Hi Lizards.

My folks leave tomorrow. With assistance, I have torn up the old sprinkler system in the backyard (including the trenched stuff to the sprinkler timer) and laid new pipe/irrigation, repaired the kitchen faucet, trimmed out a lot of the dead branches on the bushes in the back, treated the whitefly infestation we’ve got going, and replaced multiple lightbulbs in hard to reach places. Oh, and I planted some tomatoes and peppers and cucumbers. I have been to Home Depot at least 5 times this week.

And we got my car to the shop, because it has decided that idling is overrated and it’s just going to cut the engine entirely. Hah. It decided to do that today. Thankfully my dad was capable of driving two foot so we could get it to a shop, that was willing to take it this afternoon and will get it looked at on Monday. Extra fortunately, the shop is in walking distance.

I wonder why my parents only come to visit every 3-4 years…