NUDE BEER on the blanco river and 275 gallon IBC water tote
hmmmm, I wonder if we will see a spike from new visitors today... we found some nude beer (unopened) in the abandoned house. these came with a scratch off bikini top, this one was removed and there is another that is partially scratched off. I guess if you've seen one nude beer pair you've seen 'em all. sell them on ebay? (click for NSFW version)
I purchased a 275 gallon water tank. cleaned it all out with bleach water, strapped it to my utility trailer and filled it about 80% of the way. it probably weighed nearly 2k lbs.
I dropped kat the kids off at the wimberley butterfly festival. how to get it off the trailer? how would the egyptians have done it?
I strapped the tank to an oak tree and PUNCHED IT!
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OK, so maybe it wasn't that graceful and maybe it did fall on it's face and maybe one of the strap hooks is now straight... but it worked. we have water for flushing the toilet. although we have noted that the toilet takes 3 gallons to flush and it's a lot of work hauling the water per flush.
oh yeah, there is a real bathroom and toilet in that spooky house. of course a spooky house always has a spooky bathroom. we bleached and scrubbed that bathroom with an incredible assault of chemistry. I ran a 12v bulb/fixture powered via solar/battery and now.... it's still spooky but bright!
kat has started to sort, organize and clean the crap left by previous occupants. a new copy of Angela's Ashes! , pulitzer prize winning literature... and a bunch of junk... but who left all this stuff? the cooktop must have quit working at some point. they had hauled in an electric stove and just pushed it up against some cabinets. I suspected those cabinets had not been opened in a long time, and held more (crap) clues to the people who left this place....
found this pic in there (among many other treasures) looks like early 90's to me.
the place has inspired many questions. why are those pieces of all-thread up there? and who would attach a shelf bracket over the miniblinds putting a shelf across the front window...? ah screw it. let's start ripping it down.
it was dark around the spooky bathroom. less spooky now that I removed the drywall on a few walls and let the light in.
he's not supposed to be up on the deck, he's testing his limits.
I worked pretty hard cutting and dragging cedar trees. you may wonder why I hate cedar trees so much. well, besides the whole cedar fever thing, cedar trees operate a bit like this...
notice the cute baby cedar tree getting all cozy with the mature oak tree. seems innocent enough, right? NO! it's a KILLER!
(dead oak on the left, Cedar tree in the middle) the fast growing cedar consumes much more water and quickly chokes its oak tree host. soon the area is thick with cedar trees and the oak trees are now being deprived of sun light and water...
as seen on the unmanaged lot next to ours, the cedar trees soon cover everything. several hundred year oaks are being threatened by a sizeable cedar army.
while I labored with the chainsaw outside, kat was busy cleaning and making lunch. although it was put together from food I previously cooked it was greatly appreciated and delicious. it was a nice change of roles, she usually goes to work and I cook and clean. I imagined this was more like my farming grandparents lived. he'd go out in the field and work till lunch, come home to a meal and go back farming. but then again, he died out in that field so maybe I'm putting rose colored shades on it. but that salmon with stereogum sxsw party sauce was delicious, as was the HUGE salad, the garlic herb cous-cous and ruby redbird. later that afternoon, we walked down to the river.
a group paddled by on kayak and canoe. the weather was just perfect!
he wanted to see how it looks while blocking the blues.
