Long weekend.

I have had a three day weekend. I have been waiting for time off like this for a long time. I debated there fer a minute about either driving to the beach or going to my lil homestead. BTW, this weekend was great beach weather but Ive got till September or October to enjoy the beach. Although I'm only about 3 min.(14ft above sea level) or so from the water, I like driving to Port Aransas beaches..about 25 min. or so from home. Being Memorial Day weekend, those ferry lines are going to be at least 2 hr wait or more. No thank you!

Instead, I chose the quiet of my lil homestead. My grass/weeds is ridiculously high. The man that was supposed to come and brushhog it never came to do it nor did he call. I am so disappointed in that. Previously, I had mowed my grass down around the perimeter of the house with the lil pushmower and weedeater. It is all I have in the way of mowing. I guess it comes to about a third of an acre that I have mowed down. The rest is way too thick and tall for the lil mower.

It was HOT out there. I forget that the temps out there are always like 5-10 degrees hotter than here in the city. Thermometer was reading 97 degrees...typical South Texas weather.

I still worked in the cleared areas. I have some wild nasty prickly bushes that I am sick of looking at. They are of no benefit to me or the land. In fact, I think they block some of the southeasterly winds and also when I drive up to the lil house I kinda have to go around them...they have scratched my truck many times. Well, after cleaning up my mesquites in front of the lil house it was time to knock down the s.o.b bushes. So I broke out with the chainsaw and went to town on them and dammit if one spiny limb didn't land on my back. They are very unforgiving! After a few chosen words I felt better. I dragged them off and commenced to start the mower to mow the rest of that patch and it didn't wanna start. No gas..so I went to get the gas can and guess what....NO GAS! I got outta the hot sun and took a breather over a cold glass of water. I was not going to drive 12 miles into town to go and get it either that late in the evening. The sun was still blazing so after some other cleanups around the yard I called it a day, washed up and enjoyed the rest of the evening. I'm still not done with the nasty bushes but at least I put a dent in that project. These things never end.

Im not sure why but I feel like I could go back to bed right now. It is only 10:37am. I love having time off.

I hope everyone has had a good weekend. I hope yer projects are coming along great. Thank you fer stoppin' by this lil place-o-mine. Until next time, see you on the backroads.