Year 5, Day 23, “Living the Dream”. Friday, 5/23/2025. The Wellington – Grouted the laundry center floor tile. Cut, painted, hung, puttied, sanded, and caulked the baseboard trim in that area. Painted, puttied, added knobs, and added casement around the laundry double doors.
Moving the washing machine back in and adding the stacking hardware was easy. Lifting the dryer a little harder. Daily weight lifting and exercising and I am still not large enough to assist with that. Justin will be by this evening to assist with stacking the dryer on the washer.
Can’t wait to have some shelving. That is another days project. Tomorrow the shelves will be built and added. Permanent shelves will be built. Not like the portable shelf organizer under the bathroom sink purchased from Amazon. Love those Amazon portable shelves. https://amzn.to/4dHEFpm
The closet door in the corner bedroom was also hung.
State Farm has set up a catastrophe trailer in the Lowes parking lot. State Farm is here for their insured tornado customers. At the post office today all talk was about the tornado and where everyone was at that time. One employee was 1 mile away. He watched it and said the sounds were horrible. Another woman retreated to a closet while her husband watched TV. They all said that if you take Interstate 75 south, you will see where it crossed the highway. It looks like a war zone. Very humbling. The amount of huge houses just leveled is incredible.
On my drive back from Lowes there is a feeding frenzy going on in the road. Some Turkey vultures are eating a cat. My car approaching scares them away at first. I sit and try to decide. Should I get out and move this scene to the side of the road? They all come back in. Roadkill is an important food source for vultures. They are standing on her and ripping pieces off. My hope is that the owner of this kitty does not see this. My first instinct is to stop the car and move everything to the side of the road. But then I stop and think. It is is a very curvy road with vehicles going really fast. Nope, I don’t want to end up as the next carcass. Even though it is disgusting and sad, it is the “circle of life”. Vultures are carrion feeders or scavengers. They help to maintain ecological balance by removing carcasses and preventing the spread of disease. They help breakdown carcasses recycling nutrients back into the environment. Imagine if there were none and our fields, and woods were loaded with deceased animals. Along with the vultures I am sure there are plenty of flies. Flies are drawn to a carcass just as much as the vultures are. They deposit their eggs in all openings. Even in the tears these vultures are making. Maggots will then begin to grow. Maggots are the larval stage of flies. Okay even though this is the circle of life, the thought of maggots really turns me off.
The Wellington looks so nice with flags for Memorial Day.
Things to ponder today! Have to leave you thinking.
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