Part of the new fence I realize I’ve done not to ideal, but it’s only one small section to be redone and now I understand it like I didn’t without physical form and have good ideas how to do it instead.

Okay, relaxing day doing fuck all, lying out in the back looking up at branches and appreciating how nice everything is already.

Body’ll be ready for service tomorrow, gonna hammer on this topsoil until done a/o the rain arrives, then depending might look into replacing the garage door or just button down for the winter, a few miscellaneous one-off things along the way. Have a good idea where the next 9 yards of topsoil are going, then we’ll see.

Man not only was this fence everything my year was building to but what a lot of stuff was locked behind, real bottleneck, now I have more stuff to do but not in a “there’s always something” sense, in a sense that greyed out stuff just unlocked.

Alright a lot of my yard work was in one way or another leading up to this fence. I’m gonna keep on this topsoil but I’m already at least halfway there, so hopefully gonna have an idea what I’m doing next by then. Would like to line up some fence guys for the next section and doors, I’ve already asked homeowner guys for recommendations, honestly probably not worth holding out for the best sense of vision, just they can continue what the first guys started and have experience with gates with single side keyed locks.

Aw man planting that lavender under the window next to my sittin’ chair was such a good idea.

Okay, the new mop-wringer doing a good job on floors and the scrubber stick being an excellent substitute for elbow grease in making the tub and shower tile all white, things aren’t m to full polish yet but I feel much more comfortable holding off for professional deep cleaning further on.

When the front room gets messy these days at least it’s because some other room is getting clean; I only have a few more things to tidy in the kitchen before it’s fully organized and I can give the floor its most thorough cleaning yet.

Yeah, if plants aren’t right they get worse every year, in contrast most of the interior will eventually be totally replaced, so I’ve been prioritizing outside. I continue to progress on tidying Karafuto and when everything is at least correct place-adjacent I’m getting professional cleaners to do a deep clean.

Until then, witness my newest life-improving delivery from Amazon,

a USB-charged scrubber stick, w/head attachments not pictured, that’ll make it practical to give my floors a good go when my cleaning fluids arrive.

3 or 4 times a year I’m sitting here and see a car drive down that path, which always throws you.

Okay I was kind of rushing to get stuff before the fence guy, cause while my existing one was in ruins there were two neighbors I was kinda letting down, things gonna be a bit more chill for the rest of the summer, next up is getting topsoil to fill out Blueberry Hill and Strawberry Ridge, and some more indoor cleaning.

Okay, mastered 「hose clamp straps」 and got my flagpole set up. Kinda cool application of simple machines to hold things in place with tension, reminds me of building a bike at that “Bike Kitchen” in LA.

Dude, vidya doesn’t lie, swinging one of these overhead is so much more effective at digging diagonally forward and down than a shovel.

Alright, last few days as the anxiety disappeared actually very productive in terms of small projects; I could do things “right in front of me” and the next one from there in a way that actually admitted a good deal of mental work in conceiving of a possible next project, so if there was like anything I had put any thought to in the area…

So the bedroom and sitting part of the front room are much more pleasantly cleaned, the garage is now lined up for final go-through, the kitchen is like one activity station away from being tidied, I’m back to excavating the ramp from upper to lower backyard so I don’t have to clamber or walk barrows around, Im in the process of pipe-strapping a flagpole mount outside my front door and swapping in a new fan switch unit with a replacement pull-chain, some other stuff too.

So today I set up and put finishing touches on my little backyard gym – I think carrying all those plates around (twice! I relocated it to flatter ground) triggered my postexertional effect by itself, but I could swear there was one more thing I did…

oh! In the course of things I got halfway through tidying up the garage.

Man the lavender’s still scrawny and digging in its roots and already I like the way it’s scenting my sitting area by the window

Yeah I think the rest of the year I’ll commission some self-contained contracting work – leveling the lower backyard, the fence, possibly the garage door – do the things remaining re: the landscaping yard (filling in Blueberry Hill & Strawberry Ridge, maybe replacing the walkway to the front door and backyard with smooth pebbles now that Darwin in the driveway blocks the sun and turns the grass there now to muddy morass).

Chase down the last few % of putting every room in order and have them cleaned, get my corded screwdriver and stud-finder and stuff to put up these cool corner-thru shelves in the garage and the clamps for my Russian bedroom wall rug

Then sit down and really plan out to get the house reno done next year – also plan to get back in the medical system when my insurance rolls over next year.

I honestly suspect I’ve been so busy rendering the yard a nice place to hang out Badger’s been pissy I’m not hanging out with him in it these last few warm, sunlight nights

Rearranging the kitchen so the fridge-prep-oven sequence flows whether “oven” is the stove, microwave, or toaster oven while maximizing use of all counters and outlets, have kinda mastered this kitchen just in time to contribute real insight to its remodeling

Having this particular chair to sit in proving a really big year-over-year improvement this spring.