A few interesting things have happened lately. One recent morning I went down to the garden and saw a good sized white object in the ditch. It turns out it was the white belly of a deer which had been hit by a car overnight. A fairly small deer, maybe around 80 lbs(37kilos) or so. Still had its fawn spots on. It had been hit squarely in the hindquarters and torn up pretty good. Probably died instantly. The road in front of my place is a 55 mph (about 90kph), but people routinely drive by much faster than that, especially at night, when deer are active. Given the proliferation of deer this year, I am pretty sure this won't be the last one I find dead in the ditch.
I dug most of my potatoes, as most of the vines had already dried up. They are not nearly as plentiful or as good sized as last year. I think it was too much rain and not enough sun. We have had about our third wettest August since 1900.
The tomatoes and the sweet peppers however have enjoyed the extra water. They have both done quite well, as have the squash and pumpkins. I picked a couple of squash the other day and we had the first one. It had nice color and fairly sweet flesh.

I had to do some house maintenance and replaced the north and south fascia boards on the house extension off the kitchen. They had become partially rotten and needed to go. After removing the south one, I proceeded to remove the old insulation. Had quite a surprise when I disturbed about a dozen bats. That old insulation had never been installed properly and had probably been harboring bats for a while. I installed new insulation and fixed all the holes I could find. I think I have batproofed the area, at least for the forseeable future. Now if it ever stops raining for a while, I will get the new boards painted.
Never a dull moment around here.
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The weather is supposed to be in the 60's for the next several days. Really need it to dry out for a while though. If it is nice I need to do some shingle repairs for my mother sometime this week. I told her I thought I could do the job without too much problem, but I do need a dry day and a day when she is available. She is an awfully busy lady for being in her late 80's. Just about everyday she is going somewhere and doing something. For some reason, my week has also filled up with something going on someplace everyday in the coming week.One way or another we will get it all worked out.
My Sandybridge I7 works very well and I wish I had put the system together sooner. I looked at that system (HPz420 for $389)on Newegg and that is a good price for that machine. Too bad it features only a single processor and is not a dual processor machine. Then it would be really awesome.
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Those processors cost a little over 300 bucks new. Ebay has used ones for around 100 bucks. Temping but the boards are a little pricey.

38 degrees this morning coming back from work. The bedroom heater is now going! Going to be a long winter!

It was 28 this morning heading out fishing. Brrrrr. Stayed warm last night though, now that the cruncher in the bedroom is crunching away. Got a feeling we are in for a heavy snow/long winter.