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More home rehab work... hooray! But I have a plan, lol, and I'm sticking to it, just knocking out small tasks before I paint. Today I need to remove the shower curtain rods from the bathrooms, take 'em out and paint 'em on the sawhorses on the front porch. The bare metal could use paint, and I'll lightly rough up the surface of each rod before spraying gloss white (rattle can action). Once the rods are back in place, I spackle holes in the walls and caulk some seams here & there, and that'll be enough for today. Well, actually, I'll probably shift materials into whichever bathroom I paint first, I think I might go with the larger master bathroom first because the "cutting in" will probably be easier there, and getting the job done will be a big morale booster. Meh, so far, so good, I'll be glad when it's all done and I only have the exterior of my home left to paint. I'm not painting the mud room, it's supposed to look like a mud room, lol. Good news is I have plenty of food & beer in the fridge, and household chores are already done. 😒

P.S. The shower curtain rods are NOT chrome, they are just some metal that looks old & tired. No rust, but they could use some fresh gloss white paint. They'll be a tad whiter than the bathroom walls, but no worries, the overall effect should be bright and cheerful. I don't even need the rod over the garden tub, and I don't have a curtain on it, but it comes in handy for draping damp towels or clothing or whatever... so the rod stays. :rolleyes:
 
Been busy as usual. Planted more stuff in the garden. I want to transplant my tomatoes from the pots to the garden but worried they will freeze IF it freezes again. They will be impossible to cover. So far looks like everything out there survived except a few potatoes which had the hay and feed bags I used to cover them blow away over night, but they might just grow back. It's just small plants above the ground right now

Last goat still pregnant

Sprayed thistles in the pasture this morning until I ran out of herbicide. Much less than last year, so I am hoping this will be it and there won't be any or very few next year. We get rid of 1 terrible weed nothing will eat every year. It seems to be working and I only have to spot spray small plants not the entire pasture like some people do
 
Amish I wish there was a "hugs" emoji I could use on your posts. You're dealing with a lot. Prayers for you.
Peanut I couldn't understand any of the words in that clip, but my goodness that was some crazy picking.
We seem to be stuck in another week or two of low temps. Keeping the greenhouse going is costing me some sleep, but not much I can do about it. Two five gallon cans of kerosene today were over $60.00. That will get me through another 10 days of the cold nights. Hope it begins to moderate soon. The good news is the heater has been keeping the greenhouse around 50 or higher through the night, so my plants seem to be doing well. We actually had a bit of sun today and they were just about dancing in there.
From Heartbroken to @Amish Heart
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@Peanut I thought of you this morning. I heard a piece I knew I knew when it began but couldn't place it. It was Canon 5, D but I think it was maybe on a dobro - exquisite!

@sonya123 waiting for the last goat
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😂 When you least expect it!
 
Walked first. Good thing to get done. Didn't sleep much.
Dropped off some leftover s'mores bars at mechanics. Cars are there so much, they are like family.
Made Smashed garlic, parmesan, bacon honey potatoes. I added the bacon bits and honey!
Going out to grill venison, hot dogs and burgers in a few minutes.
Going to prayer meeting tonight at 6:30.
 
Walked first. Good thing to get done. Didn't sleep much.
Dropped off some leftover s'mores bars at mechanics. Cars are there so much, they are like family.
Made Smashed garlic, parmesan, bacon honey potatoes. I added the bacon bits and honey!
Going out to grill venison, hot dogs and burgers in a few minutes.
Going to prayer meeting tonight at 6:30.
The "Love" emoji is the closest on there to the drool emoji 🤤
 
Well, I was chargin' hard and gettin' things done when I realized that I had no spackle or caulk... could've sworn I had some of each, but now that I think about it, the spackle was all dried out last time I used it, so I tossed the rest, and even though I distinctly recall picking up a tube of caulk, I must have put it back on the shelf, thinking I had enough. I have tubes of furnace cement & "Liquid Nails" but no goldurned caulk, pffffffft. That's okay, I still got a lot done as far as prepping goes, and I believe I'm gonna go ahead and roll out both bathrooms tomorrow, since I'm in the mood to knock 'em out... the kitchen will happen later. I'll be painting for the next 2-3 weeks, most likely... 😒

If I go ahead and roll out two coats of paint on all the broad surfaces in each bathroom, that'll be a huge step forward... I'll just have to pick up the caulk & spackle later and fill those nail holes & seams. There's plenty to do tomorrow, heaps of broad surfaces and even some trim or "cutting in" which does NOT require caulk or spackle, so that's what I'm gonna do. I usually do all the caulking & spackling before I even get started with the painting, but meh, I'll do it @$$-backwards this time around, lol. Shouldn't make much difference since it's all getting done shortly anyway... I just feel like I should roll out those walls and ceilings tomorrow, that'll give me a boost in morale with this home rehab work. 🙄

I also noticed that I'm low on blue painter's masking tape, I seem to recall using a roll for some purpose not long ago. I still have some, but I'll need more for the trim work. I like to mask all woodwork so it shows clean afterward, I'll use some plastic "drop cloth" material for that purpose as well. The good news is that I have at least half a dozen clean rollers, a dozen throwaway brushes, plenty of primer and paint, and everything else I need, I'm just short on spackle, caulk, and masking tape. All rollers & brushes will get tossed once I'm done, I'm not gonna gunk up my plumbing & nice new septic system with paint... that ain't gonna happen. Everything will go in the trash, no worries. 😬

Well, that's the sitrep for now, I went ahead and got cleaned up and now I'm having a cold beer... I almost started rolling today, but I want a good start for that tomorrow morning. I'll cut the plastic sheeting or "drop cloth" material here in a bit, I want some of that in each bathroom so I'm not trying to shift it from one to the other. I don't mind walking the bucket and roller back & forth, since I roll directly out of the bucket... as long as I'm careful, there should be no carpet disasters, and I can close each bathroom door when I'm finished to keep the cats out until the paint is dry, lol. Might have to close 'em anyway while I'm rolling, or those knucklehaids will come in and start ragging about how I missed a spot... 😫

SO MUCH FOR TODAY'S HOME REHAB EFFORTS, TOMORROW IS ANOTHER DAY... 😎
 
Today I'm starting to get ready for my sisters upcoming visit. When she comes to see us, I give up my office (which is really just our fourth bedroom) and it becomes our guest room. This keeps me away from my main desktop computer though.

So today I made a new portable OS so that I could use any of our other computers and have it operate just like my normal desktop. Same programs installed, access to all my data, email setup, browser bookmarks, etc. I do this by making a bootable thumbdrive. As long as it's USB3, you'd be surprised at how fast an operating system will run directly from a thumbdrive. Older computers can't always boot from a thumbdrive, but you can get around that by starting the boot off of a CD/DVD (all computers are able to do that), then transferring the second half of the boot over to the thumbdrive.

If I really want speed, I tell the computer to boot off the thumbdrive and load the entire OS into RAM. All our computers now have at least 8Gb of RAM, most have 16, and my desktop (the one I'm on now in my office) has 32. You want to see fast? Try running totally out of RAM! It completely blows away hard disk speeds and even SSD speeds. That old and slow ancient computer becomes a brute again, as long as it has enough memory to load things into RAM and still have enough left to run things. You can squeeze Linux-from-RAM with enough left over to run into 4Gb, but 8Gb is much better. My total footprint - OS loaded into RAM plus running a few browser windows and an email window - comes to about 5Gb. Once you start opening up a ton of browser windows and have them playing videos and such, you can use more memory. I don't think I've even hit the 8Gb mark, ever, no matter how much stuff I'm having the computer do. Linux is much more efficient than Windows with regards to memory.

Anyway, now I have my complete normal setup on an itsy bitsy flash drive that I can plug into any of our computers and be fully "at home" on that computer. That's a 64Gb Lexar USB3.1 flash drive in my hand (cost me $8.95 on sale!), but I'm only using a small fraction of it (I did not transfer my huge video, audio, ebook, and photography collections to it - I can remotely mount those if I really need them. It's still amazing to me that this is all you need to carry around to have your "main computer" available to you anywhere. You just have to find a different computer than can boot off of USB. You do want that to be USB3 however, USB2 is way too slow. This OS-on-a-thumbdrive is in the Linux world. Windows is a different story - it doesn't move from computer to computer.

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We had early morning infusion, then filled a cart at Aldi since it was close by, home for animal chores, lunch, 20 minute nap (wasn't long enough), back to infusion, then to Tractor for more chick starter for our piggy meat chicks. I swear they eat 3 times as much as regular chicks, and I have a dz of those. Home and afternoon animal chores. Took a shower and started dinner. It's almost ready. Filled the freeze dryer with raw milk. It'll be interesting. Little granddaughter got home from school and went right to bed. This schedule is wearing on her, too. She's up now, will have dinner and shower, and goes back to the hospital with us at 10 tonight in her pj's. The Carol Burnett Show is on at 10, so she likes to watch that on MeTV while we wait the hour.
 
I found out that I did catch a bid on a different position at work. It's actually a $2.78 per hour pay cut, but I don't care. I'll make enough money either way. My damn sanity is worth a lot more than 2.78 an hour.

Right now I'm with my kid at her little half sister's soccer game. I'm enjoying watching 8 year olds have fun...
 

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@Amish Heart someone told me there was going to be a special on TV tonight featuring Carol Burnett. I hope you enjoy watching her, it was always hilarious. Sorry you're having to run yourselves so hard.
Good for you @Spikedriver ! Glad you made it home safe.
@Wingnut you put in a lot of work on that place.
@sonya123 hope that goat births okay.
 
I'm preparing for war on the lands of these United States of America. We all know it's coming soon. Get serious, get real, get ready.
I get you but...

I am getting old and don't work as hard or as long as when I was younger. Only after I tend to the irons in the fire now I will look at that foxhole I had planned.

One day at a time.

Ben
 
getting ready for the market today and tomorrow, hope both of my ovens work and my bread turns out ok
supposed to rain all day tomorrow, so it will make everything even more work
Won't be on here much for a few days most likely
Hope everyone has a good weekend!!
 
My daughter and sil are in the navy, she is currently on maternity leave but he is on a ship on and off. So far the war with China hasn't started yet but it's most likely coming. That's why I asked

Our enemies are already here, in control of much of our country.
 
Got my physical done. Everything seemed good. All my labs came back better than the ones before, except for my A1c results. The A1c was still OK though, 6.2 isn't as good as I want, but it's acceptable. I prefer to be between 5.7 and 6.0, because I've already proved I can safely do it. Looks like I've got a little work to do. The doc discussed a low dose testosterone treatment again. We'll see about that. If it gives me more energy, I'm all for it...
 
I'm driving to Oregon to get my nonresident Oregon CWP.
I have applied for my Arizona nonresident CWP and I'm waiting on that.
I can then carry in 36 different states.
Utah used to be a good one to get. My home state of Colorado covers most other states where I'd go, but Utah's non-resident added a few places that Colorado didn't cover. I think Washington and Nevada in my case, but I can't recall for sure. Utah is cheap and easy for non-residents. I can't remember the initial process, but the renewals are all online. Go to the Utah CCW website, check renew, give them a CC number for the $15 or so fee (cheap), and you're good for another 5 years. In Colorado, they call their permit "CCW" (Carry Concealed Weapon). I see your state must use "CWP" (Concealed Weapons Permit?) In Colorado, this only covers firearms. Not knives. I think a "knife" in Colorado is defined as something with a blade longer than 3-1/2 inches (if it's a folder). And you're not supposed to carry those concealed. A CCW permit will not help with that.

Here is a good map where you enter the state(s) you have CCW permits for, and it shows you the other states that honor these permits.

https://www.usconcealedcarry.com/resources/ccw_reciprocity_map/
 
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