had a weird day

[unicornduke]

nothing horribly bad, just odd. it was really hot, hit 90f with 60% humidity all day. closed early, sent my workers home early, spent the morning doing some irrigation. I didn't have any urgent tasks, so I weeded, which I find quite nice and soothing. 

part way through the morning, something was in my eye causing blurry vision. not anything large enough to make my eye hurt and I couldn't see anything, but it was deeply disconcerting to have a blurry section in my eye. it might have been weird sweat? eventually it went away once I blinked a lot. may have also been something from my new spinning project

one of the pumps stopped pumping water and I didn't notice until I went down to switch the blocks, it was running dry for probably an hour after running fine for 20 mins while I fixed a line, so it's probably shot. unsure what caused it but it only started having problems after the o-ring fell out of the feed tube and I replaced it, but it was watering fine last week. augh. so we're down to one running pump. tomorrow I'm going to work on pump #2, which is down due to carborator/gas leak problem from earlier this year. there's a spare pump in the metal shed, which has a bad motor, so we might be able to take the pump off that one and slap it on the other. 

it's been so dry here. we got a quarter inch of rain on sunday and we're parched again. all the sludge puddles at the ends of some of the veggie rows dried up in a day. we might get more rain thursday, but three days of 90+F weather requires watering no matter what. super looking forward to three days of beautiful weather in the 70s later this week. we're going to do a campfire friday night

I have my new atom L mostly set up and ready to go. I figured out that my secondary instagram account (fiber arts) is 2FA locked out, only options are: previous device, authenticator app, backup codes. I have none of those. So I decided to get a new tank mini screen. It feels silly to do that, but given my track record, I will break another phone within a year and it can be backup. And then I can get my instagram account unlocked properly and change the 2FA

I finished a yarn yesterday, spent some time in the shed, rotated the loom and repaired my skein reel, so once I whittle a new peg I will be able to skein off the yarn I've spun and post about it. 

and it's only tuesday. 

Comments

[reedrover]

Wow. Only Tuesday.

Back when it mattered, I was so incredibly paranoid about my pump running dry. I’m glad you have backups and can work on them locally.

[unicornduke]

They aren't wildly expensive pumps, we irrigate from the creek and use the 3inch pipe Honda suction pumps that are 2 ft by 3 ft and easy to move around so it isn't a terrible loss, just annoying. We just need time to fix the pumps which is urgent. If we don't get enough rain, we'll irrigate into October since blueberries and strawberries set next year's fruit in the fall, so we have to keep them watered.