Hello Everyone!
Halfway on time, Inbound tornado weather, A drizzly day, Rug deployment & Thwarting the grit!
Okay, I am barely on time this evening with the writing routine... but I am 'on time' nonetheless. I guess that it would be more accurate to say that I am 'halfway on time' because I have yet to brew my nightly espresso... which will probably be necessary considering how drowsy I am feeling.
Ha! I did not make it very far there before breaking away to brew some espresso. Although I am out of 'good' coffee and on my last sliver of ice cream... I am still going to make the best of things... and enjoy it!
Anyways, the weather has been rather 'drizzly' all day... and somehow most of the larger storm clouds moved through the areas to the north and south of here... leaving this area untouched for the most part. There is another band of storms coming through (which are more severe ones than the ones earlier in the day) and there is a heck of a lot of 'purple' showing on the radar for the parts of them that are going to hit here.
Hopefully, the system blows through rather rapidly and no tornadoes get spun up... but whoa... it sure 'feels' like tornado weather. Admittedly I am a bit 'on the edge of my seat' over it all... but that is just a matter of being alert... and being ready to 'think on my feet' if the situation gets hectic.
For the most part the day was not a productive one in any way aside from spending some time working on a coding project. It is more or less just an (attempted) refinement on that hive-file-chunker project but so far I have yet to achieve my enhanced compression goals with it.
On a different note, I got proactive this time before the rainy weather arrived... and placed my second rug on the floor near the door. Like I have mentioned before I usually only use one rug at a time... and then swap it out for the other one when it needs cleaned. All of which makes it so that I always have at least one clean rug on hand if I need it.
Now though, with the two rugs the 'grit' that me and the dogs track inside... is nowhere near as bad as it has been in the past during these kinds of rain events that last for half the day or more. I have no idea why I never even considered using the second rug before... but now I kind of want a third rug just so that I can continue to have a 'free' rug that I can rotate into use as needed.
Although the last thing that I really want is more frigging 'linens' to hand wash... the rugs are not all that bad as long as there is plenty of rain in the forecast! My general practice with the rugs is to hang them up on the fence (or a gate) spray them down with some high pressure water... let it rain on them a bunch... then shake them out... usually by shaking the fence (or the gate) that they are hanging on!
In other words, I do not spend a heck of a lot of time trying to 'hand wash' the rugs. However... I do on occasion (when they get really followed) give them a good soak in bleach water... just to help sanitize them before subjecting them to the rest of the 'washing' process.
I keep thinking that building a 'rug beater' would be a better solution for getting the sand out of them (than shaking them) but ugh having beaten my fair share of rugs in life... it is such a dirty job... and one I prefer to avoid! I still might make a rug beater just to have one... and there is actually a piece of mesh fencing material and a handle that I have been eyeing to use as the main parts of one.
We will see how all of that turns out because at the moment it is rather 'low priority' as far as projects go. Once all this foul weather clears out I will already have my hands full just with the stuff I have missed doing (or failed to do earlier in the week) so I best not be adding any more tasks to the list just yet!
On that note, I am going to wrap this up and get on to doing the editing and posting portion of my evening. I hope that everyone is well and has a nice time.
https://peakd.com/c/hive-114308/created
Wes & Grindan