in case any of my timers get stuck open, I do not want it running on the ground all day like has happened in the past.

I will get a photo from the roof soon, with all the rows with pavers it will be different than it has ever been before.

[wayno]

I went golfing today at "Wild Wood", it's likely been a decade since I have been there, my first nine I hit 42 strokes, then I started eating Almond Clusters/Chocolate Almonds/Chocolate-coconut cookies, I did terrible the second nine(58 strokes) for an even 100 strokes, I want to be under a 100 strokes so today was a fail.

I am thinking the sugar affects me and I do not concentrate as well or I start swinging harder with the sugar high although I cannot feel the sugar high.

[DRIVEN]

I'm not a golfer, so I'll just assume that sucks. I quit sugar back in February and within a week noticed that my joints started feeling better. My eyes started to focus quicker too. I haven't been on a scale in years but I assume I dropped some weight because I lost 2 notches on my belt pretty quickly, then another a few weeks later. I only made it to May before I got lazy. Now I'm right back where I was. I think most people are more sugar sensitive than they think.

[wayno]

I guess it is a perspective, I think 100 strokes or more is terrible, but I read somewhere that most people that golf cannot get under 100 strokes, my average when it was kept track of by someone else I golfed with regularly was 93 strokes, that was quite a while ago now, maybe 10 or more years ago.

I did not know why all of a sudden my golfing got bad, and it stayed bad the rest of the game(I munched on candy the rest of the game), only after thinking about it for a while did I remember that I started munching on the candy(that is what I call it) driving from the 8th hole to the 9th hole, my first hit was fine on the 9th hole, but about 5 minutes after eating that candy I started screwing up, until then I was golfing great.

My joints hurt a lot anymore, but eventually I aways fall back into that candy eating routine, I will not take any candy with me when golfing for a while and see if that is really the issue, I do not get hungry ever, so I do not need it, I only need water.

I am on my last week of being a licensed contractor, June 9th is my last day of pressure washing as according to the new laws made since 2021 I have to be a licensed contractor to use a pressure washer if working for someone, it was not this way in the past, it is now against the law for kids to use their dads pressure washer to make extra money pressure washing a neighbor's driveway.

Originally I planned to cut back on my jobs which is actually easy, I quit pressure washing tile roofs 4 or 5 years ago, that was 70 percent of my work, since then I mostly pressure wash driveways and clean out peoples gutters, then I stopped doing gutters on steep roofs and roofs that were 2 stories high where I would need to go up and down the ladder a lot, I figured I would keep doing cement(driveways/patios/ect.) till the day I died, but I do not make enough doing that to rate the buying contractors insurance, so I guess it is over with.

[wayno]

This is what my garden looks like today.



I have one more long row to do, it is 34 feet long, I plan on using gray and red 12" pavers, not sure but as I recall I have 14 red ones and 59 gray ones, so every other row, so for every 4 gray ones a red one is the 5th, I am not sure how I am going to do it yet, my plan was 2 pavers wide, but plans can change if I find more pavers, I look every day.

I have started offering strawberries to the neighbors as I have way too many, they pick them though.

[wayno]

Well I fell off a ladder according to my customers neighbor, I do not remember falling off it, I was taken to a hospital not of my choosing(don't remember anything until I woke up in a hospital bed) and they said I have broken multiple ribs, did something to one of my lungs, broken my left cheekbone, and the left eye socket bone around my left eye is broken in some form, I have a black eye, black and blue right inside leg around the knee, and they showed me photos of a brain bleed, I am waiting this post as I sit in the Legacy waiting room, I am beat up real bad.

I am in the emergency room because I wake up all night every couple hours and take more ibuprofen(600mg) every couple hours, I woke up in agony 2 nights ago, I moved fast as I was hurting, I stood up at the end of my bed, got very dizzy and went down hitting my head on the way down.

I am writing this in the emergency room as I do not expect to be getting to the library anytime soon, I am using the hospitals WIFI right now.

I am functioning at the moment, I can walk without the walker short distances, I have other issues with this also, when I sit up when hurting in bed I get very dizzy and that is likely I went down the other night.

I do not expect to ever climb a ladder again.

[DRIVEN]

Geez, Wayno. Glad you're still around to tell the story, even if you don't remember it. Take it easy and heal up.

[wayno]

I am doing a lot better today, I got some sleep last night, I drove to the bank and library to use the WIFI.

[DRIVEN]

Glad to hear that. Sounds like it was a pretty serious tumble.