Thursday - afternoon

I was at the washout location this morning and the manager started opining about the hard freeze that's coming and what he had to do the next few days to prepare for it.

I knew nothing about a hard freeze and had not seen anything indication that one was heading our way.

I immediately got out my phone and checked my town's projected temperature forecast for Sunday and sure enough, it showed 22 degrees for a low and going up into the low 40's for a high.  I thought gee, I best get all of that piping I had to fix covered up - NOW - TODAY - procrastination is over with.  I've waited because of rain, hectic schedule and fatigue from getting up early or not sleeping well.

So, when I got back to the park today, I hopped on the kid's tractor and backfilled that entire ditch.  The dirt is still wet and hard to move, but I got enough done to cover it all up and not have to worry about it. Tomorrow, I will walk around all the lots and check the park responsibility side of the water outlets.  Most of them are covered, maybe all of them, but I need to be sure.  It was that main line and the sewer line I really wanted to get done today, just before the kid might take that tractor somewhere. I ain't shoveling that much dirt, thanks.  

I'll wait until the dirt dries up before finishing the job, the lines are sufficiently covered and that was the objective. I also placed flags where the lines are and then I'm going to put markers in the ground to identify where the lines are for future reference.  

I am tired today.  I slept ok last night but still not great, the 2 nights previous, however, I did not sleep well and it's catching up to me.  I have no plans for the rest of today.  Tomorrow is the Beignets thing at the restaurant, Saturday is the wreaths they place on war veterans graves - surprisingly large number of vets in the ground in this town.  

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Got distracted. I needed to finish sending Christmas gifts.  My oldest brother and my son now completed, I only have 1 person left. Uhh, make that 3 but just families we know, nothing grand.  They're nice people, a simple gift to let them know we like and love them.  I have a middle brother but I never hear from him, I don't send him anything and I don't feel bad about it at all.

Uhh, well one kid here I haven't bought for because I don't know what kind of bike he wants.  I'm going to have to get them all to go to Walmart with me and nonchalantly head over to that aisle and say, ooh, look at THAT bike! And the kid will invariably say, NO! Look at THAT one!  I wish I could have it!  He won't know about it until Christmas.  He's outgrown his current bike, he definitely loves to get on it and ride around the circle.  

It feels good to have most of that out of the way long before Christmas Day, at least by my standards.