Cloudy Tuesday

Bit more fall like today, cooler, gray and where suppose to have t-storms and rain today...if so it will be the first rain in nearly a month. I won't complain, we surely can use some rain. Looks as though the rest of the week is pretty similar chance of storms/showers each day, by the end of the week the highs in the low or near 70 mark, lows closing in on the upper 30's. To be expected as we are just a bit more than a week away from the 1st of October. (T-8) to the "Fling".

The past weekend was pretty uneventful, did not do much this past weekend. The Packers lost to Bengals on Sunday...the way they played the loss was more than deserved!

Did some winterizing yesterday, put most things that will freeze in the basement for the winter, caulked up a few things, used some foam to fill a couple big gaps a raccoon could have crawled through around my garage door. Plastic on the basement windows, still have a couple other windows that I'm going to cover for this winter and see if it makes a difference. Still have to put stabilizer in gas powered equipment and change the oil on the snow blower, those thing can wait until next month...I hope at least! Got to spread things out a bit, so there is at least a little bit to do everyday in order to keep from going nuts!

Well that's about all that's going on in my fun filled life for this entry. I guess I'll check out the 'gloom and doom' from everywhere else (News) and go look for something to do for today. Well keep the sunny side up and the dirty side down...I'm out of here!

This, that and the other thing!

With hump-day past and moving towards the weekend now this week has gone by slow. Temps have modified somewhat now, in the 70's with a little wind making it very nice. Still now rain in the near future.

Spent yesterday working on the renters back deck. Screwing down loose boards on the deck and railings. One wouldn't think that this would be an issue, but somehow these boards, while being screwed in work themselves loose. Due to a moronic move by previous owners using a colored stain, rather than using a clear sealer and letting the wood age and darken naturally...which in my opinion is a much better look than any 'color' you can put on, especially for a treated deck. I went through about 10 sanding discs and 3 belts to remove the stain and get the boards back to their somewhat original appearance. Once the sanding was complete then using a spray on deck wash and power sprayer the surface is now ready for the water seal treatment that will come today. Then there is a 24 hour drying period before normal use can take place once again. I am extremely glad that is all that needs to be done, as I am most certainly feeling the effects of the kneeling, stooping, bending and what not associated with getting the 10x10 deck to this point. But at least it's now done and will not need to be sealed again for two years, at least then the prep work will not require the sanding.

The leaves are steadily falling from the trees, couple of my trees are nearly devoid of all foliage already, fall officially hits early next week, time to start moving freezable indoors, draining hoses and getting ready for the long winter boredom of starring out the window counting the days until spring arrives once again. Having four season is a good thing, but I would like it much better if the 'winter' season were considerably shorter than what it is. In this part of the country it can be at best 5 months long (November to March) but can start in late October and last through mid-April making winter nearly 7 months, which is far, far to long!

Well that's about it for this morning, time to start getting ready to finish up the deck and then put everything away for a long winters night!

Another day in Paradise

Yet another Sunny/warm/jobless Monday morning...ahhhh yessss! Just wanted to start off by thanking the moronic fathead damnrats in Madison. Gas $2.59/gallon, Cigarettes $65/carton, increased taxes, levees for the Schools, higher property taxes and lower property prices, increase in garbarge service and lets not worry about spending million on a train that few will use. What great ideas! No affordable health insurance insight, higher cost for Home owners and Car insurance (least not forget the increase in minimum insurance as well as being required to have car insurance that will start in 2010) voondebahr! Okay, I feel better now!

Made a few updates/changes to the GNOLODGE website this past weekend. Mainly removing pages and adding higher visibility links to the the Little Tarparosa website. The GNO site will no longer receive any updates from here on out, in 2010 the domain name will expire and will not be renewed. Thus all new material and updates will be done via the Little Tarparosa site.

Worked on back deck this past weekend, adding some support as well as shoring up the attachment to the house that was becoming a bit weak. Finished up the fencing project by putting some patio blocks in the "walk-thru" gate area. Bit of clean-up and organization on the garage. Getting to that time of the year where the freezables will need to be moved from the garage to the basement as well as begin the winterizing of gas and the like. I still need to sand and seal the rental side back deck before the weather prohibits. The renters are slowly cleaning up the plants, vegetables and the like so I can have a uncluttered surface to work with.

T-17 today until the Fall Fling up north, looking forward to that. Pretty much the last hurrah of the 2009 season, as Deer Hunting this year is still kind of up in the air at this point in time anyway...may just have to 'pass' on it for this year?

Well that's about it for this time...got a few little project that I need to get working on, so until the next posting. Have a good day today and a better day tomorrow!

Catch-up Time

Well it's been a while since I've posted anything new, Middle of May was the last update. There have been a number of changes that have occured since that time. I'll hit the hi-lights and continue on from there:

1. After 22 years I've joined the other 18 million unemployed americans.
2. No luck on the search for a new job thus far, of course currently not the easiest thing in the world as there's 500 people applying for every job...even the crappy ones!
3. Interviewed with the city for Bus Driver job, but got a thanks, but no thanks letter on Friday.
4. Completed the trim work on the new shitter up north
5. Redid the antenna up north
6. New steps going from the garage to the house
7. Re-organized shelving in the gargage to make the most possible use of available space
8. Sanded and sealed all the decks at home
9. Had a 5' chainlink fence installed off the back deck.
10. Shored up the back deck leveling it off and re-routing downspouts
11. Father-in-law now living at house

In a nutshell that brings things up to date since May of this year. Packer beat Da Bears 21-15 tonight so that was a good game. The sun has been shining and its been in the 80's for going on 3 weeks now...never thought I'd say it, but I'm ready for some rain and T-storms! As far as I'm concerned it could be about 10-12 degrees cooler would suit me just fine! That's about it so now were up-to-date. Suppose I could go into more details but hell what's past is past onto the future. Fall Fling is coming up quickly now--starts September 30th - October 4th.

I'm going to call it quits for this one...try to get back to a more regular posting once again from here on out...