What's everybody doing today?

[Mountain trapper]

We only got a few inches of new snow yesterday. Spent all day working on the road and it's still impassable. Got stuck 3 times. I'll get on it again today. We did manage to drive out a few days ago, but not now.
We have some friends coming over later today. They'll be driving their side by side so they shouldn't have any problem getting up here.

 

[Wingnut]

Well, I called the Three Rivers Petroglyph Site office and the 'Village Trail' is still closed, as workers are having trouble with equipment... so I guess I'm not going up there after all. I thought about going up there to do the other trail, but I'd rather wait until both trails are open and make a day of it. So I'm left with an open day... perhaps I'll check out Dog Canyon, which isn't far from my home, that canyon hike looks pretty cool. Same entrance fee, a whopping $5, lol... so that's what I'll probably do instead. That's a pretty stiff hike up that canyon, so today would be a good day for it: sunny but cooler, which means I can find sunshine when I want to warm up, and cruise up the canyon at pretty good speed because it's not blazing hot. Sounds like a plan, I promised myself a day off today... I'll be sure to take pics if I go, right now the odds are 10-1 that I'm going, lol. I already ate breakfast and made my lunch, all I gotta do is uncover the trees and get cleaned up, then I'm off to have fun in the wilderness! Hiking, not riding, but that's okay, exercise is good for you!

 

[dademoss]

Bring in trash cans, outside critter chores, started a new batch of sourdough starter. It was warmer at 430 AM than it is now, I should have started sooner

 

[Spikedriver]

I just now received a return Email from one of my Senators, regarding the legislation that averted a railroad strike. It was composed entirely of "politician speak" and used a lot of words to explain nothing and commit to nothing. This senator is one of the newer members of the senate, and has already earned a reputation as a strong conservative, but her response has not earned any respect from me. Take a stand, senator, and explain why. Even if I disagree, I'll respect the truth...

It snowed a bit overnight and it's pretty blustery today. Seems like a good day to do inside stuff and continue my Covid recovery...

 

[Amish Heart]

The day turned out busier than I thought. It's cold and windy, and have a nice fire going. Dropped the little girls off at school, went to the post office, then home to pick up some albuterol to bring to our neighbor's little girl, the one that had RSV last month. Trouble breathing again. So did that, then husband's breakfast, animal chores, then to my favorite cousin's for snacks and a lady chat. Got called about that time from neighbor, daughter doing worse. So I came home, got husband lunch, then picked up neighbor and the kids, dropped the baby at her mom's house, then to the bigger town to the walk in clinic. So her 02 was in the low 80's, ended up bringing her to the ER at the hospital. She made some phone calls to her husband and her sis, so I suspect we'll be bringing the husband down to the hospital later. He was on a work crew a few hours out. Prayers again for little Brenda Yoder. Poor girl. She turns 4 next week.

 

[hashbrown]

I helped Alexandra insulate her chicken house and get ready for the cold weather coming next week. We still have to line the inside with plywood Jake and I will do that.

 

[Bacpacker]

Busy day at work. Still working on my 5 building project. I think I'm finished or mostly so on 3 of the buildings planning and quotes. Part of number 4, and started on number 5. 5 is the biggest building by far. 6 stories with 2 underground and something like 60,000 sq ft per floor. It's gonna have at least 4 systems in it, lots of connections and various equipment. Probably over 10,000 of coax. Trying to figure out 4 systems to feed 6 floors is complicated. longest run of coax possible is 300'. Gonna be a fun time.

 

[Wingnut]

Better you than me, Bacpacker, lol... looking at my last post, I'm ROTFLMAO, that Dog Canyon Trail is BRUTAL, a total @$$-KICKER, lol. And I was in the Infantry too, not to mention the vast amount of hiking I did in my younger years, including some serious solo hikes in the mountains & desert (Anza-Borrego, for example). Granted, I'm older now, and lately I've been macking all sorts of holiday food & drinking beer, rum & eggnog, but that Dog Canyon Trail is steep as f#%, it must climb 500' in the first quarter-mile, lol. The elevation gain is over 3000' in just 5 miles or so, but I still enjoyed today's hike, the views were PRIMO and the silence was DEAFENING, lol. We're talkin' about some serious peace & quiet in the high desert, you can't find that in the Big City! I did test some echo locations with Alpine yodeling & Tarzan yells!

Anyway, I rode out the harshness and caught my second wind, so the day was excellent! Pics to be posted tomorrow, I'm too tired to do it now, lol. That was a MEAN TRAIL though... in truth, it'd be a strong challenge to ride a mountain bike or tricked-out adult BMX bike DOWN the canyon, as the trail is very rugged. I know about that sort of activity too, believe me, I've ridden bikes all my life... and riding in parks & pools was EASY compared to this friggin' brutal Dog Canyon number, BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!! You'll see what I mean tomorrow when I post the pics! Of course, the cheesed!ck Canon cam will make the trail look PINNER, like a walk in the park, PFFFFFFT. No worries, I'll post the pics anyway, I must have 100 of 'em so y'all can take the trail with me as I go along. Not a bad trail, very scenic, as you'll see manana...

P.S. I thought I was getting a workout on the monster thumper, and I WAS, but today's workout was full cardio PLUS some serious hiking & climbing... elevation gain, I mean, not technical rock climbing, though there are some crags and big walls in Dog Canyon that would be awesome to climb! It would help to be RICH, that way you could charter a helo and rappel down to the location of your choice... have the helo extract you and your climbing partners once you're done, that way there's no rugged trail or brutal bushwhacking involved, just pure climbing, lol. Meh, you'd probably get SOFT that way, unless you ramped up the technical rock climbing, which you could do with a chopper. Not a motorcycle chopper, but a whirlybird! Amazing contraptions, those helicopters! I miss riding aboard 'em, they sure made life easier, lol...

 

[Bacpacker]

Lookin forward to seeing the pics. Sounds like a good day to me

 

[Wingnut]

Just a disclaimer: I did NOT hike the entire trail, just far enough to realize that I'm GETTIN' OLD, lol...

Pics should be awesome, you'll enjoy 'em, my friend! I'm just too beat to mess with 'em right now...

 

[Amish Heart]

Took Brenda's dad back to the hospital, and he dropped off neccessities to mom. Then mom and Brenda took an ambulance to Wichita, and dad went back home. She has influenza A and pneumonia, poor girl. The other two kids are at grandma's tonight, across the road from my grandma's old farm. I'll pick the sis up from there tomorrow morning for school.

 

[zannej]

Was buried under a pile of cats most of the day feeling run down. Tornadoes went way east of us so we are safe. Contacted e-bay about a seller trying to rip me off & they are handling it and said I should get a full refund. Scheduled maintenance for my truck on Monday.
Watched some videos. Trying to learn about modified thinset to use on hydrodefense hardieboard.

 

[montanabill]

Got a gun safe down a half a flight of stairs and installed in it's own special room. I built a wood covering for the stairs and used my home made stove mover which has a small boat trailer winch on it.
Now I need to move a new woodstove up a half flight of stairs with the same set up.....this time I will take some photos.
Hard work but after thinking about it for a week I just took my time and did the slow and cautious. Kind of rewarding to still be able to pull it off.....especially when I can't just brute force it anymore.
Snowed all day here. Starting to look a lot like Christmas.

 

[Spikedriver]

I think I'm officially done with Covid, finally. Today I felt almost 100% normal and only had one mild instance of unexplained fatigue. The insulin resistance seems to be tapering off. Now I have to get back into the gym because 10 days of sitting on my butt doing nothing, combined with Covid giving me a voracious appetite, has caused me to gain ten pounds. Hopefully I'll feel good enough to go early in the morning. We had two inches of wet snow and high winds so I doubt anyone else would be there at 5AM and hopefully I can work out in peace...

 

[Mountain trapper]

Got up at 3am and noticed the fire was out. Got it started again. We have one dog that sleeps in front of the wood stove with his head streached out under it. When he was smaller he would crawl under the wood stove and sleep.
Once it gets light out I need to work on the snow blower some and then start clearing the road. The wife has a hair appointment in town today. So I guess it's critical that I get the road open. I need to find some studs for the tracks on the side by side. Some places on my road are steep and have a hard time getting up with the snow blower. Even hard with the tractor too.

 

[INresponse]

On the radio tonight I heard a commercial for Relief Factors sleep formula.
https://www.relieffactor.com/products/sleepIt is natural and supposedly works well. I know their pain relief version works great too so I looked it up and the natural ingredients are GABA, Vitamin D3, L-Theanine, and Melatonin. I will be picking up these ingredients at the health food store and giving it a try. I have taken each of them on occasion but not all at once for sleep reasons. I have a few of them already and already took them when I got home from work a bit ago. Hopefully it helps, it definitely can't hurt.

I mentioned this yesterday and used all of them before bedtime and actually slept surprisingly well. I fell asleep fairly quickly and slept good all night (morning) from about 6am to about 3pm. I woke up once and after a bathroom break went right back to sleep. Tonight I am using them all again. I am hoping this stuff works, I definitely need to be sleeping better.

I had a decent night at work and a good drive home. Soon I will have a bowl of chilly and read some on a book and then hit the hay.
Sweet dreams, and good morning. I hope all ya'all have a great day.

 

[Tommyice]

Took Brenda's dad back to the hospital, and he dropped off neccessities to mom. Then mom and Brenda took an ambulance to Wichita, and dad went back home. She has influenza A and pneumonia, poor girl. The other two kids are at grandma's tonight, across the road from my grandma's old farm. I'll pick the sis up from there tomorrow morning for school.

Oh Amish this is just horrible news. Those poor, little children.

Our pharmacy has absolutely zero OTC Tylenol Childrens', cough suppressants, and any cold/flu meds. We received our warehouse delivery yesterday and nothing came in. The prescription antibiotics are bare too.

The fear of these parents coming in looking for supplies is heartwretching.

 

[Amish Heart]

That is terrible about your pharmacy. I remember the OTC shortage when covid hit. I keep pretty stocked up on the kid's OTC stuff and a course of amox, and have a zpack. I just replaced a bottle of liquid kid's tylenol, and the Dollar General only had the generic Rexall brand, so I bought that. Their name brand stuff was pretty cleared out of it all.
So...bringing the little girls to school this morning. It's cold and windy today, so animals will be a challenge. The chimney sweep is coming out late morning. Hoping to get to visit mom this afternoon.

 

[Pearl]

Heading to work as usual. Taking my two 90+ year olds to lunch. It's been a while since we have been able to go so we are really looking forward to it!! Think hubby and I are splitting and stacking more firewood later.

 

[Spikedriver]

I didn't get to the gym. School was canceled so my daughter and I are watching a silly animated movie thus morning...

 

[Wingnut]

Had a flurry of chores to do this morning, and the cats were going crazy indoors, it is cold & windy outside! I'm glad I went hiking yesterday, because it wouldn't be any fun today, not with this raw north wind! But I'm done with chores for now and I'm gonna post pics of yesterday's hike, so alla youse hereos (and heroines) riding out bad weather can check out that glorious high desert sunshine! Boy, it was NICE yesterday, today would be a different story, lol... but I have no plans other than to post pics, then work on my 'Road Safety' thread after breakfast and a hot shower. A late breakfast, I guess, call it brunch, I was too busy earlier for anything but juice and herbal tea... I'm looking forward to breakfast, I bought some "Sage" sausage to go with fried eggs & pancakes today, I'm gonna make a big breakfast after all that hiking I did yesterday! I'm not too stiff & sore this morning, but man, I sure got a workout on that trail... next time, I'm taking the bike, and to heck with hoofing it, lol. Meh, "That which does not kill me makes me stronger..."

P.S. I'm having a Nietzschean day here, I'm even drinking a beer in his honor, and as an appetizer for breakfast, lol...

 

[The Lazy L]

Corrected all the typos I missed the first four times. Exchanged the corrected short story
PDF version I posted earlier in the Library.

 

[Spikedriver]

Gah! My union just sent out an email stating that my employer intends to change most of the work groups from 7days on/7 days off, to 8 days on and 6 days off. This would result in more days worked, and probably more overtime gained, but at the cost of home time with our families. I am guessing this is retribution for the pay increases we gained...

 

[Amish Heart]

Brought some Christmas flowers and some chocolates to mom, visited with her awhile. Then they were taking her to get her hair done, so she's having a good day. Husband and I went to the Mexico type mexican food place for lunch. Home and staying out of the cold. Have some gifts to wrap.

 

[dademoss]

Outside critter duties, did a little laundry. Put the wall mount up for the TV in Lori's "craft room", and hung the tv. She gets to do the set-up on it

 

[Frodo]

Piss poor day, Had to make an emergency wee wee stop on a spur road
(Because of the stint). Got out and peed my usual 4 tablespoons, got back in the van and the battery is dead what a messed up time and place for an alternator to crap out. About that time a sheriff rolls up and asked what are we doing , Itold him the alternator crapped out and I need a jump. He said sure thing then started digging. Asking why we were on that road. I did not lie, looked him square in the eye and said I had takes piss, lol. That’s right, admitted to an infraction. He grinned and said I was going to do the same thing but you kinda messed that up. Nice guy,

 

[Bacpacker]

Still hammering the big project I've got going. Gonna go Monday and walk down the one biggest that will be most difficult to locate all the comm rooms and get measurements for coax pulls.
Had a 1st aid/CPR class. After work went to Lowes to pick up 2 batteries and a charger thats on sale. Itll work on my drill, saw, grinder. Saved a 100 bucks

 

[Frodo]

I remember my CPR class, I am certified to call 911.I keep my finger at the ready

 

[Bacpacker]

Every scenario, first step, make area safe, 2nd call 911. Workplace safety ya know

 

[Grimm]

Breaking in my new boots. I got my first REAL pair of western boots. I am loving them. They are so comfy and warm with my wool boot socks. I have worn boots of all kinds through out my life from Doc Martens 20 holes to fetish leather pointe boots with spike heels. I have never had boots that just feel good on my feet like these do! They are warmer than my snow boots too! Got some compliments at the feed store this morning.

When I got them the girls thought they had to tell K before I could like I did something wrong by getting myself new boots. I guess they aren't use to me spending money on myself. To be honest I felt I was worth some high quality boots. K gets new boots every year and a new pair of sneakers/leisure shoes. I wait until my shoes fall apart and the girls get new shoes every time they outgrow theirs.

Now I am looking for a second pair just because.