Weather Difficulties

Big setback we've been going through. While we're quite fortunate to have had very little hurricane impact, we have had hurricane damage to our new home. Wind damaged the shingles and water came into the ceiling, causing a cave-in in the living room. There were also a few trees damaged (though thankfully, nothing we could see from the ancient ones). When I called a tree company, they said they had 700 calls in two days. Roofers are similarly backed up. Hoping we can at least get on the schedule for both this week, as we've been trying now for about a month. That has been quite a trial. I can't begin to tell you how horrible it feels to have a 3 foot hole in your ceiling with a plastic bag taped up on it. There's quite a bit of fascia board that needs to be replaced, so there may be some even greater delays as its best to have that all done before the roof goes in. The one good side about it is that we're finally getting a metal roof. I've wanted one for ages!

The hurricanes were pretty neat other than the house damage. It was great to see just how flooded the field would get. For about a week, I had a 25 acre lake all to myself. It re-enforced my farm plan seeing which areas were flood prone and which ones stayed dry. And luckily, no fences were damaged that I could tell.

The San Antonio house had some damage as well, mainly in the form of old wooden garden walls. I finally managed to replace those this weekend, so it's looking a lot better. I figure I have 2 full labor days (maybe 3) before I can finally be done there. So close! I'm hoping to be done next weekend.

I am really feeling the call of the dirt. This is the longest I've been without a garden of some sort in like, 5 years. I'm probably going to revive the front yard garden as a reward for finishing the San Antonio house work. I'm thinking it will be a pretty "show-garden". Just a couple of pretty raised boxes, mulch on landscape fabric for walking, perimeter perennials, and flowers in pots for contrasting height. My neighbor said there is a capped off water line from the pressure tank in there somewhere (probably under the overgrown rosemary) so I'm hoping a little pvc work and I can put a new spigot on it for irrigation.


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