Coming Together
Tuesday, September 13th, 2022 10:30 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
snoozefestaudioLast night, despite it being a bit cool, the crickets in front were sounding pretty great. So, I recorded for three hours.
At first I was only gonna record two hours, but when I went down to get the S8, it all still sounded so good out there, I let it go for another hour.
So... I am still working on new tracks for Snoozefest.
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It was 75F and breezy today, so I managed to get a lot done out there with the tree. The first two hours was just clean up and organization of what had already been cut off.
I know I said I had started these different piles, but, they needed to be moved to different locations to keep the space around the tree clear.
But over the second two hours I actually cut off my first two, actual, whole limbs, and broke them down fairly well... cut off all the first order branches from both limbs and arranged them in a spot to be further processed. Then I cut up the limbs themselves into manageable hunks, and lugged them over to their own, out of the way spot.
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But it didn't strike me until tonight that... up until last year... spring of 2021, there had been a wire fence with a bunch of steel posts, and a whole row of overgrown saplings and vines and shit... right there, where this mulberry fell!
So... if I hadn't removed that fence and the posts, cut out the weeds, and cut down the trees on that property line last year... this would be a WAAAY bigger nightmare to clean up right now!
I wouldn't have been just trying to cut up one tree, but a mess of nine or ten smaller trees all tangled together with it... and the wire fence & steel posts would've made it extremely difficult to use the chain saw for any of it!
I'd have been crying, and trying to clip out the wires from the mess... cutting the posts with a saws all... just so I could try to get a start on three times as much lumber cutting and processing!
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But why did I go to all the trouble last year, of removing that fence, and clearing and grooming that line so cleanly?...
For SNOOZEFEST!
I was on a mission to tone down those relentless bush crickets, by eliminating as much garbage vegetation as possible, all around the yard!
So, I guess it pays to be obsessed with back yard field recording!
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Breaking down this mulberry is still a huge undertaking, but... it's actually doable, thanks to unwitting prep work I did last year at the fall site.
And the experience I gained last year, and in 2020, about how best to break down trees, so that the constituent parts take up the least space, and are easiest to section up into firewood... or bag for pick up... is also making this job a lot more doable!
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In other news, I got a call from my supervisor today and we scheduled my job orientation for Thursday at 1PM.
So, I may start work Friday, or Monday... not sure. But some money's gonna start flowing into my checking account soon... before September is out.
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I quit my old job of 13 years (was kinda forced out by a corporate takover) back in January of 2020... at a time when both of my old cats, Jet & Mauli, had passed away after 18 and 19 years.
That really was the end of one chapter of my life, and the beginning of another.
I cashed out my 401K of 13 years and survived on that thorugh all of 2021... using both the free time, and money, to do a lot of critical home repairs & improvements, along with all the landscaping I've told you about in this blog.
This year, I've survived on fumes of the 401K, some income from handy man work, and in the last, fumes of my Dad's income, this past summer.
I traded in my car for a more useful van with a lower car payment and lower insurance, and have managed to keep current on those... and also managed to keep my phone service, this whole time.
And now, here we are in September, and I've got two new cats, and a new job with insane benefits, and room to move up!
So... the new chapter of my life has made it down the runway, and is about to leave the ground!
Here's hoping the 14 to 18 year flight goes well, and I land safely in the next chapter... the retirement chapter, where I'm pushing 70!
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https://soundcloud.com/snoozefestaudio
At first I was only gonna record two hours, but when I went down to get the S8, it all still sounded so good out there, I let it go for another hour.
So... I am still working on new tracks for Snoozefest.
It was 75F and breezy today, so I managed to get a lot done out there with the tree. The first two hours was just clean up and organization of what had already been cut off.
I know I said I had started these different piles, but, they needed to be moved to different locations to keep the space around the tree clear.
But over the second two hours I actually cut off my first two, actual, whole limbs, and broke them down fairly well... cut off all the first order branches from both limbs and arranged them in a spot to be further processed. Then I cut up the limbs themselves into manageable hunks, and lugged them over to their own, out of the way spot.
But it didn't strike me until tonight that... up until last year... spring of 2021, there had been a wire fence with a bunch of steel posts, and a whole row of overgrown saplings and vines and shit... right there, where this mulberry fell!
So... if I hadn't removed that fence and the posts, cut out the weeds, and cut down the trees on that property line last year... this would be a WAAAY bigger nightmare to clean up right now!
I wouldn't have been just trying to cut up one tree, but a mess of nine or ten smaller trees all tangled together with it... and the wire fence & steel posts would've made it extremely difficult to use the chain saw for any of it!
I'd have been crying, and trying to clip out the wires from the mess... cutting the posts with a saws all... just so I could try to get a start on three times as much lumber cutting and processing!
But why did I go to all the trouble last year, of removing that fence, and clearing and grooming that line so cleanly?...
For SNOOZEFEST!
I was on a mission to tone down those relentless bush crickets, by eliminating as much garbage vegetation as possible, all around the yard!
So, I guess it pays to be obsessed with back yard field recording!
Breaking down this mulberry is still a huge undertaking, but... it's actually doable, thanks to unwitting prep work I did last year at the fall site.
And the experience I gained last year, and in 2020, about how best to break down trees, so that the constituent parts take up the least space, and are easiest to section up into firewood... or bag for pick up... is also making this job a lot more doable!
In other news, I got a call from my supervisor today and we scheduled my job orientation for Thursday at 1PM.
So, I may start work Friday, or Monday... not sure. But some money's gonna start flowing into my checking account soon... before September is out.
I quit my old job of 13 years (was kinda forced out by a corporate takover) back in January of 2020... at a time when both of my old cats, Jet & Mauli, had passed away after 18 and 19 years.
That really was the end of one chapter of my life, and the beginning of another.
I cashed out my 401K of 13 years and survived on that thorugh all of 2021... using both the free time, and money, to do a lot of critical home repairs & improvements, along with all the landscaping I've told you about in this blog.
This year, I've survived on fumes of the 401K, some income from handy man work, and in the last, fumes of my Dad's income, this past summer.
I traded in my car for a more useful van with a lower car payment and lower insurance, and have managed to keep current on those... and also managed to keep my phone service, this whole time.
And now, here we are in September, and I've got two new cats, and a new job with insane benefits, and room to move up!
So... the new chapter of my life has made it down the runway, and is about to leave the ground!
Here's hoping the 14 to 18 year flight goes well, and I land safely in the next chapter... the retirement chapter, where I'm pushing 70!
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