Hardi and I are each, separately, running Txgvg baskets all over the twin tiers, plus (me) an air conditioner to a lady who asked for it, yielded it to someone else due to time/travel issues, and then declined a Txgvg box for herself in favor of a needier person she named. It's a ThreeCycle-- multiple beneficiaries on all one trip, and another opportunity to spend a nice day with friend and road partner Ed.

The Dog World chainlink got some attention last night, by flashlight, as Hardi and I started a re-do of the hastily-tacked-up topline-- helpers didn't listen and as the light ebbed I OK'd a lot of quick work to get the dogs out of the smaller kennel we built first. But that raised the whole thing higher off the ground than I wanted, so in the spring we will trim the posts a couple inches, and re-sink that whole section into the trench that was dug to bury it. Till then the doggies will get some electric motivation to leave that section un-nosed. I plan to use cattle-fence-sticks (cheeeeep) to carry dog-strength hotwire. Which lines are powered at any one time will vary-- the doggies only need one touch to realize that skinny little wire should NEVER be nosed/climbed. Anyway, it's been so much fun using ag approaches to Dog World. And I figured out how to use Invisible Fence if we ever live farther than 12' from a road-- how to train the dogs to it with minimal fuss. (Someday I can afford that option. For now-- Dog World.)

But I LIKED fence design, so now I'm thinking goats are in our future. Not here, but somewhere, someday. Goats to milk, with a few feeder sheep. I've done goats before (small scale), and I love the outdoor chores.



The upstairs office came in handy early this AM when I could not sleep-- snack, comfy table to eat it, and laptop to notify a few folks of a last-minute sched change. As long as I was up, I also changed a lampshade in there-- my pretty colors came off another lamp and went in there. I have more of the pretty fabric to cover the swapped shade, so now I'll see my colors in more places. It's esp. nice to see them filtering lamplight, and I'll put a full-spectrum bulb in that lamp when I can.

~S~