The last month has flown by.\u00a0 What’s been happening with the properties this month?<\/p>\n
We’ve done nothing at either the ranch or the store.\u00a0 There were plans for the San Antonio house, but they were overcome by events.<\/p>\n
I’ve been doing yard work at the Central Texas house. I find that by trimming the crepe myrtles during the winter when they are dormant, they are much easier to deal with during their growing season.\u00a0 As a result, I’m trimming branches and clearing growth from around their bases.\u00a0 We have about sixteen of these trees forming a windbreak on the north and west side of the property.\u00a0 There are another six or seven that must be maintained at less than three feet in height because they are on the corner. These get cut way back during the winter.\u00a0 The big trees just get cleaned up.\u00a0 I have some leaves to rake from around their bases (instead of being a single trunked tree, these are really a stand of trunks that grow out of the ground.\u00a0 Okay. Fine, they’re overgrown bushes.), and a lot of suckers to cut off.\u00a0 Once I finish the crepe myrtles, I have the ligustrums on the west side of the house and the “island” out front to do . I’ve also been digging some weeds, and I’ve mowed twice.<\/p>\n
Mr. L has been working on insulating the big door over at the shop.\u00a0 He has weatherstripping installed on both sides.\u00a0 His next area of focus is along the top of the door.\u00a0 Lastly, he’ll tackle the bottom.\u00a0 This has been a large source of cold air entering the shop in the winter and an equally large source of hot air in the summer.\u00a0 The shop is unheated, so our goal is to get it to a more constant temperature year round.\u00a0 It has remained at about 50-55 this winter and if we can keep it below 90 in the summer, we’re pretty pleased.\u00a0 The new roof we put on a couple of years ago has made a huge difference in keeping the temperature constant.\u00a0 We have quite a bit of window work to do — for now, we have plastic over the offending panes.\u00a0 The results of his drainage project are positive — no water leaking into the building at the roof line, so it must be draining through the new drain pipe just fine. Oh, and he finished his tool cage.\u00a0 He can lock tools in the cage to make it just a little more challenging if someone breaks into the shop with any desire to steal anything.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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