Springtime during summer?

We've been getting some strange weather lately...it's been raining quite frequently, and it's almost the middle of July! I thought that this was normally the dry, hot season, but it's already rained more in the first 10 days of July than in all of June! Not that I'm complaining about the rain, it's good for my trees, but it's just odd.

I also sold my motorcycle today, for a couple thousand dollars, which is terrific, because now I can rent a very expensive machine, and start digging all of the many different projects that I've got planned for the summer and fall! I didn't get as much as I would have liked for the bike, but I got a quick sale, which I'm glad for. It was difficult to sell, because we don't live in the city anymore, and I had to come in to let people test drive and such.

I've come up with more new ideas, and I've also got a few decisions to make, just some small ones really. I can't decide whether to put the jet pump for our water in the barn, or keep it inside the house. I can see good points to doing either one, but I've got to make a decision one way or the other.

This year, I'm planning ahead for winter big time. I've already started cutting firewood, and I've got almost a cord cut already from a giant schwack of packing pallets that I picked up for free. I use a chainsaw to slice the flat parts out, then a mitre saw cuts the rest into manageable pieces. It didn't take more than 2 hours, which is good. I've kind of perfected the woodcutting process, I can strip a pallet down in about 10 minutes or less. In extremely cold weather, a good size pallet is about a day's worth of wood, so the further ahead I can get in this chore, the easier my winter will be!

I've also been planning a small car shelter for the end of our house, which could probably for the basis for a small garage when I get around to it. I need somewhere to keep a vehicle out of the cold, something that could be heated with a propane heater (supervised of course) and I'd like to store some of the firewood there as well, because it tends to get quite piled up with heavy snowfall, and it would be easier on my wife if it were sheltered. I plan on cutting and storing most of the wood in the barn, but I'll bring a weeks worth at a time to the shelter for easy access. I may use the skeletal remains of the canvas shed that I bought last year, which died an early death from wind. This time she'll be bolted together at every joint, and the walls will be OSB or some sort of stronger material. A canvas roof would be fine, it's just a temporary structure for shelter after all!

I just noticed I tend to start all my paragraphs with "I've". Is that egocentric of me? Well, "I've" got to go now, thanks to the couple of people who read this. I know I'm long winded, and I'm working on it. Maybe. With limited success.