What I’ve been up to....
Oct. 25th, 2017 01:33 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
osodecanelaIt’s been a while since I last posted. When the fires started, life got really busy. It’s now 2.5 weeks since this insanity began.
The fires in Lake County about the lake are now out. Most of the others in NorCal are nearing containment. However, we’re looking at another couple of weeks of dry dry weather, so it ain’t necessarily over. :( We desperately need rainy season to begin. We need it soon, but not deluges like last winter; with so much landscape burnt, if we have another hugely wet winter like the last, the landslides will be epic. I had joked for years California does indeed have 4 seasons- fire, flood, mud & fog. That crack is now retired.
I’ve been way too busy landscaping- the whole increasing defensible space around the house thing. I’ve been packing the green waste bucket to the gills and the brush pile near the front gate would support a pair of beavers for the winter.
Redbud, toyon, manzanita, apricot, lilac, flowering quince, cherry, apple and oaks all getting trimmed. There are over a half dozen oak species growing on my property. I have Jupiter’s Beard and pinks all gone to seed, all over my property and they have to be cut back severely. Similarly the iris foliage. I’m not looking forward to pruning the grapes.
Then there’s the remodel still in progress. The garage is rapidly becoming my studio/study. David has finished most of the work inside and has moved on to starting on the solarium we’re putting in behind the garage. He tore off the roof overhang today in preparation for the new construction.
Over the weekend, having moved most of what needed not to be in the living room out to my study where it belongs, allowed me to rearrange the living/dining room and create usable living space, rather than storage.
Tomorrow I will tackle the remainder of what has to he put away in the garage, and when that’s tone get the shipping boxes and packing materials off the porch and out of the dining room. Stuff getting sold on eBay will get listed and packed in the studio.
The fires in Lake County about the lake are now out. Most of the others in NorCal are nearing containment. However, we’re looking at another couple of weeks of dry dry weather, so it ain’t necessarily over. :( We desperately need rainy season to begin. We need it soon, but not deluges like last winter; with so much landscape burnt, if we have another hugely wet winter like the last, the landslides will be epic. I had joked for years California does indeed have 4 seasons- fire, flood, mud & fog. That crack is now retired.
I’ve been way too busy landscaping- the whole increasing defensible space around the house thing. I’ve been packing the green waste bucket to the gills and the brush pile near the front gate would support a pair of beavers for the winter.
Redbud, toyon, manzanita, apricot, lilac, flowering quince, cherry, apple and oaks all getting trimmed. There are over a half dozen oak species growing on my property. I have Jupiter’s Beard and pinks all gone to seed, all over my property and they have to be cut back severely. Similarly the iris foliage. I’m not looking forward to pruning the grapes.
Then there’s the remodel still in progress. The garage is rapidly becoming my studio/study. David has finished most of the work inside and has moved on to starting on the solarium we’re putting in behind the garage. He tore off the roof overhang today in preparation for the new construction.
Over the weekend, having moved most of what needed not to be in the living room out to my study where it belongs, allowed me to rearrange the living/dining room and create usable living space, rather than storage.
Tomorrow I will tackle the remainder of what has to he put away in the garage, and when that’s tone get the shipping boxes and packing materials off the porch and out of the dining room. Stuff getting sold on eBay will get listed and packed in the studio.
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