Feel bad for getting less than I could done in a day but then I remember I have no deadlines and I’m still making progress.

Well, I need to do the earth ramming for the side ramp while there’s still moisture in the dirt, and planting some cover will be month-dependent but I honestly don’t even know what and I can do that next year at worst, I’ll be here for a while.

Doing weeding after the first rain since a lot of stuff started to sprout, used the soil pulled out to construct a ramp of solid ground back onto Blueberry Hill where I can smash up the remainder

…and fill in with debris from the power line downed branches which I’ve been smashing up against Strawberry Ridge

Seeing more and more people take that path, part of it it lines up a good shot down to a respectable park/elementary school/cut-through to a shady route to walk/bike south, but I can even overhear from their comments walking by that part of it’s just they like the side yard as I’ve made it and prefer to come that way, it makes me feel really proud, I remember moving in when it was a total mess with a worn-muddy path through a field of broadleaf weeds with a tree-of-heaven nest (that it was a right bitch to untangle and cultivator mattock the roots from) and a blackberry bramble hanging from my (then-intact!) fence

But then again I remember – less than a decade ago! – when multiple houses on the block had bars on the windows.

In planning for the future of Karafuto I’m considering the possibility that before it reaches end-life the neighborhood will densify to the extent you at least want wrought-iron fencing if not window bars, that drifter knocking on my bedroom window from the backyard today reimpressed that that there are things that scale of defense is for