Wind

No rain today but lots of wind.

Ron and I emptied the washtub and put the seaweed and “tea” on the new garden plot.

Cindy and her family buried her mother and SO today.

Ron drove Robert to and from the Hyannis store.  I rode along to check out, and buy, a landscape rake at Home Depot.  Works pretty well, even on wet soil.

Some intestinal distress today.

Rain. Planting Done.

It rained all day, so I was working on MRS stuff instead of being outside.

Late afternoon, I went out in flip-flops to pick up the paper; it was cold and miserable.  Being dressed inappropriately for the conditions threw me off balance.  I’ve worked on the yard in weather like this, even worse.  The thought that I’m getting older just annoyed me.

Ron offered to cook and brought home almost two pounds of gorgeous salmon steaks.   While he started puttering, I turned on the electric fireplace, put a load of laundry in the washer and dressed to work in the rain:  shorts, workboots and yellow slicker.

This was just about the ideal outfit for a mid-50 degree rain, and there was enough light to work.  After a couple of false starts, I decided on final placement yesterday and was able this afternoon to put the two roses, three grasses and three strawberries in the ground.  It was very easy going, easy digging and easy to get everyone out of their pots.

I tripped over something and fell, but one of the hydrangeas slowed me down, which didn’t do it any good, poor thing.

I saw one of the rabbits on the way back in.

 

Some People Should Just Keep It Buttoned

I’ve been having trouble for weeks with a previously reliable VPN, SonicWall.

BSOD every time it ran for even a couple of minutes.

I tried every remedy I could find.  One developer noted that it only BSOD’d when running over wifi.

So, yesterday, I bought a 50 foot cat5 cable online from Staples.  Not the cheapest, but still pretty cheap, and I could pick it up at the store in Falmouth.

I’m not sure if the person who fulfilled my order was trying to be helpful, or if he was trying to upsell me, or just a self-important pain in the butt.

He started out by lecturing me about why I should be using wifi.  He then lectured me about how the Comcast combination modem/router was probably at fault, that it was slow, etc.

Meanwhile, he was fumbling around trying to figure out how to fulfill a prepaid order.

I think some people should just mind their own business.  Literally.