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the hay bale was stuck under another, the top one couldn't move predictably because of that
pulled it with a truck strap, everything fell, well that was a bit of extra work with my one eye-handicap as well

ooh not as sloppy as that, i need to get them by hand or strap, that's were the young blokes who stack that up don't get it that it must be positionned exactly right

Day 6 of maybe now day 10 of brush cutting (please help).

Chemist. Gonna have to shave, as I'm smelling that random perfume a little more, but me sorta lazy. I'll just add another surgical to plug up gaps and make the seal tighter until I have to.

exercised, hiked to the desk
showered
ate some chocolate
watching the sunset

The fun thing known as grocery shopping (thank you neighbors). Apparently people have realized we aren't in a zombie apocalypse or airborne Ebola scenario, so supplies are closer to the usual. What's that, 2 months now? Not bad, humans. It's hard to turn off fear of that invisible death. Masks and spectacles have apparently been working, or maybe I'm just lucky.

As for the future of today, because Hume assumed too much:

Day 8 of day...god knows how many, of brush cutting. I may just pull out the guzzolene driven and end the suffering because battery powered sucks. Reminder: need to get new paint for the deck. White for handrails and general weatherproofing. Woodland gray or similar for floorboards.

grocery store trip
ate some chocolate

just got up. jeez louize. got outta bed.

Did a great Parkrun, had coffee and a chat with running mates afterwards.
Home for a shower and a snooze.
Doing prep work for timber restoration.
Going to do some shopping soon, going to cook a big roast with lots of potato pumpkin and onions.

Got the bathroom vent fan replaced and gave away about 600.00 worth of part of a 20 yrs worth of Halloween decor collection . Am making efforts to help sleep schedule, back in line.

Took a three-hour nap.

(Last night)
The great toad roundup
Followed by a short holiday
To greener pastures

I used to use .22 Shorts out of longer barreled .22LR rifles to cull the toad population, as native animals getting killed and all that by them. Brain shots so ethical enough (I'm only a fan of ethical as that's how I go), and no noise (pop) and mess (just a small hole in and out). From a high elevated position so exits went into the ground. The birds around here seem to have figured out how to eat them, so there's not many anymore and the smart ones hide. The crows seem to decimate them, so good job there; they're not all that ethical about it though, but they do eat a lot of them, so there's that. More joys of living in the middle of nowhere on tons of land.

Yesterday brush cutting, today will be brush cutting and it'll be brush cutting till I can't hold one up anymore. Too bad the lawn is growing as I'm wasting too much time with the stupid battery powered one, but I guess that doesn't matter as you get more out of the fuel used if you wait a little bit longer. Battery powered drills are good along with other tools you don't need to run constantly. That's made the job on the deck far easier than it would have been, and will be when I put new floorboards on (I'm not making the mistake the builders/carpenters have around here and I'm going in diagonally with the screws so water doesn't pool on top of the heads, which is what created all of the problems in the beginning).

shower and a shave
ate some chocolate
researched meditation

got outta the house and down to the local wallyworld for groceries, went to dan dial's lab and got zapped.

Addendum:

Off in the woods. I heard the unmistakable stick snap about...100 yards away (my left ear is too good), over a rise on a mountain. Thick stuff. Yes, someone was on my land. I spied him because me can turn to ghost. I followed him to a neighbor's lot until I couldn't see further. Didn't look like that neighbor, but not 100% sure. I retraced his path and he entered from the road on my lot, but no car. He didn't see me or he pretended he didn't, but I'm going with the former due to his movements. His path was pretty mundane and followed the easiest course through the path he chose and he didn't drop anything nor appeared to be looking for something. Gonna check out the road. Some more joys of living in the middle of nowhere.

I didn't want to alert him since I was unseen and that can bring its own issues.

Slightly suspicious.

Addendum #2:

I mostly figured that one out. Same deal as that terrible "biker" I mentioned in Random a couple of months back that went up the road that looked away from me (same neighbor's place I don't really know at all). This guy was about as terrible, just terrible in a different way. He tried his best to be sneaky. You can see where this one leads as said neighbor likes parties after all. Infil on my lot and no idea on exfil. Not much I can do other than be highly amused, though I'm miffed about the crossing through my land. Got a good description of the dude. I'd tell my mother, but she'd get worried; she kinda has more fears than I do with these things. It's happened before several years ago, though I wasn't sure of the intent back then, but in hindsight, I should have known that one.

I'm glad I didn't try to make contact. That hypervigilance comes in handy sometimes, as it wouldn't have been wise in this instance. Unlike say the odd local horse rider I see come on through that I'll talk to.

So, I guess I got the drop on a mule today, lol.