Jake has had 2 turtles he caught imprisoned in a fish tank for over a year. Today he set them free.
What's everybody doing today?
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Bears?
With an armed escort!! Momma loves her new rifle. I'm jealous....
If I would have known that would have made her so happy she would have had one long ago! She has been all smiles since she won it!
Tracks all over that pond bank.
Today we started off the morning with me harvesting 647 g of cherry tomatoes and then we went outside and harvested 13 bunches of silver beet from the gardens. DH put on a load of washing in the washing machine and then packaged another lot of dried herbs we sold on the internet. All up today we posted 375 g of dried herbs of varying varieties picked and dried from our gardens and 50 capsicum seeds also saved from our vegetable gardens. The post office will spell of dried thyme and rosemary until the postal truck arrives for pickup 
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Got home and listed all the expenditure in my accounts book and had some lunch and I washed all the silver beet we picked from the gardens and DH chopped it all and put on the steamer pot with water in it to boil. All up we ended up with 15 bags worth of blanched silver beet making 30 meals for us for the freezer. I put the vegetable washing water on some bald patches on the back lawn. DH also put on a load of washing in the washing machine, hung it out and watered another 1/3 rd of the back yard and some of the driveway with the saved grey water.
DH just heated up the other half of our mince, garden picked and frozen sweet potatoes, turnips, silver beet and fresh shelling pea stir fry. Who said being semi retired that you have nothing to do
, the saying quite mystifies me as we always have something to do.
.Got home and listed all the expenditure in my accounts book and had some lunch and I washed all the silver beet we picked from the gardens and DH chopped it all and put on the steamer pot with water in it to boil. All up we ended up with 15 bags worth of blanched silver beet making 30 meals for us for the freezer. I put the vegetable washing water on some bald patches on the back lawn. DH also put on a load of washing in the washing machine, hung it out and watered another 1/3 rd of the back yard and some of the driveway with the saved grey water.
DH just heated up the other half of our mince, garden picked and frozen sweet potatoes, turnips, silver beet and fresh shelling pea stir fry. Who said being semi retired that you have nothing to do
, the saying quite mystifies me as we always have something to do.
I was thinking alligators!
Not sure if my new way of eating is giving me enough protein as I am pooped and just keep going anyway a lot of the time.
Yesterday morning, I made beef stew in the crockpot for DH, went to Sunday School, skipped Church and came home to rest. Then cut up squash and other veggies to roast with a little Italian dressing over, and that was it.
Yesterday morning, I made beef stew in the crockpot for DH, went to Sunday School, skipped Church and came home to rest. Then cut up squash and other veggies to roast with a little Italian dressing over, and that was it.
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I am off after today for the rest of the week. Actually, I'm on call only if someone calls in. Plan to get the house cleaned out and lots of stuff brought to the thrift store.
They set a new record high in Phoenix today 115*. We got up to 86* and about 3 a light rain came through and dropped the temp down to 60*. We got just under a tenth inch so far today but every little bit helps.
Just started adding kidney beans and a little chicken or fish. I think it will get better and thanks for the suggestions.
Possibly poking holes in paper,or "making some noise" like I like to put it .
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Five years ago, I put the good keys, the one with the alarm plus the extra one to my Dodge in a safe place..I have hunted, and searched....and guess what....TODAY I FOUND THEM.....LOL...and hubby went down and checked...YES....the right keys....do you know how hard it is to just have one key to your vehicle and know where it is at all times ? Well, so glad I solved that for today.....
It's hard no to push, when all I do sleep
Hopefully I can reply and get back on site without any more trouble.
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Mobook,bless your heart you have had a bad time with those knees. Hope the healing time is now coming into the picture.
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Today we started off the morning with me harvesting 647 g of cherry tomatoes and then we went outside and harvested 13 bunches of silver beet from the gardens. DH put on a load of washing in the washing machine and then packaged another lot of dried herbs we sold on the internet. All up today we posted 375 g of dried herbs of varying varieties picked and dried from our gardens and 50 capsicum seeds also saved from our vegetable gardens. The post office will spell of dried thyme and rosemary until the postal truck arrives for pickup
Got home and listed all the expenditure in my accounts book and had some lunch and I washed all the silver beet we picked from the gardens and DH chopped it all and put on the steamer pot with water in it to boil. All up we ended up with 15 bags worth of blanched silver beet making 30 meals for us for the freezer. I put the vegetable washing water on some bald patches on the back lawn. DH also put on a load of washing in the washing machine, hung it out and watered another 1/3 rd of the back yard and some of the driveway with the saved grey water.
DH just heated up the other half of our mince, garden picked and frozen sweet potatoes, turnips, silver beet and fresh shelling pea stir fry. Who said being semi retired that you have nothing to do
You and your DH a real trooper's Sewing. Great job's.
Got ice on knee now
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Goodnight MoBook and all.
Night all
Take care of yourself, these things take time to heal.
Starting yesterday as I and DH were in a foul mood is that we cut a cubic metre of firewood for the home as we were running low on it. Of course this was not easy as both chainsaws kept cutting out all the time and I said to DH they appear to be running too rich what mix of two stroke are you operating and he said 37.5 :1 and I said well the fuel isn't right. By this time he was fuming and snapping at me as we spent 3 hours cutting firewood and he had pulled his guts out on both chainsaws to keep them going to cut firewood. Turns out I was right (heaven forbid a woman be right) they were supposed to run on 25:1 two stroke mix oil as I asked him to google the mix with the chainsaw manufacturer. This is the time when good wives (with lots of patience 
) just shrug and walk away in the large 40 acre paddock that was where we were cutting the firewood collecting kindling la la la . Anyway we got home then and unloaded the firewood and put it under the house and had spam and egg hamburgers for dinner.
Today DH was still titchy about the chainsaw incident yesterday so I played diversion and brought up other subjects to talk about and gently suggested we go and get another 5 lt fuel pot and a couple of new spark plugs for both chainsaws, I would say the spark plugs are now oiled up too much but we shall try and salvage them tomorrow anyway and have reserves just in case.
We started off the morning with DH doing the usual bills and myself paying the electricity bill that just came in and I purchased 24 sets of leather riggers gloves at really good prices on the internet almost half the price of the ones in our local hardware store.
Into town we went and got a new 5lt fuel pot, 2 spark plugs for both chainsaws and a spark plug remover spanner kit and also managed to pick up a pair of rain pants on special for $5 for myself. Got home and DH had a lie down and I banked the remaining money into our home deposit savings account, put a load of washing on in the washing machine and hung it out and watered half of the back lawns with saved grey water from the washing machine and our showers.
Tonight's dinner will be homemade pancakes with homemade newly made strawberry jam and or butter as we are both walking around like zombies in pain as it took a lot of walking and collecting kindling for me not to chuck a redheaded wobbly at DH yesterday, understanding of course he was in pain with his back.
) just shrug and walk away in the large 40 acre paddock that was where we were cutting the firewood collecting kindling la la la . Anyway we got home then and unloaded the firewood and put it under the house and had spam and egg hamburgers for dinner.Today DH was still titchy about the chainsaw incident yesterday so I played diversion and brought up other subjects to talk about and gently suggested we go and get another 5 lt fuel pot and a couple of new spark plugs for both chainsaws, I would say the spark plugs are now oiled up too much but we shall try and salvage them tomorrow anyway and have reserves just in case.
We started off the morning with DH doing the usual bills and myself paying the electricity bill that just came in and I purchased 24 sets of leather riggers gloves at really good prices on the internet almost half the price of the ones in our local hardware store.
Into town we went and got a new 5lt fuel pot, 2 spark plugs for both chainsaws and a spark plug remover spanner kit and also managed to pick up a pair of rain pants on special for $5 for myself. Got home and DH had a lie down and I banked the remaining money into our home deposit savings account, put a load of washing on in the washing machine and hung it out and watered half of the back lawns with saved grey water from the washing machine and our showers.
Tonight's dinner will be homemade pancakes with homemade newly made strawberry jam and or butter as we are both walking around like zombies in pain as it took a lot of walking and collecting kindling for me not to chuck a redheaded wobbly at DH yesterday, understanding of course he was in pain with his back.
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