Almost March

I'm finally having a productive weekend.  I got so much done and it's still only Saturday.  It definitely has to do with the temperature outside and now it's daylight until 6pm.  I would have gotten more done but I can't find my saw-saw.  Garage access is so limited right now.  The coffee table deteriorated surprisingly quickly in the back yard, now I need to chop it up to fit in the trash bin.  I'd better donate the rest while it still looks usable.  Damn, can't do that on a Sunday.

I've given up on the guy that does the wrought iron gate.  It was so hard to get him to call me in the first place, then he gave me a quote.  Two weeks later, I got the stimulus "check" (Visa card), I called him back to schedule the job.  Never heard from him again.  I'm thinking of putting it off and continuing the pavers into the front yard.  Progress in the back yard is slow, but progressing nonetheless in the right direction.

It's February, It's cold.

It's cold from the the middle of the country to the east coast.  Crazy snow & ice related pileups make nationwide news.

But I'm in a t-shirt in California.  It's in the 60's.  Too cold for outdoor dining, indoor dining is not allowed yet.  Too cold to work on my yards.  The damn bougainvillea is climbing over the block wall again.  It's just my house, nobody else has HOA plants coming into their space to maintain.  I've been wasting my weekends for all the stuff I still want to do in my yards.  I can't get the gate guy to call me back to start the job.  Mom's apartment furniture is in the back yard deteriorating as fast as she is.  I can only visit for 15 minutes once a week, but at least I can see her regularly.

A month ago, my uncle (mom's brother, 3 years younger) and his wife got COVID.  My cousin (his daughter) brought them to her house to recover but the wife was having breathing problems so she ended up in ER a couple times.  Then cousin got COVID from caring for them.  She's the only one in the house who is working, but she's back to work again.  Uncle & wifey have accepted cousin's offer to move to her house.  His plan was to permanently move to Philippines by now but COVID put a huge kink in his plans.