Return to DIY

Put this (gutter guard...) up the other day in advance of the three-month Attack of the Leaves. Great to have so many trees of course, but the fall is ridiculous in terms of gutter clogging and the like...

Not DIY, rather, YDI

So after my back and arm and shoulder and hand-breaking experience of crushing all the sidewalk out back and the front walkway as well, and then subesquently taking all that debris out back (out of sight, etc...), I really knew that I wanted to end my hands-on relationship with said pile of debris.

So when a guy stopped to see if I had anything I might want hauled away....I was glad to part with some dough to see this pile go.

Not Do It Your Self, but rather, You Do It.

Pile Before

The result of the sidewalk removal....

New Find In Clearydome-land

It's like the farmers market, all week long. Just about 1 mile (its right at the turn-around point for me on my runs down the Monon) south of the Clearydome is Locally Grown Gardens Market. Run by ROn Harris, who is a Culinary Institute of America grad who was a fancy-pants chef in big-city environs like NYC, but somehow ended up back at home in Indy. The location, which I failed to photo, was an abandoned gas station before he took it on...Heres to the harvest!

How I got it back to the rental place

Since I only had Trusty (with the red sweede being parked in NH and of course Rusty having departed...), I had to use him to get the jackhammer back.

Since I made a big grease stain on my ex's car when I picked it up (she doesn't read this, I don't think...although shout out here to Danish dish soap VEL--I used it to get that grease out of the upholstery...VEL, is there nothing it can't do?), I shrewdly decided to protect the seats with a sail that I got at a garage sale last spring.

Fletch-Fest

I was back in town in time to attend the most brilliantly-conceived party, Fletch Fest 2009 to raise funds for Juvenile Diabetes. They had a screening of the worlds best movie, and some folks dressed up as characters from the movie and there was even a Fletch trivia contest. I got nine of ten right; I suspect the person who got them all right googled the answers; I mean, who could possibly know THAT MUCH about one movie??

Thanks to Sarah (who is a Fletch fan, but still seemed bemused that someone would go to the party just to Support the Fletch Cause), for putting it all together.