Not A Drop

Looks like I cancelled my plans for nothing, because we have not gotten a single drop of rain today.  I could have gone to Batesville, except that I didn't really want to.  I wanted to stay home. 

It got dark and windy a few times, but no rain -- yet.  It rained all around us, and there is still a line of storms that might hit us later on this evening and into tomorrow.  With that in mind, I moved Mr. Mater and the other potted plants on my porch away from the edge and back up against the house.  

I thought for a minute about getting out and trying to mow, but the yard was still way too soggy.  Instead, I started cleaning this mess up--

which mostly involved throwing all the stuff over the fence into my side. 

I cut up some of the limbs into pieces that will fit my firepit until the battery on my mini chainsaw ran down.  By the time I charged it back up, it was too hot to be outside.   Too hot to want to, that is. 

I'm not exactly sure what kind of tree it was.  According to Google, it was a box elder, which makes so-so firewood, but since it's for the fire pit and not the fire place, it'll do.  Besides, it was free -- besides paying the man to cut it down, I mean, which would have had to be done anyway before I could get that fence replaced.  

I'm probably going to have to break out the big chainsaw to cut the bits of trunk up.  

The tree guy said he'd cut it into firewood lengths for me, but I wonder how big he thought my fire pit would be.  

Once it got to be too hot to be comfortable outside, I came in and cleaned two snake tanks.  I'd wanted to do the three I had left -- having cleaned out Onyx's last week-- but when I pulled the second bag of aspen shavings out from under the stand, I discovered it was only half a bag.  It was enough to do Slider's tank, but Sunny's will need a bag and a half by itself.  I'll have to order more before I can do his.  

I spent the rest of the day -- the part I wasn't doing laundry -- watching TV and making good progress on the BSJ. 

I've been watching loads of documentaries on Netflix.  Today I watched on the Astroworld tragedy a few years ago, when all those people got crushed to death in the mosh pits.  I also watched on called The Quilters, about men in a maximum security prison who make quilts for kids in foster care.  It was really good.  Then there was the one about the fertility clinic doctor who used his own sperm to inseminate women, instead of their husbands' and has over 100 biological children.  

And finally, I found this cute little gnome garden on Facebook. 

I'm not into gnomes, but I can adapt it into a fairy garden.