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Day 39: Landscape architecture


What I'm watching today

Bad Education (2020, HBO Now streaming) - This based-on-a-true-story film chronicles a scandal that revolved around a Long Island school district in the early 2000s in which administrators embezzled $11 million from taxpayers. Hugh Jackman is in it. Allison Janney is in it, but not enough. Ray Romano is also not in it enough. The movie is fine. It tries to be Dickensian in that the characters are constantly flashing Dickens novels at us, but it doesn't get much deeper than that. Watch it if you're bored; it's an interesting story. Or don't.

What I'm doing today

64 gallons of aspen stump
Stumping -  We had a dead aspen tree taken down last spring, and I finally got tired of looking at the
stump sticking out of the front yard. So I, along with an army of children, took it out this morning. I completely overestimated the amount of rot, and what I expected to be about a one-hour job took the entire morning. Of course it didn't help that a 3yo was constantly getting way too close while I was trying to swing a sledge, or that he kept himself entertained by dumping buckets of gravel in the grass when I wasn't looking, but he was occasionally helpful in picking up leftover debris from the stump. On the plus side, the front yard is now stump-free, and I got one heck of a workout.

Sprinkling - Armed with a new mobile app, I reconnected and tested our sprinkler system this afternoon. I was pretty pleased with the results. Unfortunately we have a small leak in one of the pipes that will have to be fixed before I can start watering the flower gardens. Additionally, a solenoid in one of the valves has gone bad, and it's one of the ancient, probably original, valves, which means that I will probably have to replace the entire valve. I'm not looking forward to that at all, because I looked down in that valve box today and it was wallpapered with spider nests.

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