Friday - early

Slated to work at least through Monday. We'll see how that pans out, as for right now, today is still a go.

Rain, rain, rain.  It's raining moderate to heavy and it's not going to be any fun getting out there in it.  It will likely add time to the run as well, plus it's chilly and yes, I do have an umbrella - in the truck lol\

I tried to set the field on fire yesterday, no go. I poured out a swath of gas onto the weeds, lit it up and poof, the weeds burned up but did not set any of the weeds next to where the gas was, on fire.  It's quite dead and dried out, I was hoping for a little better result than that.  Next will be a weed torch.  This is simply a long line with an attachment for throwing out flames, basically. It attaches to a propane tank.  It's a relatively cheap setup, it won't be something that goes quickly but I'm hopeful if I spend a few days at it, I can get a lot of those weeds burned down.

After the weed torch, if that really doesn't work - it'll be trying the riding mower. I can't see how the torch won't work, I can see if it just takes forever to go through all of that with it. Unless, of course, a good wind is blowing and just blows the entire thing on fire. It doesn't matter right now, the rain will cancel those plans for several days.  Since there is a 98% chance of thunderstorms on Monday? It's going to be a while before I get back to that.  

Interestingly, however, there is a lot of grass growing in the field, all around the weed stalks coming out of the ground.  This is what I wanted out there in the first place - get the weeds out and get grass growing.. Naturally growing grass even better, it should be the type that grows in any weather including hot summers?  There's ground weeds in the mix as well, but still, nothing growing straight up and looking ugly.

Mark - I still haven't seen him come out of that trailer for 3 days now.  I mean, he has a dog, what is he doing with the dog's waste in there?  I start to get concerned that a person is having suicidal thoughts - his life isn't exactly going too great here.  He hasn't ever spoken anything about suicide, it just comes to mind when someone is holing themselves up in a small space and not coming out of it.  He probably doesn't want to move, I'm not sorry, he brought this upon himself.

First it was all the crap he was saying to me.  He goes around calling his "friends" as**oles, grumpy old men and a lot of other things that constantly flow out of his mouth, non-stop.  It got old and I confronted him on it several times.  He would go into the victim and manipulation stage at that point, tell me he'd go into his trailer and not bother anyone ever again. 

Of course, he doesn't do that. Then he got into a fistfight with another person in the park, getting a black eye and then, I find out he was calling the ladies all kinds of vile, vulgar and reprehensible names. That is when it became completely in tolerable and when I called him and let him know his presence is no longer welcome in the park. 

Regardless, it is time to leave and I still need to make a small thermos of coffee to take with me.

G'day