Rundown of work over the past two days

Yesterday, Eor dropped two smaller ash trees (5 inches and maybe 7 inches diameter), bucked them up, and got the branches and wood moved to appropriate places. He cut down quite a lot of large honeysuckle bush and a buckthorn tree. He harvested potatoes and got the garden leveled back out, and brought the potato grow boxes (you stack them and fill them with dirt as the plants grow) down to the barn for winter storage.

I'm trying to think what I did... I know I cooked us a huge breakfast, went for a blood test in the morning, and stopped at the grocery store (where I let a random elderly lady who'd lost her husband use my phone to try and find him). Then I spread compost around to a bunch of holes in the lawn, and mowed some of the lawn. Cleaned the previous bunch of potatoes off so Eor could have the potato baskets to harvest into.

Today, Eor cut up the buckthorn and honeysuckle, and I ran them to the dump. I planted garlic. Eor dropped a staghorn sumac and half a large double ash tree (probably 16 inch diameter), bucked both of them, and started to split the ash, while I brought up a lot of the cut and split wood.

As always it can be summed up that he does the hard work and the dishes, and I pick up after his work, do a bunch of driving around, keep us fed and do laundry.

We did finally decide where we are going to build a woodshed. That only took five years, so it'll probably only take another 20 to finish it.

2018 books (retropost, estimated date)

49) "The Magic of Oz" - Baum

First we start out following the Bad Boy, Kiki Aru. (Wait, Kiki? Isn't that a bisexual girl's name? I was a little confused by Prince Inga, too. Honestly I think Baum only ever wanted to write about girls, he just felt he had to do some boy stories, so he gave them girl names.) Kiki learns how to transform himself and others, and sets off into the world with this one skill and a desire to be Bad, and he quickly meets Ruggedo, who used to be king of the Nomes, who has been reformed twice in previous books, but seems to keep reverting to Bad. He decides they can take over Oz with Kiki's power to transform people.

Meanwhile, back at the palace, everyone has to find birthday presents for Ozma, so they all set off in different directions on Quests. Dorothy and the Wizard go in search of some monkeys, because what's cuter than a bunch of monkeys who will jump out of a cake and do tricks? They go to the jungle in the Gillikin country and meet up with Kiki and Ruggedo, who have transformed themselves into weird creatures to avoid offending any of the jungle animals. In a spate of nerves, Kiki transforms Dorothy into a lamb, the Wizard into a fox, and the (male) panther who rules this jungle into a fat woman. A fat woman? Yeah, I don't know.

I remembered so much of this one as I went along, particularly around the pictures, again. Especially the part where Trot and Cap'n Bill are stuck on the island of the flower (it's a trap intended to kill people! Why it was set and who set it, not discussed.) and are randomly given mushrooms to sit on by a passing magical duck. Magical duck? Why not.

It's just kind of whacked, all in all, but fun. :)