At work the landscape contractor has shown up with one of those towed air compressors to blow the water out of the underground sprinkler system before winter. It’s kinda fun to see bits of the process, air and water mist blowing out of the sprinkler heads. I was out for a walk after lunch in the usually warm afternoon and saw one of the guys working on that, said it’s a sign winter is coming, when they are out doing this job.
Some people have underground sprinkler systems at home for their yards, do you have to hire a landscape contractor in fall to blow them out? I never thought about that when I was a kid! We didn’t have one of those systems but some of the neighbors did. I never saw them being “winterized” though.
This time of year there is a short bit of road on my drive to work where, if the sky is clear, I get the bright rising sun glaring into my peripheral vision from the left and the bright reflected sun off the windows of a building glaring into my peripheral vision from the right! It’s an experience!
I saw the full moon in the dark sky out the window, when I woke up well before sunrise this morning. It was -1°C outside. Just one month ago I saw the previous full moon while out camping, in much, much warmer weather! The daytime was longer back then, a month ago! It was warm enough to see my bare tits in moonlight!
I have to say I feel a low level of enthusiasm for torquing down bolts on a thing made out of graphite while it’s filled with pressurized HCl gas, and I wouldn’t really want to be nearby on a little work platform 70 feet off the ground while someone else does it!
I’m a bit of a train person but no expert, so while I’m not certain, I’m fairly sure that the Shave and a Haircut rhythm is not a Federal Railroad Administration-approved whistle signal, so props to the engineer who uses it anyway, I hear it in Tosa occasionally as they pass by.
I took this photo today, October the 16th, 2024. I don’t know how long this Christmas display has been up in Kohl’s, but even today is possibly a bit early for Christmas, some might say.
I did a bunch of household cleaning over the weekend and at some point at the end of the weekend was using the sink in the bathroom and noticed my tiny, distorted reflection in the clean and shiny chrome faucet spout and my first thought was, well, look at that, I have boobs, even viewed in a weird distorted faucet reflection.
HRT is magic, is all I can say. I did not appreciate how much this would feel right.
I was picking up a package today, I had one of my cuter Flo Masks on (old photo of me with it here)
and one of the people working there asked me what kind it was. It’s always nice to have a friendly question even if it’s hard to say what to make of it now that nearly nobody is doing anything at all to even attempt to make the disaster any less bad even directly for their own immediate selves .
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