I’m not sure what happened to my blog. But those of you who came to visit the last few days were greeted with the “under maintenance” screen. Something happened to the database for my blog, and it started returning errors that I was alerted to in the middle of the night. It took me a few days to find a backup that worked properly, but I did this morning. And here we are up and running again. Hopefully.
Until next time...
Some of you might have seen my Instagram post this morning. The Husbear was going out to the truck to go run some errands early this morning, and found the inside of the truck had been ransacked. He looked over in the car, and the same thing. *grumble*
Apparently someone, or ones, decided to pilfer through our vehicles last night. We live in the country. Down a dirt road. It’s rare the Husbear locks his vehicle, but I almost always do. Or both if I think about it. I am fairly certain I locked the car when I arrived home yesterday, but can’t be 100% certain. Either way, they got in both vehicles. Luckily there wasn’t much in the vehicles. They took all the loose change, sunglasses, the iPhone adapters and accessories, and a radar detector. *grumble*
The dogs didn’t bark. Or if they did, neither one of us heard them. And the cats weren’t too helpful either.
I called the Pea Ridge Police Department and reported the incident. The FIRST officer arrived in about 10 minutes, if even that. The Detective arrived a minute or two later. And then the Captain arrived a few minutes after that. Must have been a light morning today.
I reported what happened. And think I threw the officer for a loop when, after he asked about my wife, I corrected him that my husband was the one who found the burgle, and that he had to leave before they arrived to run errands for his business. Maybe we’re the first gay couple he’s met in this little town? They took the report, and then the Detective and the Captain left. I talked to the officer for a bit about tattoos (since he could see mine), and then he left.
A little frazzled, and upset, I headed off to the studio. I rearranged my evening tattoo appointment, left the studio early after completing my first appointment, and went to Lowe’s to purchased several outdoor motion-activated security lights.
I installed both the hard-wired and solar-powered security lights in various places around the house and yard. Hopefully that will shine a little light on the subjects if they attempt a repeat visit.
I also adjusted one of the indoor security cameras we have to cover the area where we park. I will add an actual outdoor security camera this weekend.
Maybe a little over-kill, but I’m all about catching bastards who do shit like this. Or at least making their attempt a lot more difficult for them.
Until next time...
I guess it’s been a bit since I talked about the “barn” we’re building.
Over the next two weekends after the roof shingles were installed, I got the remaining sheathing installed on the barn:
And then came the air and water barrier installed over the next two weekends:
The next few weeks after that were involved with our annual pilgrimage to Florida and New Orleans.
Mid-September I build myself a workbench and started getting my tools moved from all the places I had them stored and started organizing.
We picked up the first door and installed it the next weekend.
And then this past weekend we picked up the French doors. That was a wee bit interesting getting it home. But in about 2 hours we got those installed. We also ordered the concrete fiber siding, which Lowe’s was supposed to deliver Monday morning.
Well, Monday morning came and went. And no delivery. They finally dropped off the siding around 3 PM.
I’ll get to starting installing that this coming weekend.
Until next time...
Hopefully you got to see the Super Blood Moon eclipse tonight! It was quite… spectacular. And long! For us in the Central time zone, it began around 8:07 PM and ended around 11:27 PM. The total eclipse began around 9:11 PM, peaking at 9:47 PM.
The Husbear and I headed to the end of our road to observe, as the moon was obscured by the trees on the ridgeline we live on. And we were greeted with the start of the show.
I managed to take these pictures with my iPhone and an olloclip 2X telephoto lens. I was actually surprised how well they turned out.
We ended up coming back to the house around 9 PM, and I watched the rest of the show from there, as the moon had finally cleared the trees on the ridge.
The last supermoon eclipse happened in 1982 when I was 9, and the next won’t occur until 2033 when I’ll be 60. Here’s hoping I’m around to see it.
Until next time...
This.
If this doesn’t make everything feel insignificant, or extremely significant depending on your point of view, then I don’t know what will.
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Previously… in November. Yes, eight months ago. Well, and a little post in February. If you’ve been following along with ANY of our projects, things take time when we’re involved.
But we got roofied! Wait…
I’m not a fan of heights. At all. So I knew there was NOOOOOOOOOO way I would be climbing on a steep angled roof to install water barriers and shingles. Unless someone was going to cough up to purchase scaffolding, and I didn’t see that happening.
This Monday, the roofers FINALLY installed the shingles. Yay! The supplies have been sitting in the yard since the week before we went on our July walkabout, but it’s pretty much rained here every day up until last week so they haven’t been able to work on it at all.
It took two guys about 5 hours to do the job. In 100°F humid weather. Yuck for them. But that is what I was paying them for.
So now we have a finished roof.
And I even got a few more pieces of sheathing installed on the east and west wall that evening when they were done.
Until next time...