so.....

I'm picking up grandkids from school and watching them till a parent gets home--at their house 3 days a week.  It means I get to listen to NPR both ways 3 days a week.  With a prius, the gas is not much. It's my J-O-B!
With that job I'm painting and scanning in 100 years of family photos and giving them names/and dates when possible.  A long job with the only pay-off being that I can actually find them now.

I have plans to make a set of steps for the building out back and put the latch on it and put everything from the garage in it that will fit.  I have to find the leaky spot in the roof and seal it first. Then it needs to have the bottom closed in--concrete blocks most likely.  All things I can do.

Then clean out the garage, which, like the craft room or art studio or spare bedroom, whatever.... gets all junked out at the end of a year and needs organized again so I can use the space and find the tools and walk.

The house is staying cleaner and yard is mostly mowed, but for the rain which is determined to set some sort of August record this year. Mosquitos in August in the hottest part of the day is not normal.  But the high last week was about 90.  We have one day next week per forecast that is 97.  No 100+ weather this month, just humid, overcast, rainy, buggy swampish stuff.  They are predicting more snow than usual this year.

I no longer know what usual is.
Does spring start in April or February.
Is all the cold weather in December?
Is August the hottest month of the year?
I certainly can't tell by the last few years.

I also want to build a greenhouse out back with some raised beds.  A potting shed or puttering shed.
And fix up the balcony with an awning so I can paint outside even in the rain.
And clean off the fence line and remove the vines from the trees.
And repaint the front porch.
And change the stove top to a gas one--I've always hated electric stoves.

But  I'm  Slow.

Good thing there are no deadlines.