rainy rain rain this week. Friday we got a quarter inch here at the house. Today, so far, we've gotten more than half an inch, most of it in very short thunderstorms of a few minutes.
Presently I've got the aquarium pump sitting in the periodically-replenished giant lake of tens of thousands of gallons in the street, sucking the otherwise-wasted water from it into the frontyard, moving the hose from it around periodically to soak various areas, to try to get it all good and wet down as deep as I can, while the water's free.
Tiny's sick (arthritis flare up, mostly, so she hurts a lot and needs help up and down and walking out in the muddy yard so she doesn't slip and fall), so she's mostly ignoring the thunder; but Yogi is hiding right next to me wherever I go, even if it's outside in the storm he won't leave my side. :/
I had to spend most of yesterday afternoon and evening moving most of teh stuff out of one shed into the others, to make a space to park the trike/trailer, since even after many weeks have gone by after starting to reconfigure the guest bedroom/etc, Raine still hasn't gotten back to being able to move stuff back into the bedroom or otherwise clear the front room for parking the trike inside out of the rain, and have a good staging area to setup the stuff for the trailer where I can get it in and out quickly when coming home if it's raining. (So far, only had me move some empty boxes to a different stack, and toss out some others, which would give some space to park the trike itself, but it's not enough for what's needed).
Unfortunately I couldn't clear out enough space to park the trailer, too, so presently I still have to take all the blankets/etc out of the trailer to put them inside out of the rain whenever we're not actually out riding to or from work.
I meant to go back after a rest to do more, but I was so tired I couldn't. The problem is there just isn't enough space in the sheds to hold the stuff that needs to stay in them, and still have enough space to also park the trailer inside it.
Theoretically I could park the trailer inside the shed and the trike in the front room, but that would take so long to move each to it's respective area that if it was raining at the time, it'd be a huge mess. Much much easier to get them both parked in about the same place at nearly the same time.
Even easier is if I don't have to undo the trailer or re-hook it up each time, so what I am probably going to end up doing is moving the awning from the back porch to cover the area in front of the shed the trike is parked in instead.
I wanted to park the trailer in the shed and the trike just outside it, but the trailer is only a couple of inches narrower than the doorway and I can't back it in that straight while on the trike. I would try to drag the whole thing in backwards, but the centering spring on the trike's steering broke a few days ago, and I haven't been able to fix it yet in a way that will work when rolling the trike backwards from behind....
So unless I unhook the traielr the only option is to park trike in shed and have trailer just outside it (trike to hitchpoint is only a foot shorter than the shed). Then cover the trailer with some plastic sheets I have, which while they dont' totally keep all rain out keep much of it off if it's straight down with no wind.
Once the present thunderstorm ends, I'll see if I can manage to get an awning up outside the shed, big enough to keep as much rain off the trailer as possible even if there's some wind. Then I won't have to strip everything out of the trailer every day, so that Tiny wont' be riding in (and laying in all day at work) soaked wet blankets/padding.
Presently I've got the aquarium pump sitting in the periodically-replenished giant lake of tens of thousands of gallons in the street, sucking the otherwise-wasted water from it into the frontyard, moving the hose from it around periodically to soak various areas, to try to get it all good and wet down as deep as I can, while the water's free.
Tiny's sick (arthritis flare up, mostly, so she hurts a lot and needs help up and down and walking out in the muddy yard so she doesn't slip and fall), so she's mostly ignoring the thunder; but Yogi is hiding right next to me wherever I go, even if it's outside in the storm he won't leave my side. :/
I had to spend most of yesterday afternoon and evening moving most of teh stuff out of one shed into the others, to make a space to park the trike/trailer, since even after many weeks have gone by after starting to reconfigure the guest bedroom/etc, Raine still hasn't gotten back to being able to move stuff back into the bedroom or otherwise clear the front room for parking the trike inside out of the rain, and have a good staging area to setup the stuff for the trailer where I can get it in and out quickly when coming home if it's raining. (So far, only had me move some empty boxes to a different stack, and toss out some others, which would give some space to park the trike itself, but it's not enough for what's needed).
Unfortunately I couldn't clear out enough space to park the trailer, too, so presently I still have to take all the blankets/etc out of the trailer to put them inside out of the rain whenever we're not actually out riding to or from work.
I meant to go back after a rest to do more, but I was so tired I couldn't. The problem is there just isn't enough space in the sheds to hold the stuff that needs to stay in them, and still have enough space to also park the trailer inside it.
Theoretically I could park the trailer inside the shed and the trike in the front room, but that would take so long to move each to it's respective area that if it was raining at the time, it'd be a huge mess. Much much easier to get them both parked in about the same place at nearly the same time.
Even easier is if I don't have to undo the trailer or re-hook it up each time, so what I am probably going to end up doing is moving the awning from the back porch to cover the area in front of the shed the trike is parked in instead.
I wanted to park the trailer in the shed and the trike just outside it, but the trailer is only a couple of inches narrower than the doorway and I can't back it in that straight while on the trike. I would try to drag the whole thing in backwards, but the centering spring on the trike's steering broke a few days ago, and I haven't been able to fix it yet in a way that will work when rolling the trike backwards from behind....
So unless I unhook the traielr the only option is to park trike in shed and have trailer just outside it (trike to hitchpoint is only a foot shorter than the shed). Then cover the trailer with some plastic sheets I have, which while they dont' totally keep all rain out keep much of it off if it's straight down with no wind.
Once the present thunderstorm ends, I'll see if I can manage to get an awning up outside the shed, big enough to keep as much rain off the trailer as possible even if there's some wind. Then I won't have to strip everything out of the trailer every day, so that Tiny wont' be riding in (and laying in all day at work) soaked wet blankets/padding.