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Brian Bilbrey

This is my belly ...

Would you scratch it for me? I'd trade her in on a working dog, especially one that does house-cleaning. But Lexi is so darned cute. * * * Today, shopping, and more yardwork. I finished dismantling and bagging the junk on the concrete pad. I'll arrange for a "large item" pickup from the trash provider sometime later this week. Very happy to have that done. I also dressed all of the garden beds with manure and leaf compost... and turned over three of them. I'll knock out the rest later this week. Overall, I managed about 12 hours of yardwork,…

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Brian Bilbrey

Spring Chores

Spring cleaning extends to the outside of the house, too. I had a pile of stuff from the dismantling and rebuilding of the front fence last fall. Y'see, by the time the fence had been rebuilt and the stain on the front-facing portions of the fence ... well, ice and rain were falling out of the sky. So I left the pile for Spring. Now, it's the time, so I took that pile, and amended my mulching/composting box. Now it looks like this: I constructed that atop the old, low (10") box I'd previously used for the purpose. Now it…

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Brian Bilbrey

Sprung

At least I think Spring has sprung. Of course, there was frost on the grass and rooftops this morning, and we have two more of those mornings in the forecast. But I did do some significant yardwork yesterday, clearing the winter debris and die-off from the front yard. I also did the early Spring fertilizing on the lawns. Also accomplished: not too damn much. I finished playing Bioshock Infinite, which was fun, even though I saw the ending coming from about a million miles away. Fun game, good story. Nice drive by on Rapture, right near the end, too. In…

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Brian Bilbrey

Spring #WTF

Yesterday: chores and such. Today: shopping, chores and such. And along with those and exercise, a startlement. I was just getting into the groove on the elliptical, when I looked up and out to see ... snow. Sigh. Really? Yup. Wasn't much, didn't stick to roads or sidewalks, but seriously I'm officially tired of snow. I want a couple of months of high 50's to low 70's. What I'm a'feared of is a direct transition to summer mode. That'll have me wishing for more snow in less than a couple of days. Here's what it looked like out the back…

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