It took a while, but I have it.

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A bit of a break but I didn't want to spend too much time down.  Down time has a way of procreating one's way out of work.  But I did need some time down.  Next up was the tent.  While it is still at max temp for the day, that is mild compared to what is coming.  The shade won't feel like much, but just tent outside of it and... yeah.  Anyway, the tent went up.  It wasn't too difficult.  I did have to figure a few things out, but nothing that took more than a few moments to understand.  Nothing got broke and no hard words were needed.  I also measure it, once up.  Without extra guylines, the footprint of my tent is, roughly, 93" square.  It is bigger than I thought.  And, probably a good thing on one side of things.  I next got the cot out, set it up, some cussing was used on this project.  It seems a good thing I decided to check these things out.  I need a pry bar to put this thing together.  I happen to have a minor wrecker that will work well for that, and installing rebar as well.  A little too hard for regular tent stakes, so a rubber mallet will also be going.

Now, fitting the cot in the tent was a whole other story.  I can get it in.  Luckily the tent has two doors or I wouldn't be able to fit it.  I can mostly zip both doors but not quite, and the last set of legs will not fit in, I think.  I added the cushion, then put my bag in on top of it.  I haven't messed with the side organizer to see if it fits yet.  I am thinking about, perhaps, later, after another cool down then another shift in the garden, another cool down and shower, sleeping out in the contraption.  Why not?  It will be getting down into the low 50's, so I will have some notion of how that all works.  The sleeping bag is much too warm, probably, to actually sleep in.  But I could use it as an additional mattress or just have it open and use a blanket or two.

I haven't set the shower up yet.  I am thinking, if I get another session in the garden and take a shower I will have, for me, done a man's man job for the day.  Now to keep up this pace, and actually increase until kickoff.  Loverly.

Oh, I guess there is still a little mark on my arm.  In the dark of my cave I couldn't quite make it out, or maybe it wasn't there earlier?  It looks like a zit, at this point.  My guess is, though, that this is puss from the poison or infection that wasn't there earlier, as I think about it.  I did touch my arm, as well as look, and I am certain there was nothing.  Oh well.  Still, that I didn't go into apoplectic shock, or even have a strong reaction, is a promising event.