Stumped.....

 7:38 am - Tuesday - March 24th - TWW - 48° F, humidity 18%, cloud cover 6%, wind 4 mph out of the east by southeast.....a few clouds, but very sunny today with a forecast high of 83° F.  On this date in 2012 TLE and I were in Baton Rouge, LA.....

....having Beignets and coffee at Rue Beignet.  My first time eating Beignets (pronounced binyay).  The view this morning....

We've been in this mild heat spell for what seems about a week now with temps running from the low 80's to the high 80's (seems like two weeks).  We've both been wearing shorts and t-shirts all day long every day now.  The gas furnaces run maybe 20 minutes first thing in the morning, and then all the windows, and I mean all the windows, are opened for the rest of the day, and well into the evening (I just opened my salon window at 7:56 am....that was unheard of 10 days ago!).  We've been deploying our doorway screen door for at least a week beginning early afternoon.  All that being said, relief is on the way!  By Saturday we'll be back into the 70's, then 60's through the first week in April.

We began our work day as we usually do by visiting the greenhouse to see how our growing produce is faring.  The two potato beds have exploded with greenery, we now have cauliflower developing at a rapid pace, and the broccoli is well into producing its second crop....

.....I've said this before, but it really kind of cool to plant stuff and see it grow....especially stuff you can eventually eat!

Next up I poured some more diesel on the tree stump we've been trying to burn out of the ground, then added firewood on top of that....

....we kept adding fuel to the fire all day long, and by the end of the day we had a pile of ashes, but they were still hot.  In fact, this morning (Tuesday) they were still hot, so we added some more firewood to see how hot it was, and it caught on fire again....

....so, obviously, that means the stump is still smoldering deep down inside.  We'll keep added more fuel throughout the day, and see where that gets us, but for now we are 'stumped'....lol.

After fiddling with the burning stump for a while we decided to completely remove the old fiberglass insulation from the shed so we can install the new insulation board Tuesday.....

....it took longer to remove the staples which we used to fasten the old insulation in place than it took to remove the insulation, but the shed is now ready for the installation of the new insulation board, which we moved over from the garage.

After all that was done TLE headed indoors to the cool confines of the Newell, while I headed over to the CONEX/barn complex to cut up numerous cardboard boxes which we had pulled out of the barn when Charles and Phyllis were here over the weekend, then, with TLE's help moved that to our future burn pile.  Then  I moved a bunch of stuff we had leaning against the barn to the rear of the barn to clean up the clutter.....

Looks much better now

The damaged solar panel and other stuff I moved

The cardboard ready to be burned...

....in the recently created burn pile (in the background)

....and with that I finished my workday.  About the time I returned to the Newell TLE was heading over to the house to do another load of wash.

We are slowly becoming acclimated to warmer weather, and now we are heading back into a cooling period.  Of course, when we arrive at Likely later in April it will still feel like winter there....lol.

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