It's 107 Freedom degrees out there with rising humidity. A great afternoon to go to the landfill, I say.
I should elaborate on this. About three months ago I sold my utility trailer as it was taking up valuable space that could be devoted to water sucking fruit trees, and is, in fact, once one gets past the comma separated phrases and clauses, indeed, now taken up with water sucking fruit trees, which required the digging of tree sized holes, but that is a story for another sentence. I went a surplus auction because there were some old lab cabinets which would be useful to me. I was high bidder so the cabinets were mine which was good. However, there was a bait and switch involved as the lot that included the cabinets also included a kitchen cabinet/countertop/sink which were utter garbage and not to my liking. The house rules are that if you don't remove everything you buy within three days, they start charging storage fees. So I purchased the honor of hauling the crap kitchen cabinets to the landfill and paying the dump fees. I developed a clever plan to write a wall of text about this adventure. There were other items I wanted to bid on but it would be an hour or so beofre they came up for bid (actually two hours, the auctioneer was slow and bidders had that "I can psych people out by waiting for the last call to up the bid" attitude which slows down the auction). Anyway, I took that time to run down to uhaul and rent a trailer to haul home my prizes and haul my booby prize to the landfill. The only trailer on site was too small to the task but worked anyway. So I came back to the auction and wasn't high bidder on the other items (a Nikon F3 with Micro Nikkor 60 lens ((didn't care about the F3, just the lens)) and a UV viewing cabinet with transilluminator, and C-mount long range macro lens system). So I grossly overloaded the trailer and took my prizes home, reaching a highway speed of 45mph at one point. Once home I had to get the cabinets up the steep driveway and into the house in the 104F heat. BTW, old lab cabinets were built to survive nuclear war, zombie apocolypsi, and freshmen and are a bit heavy. Then I returned to the scene of the crime to pick up the kitchen cabinets for the trip to the landfill. I had an inspiration. There is a used building material business that just happens to be located along the route from the auction house to the landfill. I thought I'd offer to give them the kitchen stuff for free thus saving myself the landfill fee. The business in question has picked up the moniker "Landlord Land" due to the fine quality of its offerings. So I loaded up the trailer and pulled out of the auction house parking lot. I had neglected to strap down the countertop and off it went into the street. So I ended up picking up the pieces of my pride in the now 105F heat while enduring the "What a dumbass!" glances from passing drivers. I recognised that my hopes for unloading the stuff at Landlord Land had been greatly diminished with the recent event. The stainless steel sink popped out of the countertop in the spill and Landlord Land bought the sink for a price that almost covered the landfill fees for the rest of the stuff. The rest was too rough even for them so that is how I ended up at the landfill in the 107F heat.
Well, if you were in CA the obvious answer would be to remove your water-thirsty lawn and put in some stuff that's more ecological (and less work!). It might not be such a bad idea for you, seems to me. Why support a lawn if it's too damn much work for you to enjoy it all in all? You could, seems to me, make the job easier, more fun, if you wear some earbuds and listen to music of your choice. If you are indeed using an engine powered device, something like my Etymotics earbuds would be perfect for blocking out infernal noise and supplying inspiring, entertaining music.
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