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And so we begin the next phase of the driveway project, with 12 yards of good dirt for the garden.I’ll be recording a new podcast tomorrow, most likely.

Frank asked me to put together a playlist to get hs blood going while he digs the driveway. Here, with great license taken, and a few blatant uses of songs with titles that are only loosely connected to the subject matter, is that playlist. *I added a few more last night. Song Artist *Diga Diga Do Mills Brothers *I Never Picked Cotton Johnny Cash *Po Lazarus Various Artists *Workin for the Man Roy Orbison *I Dig Your Voodoo the Naughty Ones His Hometown Cheryl Wheeler Car Wheels On A Gravel Road Lucinda Williams Working in the Coal Mine Devo The…

Thanks to Joe, I am once again tagged. I confess that I actually enjoy being tagged. Wait, that sounds weird. If your life were a game of Jeopardy, what would your categories be? 1. Films of the 1930s and 40s 2. Fun things to do in Austin, Texas that do not involve chain stores 3. Blind girl workarounds 4. Politics are fascinating, but sometimes mind-numblingly depressing 5. Bourbons I have known 6. Folk & alt-country music 7. Strategies for storing excess computer cables Bonus category: Cat lady in training And in turn I will tag some usual suspects: Charles, Carolyn…

Frank continues to work on the driveway, while I sit inside earning money to pay for it, occasionally popping out to take photos. Follow the driveway pictures or the podcast. In driveway news, we’ve been hampered quite a lot by rain of late. Frank checked the week’s forecast before renting a tractor, but since he rented it, we’ve had a couple of rain days, and the chances for the remained of the week have been doubled. He was able to work through today, just getting the tractor onto the trailer as the thunder started rolleing in.

Two years ago, we remodeled our house. The roof caved in while we were replacing it, and I got tons of podcast material. As I’ve been relating on my show, this year’s project is to dig up the asphalt driveway, add pavers and install a garden. But we are once again slowed down by July rains. I should mention here that it isn’t supposed to rain in July in Austin. Here’s the beginning of the driveway dig, which was done to protect the roots of the adjacent tree. Next is what happens when a pit that can’t drain gets rained…

Frank and I went to the Alamo Drafthouse to see Harry Potter & the Order of the Phoenix. We’re both big fans of the books, and we’ve seen (though not in order) the four previous movies. Having sat through the other movies, we were both completely prepared for the fact that large hunks of plot and character from the book were absent. I also knew that this was the shortest HP movie, made from the longest HP book. Not a good sign. The thing I was not prepared for was how Order of the Phoenix confirmed all of my negative…