71\u00a0 bar steady 29.64 0mph SE\u00a0 dew-point 51\u00a0 Beltane, Sunny and warm<\/p>\n
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Ah, Costco.\u00a0 A vast and cavernous market, as much a temple to the American obsession with stuff as store.\u00a0 Two 40 pound bags of mature dog dogfood, Kirkland, and a box of dog biscuits plus $100 on the Costco gas card, a sort of futures market in which I bet that Costco prices will\u00a0be under those of the competitor gas stations.\u00a0 After a trip in which each tankfull of 11 gallons or so cost over $44 in my compact Toyota Celica, it seems like a good wager.\u00a0 Through the lines with others and their carts, as American as fast food and credit cards, I spent $161 dollars on dog nourishment and car nourishment.<\/p>\n
Back home I put the dogfood in the container we use for it, then went out to the\u00a0shed that Jon built.\u00a0 It houses the chainsaw.\u00a0 When I found it needed gas, I had to schlep out to the further shed where I store the sharp and mechanical tools as well as gas and oil.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Filled up I hiked out to the front yard and began pruning branches off Amur maples.\u00a0 The first one to go was the one I mentioned yesterday, broken in some storm or another.\u00a0 Then a couple that had long impinged on a spruce and a Norway pine.\u00a0 At another clump of Amur’s I pruned some large dead branches, small trunks really all of these, and a few low hanging live ones.<\/p>\n
While Kate mowed, I moved these cumbersome items down the hill and into the huge storm water drainage depression we share with our neighbor.\u00a0 This wise feature is as far across as our lot and goes back about three hundred feet.\u00a0 It slopes on all four sides down to a level bottom.\u00a0 This ensures that the run off our roofs and yards soak into the soil, rather than into nearby wetlands or Roundlake.\u00a0 Since it has no other purpose and is large, it can hide many branches, even tree trunks with no impairment of our view.<\/p>\n
Kate’s finished mowing and I’m taking her out to lunch.\u00a0 Bye.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
71\u00a0 bar steady 29.64 0mph SE\u00a0 dew-point 51\u00a0 Beltane, Sunny and warm \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 First Quarter of the Flower Moon Ah, Costco.\u00a0 A vast and cavernous market, as much a temple to the American obsession with stuff as store.\u00a0 Two 40 pound bags of mature dog dogfood, Kirkland, and a box of dog biscuits plus $100 … Continue reading No Impairment of Our View<\/span>