Food for bugs

I seem to have relegated Sunday afternoons to working in my yards. I often intend to work on other nights as well, and I seem to be able to get about an hour’s worth done on Mondays, but other things (like sleeping, or sitting still, watching TV and eating too much) seem to come up and distract me instead. Compared to what it looked like before I got to it, my yards look great. I still have a lot of work to do, but I certainly don’t mind working glacially on it. I can see results every time I go out there, and that feels good. To be able to go out and lose myself in just trying to get my yard into some sort of shape so much that when I stop for water and glance at a clock, hours have passed, and before I’m ready to stop, the sun sets and forces me back inside. To see yet another pile of branches I have trimmed from a neighbor’s overgrowth, six feet square and just as tall in the middle, and know that I cut all those branches myself with only a small pair of shears (and a ginsu knife for that one, big branch). There is a sense of accomplishment.

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The internet is dead! Long live the internet!

So I finally got it worked out with Sprint today that my account is being disconnected (I have not had internet access since the end of June) now, and I will NOT be charged an early termination fee. Theoretically, they will let me know when they begin offering service that works despite the presence of trees. I will also pay close attention to Cox@Home’s presence in my neighborhood, because it uses the hardware I already own @ a lower cost than Sprint BBD. Anyway, no internet access at home for a while yet to come, but maybe I can pretend that an antique typewriter is the internet.