we had tornado warning the other day as some storm popped up a few miles before getting to us and then going over. very heavy rains and no visibility at all, i brought up the national weather radar to check out what was going on because it came so quick, but the local tv station didn't even have the warning on it and then it was past us.
no drips from the ceiling at all anywhere that i could tell. it's also rained some since then and also no drips. a good sign. i won't call it done though for a few years. it's gone as far as 18 months between drips before... which is why it took so long to find the problem and hoping to have it fixed now.
we had someone come and put two coats of clear sealer on everything up there. i would have done it myself but my leg just makes such things like walking on slants pretty difficult. so it got done and we gladly paid them for their time.
in other news. working on screening crushed limestone from gravel along a pathway i want to move - next to the pallets i also want to remove. one layer done, can't do the other layer until i have a space to move the gravel to, then i can gradually shift it all in stages as i work from the back towards the house. the problem now is that the easy part is done (where there weren't many weeds/grass in the way) so it takes longer to do the next part (get the grass/weeds out of the way too).
imagine this whole pathway being shifted to the right about a meter or more (3-5ft), the pallets gone and the area to the left cleaned up and turned back into gardens... that's what i have to do...
so many weeds were hiding in that edge it took me so much time to deal with them and to weed it. now i should be able to keep it clear and finish it up much easier with things out of the way... at least in the part i have done.
the very back part is still a mostly empty hole we've been throwing odd bits of concrete or rocks or whatever that's coming up we don't need someplace else. i need to get it filled in now and ready to put gravel on top so i can get things shifting. that neighboring back part is all very tough grass. i need to get that out and get a barrier to root burrowing/travel put in, otherwise the work back there is wasted... i haven't even looked at the groundhog den site back there since the grass grew up. i'm hoping they've not gotten back to it, but i don't know... with my leg as it is, i can't work on that slope no matter what anyways.
i still have two rolls of fence and poles for that to put up and a big garden to weed through, i hope to start the fence in October. still have to negotiate with Mom where it goes. i'd like to fence the North Garden, but i'm sure she doesn't want to look at that fence... so it may get stuck back in the hedge along the other bits we've already got in there to keep the deer out, but that won't work because the whole space isn't enclosed (they'll just walk in from the driveway)... ah well, we'll see what happens...
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