stubbed toes and mud pies

[flowerbug]

yesterday i was standing a little close to Mom and talking and she reached out and started to poke me repeatedly in the stomach so my voice was changing up and down and it got us both to laugh so hard and i gave her a big hug and told her how much i loved her.

 

[Marie2020]

if you search for the words "leak" and "roof" and in things i have written you will find some of the history.

here is some more info:

House | Anthive

The place we live in...

www.anthive.com

What a gorgeous fireplace. I love it.

Is this roof fixed now?

 

[flowerbug]

What a gorgeous fireplace. I love it.

Is this roof fixed now?

not until the weather gets warm enough that it can be repaired. too cold and caulk/sealer won't work and also if there is snow on the roof i don't want anyone up there. at most what will happen this winter is getting it tarped better so we don't have any more leaks until it gets repaired.

 

[flowerbug]

well, surprised this morning, the roofing people called and said they would come out and take a look and they did.

it's 22F and windy out but they went up there and took off the covers i had put down and then they looked around and then recaulked the flashing they had installed some years ago. he said the caulk they used is fine to apply down to 0F. they had to warm up a few times and warm up the caulk but they got it done.

so the bricks and pavers i put up there are now stacked up on top and they can stay there until next spring. hopefully this will be the last of the leaks. they left a pretty big new tarp with me to put down if it does leak and the bricks are already up there so we'll see how it goes.

 

[flowerbug]

today i may have finished cleaning up the last of the beans i sorted. i had three partial quart containers of Purple Dove beans that had some stickers still on them that needed to be removed, so while i was watching something else i was also laying here and removing stickers. stickers are just a bit of the bean pod connection stuff to the hylum. there is a technical name that i keep forgetting...

if you look up hilum it refers you to ovaries and gets very detailed. i mean eye-glazed-over level details. which i would love to memorize sometime before i croak, but there's a very good chance my brain will decline faster than it stores new memories before i reach that point. we shall, errrr, see...

this is nice and more succinct: "Plant anatomy is that field in botany that needs to cut into plants to be able to study its subject, as opposed to "plant morphology" (see category : Plant morphology) that can study its subject without resorting to a knife." but it does not address the issue i have in my pea brain...

anyways, back to the topic at hand. i cleaned up all three of those containers of stickers and thus the total amount of all three was combined into one single quart of Purple Dove beans that can then be combined back with all my other PD beans that will then mostly be eaten by us and other people eventually.

some of those beans will be set aside for seed samples and sharing. i have gobs of samples i already made up for previous seed swaps that have not been used up. i'm thinking i may just leave them alone for now and think more about that, but that is then another different topic which i won't be writing about tooon ite.

the point though (like the one on my head ) is that i may actually get more done tomorrow on combining all these samples. i have no big chores lined up and it is too cold to be outside for any reason - i do have projects i'm poking at but nothing is super pressing with those and it is good for me to take a bit of time to ponder some aspects of them anyways so a day off from them is quite ok. yes, i'm not at all being succinct here am i? but it is nice to be at this point at last.