What's everybody doing today?

[LadyLocust]

Since the storm and rain in the summer kitchen, I've been on clean up duty. The boxes my extra jars were in got soaked and ruined so I ordered wooden crates which so far I am loving! It's taken a lot of grunt work going through them all, drying and sorting. I have them all cleaned up & dry and now have a big pile of soggy cardboard. Went to the dump last week so missed my opportunity there. Still working on it.
Also, took the bronco back in this morning for its pinstriping that had to be special ordered

 

[Wingnut]

I've been testing my "range of motion" with this injured foot, and I can (gently) turn it in just about every direction, but some angles are still painful. No worries, I'm gonna keep doing what I'm doing, since the improvement is steady... I still don't know exactly what I did to this foot, but it sure provoked a response! Oh, yeah, what swelling there was around the ankle seems to be going down, which is a good sign. A couple spots are still very tender to the touch, but they don't hurt much when I gently test the range of motion, so I reckon I'm nearly out of the woods. It'll be 2-3 weeks before I can even consider hiking, but I should be able to ride the thumper within a few days... sticking to pavement until the foot is entirely healed. I missed a good weather window today with the high temp in the mid-60s, but that's okay, I gotta take care of this foot first, it's my top priority. Otherwise, I'm kicking it with the cats, drinking a cold beer and keeping myself entertained...

 

[Pearl]

I've been testing my "range of motion" with this injured foot, and I can (gently) turn it in just about every direction, but some angles are still painful. No worries, I'm gonna keep doing what I'm doing, since the improvement is steady... I still don't know exactly what I did to this foot, but it sure provoked a response! Oh, yeah, what swelling there was around the ankle seems to be going down, which is a good sign. A couple spots are still very tender to the touch, but they don't hurt much when I gently test the range of motion, so I reckon I'm nearly out of the woods. It'll be 2-3 weeks before I can even consider hiking, but I should be able to ride the thumper within a few days... sticking to pavement until the foot is entirely healed. I missed a good weather window today with the high temp in the mid-60s, but that's okay, I gotta take care of this foot first, it's my top priority. Otherwise, I'm kicking it with the cats, drinking a cold beer and keeping myself entertained...

I first read this as "I'm kicking cats with it", so I thought that was strange physical therapy!! Take care of yourself until it's healed!!

 

[ClemKadiddlehopper]

Used up a dozen eggs to make an angel food cake and an orange sponge cake for strawberry shortcake. Boiled another 3 dozen for pickled eggs and egg salad sandwiches.

 

[UrbanHunter]

I was running a fever yesterday, cough back, so I called in sick. As I went to bed I noticed that the water pressure was down... At midnight the wife wakes me, no water in the house. I told her that there was no water in the area and that a water main was broken someplace... There's water on the table, good night...

Got notice that they are expecting to have it repaired early today so I will just shut off our water until they get it fixed and the boil order has passed.....

 

[Pearl]

Work, work, work! Then a Walmart run! Then outside to enjoy the 80°+ weather!!

 

[snappy1]

I will be taking DH to COPD doc this morning. Hopefully, I can ask a couple of questions and get the doc to listen before he and DH start yelling at each other.
Have a couple of stops to make after, then home.
I have therapy at 1:00
Need to walk at some point.
It's a relaxing week for me.

 

[Magpie]

Did a few chores outside but its heavy wind and rain here, so going to hunker down and catch up on some pre reading for college. Put the last of the decorations away, took out the Big Shot- its a crafting machine, and spent a lovely 20 mins with a coffee recycling my Christmas cards into next years gift tags.

 

[Amish Heart]

I hear you about the yelling, Snappy. Hope his appt goes well.

 

[sonya123]

Well, vehicle is going to be there again for a week until they get to it....they are going to replace the caliper on the other side, but I dont see how that works. If the left caliper is bad, shouldn't it pull to the left? Or maybe it doesn't work at all and only the right one now works. Maybe that's it. We'll see
Also had a flat on the Ranger ( this is a major problem for us, since we now have to carry everything , like hay bales to the pasture) . It had a huge flat rock stuck in it and the hole is too big to patch ...so new tire
Uggh, hate these vehicle problems so much!!!
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Took care of animals this morning, now going to make Kimchi stew. Taking dogs for a walk later. The LGD in the pasture learned her lesson she is now staying in, well, for now, until she finds another place to get out.

Texted a friend ( not a close one , one that we see occasionally) and she didn't really reply properly. I am not sure I should text again or leave it be. It's been a few days and I am debating if I should text again or not.

Debating if it would be worth it to set up a aquaponics system and grow tilapia to sell at the market. Nobody sells fish and maybe I could smoke them and make sushi out of it. Or fish and chips. It depends on how much the set up would cost. We have a tank we could use , so we would need growth medium to cycle the water and a pump, and some piping. The big thing is electric. Need to see how much wattage a pump like that uses to see if we can hook it up to solar

 

[LadyLocust]

@UrbanHunter Hubby was sick last week & today I sound like I smoked a pack for breakfast (for the record, I don't smoke). I was awake for about 3 hours during the night so not well rested. Will see how today goes.
Bronco was supposed to be a 1 day job yesterday w/ pin striping and CB. When you don't start it until 3:30 in the afternoon, it's not gonna get done by 4:30. So today or tomorrow, we will be playing musical vehicles yet again.
Freezing fog here - just below freezing.

 

[Wingnut]

Town run to resupply with fresh food... think I'll make "pot burritos" later, adding that crushed leaf from my former dope plants! The bag o' leaf has been sitting in the fridge for a couple of months, time to use it up! I might save enough to make "pot lasagna" too, but today I feel like having my hot & spicy homemade chicken burritos! I'm just gonna dump the pot into the mix once the mix is done, and maybe let it simmer for a few moments... that should do the trick. I darned sure don't wanna smoke that leaf, not even in the bong, no future in that, lol.

Otherwise, a mellow day of recovery from the foot injury, it is doing much better and I am walking around more normally now, not stumping around like 'Long John Silver' in TREASURE ISLAND, lol. I'm beginning to think that this was some sort of "compression injury" where that sudden lurch upward placed too much force on my scrunched-up foot... it certainly is a mystery, I just hope it never happens again, lol. Thank God I had me mum's old walker, that and my primo lightweight hiking stick which helped me get around ... I don't even wanna THINK about the earlier pain, lol.

 

[sonya123]

How do you store passwords? I know people who store them on pieces of paper. One friend kept throwing her little pieces of paper away and then it was a pain to be able to log back in. I know that some people use small address books. Some use small notebooks. I use a Rolodex. It is interesting to me how many passwords I have. I am not 100% about keeping them written down. It is especially a challenge when I am house sitting and have new passwords.

I have all of mine on 1 sheet in a dresser drawer. I hate passwords!! When I was working they forced us to change ours every 3 months....it sucked. I just added a new number to the end

 

[Weedygarden]

I have all of mine on 1 sheet in a dresser drawer. I hate passwords!! When I was working they forced us to change ours every 3 months....it sucked. I just added a new number to the end

I really like that idea!
The thing about wherever it is that we store our passwords, notebook, address book, Rolodex, pieces of paper, the place needs to be cleaned up. If you use a pencil, it is probably easier to erase and rewrite in pencil, but I usually use a Sharpie and replace the card.

 

[Amish Heart]

Finally sitting down with coffee. Busy day, started early, up an hr earlier. Animals done early with a flashlight. Took the girls to their schools, then came home to take care of the cats and dogs. Made husband his omelet, got ready for the funeral for our neighbor, helped husband get ready. We picked up our other neighbor to go with us, dropped her little ones off at the grandmas. Funeral service, then the drive back to our town for the burial, then back to the church in the bigger town for the lunch. Then back home to drop the neighbors off. Long day, feeling so bad for our new widowed neighbor. Still need to give the geese new pool water for their afternoon party. Still need to get laundry done.

 

[Spikedriver]

Just got off work. Getting off at 2pm seems like it's early, but we started at 4am so we got a full 10 hour day in. I'm trying to decide if I should go to the hotel gym, or just eat and go to sleep. There's nothing else to do here - the area around Barstow, California is an absolute wasteland. If there wasn't a Marine Corps base nearby, I don't think there would even be a damn gas station here...

 

[Bacpacker]

Back to work, busy day, meeting for one of the BDA buildings. New construction and we are trying to get in ahead of move in. So far so good.
Had a dr appt then got home an hour early.

 

[dademoss]

Today was horrible. Lori called me as I was leaving, Toby was down in his stall. Vet says impacted, twisted bowel, couldn't clear it. The vet was there all day. Toby was euthanized at 5:15 pm. Please remember Lori in your prayers.

 

[LadyLocust]

Today was horrible. Lori called me as I was leaving, Toby was down in his stall. Vet says impacted, twisted bowel, couldn't clear it. The vet was there all day. Toby was euthanized at 5:15 pm. Please remember Lori in your prayers.

I'm so sorry D. I know how you two love your critters so can only imagine how difficult it is. (Hugs)

 

[LadyLocust]

@Amish Heart I have not been able to keep up very well. How is the baby girl who was in the hospital? Rebecca maybe 4 years old??? if I am remembering right. Hope she's better and a feisty 4 yo.

 

[Bacpacker]

Sorry to hear that dade

 

[Amish Heart]

Hey, Lady L....she's better now. She was in the hospital first with RSV. Four days in. Then got sick again 3 weeks later, and back we went to the ER with her. That time was Influenza A. Poor girl. She came home a day before her 4th birthday. Seems so weird that her two siblings never got any of it.

 

[viking]

I'm hopin' some friggin' werewolf ain't gonna show on my rural property tonight, I don't need the aggravation while I'm nursin' this foot injury, aye? I always understood that one doesn't need a 'silver bullet' to kill a werewolf, as long as one chops off the head... or blasts it off, lol.

Good thing too, because my broked!ck 'stainless steel bullet' made from kitchenware probably wouldn't cut it, lol...

Reckon I should sharpen the machete... i.e. my modern version of a Roman short sword, lol. Like the short sword, it's meant for close work... right where I wanna be in a drunken brawl with a werewolf, 10-4?

Note to self: don't forget pepper spray, it may serve to blind the werewolf as I get a good swing goin' with the machete!

Here's a Warren Zevon video for this 'Night of the Werewolf!'

Warren Zevon

And since I'm posting THAT link, lemme post this one too... always liked this song, lol.

Warren Zevon (again, lol)

HEY, IT'S FRIDAY NIGHT!!! BETTER THAN HAVING THE WEREWOLF SHOW UP ON MONDAY, YEAH? CHEERS TO ALLA YOUSE H&CL HEROES!!!

Edit: Wait, now I'm thinking I'll NEED a goldurn lawyer after I decapitate the werewolf... thing will turn out to be some friggin' transgender lycanthrope out of West Hollywood, and the globalist-owned, libtard media will have a field day with the "wholly unnecessary and bigoted slaying of the poor West Hollywood werewolf!"

[Sigh...]

YA JUST CAN'T WIN 'EM ALL, MY FRIENDS!!! SUCH IS LIFE, UNLESS YA GOT BEAUCOUP BUCKS, LOL...

Just hope a Skin Walker does't show up.

 

[Pearl]

Well, vehicle is going to be there again for a week until they get to it....they are going to replace the caliper on the other side, but I dont see how that works. If the left caliper is bad, shouldn't it pull to the left? Or maybe it doesn't work at all and only the right one now works. Maybe that's it. We'll see
Also had a flat on the Ranger ( this is a major problem for us, since we now have to carry everything , like hay bales to the pasture) . It had a huge flat rock stuck in it and the hole is too big to patch ...so new tire
Uggh, hate these vehicle problems so much!!!
\
Took care of animals this morning, now going to make Kimchi stew. Taking dogs for a walk later. The LGD in the pasture learned her lesson she is now staying in, well, for now, until she finds another place to get out.

Texted a friend ( not a close one , one that we see occasionally) and she didn't really reply properly. I am not sure I should text again or leave it be. It's been a few days and I am debating if I should text again or not.

Debating if it would be worth it to set up a aquaponics system and grow tilapia to sell at the market. Nobody sells fish and maybe I could smoke them and make sushi out of it. Or fish and chips. It depends on how much the set up would cost. We have a tank we could use , so we would need growth medium to cycle the water and a pump, and some piping. The big thing is electric. Need to see how much wattage a pump like that uses to see if we can hook it up to solar

Remember I said if it pulls right the problem is on the left!

 

[Pearl]

Today was horrible. Lori called me as I was leaving, Toby was down in his stall. Vet says impacted, twisted bowel, couldn't clear it. The vet was there all day. Toby was euthanized at 5:15 pm. Please remember Lori in your prayers.

I am so sorry! I am so glad Toby had Lori for his final human!! I couldn't believe this as I read it!! Praying for Lori and for you Dave!! My heart felt sympathy!!

 

[Tommyice]

Today was horrible. Lori called me as I was leaving, Toby was down in his stall. Vet says impacted, twisted bowel, couldn't clear it. The vet was there all day. Toby was euthanized at 5:15 pm. Please remember Lori in your prayers.

Sorry to hear this. My Tommy was 28 years old when he had 2 twists in his gut. It did me in when he was put down--it was two weeks after the friend who gave him to me passed.

Prayers for Lori. I like to think of mine as trotting and galloping across sun dappled fields while he waits for me.

 

[txcatlady]

Watched cow have first baby calf from bull bought in April. She delivered in about 20 minutes. First calf in 2 years as bull was sterile. Nothing makes me happier than a live birth. Human or animal

 

[dademoss]

Sorry to hear this. My Tommy was 28 years old when he had 2 twists in his gut. It did me in when he was put down--it was two weeks after the friend who gave him to me passed.

Prayers for Lori. I like to think of mine as trotting and galloping across sun dappled fields while he waits for me.

Lori sent me this as I was driving home from the farm. There are cats at home to feed and medicate, and dogs to let out,chickens to pen, etc.. When I got to the farm, the poor vet was trying to gnaw through braided tail hair and braided mane with what had to be the crappiest bandage scissors I have ever seen. I happened to have come from Ohio Alleycat and had my "carry kit", containing a lovely set of tiny titanium EMT shears. The Vet used those, they cut like the mane and tail were butter. The vet got to keep them

 

[Tommyice]

@dademoss now my eyes are moist. I take my braided mane section out of its place of honor sometimes just to fondle and remember the happy trails we shared.

my vet was crying as she put him down.

 

[montanabill]

I have built some "memory" metal horses for customers before and try to duplicate things about their horses in the sculpture. One pulled the last set of shoes and imbedded them in the concrete footing they poured to set up the sculpture. remember the good times.