Saturday was filled with soccer games for Megan and then doing starting the process of stacking green wood while listening to the Boise State vs Nevada Wolfpack game on the radio. BSU beat them 30-10 with one TD run for 92 yards that was called back. There was a lot of penalties for needless roughing and holding during this game, and the Broncos made mistakes they can't afford to make. Consequently when the polls came out on Sunday they dropped from 4th to either 5th or 6th depending on which poll. Of course, there are some surprise teams making headway like Wisconsin and Clemson moving up and folks like TCU out of the polls now, and big drops for Virginia Tech. I love watching who goes undefeated. BSU's hopes of a BCS championship game are probably not real viable this year with all the teams they play getting trounced by teams they shouldn't be losing to. So I'm betting on a Rose Bowl berth that they lost out on last year. We shall see.
Sunday was spent grousing over finding my sprinkler system valve boxes and electrical had flooded and shorted out. I'm guessing strongly the pipe that feeds them was crushed by the nimrods who cut my trees last week and appear to have rolled a several hundred pounds stump grinder within two inches of said boxes, which had been marked to avoid. So I've got a call into the tree cutters boss regarding this issue, though of course, they have an escape clause to not be responsible. And some other tree cutting work and stump removal was not done. Then it was time to clean out the gutters completely to get ready for rain, rake out all the yard debris the wood cutters didn't clean up, and water some places with the garden hose, which took quite a bit. Bush trimming and some other work took up 6 hours and I was totally whooped. A neighbor stopped by to help roll log rounds over to my wood pile stacking area where these new pieces will sit for a few years curing. I covered the wood piles with a brand new tarp. They usually only make it one winter. Then there was the issue of sufficiently cleaning up my garage to get the SUV in. I also recycled some little kids outdoor lawn chairs to a neighbor with one toddle and one due this Thursday. Figured they could use them.
So now it's back to work for the week and packing at O-dark Thirty this coming Thursday evening after Megan's soccer practice in order to leave Friday afternoon to meet Mr and Mrs Montezuma at City of Rocks for what hopefully will turn out to be sunny and crips fall weather after what's looking to be three to four days of rain and high elevation snow. Wish us well.
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