My poor brother came down with a horrible case of poison ivy after helping me run the rented trencher through my yard. I completely forgot that we were going past the area where I had a tree taken down that was infested with the nasty stuff. We had to fight to get a couple of large roots out of the trench and I bet they were roots of that vine. He's been out of commission for over a week now.
I've always been immune to poison ivy, and didn't have any trouble. Until yesterday, suddenly I have a rash popping up on my arms. The delayed reaction really puzzles me; I haven't touched anything we were working with that day.
I just got prescribed bifocals, why not get poison ivy too? My body is simply wearing out and breaking down.
Called yet another contractor to come do the gas line connections. He's supposed to come look at the job to give me a quote. The first two contractors have ghosted me and I got frustrated, hence renting the trencher and buying the gas line and just getting it done myself. I would like a professional to actually do the connections and run the pipe in the basement. But I don't know, if this guy ends up treating me the same way, maybe I'll have to learn how to run black pipe and connect to a gas meter.
I finally got the mantel installed over my woodstove. It's a beam 4" x 8" x 6' that was part of a rafter in an early 1800s house in southern Michigan. It's amazingly heavy. I drilled into the mortar between the fieldstones that make up the fireplace wall and epoxied the bracket bolts into place. Managed to get it level, which was a bit of a trick doing it by myself. Very pleased with how it turned out.
Been sitting here watch Ryan Hall Y'all and praying for the folks in the path of this storm. I'm glad to live where we get blizzards instead of hurricanes.