Ow

We had great weather this weekend. Knowing that things can turn hot and nasty in a heartbeat, I decided to get started yesterday on pulling out the "water feature" in the backyard before it has time to turn into a festering mosquito pit.

Well, that didn't turn out to be such an easy thing. We thought it was maybe a foot or two deep.

Yeah, try well over four feet at its deepest. And absolutely clogged with an entrenched lily pad root system completely covering the bottom of the whole liner by a depth of several inches.



I'm not sure I can possibly overstate how much physical work this was. The liner was huge and embedded in solid mud all around the outside of the pit. Luckily, the pump left by the previous owner still worked, so I was able to pump about 90 percent of the water out with that.

I hurt my arm somehow while doing it. It's swollen above the left wrist, but I think it's gotten better throughout the day. I also really did a number on my fingertips, but they're markedly better tonight as well.

While I was struggling with this, Jeff worked on priming all the woodwork in the bathroom, including the walnut-stained window and the raw wood of the new linen closet.



That's tedium, but the window looks almost amazingly different now that it's white. We'll still need a few touch-ups here and there after two coats of paint (my work for the day today), but it's getting much closer.



At least the cross pieces in these Pella windows come out. Much easier than painting between actual panes.

This morning, I took some time for something a little different. Time to make a lime meringue pie with the key limes I bought at City Market Friday.



This is almost turning into a pieblog.