(Two old log entries.) 5/15/10
I did a burn today in the back
yard. E tells me they’re illegal, and
he may be right. This burn burns guilt,
though, so it's happening. The back yard has been unusable
for years. Neither K nor I keep up
with the dogs. And the last time the
kids went through the stuff stored in the garage, they made a big pile of boxes
of discardable stuff. It’s been here, in the middle of the back yard,
weathering and decomposing for more than a year.
I feel that I should have put my
foot down about that. Also I’m discovering
some of my stuff in the boxes as they spill their weakening guts onto the oak
leaf and twig litter and the decaying tarps that were spread out to form a
sorting area many moons ago. (Note from November 2011 - the tarps went, too.)
The bible that Great Aunt Ella
gave me was mildewed enough to be essentially one thick page. I burned it.
I don’t feel as guilty about that as about the rubbermaid leftover
containers that have recently been exposed.
And I ought to be angry. K keeps saying that she can’t work in the
yard “because it’s hopeless”. The oak
trees constantly drop leaves and twigs.
Big fucking deal. That’s like
complaining that the grass keeps growing or, in this yard's case, the weeds and
foxtails. The yard was weeds when I
bought the house and I’ve never managed to get it seeded in actual grass,
although I did buy seed at one point.
The
sprinkler system does not work. Eric is
pushing for concreting over the back.
I’m not really happy with that.
5/16/10
I could feel guilty about not
reading through this list before adding to it – but I’m going to give that a
miss.
I went through the closet and
brought out some old ¾ inch video masters to be guilty about getting rid
of. And I found some half inch VHS tapes
of two Windy Meads Shire Pas d’Armes.
One of them was the memorial to Lance.
I’m trying to decide who to turn those over to and/or who to announce
them to. (I think they went to AJ)
The ¾ tapes are of a Steiff
(possibly misspelled) display from the Design Department at UCD years ago. I don’t have access to any equipment that
could edit them, even if I did have the time to edit them and the access to
play the results.
They’re
going to go. Two tapes full of cute stuffed bears
and other animals. Bye bye.
