Lemon Song

Looking at the upcoming weather forecast it is now rather apparent that my purchase of a lemon tree last spring was what the English would call a daft and silly acquisition.  I believe the cold tolerance of said lemon tree is just below freezing, but not for prolonged periods of time...and if I really want the thing to survive the winter I should bring it indoors at night and shine a grow light on it.  Yes, well...that all sounds like one big gigantic pain in the ass...and buying a grow light isn't high on my list of things to do as I don't want to be mistaken for a low rent local version of Heisenberg.  Just sayin'...

Before fall appeared and kicked summer's hard partyin' arse to the curb, The Better Half and I attempted to extend our patio with flagstone.  The flagstone was given to me by my folks.  The dug it up from their walkway and hauled it over...so I have something like 30 pieces of flagstone just waiting for a project as the patio extension was an unmitigated disaster.  The problem was that TBH and I just couldn't come up with a suitable layout of how we wanted the extension to look...and it was a rare occasion as TBH both hated everything we came up with equally.  There were no quarrels or disagreements.  Now, the only thing that did disagree with the flagstone misadventure was my back...and my hamstrings chirped up a bit too.  Lifting and moving 30 pieces of flagstone for the 4 hours we labored on the extension is like doing 4 hours of dead lifts.  So, moving and arranging flagstone is the newest event in my Practical Olympics.  Anyway, after 4 hours I did put down enough flagstone to create a new grilling area...and then had to stack 25 pieces of flagstone around the side of the house.  Good times, great oldies...

That's all I've got for now...going to try to watch 'The Walking Dead' or something as 'Boardwalk Empire' bores me to tears...you know what didn't bore me to tears?  The first episode of the new season of 'American Horror Story - Asylum'.  Watching Adam Levine get his arm torn off was pure joy, the only thing that would have made it better is if some ghoul then beat him to death with it...but hey, we can't always get what we want...