Saturday’s sunset.
Another weekend of working outside in the yard. Not on the wild space though. Saturday I finished weeding the area around the Chinese fringe flower tree on the front east corner, dug up some of the easter lilies and planted them closer to the tree but kept others to plant elsewhere where they will get more sun, got the tomato cages cleared of vines and hung in the barn, drove the truck over to the burn pile and Mikey and Eric emptied it for me, pruned off the low hanging branches off the crepe myrtles along the side of the barn. Sunday I set up the sprinkler moving it every thirty minutes. Even after all that rain we got in June and early this month the ground is already dry and cracking. I mowed the little backyard, finished putting bricks around the fringe tree, still have a couple of holes to fill where the pine tree stumps rotted away and spread pine needles.
Monday I hardly went outside. I had an early appointment at the lab in town to get blood drawn for my upcoming PC appointment next week. When I got there there were three people waiting outside and the place was closed. One of the people waiting happened to have the tech’s phone number and learned that she was going to be out until Thursday, that she had told them so but no replacement had showed up on Monday. Well, damn. Went home and got another early morning appointment for today (Tuesday) at the lab in Richmond, about 30 minutes away. So I got up early, again, jumped in the car and now I’m home having my coffee. No time to fill the empty bird feeder before I left and a cardinal just came and fluttered in front of the window right in front of me. So, yeah, now the bird feeder is full.
What I did Monday was work on resizing all the images I had previously sent to my friend who is writing the book on pate de verre. Turns out the ones I sent previously while they were all 300 dpi and big enough length and width they were all in the kilobyte range and she needed megabyte range for publishing. Don’t ask me to explain any further because I can’t. I had to find the raw images from when I took the pictures and figure out how I could crop/resize them without dropping in the KB range. I won’t go into detail but I did manage to crop and save most of them between 1.2 MB and 1.6 MB which she says is big enough. I had Photoshop Elements 11 but my new computer doesn’t support it and it would cost me $80 to upgrade. Worked on more today so hopefully she has enough the right size to pick from.
Today the faucet in the kitchen finally broke completely. It was one of those one handle things that swivels from side to side and back and forth for temp and flow and it’s been leaking for a couple of months getting worse and worse and last night it was gushing water from the swivel part but I could still turn it off. This morning it could no longer be turned off. Marc took it apart to see if it could be repaired but, nope. The weld that held the pin (that the handle attached to) to the ball completely broke so we went out and got a new set and Rocky is supposed to come by in the morning to install the new one.
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As usual, I wrote all this off and on during the day yesterday and never got it posted. Rocky is in the kitchen, head buried in the cabinet under the sink getting the new faucet installed. Yay! New faucet.
One last picture. The pinecone ginger, also called shampoo ginger, that Mary Moon sent me the roots for is blooming. Later when it’s done sending out the small creamy little flowers the cones will turn red.
What a funky looking plant! I want a photo of the red cone too. Mike used to do all of our plumbing, but he can't really stick his head under a sink anymore (with his back), so I guess we'll have to find a Rocky if we ever need anything that the landlord won't do.
ReplyDeleteGlad Rocky was able to help with the faucet! Resizing photos can be a pain. I don't entirely understand it myself. I used to have that pine cone lily (as we called it) when I was a kid in Florida -- it grew outside my bedroom window.
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