earth moving, truck moving, and fumbly fingers

Had a little mishap Friday trying to seal a vacuum bag with a cup of tomato sauce in it. The little bastard slipped out of my fingers...

all over my shirt, both arms, the counter, down the front of the cabinet and on the floor. Fortunately it didn't get on my brand new light khaki shorts.

Heard a heavy truck noise outside the house Sunday morning and saw that John the septic/pad guy was unloading his tractor to spread out the dirt for the pad

which he did. 

Still have one truck and one car to move but they should be gone by end of the day today, I told him. I expect he's planning to dig the hole and trenches for the septic system in the next few days since he left his tractor here. (And in fact all the cars and trucks that have lived on the shop yard for 6 years are now gone leaving behind bare rectangles surrounded by weeds and all the neighbors are asking where the cars went.)

So now it's time to go pay for the house and get the cedar tree trimmed up. We have an appointment for next Friday and he says the house can be delivered early next week. Called the guy about the tree and it should get trimmed in the next few days. Once the house is here, next is to get the water/plumbing/septic system and electricity hooked up and then getting the AC/furnace installed and hooked up.

I think I have finally lost one of my diamond studs for good. I've misplaced the pair several times and always found them again but last Saturday I was out in the barn, the floor of which is covered in leaves and leaf mulch from years of not sweeping it out, and I moved a broom to get it out of the way so I could lift up the little tiller enough to get a plastic bag out from under it and when I did the broom knocked into one of those lamps on a stand with a circular florescent light (which is burned out and why it was in the barn til I get a replacement bulb) which disturbed some wasps building a nest in it and I got stung on the palm of my hand and my ear. I started slapping at my ear to chase away any others heading for my face as I stumbled back and fell on a stack of bags of mulch, getting up rubbing my ear as I hastily exited the barn through the far door and out into the yard where I finally realized my earring was gone. I went to the garage and got the wasp killer and blasted the shit out of them and the nest and looked down at the small clear area where I had been standing when I started slapping at my ear and there was the back of the earring but no sign of the diamond. I have no idea if it flew away when I was slapping at my ear or if I rubbed it out when I was walking through the barn to the other door and it fell in the leaf mulch somewhere but it is gone. Oh well. Easy come, easy go.

Dark and rumbly and a little rainy all day yesterday though all the real rain bypassed us to the north as it traveled east. That happens a lot. It's like we have a bubble over Wharton, rain passes by to the north or to the south. It was a lethargic day and I basically sat on the couch and read all day.

And what a great prank our tech savvy teens played on Trump and his reelection campaign. These kids reserved a million tickets using fake accounts which they deleted afterwards and the Trump campaign bought it hook, line, and sinker. They were expecting 100,000 people to show up, built a big outdoor stage to accommodate the overflow, idiots arrived days early to camp out to be sure and get a seat inside. The official count of attendees was something like 6,112. And that included all the security and all of Trump's campaign staff and the troop of paid (actor) attendees so the actual count of attendees to the rally is less. My sister read a report that Trump was so angry at the low turnout, raging at everyone backstage that he didn't want to go out, missed his cue and it was several minutes before his handlers could convince him to go on stage and give his ridiculous speech spending 10 minutes on drinking a glass of water and 20 minutes on how steep and slippery the ramp was. And of course they tried to blame the low turnout on the 'fake news' media with their virus fear mongering, then on protesters blocking the gate (3 gates and only one was closed for only about 15 minutes, everyone who wanted in, got in though those who were armed were turned away). Either he has fewer supporters than he thinks or they aren't as stupid as he thinks and had no intention of getting exposed to the virus. And because he has to punish someone for making him look bad he is now threatening to freeze subsidies to the poor unless Democrats repeal the ACA.

Time to figure out what I'm doing today.

red crinum lilies in bloom