Tallahassee Area Mensa
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Tallahassee Area Mensa a local chapter of the High IQ Society, American Mensa. The Tallahassee
area serves Florida from the Apalachicola River east through Taylor County including part of
Madison County and even a bit of Dixie County. Our area is also the only area in all of Florida,
Region 10 of American Mensa, to include a portion of Georgia. For a full view of the area we
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Robin's Roost - rest your feathers!
I believe summer has finally decided to settle in and the cool mornings may be a thing of the past until much later in the year. This is the time of year I get up and immediately do whatever outside work I need to do so that I am finished by about 11 and can get inside before the heat and humidity become unbearable. My sweet Ray, not being a morning person, doesn't get outside to do his outside things until late morning/early afternoon, and by then it is stifling, and he comes in drenched and miserable. It will be nice to escape to the cooler temperatures of Michigan this summer, although we will be back for August and September, which are sometimes the hardest to endure.
Have you ever noticed how a project has a way of expanding on you? Recent case in point - I need someone to mow the yard a couple of times while we are traveling so that we do not need a machete to find the house when we return. The first place I contacted had a severe communication problem and no matter how many times I said we were traveling in July, he could not grasp that I did not need him to mow NOW. I finally gave up. The next one I contacted never responded at all, not even to say they weren't interested. The third one I contacted turned out to have given me the wrong number, so I could never reach him. I finally found someone who can do it for me, and the price is reasonable, so the deal was struck. Then came the question of how we would make it easy for him to get into the backyard given the gates all lock from the backyard. We decided it might be time to replace the enormous and outrageously heavy wooden gate that was built years ago with a more manageable vinyl gate.
After investigating the gate options, we settled on one that will work, but they recommend NOT mounting it to a wooden 4x4, which is what we have. This might be a marketing ploy to get you to buy the vinyl posts with the insert for the gate to attach to, I honestly don't know. But we decided to go ahead and get the posts as well and we would replace the entire gate and posts. Don came down from Atlanta for his birthday and when he heard about this plan, he pointed out, correctly, that the fencing between the gate and the house was falling apart and suggested we go ahead and get a section of fencing to replace that part and he said he would pay for it as a birthday present to me. The project expanded to the gate and the section to the east of the gate. After more conversation and consideration of the current economic uncertainties due to the tariffs, we wondered if it would make sense to go ahead and buy two more fence sections to finish off that entire section of the fence line.
In the end, we got the gate, all of the necessary posts, and 3 sections of the fencing. This grew the project substantially, but it means that section of the fence is done, it will tie in nicely to the vinyl fence I put in after Hurricane Michael took down the neighbor's big wooden fence, and the gate will be opened without needing a shovel or a leverage tool. I'm pleased about all those facts! Have you had any expanding projects lately?
Looking forward to seeing you all at the Carrabba's dinner this month!
Robin
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