Walked on the Route today, starting around 2:30pm. On uphill, rolled up shirt sleeves and pants to make vitamin D. Have done this my last 3 walks, including yesterday's LL hike. Not sure if rash on forearms is from sun or from pruning evergreens yesterday. Yard work that remains to be done is daunting. Will try to tackle some more this weekend.
At FR2998, followed portion of Jemez Mountain Trail Run (JMTR) route. Turned around where JMTR route cuts into old ski hill road going over to Townsight Lift. Must park at FR2998 one day and take JMTR route up to Camp May! Was a beautiful walk!
May very well get water-damaged closet restored. Have "restored" contact with original restoration company. They may start June 7.
Spouse says phone interview went well but he may be just as happy teaching in Los Alamos.
Tomorrow we hike with WRSC and BESC groups. DH will come along. Word is that she will take us up Scooter Peak. Hope her knees are up to it.
Thursday, May 20, 2010
Pruning
Yesterday I hiked with LL group into White Rock Canyon to Ancho Rapids on the Rio Grande. At one point, a small boulder rolled off the side of the trail into my leg. I was able to hold it from smashing my foot - far better to have a bruised leg. On the hike up - not a trivial ascent - one hiker wore the backpack of another hiker because she couldn't have made it otherwise. I went for elevated heart rate training and waited on top for the group.
At home, I decided that it was imperative - right then - to do the pruning to prepare the house for repainting. Earlier in the week I had tried with no success to reach the people who had done it last. Now I have numerous piles of evergreen branches that need to be disposed of and I'm not done yet. Wow - what a job that was! I'm still sore and tired today. It wasn't just pruning - afterwards, the branches had to be cut up into smaller lengths - all this with a bow saw and lopper! I cut a huge section of the mugo pine that was draping over my neighbor's yard and then had to drag it over the fence and out of their yard. Lots of the lilacs are dead (a result of my past pruning efforts) but there is much new undergrowth which has the potential to bush out. The mugo pines and common junipers were growing up against the house but not any more! I'm also going to chop down our cholla. It's leggy and really doesn't go with the rest of the yard. It's a holdover from the prior owner's landscaping. The problem will be disposing of it without getting stickered.
I'm waiting this morning to fork over $3500 to a roofer and find out when we'll be on the schedule. That's only half the amount we owe. I hope by the next time we need a roof, I'm happily living in a condo with someone else watching out for the roof.
Spouse has a phone interview this afternoon with Western State University in Gunnison, CO.
I'm proceeding with the June plan to have the painter sand, caulk and paint the damaged board and batten siding at the driveway. I hope that will satisfy our homeowner's insurer. Only catch is that I'll have to ask him to specifically mention the work done to that area on a receipt.
At home, I decided that it was imperative - right then - to do the pruning to prepare the house for repainting. Earlier in the week I had tried with no success to reach the people who had done it last. Now I have numerous piles of evergreen branches that need to be disposed of and I'm not done yet. Wow - what a job that was! I'm still sore and tired today. It wasn't just pruning - afterwards, the branches had to be cut up into smaller lengths - all this with a bow saw and lopper! I cut a huge section of the mugo pine that was draping over my neighbor's yard and then had to drag it over the fence and out of their yard. Lots of the lilacs are dead (a result of my past pruning efforts) but there is much new undergrowth which has the potential to bush out. The mugo pines and common junipers were growing up against the house but not any more! I'm also going to chop down our cholla. It's leggy and really doesn't go with the rest of the yard. It's a holdover from the prior owner's landscaping. The problem will be disposing of it without getting stickered.
I'm waiting this morning to fork over $3500 to a roofer and find out when we'll be on the schedule. That's only half the amount we owe. I hope by the next time we need a roof, I'm happily living in a condo with someone else watching out for the roof.
Spouse has a phone interview this afternoon with Western State University in Gunnison, CO.
I'm proceeding with the June plan to have the painter sand, caulk and paint the damaged board and batten siding at the driveway. I hope that will satisfy our homeowner's insurer. Only catch is that I'll have to ask him to specifically mention the work done to that area on a receipt.
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