Whilst I was outside on the deck, I heard a swarm of birds take off.  The reason they did was this guy (or girl, can’t tell)

It’s a Red-Tailed Hawk (according to copilot, because I just noticed it wasn’t a vulture).
They like high vantage points like my power line pole. The picture above is zoomed in as far as I could. below shows the original picture.

The deck was stained in the color Federal Blue. As that did not show anymore, it was time for a re-staining;

I ran out of stain, so got two new gallons to do the rest.

For the past years, every time I walked up to my home, I was annoyed by the trash can that did not have a lid.

The AC arrived on a big pallet, and since I have little use for a pallet, I decided to make a lid for the trash can.

It won’t win me any prizes, but it keeps the bin rain free, won’t blow off, smell less and it only cost me an hour to make it.

The remainder of the pallet I will use for the fire pit.