Slight Delay
Jul. 1st, 2006 04:19 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ellyssianJustin and I almost removed another 4x8' sheet - took longer to breathe than anything else. Deb wouldn't let me wake him up early, so we waited until after lunch. To work in an uninsulated attic room. When the sun is out.
I think we spontaneously combusted a few times, but we got better.
So, we wait. Even with the fan on, my hopes for working on it this evening aren't very high. Tomorrow, Monday, and Tuesday morning, no problem...
Have to mow the lawn this evening, and apply more Plantskydd. Need to get some anti-Japanese beetle stuff too. They were delayed in getting to us this year, but they're munching away on the sassafras and wisteria, and I'm sure they'll move on to other things as well. I'm still confident they emerge down the road - not confident enough to not treat for larvae earlier in the year - but they sweep into the southern corner of the property first, and gradually work their way north and north east. They don't seem to bother with the western bits. Guess those leaves don't taste as good, or aren't as good for their sexual exploits.
Played some quoits earlier today with Justin, Rachel, and Deb's cousin Mallory, who is staying with us until Sunday (I think...) She's somewhere between Justin and Rachel's age, likes helping out with Brandon, and throws quoits nearly asgood bad as us. Actually, everyone but Rachel hit a ringer today, which is a vast improvement. On average, we still miss the entire slate more often than not...
Might play a game of kubb later, when the girls get back from getting safflower oil and - shhhhhh, don't tell Justin - ice cream.
I don't know what it is about our mailbox, but the wasps like to build nests there - usually in the newspaper slot. So I sprayed the last gasp of Spectraside on them yesterday - enough to make the nest undesirable but not enough to knock the wasp out. Stupid and stubborn, the new nest is directly in front of where the mail door opens up. More wasp spray, too - hopefully Deb picks some more up at the store.
I think we spontaneously combusted a few times, but we got better.
So, we wait. Even with the fan on, my hopes for working on it this evening aren't very high. Tomorrow, Monday, and Tuesday morning, no problem...
Have to mow the lawn this evening, and apply more Plantskydd. Need to get some anti-Japanese beetle stuff too. They were delayed in getting to us this year, but they're munching away on the sassafras and wisteria, and I'm sure they'll move on to other things as well. I'm still confident they emerge down the road - not confident enough to not treat for larvae earlier in the year - but they sweep into the southern corner of the property first, and gradually work their way north and north east. They don't seem to bother with the western bits. Guess those leaves don't taste as good, or aren't as good for their sexual exploits.
Played some quoits earlier today with Justin, Rachel, and Deb's cousin Mallory, who is staying with us until Sunday (I think...) She's somewhere between Justin and Rachel's age, likes helping out with Brandon, and throws quoits nearly as
Might play a game of kubb later, when the girls get back from getting safflower oil and - shhhhhh, don't tell Justin - ice cream.
I don't know what it is about our mailbox, but the wasps like to build nests there - usually in the newspaper slot. So I sprayed the last gasp of Spectraside on them yesterday - enough to make the nest undesirable but not enough to knock the wasp out. Stupid and stubborn, the new nest is directly in front of where the mail door opens up. More wasp spray, too - hopefully Deb picks some more up at the store.
