June 23-29, 2019

Weather | 6/23,  0.06" rain, 64°, 75° | 6/24, 65°, 77° | 6/25, 61°, 85° | 6/26, 63°, 83° | 6/27, 67°, 89° | 6/28, 0.39" rain, 73°, 89° | 6/29, 67°, 90° |

• Sunday (6/23): Karen's birthday. She and Mom are returning home after a memorial service in Colorado for Aunt Lois. Text from Katie...she's working long hours. While driving to work, there was a semi-tanker that was upside down in the eastbound ditch of Highway 6. It plowed quite a furrow into the mud. Later, I learned that the driver went to the hospital with minor injuries. Trained 5 of my 6 dog training classes. One didn't show because of baseball/softball games involving kids. Mary picked handful of raspberries, started sweet potato slips (very late), made autumn olive crisp, and finished a cross-stitch ornament.
• Monday (6/24): Three dogs didn't show, so I only taught 1 class involving 2 dogs. Seems like most people aren't dedicated to keeping up with dog training. Mary baked 4 loaves of bread. She discovered that the bottom right shelf in the sunroom had mold starting to grow on books. It's from a leak in the roof that I need to fix.
• Tuesday (6/25): First, we worked on mold issues. Mary took a mild bleach solution and cleaned mold from the books, leaving them partially open outside in the sun on the porch. I took a stronger bleach solution to the ceiling and the book shelf in the sunroom. We have more mold issues in the house, but that starts working on the mold eradication process. I installed the last 3 top wires on the electrical fence in the near garden. With 13 wires going around that garden, it's starting to look like a penitentiary fence. But, if it keeps out the damn bunnies, who cares what it looks like. While getting electric fence insulators off old abandoned fences, I discovered more raspberries that Mary picked. We also discovered a place just beyond where we mow where deer are bedding down among a thicket of small persimmon trees. By the tiny hoof prints, it must be a fawn, which is probably why I spotted deer ears for a couple seconds just beyond that area while eating breakfast this morning. Mary mowed the lane.
• Wednesday (6/26): I tied baling twine around the top of the near garden fence. Got Mary to help steady the ladders and moved the caps over the tops of the center holes in the tops of the 2 grain bins, then wired them into place and put a new tarp strap over the cap of the first bin. Winter winds blew these caps to the side, allowing rain to enter. When I had to park the Cadillac at the end of the lane in the winter months, a squirrel chewed an inch of a wiring harnness connected to a plug-in to the side of the air filter. Using a new heat gun and some newer heat shrink connectors, I fixed 5 of the 6 wires that got chewed. Then, I used my engine code reader, cleared engine error codes, and the check engine and the traction control lights went out and stayed off, so I fixed that problem. Mary made tortillas and we had fajitas for our main meal.
• Thursday (6/27): Had 3 of my 4 dog training classes...1 didn't show up. Bill Fawcett, at work, said he's quitting Petco to work as a cook at a former employer of his. He will be getting more pay and regular daytime hours without needing to work weekends. His biggest complaint about Petco is other employees who don't do their jobs. I agree. I could tell that the Cadillac ran better with yesterday's fix. Apparently, the severed wires hindered air flow to the car's engine. Mary washed sheets, cleaned weeds off 1 of the compost piles, and cut hay. Katie sent 2 videos on Messenger. One was her being interviewed about what's she's doing. She sounded great...a really good ambassador for the Air National Guard.
• Saturday (6/29): Drove to Quincy and watched Toy Story 4 at the movie theater. It was good. Bought some items before going home.