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May. 24th, 2026 09:08 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
greenstormWe got rain yesterday, not a ton but enough to make a difference. It was pretty windy all day and my tomatoes got a good workout on the deck to harden off. Morning dog walks were crunchy with frost.
All my energy is going to dog walks right now. Sometimes I can combine a bit of gardening with Robs.
Oh, my sewer line had slowed to a stop, the plumber came, and he found a stick wedged in the outside clean-out thinger, which is just a standard 4" plumbing pipe that comes up at a 45 degree angle from the line that goes from the house to the settling tank. None of us had a tool to get it out, it was about 6" further than fingertip reach and wedged at an angle so it caught anything solid that went down the pipe and caused a plug. He snaked it for me and broke up the plug but we couldn't get it out.
Well, after helpful advice from friends online and sleeping on it, I made two tools: one a stick with a hook on the bottom made from a sapling with a side branch, like a fish catching thing I saw made once, and the other a stick with a small loop of baling twine about three times as big as the stick I was trying to catch. Using the hook I was able to lever the end of the stick away from the pipe and drop the baling twine loop over the end, then I twisted the baling twine stick to tighten the twine and pulled everything up! Amazing! I am very impressed with myself. Living out here requires so much physical problem solving and I'm not good at it, but this wasn't so bad.
PSA: keep the cleanouts to your pipes covered with their caps and don't stick long sticks down them.
Fencing is mostly done in back but not fully; the guys did the back but I sprang scope-creep on them and added the side so it'll just be fully enclosed back there. They had to come back to finish the side, which they'll do sometime this week. Then I'll be able to let Robs run around in a space that doesn't have cats or birds, and he'll like that. He's been pretty tightly confined this last week except for a drop-the-leash session in the evenings up in the garden.
I don't like where my patience is at with him. I'm going to clock it up as another point in the "PMDD meds need work" but it means I don't always respond how I want to and it takes a lot of work to try and regulate us. One of my tools for handling the mental load of PMDD, sort of shutting down and moving slowly, isn't always available with a very fast puppy throwing stimulus at me as quick as he can.
Anyhow: rain, frost, fencing, alive.
All my energy is going to dog walks right now. Sometimes I can combine a bit of gardening with Robs.
Oh, my sewer line had slowed to a stop, the plumber came, and he found a stick wedged in the outside clean-out thinger, which is just a standard 4" plumbing pipe that comes up at a 45 degree angle from the line that goes from the house to the settling tank. None of us had a tool to get it out, it was about 6" further than fingertip reach and wedged at an angle so it caught anything solid that went down the pipe and caused a plug. He snaked it for me and broke up the plug but we couldn't get it out.
Well, after helpful advice from friends online and sleeping on it, I made two tools: one a stick with a hook on the bottom made from a sapling with a side branch, like a fish catching thing I saw made once, and the other a stick with a small loop of baling twine about three times as big as the stick I was trying to catch. Using the hook I was able to lever the end of the stick away from the pipe and drop the baling twine loop over the end, then I twisted the baling twine stick to tighten the twine and pulled everything up! Amazing! I am very impressed with myself. Living out here requires so much physical problem solving and I'm not good at it, but this wasn't so bad.
PSA: keep the cleanouts to your pipes covered with their caps and don't stick long sticks down them.
Fencing is mostly done in back but not fully; the guys did the back but I sprang scope-creep on them and added the side so it'll just be fully enclosed back there. They had to come back to finish the side, which they'll do sometime this week. Then I'll be able to let Robs run around in a space that doesn't have cats or birds, and he'll like that. He's been pretty tightly confined this last week except for a drop-the-leash session in the evenings up in the garden.
I don't like where my patience is at with him. I'm going to clock it up as another point in the "PMDD meds need work" but it means I don't always respond how I want to and it takes a lot of work to try and regulate us. One of my tools for handling the mental load of PMDD, sort of shutting down and moving slowly, isn't always available with a very fast puppy throwing stimulus at me as quick as he can.
Anyhow: rain, frost, fencing, alive.
