Still here, just busy.

 "Don't seek that all that comes about should come about as you wish, but that everything that comes about should come about just as id does, and then you'll have a calm and happy life." - Epictetus

Catching up

 So I had an entire day off, and made the best of it.  The tomato plants got chopped off and the half-ripe tomatoes got pitched into the forest for the deer.  The grass got a final mowing, and the mower got winterized.  The sprinklers got blown dry with the air hose, as did the garden hoses, which were then stored.  The water trough got cleaned and the immersion heater installed in it. 

I did not yet bring in the wasp traps, re-tarp the RV, plant the snow markers, install the winter tires on the Subaru, replace the batteries in the smoke detectors, or do a fall burn, there just isn't enough time for everything in one day.  But one day was all that I had.

October 2024 update

 "Meditate upon what you ought to be in body and soul when death overtakes you; meditate on the brevity of life, and the measureless gulf of eternity behind it and before, and upon the frailty of everything material." - Marcus Aurelius

September Update

 "Be a free-thinker and don't accept everything you hear as truth.  Be critical and evaluate what you believe in." - Aristotle.

Centurion Lemans: Decluttering, a rough cleaning and preliminary assessment

 "Everybody wants to be big, but don't nobody wanna lift no heavy-ass weight." - Ronnie Coleman (Champion Bodybuilder)

Centurion Le Mans RS

 "It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world, and moral courage so rare." - Samuel Longhorn Clemens, AKA Mark Twain

Christmas in July

 "You only have power over people so long as you don't take everything away from them.  But when you've robbed a man of everything, he's no longer in your power - he's free again." - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Astron 12 volt linear power supply

 "I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed." - Jonathan Swift

July insomnia posting

 "With age comes wisdom, but sometimes the age comes alone." - Oscar Wilde

Outage Post-Mortem, and passings

 "If all emotions are common coin, then what is unique to the good man? To welcome with affection that which is sent by fate.

Not to stain or disturb the spirit within him with a mess of false beliefs.

Instead, to preserve it faithfully, by calmly obeying God - saying nothing untrue, doing nothing unjust.

And if the others don't acknowledge it - this life, lived in simplicity, humility, cheerfulness  - he doesn't resent them for it, and isn't deferred from following the road where it leads; to the end of life.

An end to be approached in purity, in serenity, in acceptance, in peaceful unity with what must be." - Marcus Aurelius