Nature red in tooth and claw, and tent construction.
Thursday afternoon, as I walked home from the train station, I saw a black cat in "fierce hunter" mode in the front yard of a house, sneaking up on a cherry tree. The cherry tree was covered with netting (presumably to keep the birds and squirrels off the cherries -- at least that's why I put netting over our cherry tree), and the netting was moving in fits and starts. There was a mockingbird inside the netting, trying vainly to escape, and as I watched, the cat crept up close to the trunk and made a vertical leap. Missed the mockingbird, and got briefly snagged in the netting itself, but seemed determined to try again. So I put down my pack, walked up onto the lawn, and moved enough of the netting that the mockingbird could find its way out. Bird and cat are no longer caught in the netting. My work here is done....
Last night I made some small progress on pavilion construction: I attached webbing stake loops near the bottoms of the seams in one wall piece. I was going to do the same to the other wall piece, but ran out of webbing, so![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
shalmestere ordered more from Amazon, to arrive Monday. In the mean time, I guess I can work on the toggle-and-loop assemblies that attach the tops of the walls to the bottom edge of the roof, since those involve a different kind of webbing that I haven't run out of yet. I'll still need to make guy ropes, and short rope loops to attach the webbing stake loops to the stakes, and a ridge pole, and make sure we have something that will work as center poles (probably re-using our existing wheelbarrow-handle center poles, with different-length steel pipes to connect them together). It might be finished by summer camping season....
Meanwhile, I have paid-employment work to do today, even though it's Saturday: there's a batch job that runs the 1st and 15th of every month, with the run on the 15th usually uninteresting, so the only chances to test whether my code responds to it correctly in realistic conditions are once a month on the 1st. This is obviously not an efficient test-and-debug cycle, so I'm also working on ways to test independently of the batch job, but that framework isn't up and running yet.
And I'm underslept: I went to bed at midnight,shalmestere came to bed something like 45 minutes later, and one of the dogs woke me up at 5:00 AM, I still don't know why.
Last night I made some small progress on pavilion construction: I attached webbing stake loops near the bottoms of the seams in one wall piece. I was going to do the same to the other wall piece, but ran out of webbing, so
shalmestere ordered more from Amazon, to arrive Monday. In the mean time, I guess I can work on the toggle-and-loop assemblies that attach the tops of the walls to the bottom edge of the roof, since those involve a different kind of webbing that I haven't run out of yet. I'll still need to make guy ropes, and short rope loops to attach the webbing stake loops to the stakes, and a ridge pole, and make sure we have something that will work as center poles (probably re-using our existing wheelbarrow-handle center poles, with different-length steel pipes to connect them together). It might be finished by summer camping season....Meanwhile, I have paid-employment work to do today, even though it's Saturday: there's a batch job that runs the 1st and 15th of every month, with the run on the 15th usually uninteresting, so the only chances to test whether my code responds to it correctly in realistic conditions are once a month on the 1st. This is obviously not an efficient test-and-debug cycle, so I'm also working on ways to test independently of the batch job, but that framework isn't up and running yet.
And I'm underslept: I went to bed at midnight,
shalmestere came to bed something like 45 minutes later, and one of the dogs woke me up at 5:00 AM, I still don't know why.