20 August 2016

Spent most of the morning backfilling behind the outdoor fireplace.  If any archeologists ever excavate that site, they surely will be puzzled by the half dozen broken gravestones neatly stacked therein.  Also buried there are all the leftover bricks from the house chimney, a few stray concrete blocks (not tied to any bodies), and the stones that heretofore lined the campfire pit that served us so very well these past seven years.  After lunch, added a few rocks to the retaining wall that connects the patio to the driveway.  Also moved the residual firewood from the old campfire site to our new, covered, outdoor woodbin, verifying that the tractor fits onto the patio just fine, thank you very much!  Shlomo was outside with me most of the day and was being really good about staying close by but well clear of the tractor.  Was just thinking that, as a reward, I should take him swimming when he reappeared from a short sojourn… soaking wet.  Then he went absolutely crazy rolling in all the fresh dirt I’d stirred up behind the fireplace, turning himself into a chocolate lab.  Nothing for it but to take him back down to the lake for another immersion.  Got an email from Alex saying that he and Chree were busy eating crawfish, drinking schnapps, and singing Swedish drinking songs about raw horse meat.  When Katy’s away, Grandma will play!  Not to be outdone, I enjoyed another wonderful salmon feast down at Marty and Merry’s.