I'm well trained

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This morning I put a mouse out on the driveway for the blue jays and it was gone in under two hours. They have me trained. Then I was standing outside the barn and one of the larger woodpeckers flew toward me screeching. So I filled up the suet feeders (one was empty and one was almost empty). Later the chickadees started making a racket right near where I was so we went and filled up the other bird feeders. The chickadees and their posse started emptying them immediately.

Today started out quite cold, but was sunny and pleasant once the frost melted off. I got the new siding boards sorted and cut down to size for prep and priming. That took much longer than I anticipated. Derien mowed a chunk of the lawn. We are getting hard freezes now, so maybe it will stop growing. I tilled the whole garden again, flattened things out, and we got the garlic planted.

Tonight I started on the next round of siding prep and priming. If I work at that consistently I could possibly finish it by the end of December. If I work on it inconsistently it'll basically take forever. I don't like smelling like blopentine, but that appears to be my fate in the short term. Maybe I can pretend it's my new cologne.