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Field Work and Cleaning the Chimney
Nov. 6th, 2022 06:20 pmWe've put this season's Jack-O-Lantern to work with its post-Halloween job.
( Birdseed Brain )
The weather was clear and blustery today, and probably the best weather we've had all week. Steve-the-plumber came to clean our chimney. While he worked on that, Lisa and I took our yard tools out to the East Lot and cleared another 100 m2 of field, including a long strip down the fence, which is of primary concern in case of fire. We feel a bit safer now.
I helped Steve pull our fireplace out of its insert space (it's designed to do so, but it's very heavy) and to push it back in after he'd cleaned from behind it. We're good to go for another year, which is good because there's a storm heading this way. We went to Gold Ranch again because the PowerBall is now up to nearly $2 billion. I'm still surprised how few people stick it out for what looks like hours in the main queue, even in the rain. I went to the self-service queue and only had to way for about twenty minutes, including the roughly one minute it took me to actually buy the quick-pick tickets from the self-service machine. With the jackpot this high, the idea of what we would do if we actually won gets mind boggling.
( Birdseed Brain )
The weather was clear and blustery today, and probably the best weather we've had all week. Steve-the-plumber came to clean our chimney. While he worked on that, Lisa and I took our yard tools out to the East Lot and cleared another 100 m2 of field, including a long strip down the fence, which is of primary concern in case of fire. We feel a bit safer now.
I helped Steve pull our fireplace out of its insert space (it's designed to do so, but it's very heavy) and to push it back in after he'd cleaned from behind it. We're good to go for another year, which is good because there's a storm heading this way. We went to Gold Ranch again because the PowerBall is now up to nearly $2 billion. I'm still surprised how few people stick it out for what looks like hours in the main queue, even in the rain. I went to the self-service queue and only had to way for about twenty minutes, including the roughly one minute it took me to actually buy the quick-pick tickets from the self-service machine. With the jackpot this high, the idea of what we would do if we actually won gets mind boggling.
