Productive

Friday I fixed the lawnmower - like I thought, it was the carburetor float stuck open, but the reason was not because it was "gunked up," like I supposed, but the arm coming from the throttle lever was not hooking up with the piece of wire going to the float. Once I hooked those up together I was able to mow. Got about half the backyard cut down, then moved on to the next project...

Tinkered with the biggest of the window A/C units & decided it wasn't fixable --not by me anyway-- so instead got another one out of the barn and put it in the kitchen window. The bigger one sat in the living room window and would have cooled the whole house, except it only ran once, till I touched it. Someone told me I shouldn't have touched it quite as hard, but I really don't think that's what it was.

Then we made a run to Lexington, picked up th'Mr's new desk and visited the Liquor Barn to the tune of $150.- Beer, wine, champagne, vodka, gin, tequila, rum, jack daniels and wild turkey. Happy camper, I am.

Forgot all about knitnight.

Saturday I caught up my email --that took several hours-- then at eleven I took off for the vet's (to get more flea dope - we'd had enough on hand to do only 3/4ths of the cats and no dog), who closes at noon Saturdays, and made a quick stop at Lowe's for a porcelain fixture for my closet. The switch on mine burnt out months ago. Got one of those, some wood glue for th'Mr's desk project, 50' of 12/3 cable ($16+ cheaper than buying an extension cord, considering I have cordcaps galore laying around getting dusty, some suet (I thought the birds only want that in the winter? Silly me for thinking.) which we're going through as fast as sugarwater, and another plant for the fence row. The plant is an evergreen which gets red foliage in the fall; it's in the bamboo family so it might be invasive. I'll do some research before making the final decision on where it gets planted.

When I got back from the vet/Lowe's run I cleaned the kitchen and woke up th'Mr --he swears during the week he does not sleep past noon like he does on the weekends-- and put together not one 50' but two 25' extension cords.

Then I assembled the desk. That took the rest of the day, since first I had to move out the old desk, clean the floor & wall and paint the wall before I could begin. Today I'll do the hutch; it shouldn't take near as long.