The sun must be getting to me!

As I've mentioned, I've been working outside for most of the day for the last several days.......it must be getting to me!

I fell asleep on the couch this afternoon and slept for nearly an hour! I hardly ever do that!

Earlier, I finished the "picket" part of the fence and, lo and behold, it looks pretty good. Tomorrow, I've got to get the rot boards back in place then build and hang the gate. I can leave the sand hauling for Monday or whenever, but I want to get that part of it done pretty soon because the sand is occupying the spot that I intend to build the backyard storage building. Hopefully, that little job won't take too terribly long.

MDB and I are traveling to Home Depot for plywood tomorrow. It looks like it could be a fairly active storm season here and we want to be prepared.

I'm going to buy a new board for my trailer while I'm at it. One of the boards has finally rotted through and through and it needs to be replaced.

I'm going to try to pull the trailer with my Ranger. I got the one with the 4.10 rear end and four cylinder engine which means it's pretty good on gas, but it's not rated for towing much of anything. I think the official rating is something like 750 pounds, which is basically nothing more than the empty trailer, but we'll see what she'll do. I've moved the empty trailer with it before and it moves just fine, so we'll see what it does with a load on it!

MDB is on the warpath and I'm on it with her! One of the local weather talking heads has flustered her for the last time! It seems that, a couple of weeks ago, he said that a system was developing off of the west coast of Africa and "unfortunately" wasn't going to develop into anything significant. Then, night before last I believe it was, he made some comment about this hurricane season reminding him so far of the season of 2005. Woo-boy!!! Bet those displaced New Orleans people here were happy to hear THAT!!! What a moron! You can't say stuff like that! You'll create a panic! How about saying something like "Well, it looks as though this may shape up to be a fairly active season this year, but, as usual, we'll wait and see what develops. Back to you, Bob!" Dude, if you want to incite a panic, why not just tell everyone to stock up on duct tape and fill that bathtub with water; you're going to need it!

Then there's this. It seems that everyone in America heard the call of the Environazi and traded in that old gas guzzler for a Freakin' Prius, because oil prices have FINALLY started to drop. It's that old "supply and demand" thing finally kicking in. I told MDB that this place is going to look like France before it's all over with. The only vehicles on the road will be those two-seater Citroens; everything else will be shoe-leather or bicycle! Then there's India and China, those veritable garden-spots of environmental care and responsibility! We're to believe global warming is okay if it's coming from the other side of the planet, and that only American carbon emissions are evil and leading to global catastrophe! Uhhhh......WHAT???? Well, good luck with those Olympics, there, PRC! I know you've vowed to shut down the country to show the world a clean and envronmentally responsible China, but doesn't the mere fact that you have to shut down the country to make that happen speak to the very nature of your problem? Will someone re-run the '36 Olympics footage for our Asian brethren? Do you think the world is really that naive? Hey China!! You live in a rotting, backward stinkhole! See! Your secret is out! You can stop with the Olympic showboating to try to massage your image on the world stage! Look, I know that the emerging economies of the world are going to produce more "greenhouse gas" than the more developed economies, but COME ON!!! Isn't China supposed to be the new "silicone valley?" Aren't we supposed to be taking a back seat technologically speaking and bowing to their collective mental prowess? Why is it that the paragon of human intellect and virtue that is China can't come up with clean energy for that sprawling population of theirs? Maybe toasters, microwaves, flatscreen TVs, and DVD players produced by slave labor are the pinnacle of Chinese techno achievement?!

I feel better now!