1. My Credit Union (only existing in the building where I worked) has become too inaccessible being 25 miles away now. So I went looking for a local one a year ago. Eligibility on their website was too confusing. So I finally just visited them today.
It was damn easier than their website! It is a military credit union, but I had 3 uncles who served active duty in WWII, so I hoped that would get me in. That didn't, but actually anyone can join if they become a member of a "no obligations" charity organization. Seemed rather strange...
But they enrolled me and then I was a new credit union member. Nice that it is just 2 miles away instead of 25. I set up a basic savings account and bought a 12 month CD offerring 4.94% interest. Beats my regular bank .01% rate. I will be switching all my regular checking/savings to the new place as existing CDs mature.
2. Pleased with my success at the FCU, I went to the meat market and bought some Delmonico steaks (on sale), a chicken breast to poach for The Mews and myself, and some meatloaf mix. That stuff is better than hamburger though it takes some effort to mix up thoroughly.
3. Picked a couple of Cherokee tomatoes before they were quite ripe. The squirrels or groundhog get at them if I don't. If I catch the little varmints in a Have-A-Hart live trap, I'll dump it into a large tub of water and bury their butts near a tree as fertilizer. I have no tolerance for anything that eats my few heirloom tomatoes!
4. But the tub of "water of sudden departure" has tadpoles! I don't know whether they are toad or frog. A yard can't have too many toads. If frogs, I will dump them into the storm drain that leads to the swamp across the street where they will be happy, and thrive. A lot of toads are fine, but a lot of frogs get noisy.
But I'm feeding them ground-up fish flakes and some algae from the pond. When I see the first legs, I'll put a small tree branch in the water to help them climb out and another attached to it to lead them down to the ground. If I don't, they will just start eat eating each other (they turn carnivorous at leg-stage) and I'll just have one big fat frog or toad. And I want a lot of toads.
5. I need to rent a thatching machine from the DIY store. Not that my lawn actually has thatch (few lawns actually do), but Summer was brutal and there are patches of dead (not just dormant) grass. I need to re-seed next month and a de-thatcher will tear those up to expose bare roughened soil perfect for new seeds.
6. Figured out the gas can problem. I feel like an idiot. There is a pull-lever to release pressure. I've used it 100 times, how did I forget that? Yesterday, I couldn't make it work. Today I just grabbed it and automatically pulled the release lever and it worked fine. I'm getting old...
7. Time to go out and mow the lawn. The flat mower tire has been replaced and what grass is still growing (in the shade) is 5" high. What is dead is dead. What survives needs attention. LOL!
