What's everybody doing today?

[hiwall]

Happy days!! We got another 1/4" of rain. Unfortunately we also got a good bit of hail with the rain and that did not do the garden any good.

 

[Sewingcreations15]

@hiwall doing rain dances and no hail dances for a fellow in drought prepper :lil guy: . We had 7th of the month we had .8 mm and we are under half of the rainfall to date this year as we were last year. We can see the red dirt clouds in bands blowing over the mountains it is that dry and needless to say I cannot describe the dust we are getting inside as well as outside the home. All we can do is use our saved grey water for watering down the house lawns with to keep the dust down somewhat.

 

[Terri9630]

@hiwall doing rain dances and no hail dances for a fellow in drought prepper :lil guy: . We had 7th of the month we had .8 mm and we are under half of the rainfall to date this year as we were last year. We can see the red dirt clouds in bands blowing over the mountains it is that dry and needless to say I cannot describe the dust we are getting inside as well as outside the home. All we can do is use our saved grey water for watering down the house lawns with to keep the dust down somewhat.

Sounds like your in New Mexico....

 

[Rick]

Did a double header today. a Run in the late morning... not the extreme hottest part of the day like i did yesterday and almost failed.. but late enough (11am) it was still a scorcher.. Just got back from the Gym for an evening of improving my readiness.

I straight out forgot the frontal and lateral raises though so I only did a total of 6 exercises of 2-3 sets each instead of my usual 8 exercises even so.. I am pretty gassed right now sitting in front of the 'puter.

Tomorrow a lunch time run and then in the evening teaching Tactical employment of the Carbine (live-fire) to a buddy.

This is my project to show that even a 50 something can keep up with the young 'uns and ultimately be dangerous to his enemies when it's "go" time.

 

[timmie]

going to go tomorrow and get onions . i don't know how many but my neighbor said she didn't have time and was unable to take care of them. she is about to have back surgery. so we are going to help her out. all we have to do is dehydrate or can and/or freeze them . they are already picked. then we will divide them up.

 

[hiwall]

Happy days!! We got another 1/4" of rain. Unfortunately we also got a good bit of hail with the rain and that did not do the garden any good.

It started raining again and now we are up to 9/10". Almost a whole inch of rain in one day!

 

[Sewingcreations15]

Send some rain our way @hiwall .

 

[Terri9630]

It started raining again and now we are up to 9/10". Almost a whole inch of rain in one day!

Our place "up there" is under a flash flood advisory. Our house isn't 8n a runoff area so I'm not worried about it but the roads will be a mess.

 

[tiffanysgallery]

This week brown/black moths started showing up on my front porch in numbers.
The problem comes when they get into my house from opening the door.

Quora says moths could be seeking salt...
"Your porch may have some salt in it. Maybe it came off your shoes. Maybe from the salt that you spread to melt ice. Maybe from food that you spilled. However, I will bet that something on your porch is salty. Maybe they are going after you for salt! Perspiration contains salt. A hungry moth may smell your perspiration and go after it. If so, they would land on you a great deal. Watch for it!"

This make sense... the containers of saltwater that i bring in and out of the house from my saltwater aquarium sometimes are heavy and spill a tiny bit so this is probably the reason for the moths.
I've counted over thirty moths near my front door tonight, but now that i know it's the salt, i'm going to be more careful.

 

[Sewingcreations15]

Started off the morning with separating out 239 g of dried rosemary picked from the gardens and wiping over the herb drying table. We then collected up all of our wood chips from splitting firewood on the veranda and put them in a tub to be used for our BBQ smoker when we use it and swept the whole veranda down and yes mounds of dust came off it. I then listed the dried rosemary for sale in my internet shop.

Back in the house where DH and I emptied the water from our bathtub into our grey water container on the garden trolley downstairs over the veranda and I watered around 1/3rd of the back lawn with the water. While I was doing that DH did all the clothes ironing in the dressing room and I started deep cleaning the bathroom and toilet for our rental inspection. When DH finished the ironing he deep cleaned the laundry area.

Then into town where we posted some watermelon seeds we sold saved from our gardens on the internet, got DH some more pain medication and went to the bank and banked some money.

Back home again where we have been relaxing for a while and shortly will have dinner and then deep clean the bedroom.

 

[Amish Heart]

I have the major sleepies today, but need to get the animals fed and off to work. Daughter took me to the Christ Stapleton concert last night, and boy was it a late night for me. It rained during most of the concert, so we set huddled on a blanket wearing rain ponchos. Loved the music.

 

[Meerkat]

Washing porch, cooking apples , freezing store bought bell peppers. Hope to clean out freezer ,vacuum and mop.

 

[CCR]

A friend gave me an antique armoire and I have been working on getting it refinished. First I had to try and get the 8 coats of old paint off of it! I couldn't get it all of but got enough of it off to be able to paint it. Been a chore but it is starting to look nice. May have it done soon (least I hope so).

 

[GrannyG]

This is a first...renter said shower was leaking, water going out onto floor......hubby went to check it out and see if there was a crack, or loose fitting...DUH...YOU LEAVE THE SHOWER CURTAIN OUT OF THE SHOWER SO THE WATER RUNS DOWN ONTO THE FLOOR.....what is wrong with young people that they cannot reason......

 

[Meerkat]

This is a first...renter said shower was leaking, water going out onto floor......hubby went to check it out and see if there was a crack, or loose fitting...DUH...YOU LEAVE THE SHOWER CURTAIN OUT OF THE SHOWER SO THE WATER RUNS DOWN ONTO THE FLOOR.....what is wrong with young people that they cannot reason......

Whatever it is it is contaigiuos. :lil guy:

 

[katlupe]

This morning I had to do my laundry, which I am still getting used to, after having lived for many years having to do it by hand. I must admit, I feel spoiled by something simple as doing my laundry or taking a shower. The laundry room is in the basement of my apartment complex and it is really nice. I put the clothes in the washer and go back to my apartment. Go back to put it in the dryer and do the same. You would think in a big complex like this it would be crowded, but at the most, there might be two others in there at the same time. Today, just me. Then came back and cleaned Rabbit's cage and had a good low carb breakfast. I eat later than most people, since I enjoy my coffee time without food or cooking Now I think I will do some filing and then write a new blog post. I hope everyone has a nice day.

 

[katlupe]

This week brown/black moths started showing up on my front porch in numbers.
The problem comes when they get into my house from opening the door.

Quora says moths could be seeking salt...
"Your porch may have some salt in it. Maybe it came off your shoes. Maybe from the salt that you spread to melt ice. Maybe from food that you spilled. However, I will bet that something on your porch is salty. Maybe they are going after you for salt! Perspiration contains salt. A hungry moth may smell your perspiration and go after it. If so, they would land on you a great deal. Watch for it!"

This make sense... the containers of saltwater that i bring in and out of the house from my saltwater aquarium sometimes are heavy and spill a tiny bit so this is probably the reason for the moths.
I've counted over thirty moths near my front door tonight, but now that i know it's the salt, i'm going to be more careful.

Last year, at my house, we had those things all over our hearth around our wood stove in the living room. Never saw them before, not in all the years we lived there. They are looking for salt? I don't we had any as we don't use salt for ice and they don't use salt on our roads either.

 

[Meerkat]

This morning I had to do my laundry, which I am still getting used to, after having lived for many years having to do it by hand. I must admit, I feel spoiled by something simple as doing my laundry or taking a shower. The laundry room is in the basement of my apartment complex and it is really nice. I put the clothes in the washer and go back to my apartment. Go back to put it in the dryer and do the same. You would think in a big complex like this it would be crowded, but at the most, there might be two others in there at the same time. Today, just me. Then came back and cleaned Rabbit's cage and had a good low carb breakfast. I eat later than most people, since I enjoy my coffee time without food or cooking Now I think I will do some filing and then write a new blog post. I hope everyone has a nice day.

I'm with you KatL on the coffee thing. I don't want any food interfering with the potency of my morning fix. We eat a couple hours after our coffee time.

 

[timmie]

love my morning coffee.

 

[timmie]

today we have put up some mre drink mixes and tea for long term storage. this eveming when hubby gets home ,we are going to plant some beets , butternut squash, and some pumpkins. also going to plant some spinach and carrots and hope we have enough time to be able to harvest before first frost. we have some rosemary that i need to cut and dry. busy day.

 

[tiffanysgallery]

Last year, at my house, we had those things all over our hearth around our wood stove in the living room. Never saw them before, not in all the years we lived there. They are looking for salt? I don't we had any as we don't use salt for ice and they don't use salt on our roads either.

Other than salt mentioned in the article, i don't ready know what could be drawing these moths in numbers. The front porch lighting is off because moths generally circle artificial lights and i'm trying to keep them out of my house. I'm also trying not to use pesticides but i may not have no choice.

How did you rid them Katlupe? thanks.

 

[katlupe]

Other than salt mentioned in the article, i don't ready know what could be drawing these moths in numbers. The front porch lighting is off because moths generally circle artificial lights and i'm trying to keep them out of my house. I'm also trying not to use pesticides but i may not have no choice.

How did you rid them Katlupe? thanks.

Well from what you mentioned here about the artificial lights that clued me into why they started coming into my house. My husband had put up a string of blue DC lights in the corner behind the wood stove. They come on automatically at dusk and go off in the morning when light comes in. And that must have drawn them. Before that we hardly had any lights at all. I just kept killing them. And we always had a few after that.

 

[squirrelhunter]

Was mowing the neighbors yard and my mower went down again,3rd time this year ,then I brought the truck load of scrap metal to the recycling place,made $25 .

 

[snappy1]

I was just at Walmart for a few things plus 2 other stores with sales, the doctor's with a bill, a thrift store and stopped to visit a friend at a rehab (she had been discharged). Took plenty of eBay photos and wrote 2 drafts.


Busy enough day for me!

 

[Amish Heart]

A long day at work, and we had a medieval feast planned for the students. They were very cute. Need to feed the baby chicks and clean out the brooders (8 of them now) and pay the pizza man who is delivering dinner. That's all I'm going to do tonight. Have a baby turkey (a slate) hatch today that a silkie chicken was sitting on. a dozen eggs still in the incubator.

 

[hiwall]

Another 1/4" of rain.

 

[timmie]

today we are going to check on parents and then go to my daughters and take the great grandsons into town to finish scool clothes and supplies.then it's back home and work on getting maters,okra and peppers prepped and ready to can up tomorrow and also some house cleaning.

 

[Meerkat]

Well from what you mentioned here about the artificial lights that clued me into why they started coming into my house. My husband had put up a string of blue DC lights in the corner behind the wood stove. They come on automatically at dusk and go off in the morning when light comes in. And that must have drawn them. Before that we hardly had any lights at all. I just kept killing them. And we always had a few after that.

Kat, we got invaded by the Lady Bugs a couple years ago, they were EVERYWHERE. That happened a couple times in the Spring, never seen that many of any kind of bugs.

today we are going to check on parents and then go to my daughters and take the great grandsons into town to finish scool clothes and supplies.then it's back home and work on getting maters,okra and peppers prepped and ready to can up tomorrow and also some house cleaning.

My daughter just took here grands kids school shopping last week. It ain't cheap either.
Other daughter who is raising her two grandsons made lots of phone calls to family and friends.

The 5 yo got up at 2am and took her phone and prank called everyone in her contacts . Him and the 10 yo got into lots of trouble.

Not been up long enough to decide what I'l do today.

 

[Sewingcreations15]

Today we started off the day with each of us stain removing clothing, putting on a load of washing and hanging it on the clothes line and then we both got up to watering half of the back lawn with the saved grey water from our showers and washing machine.

We then set about deep cleaning both the lounge room and bedroom and they now sparkle after having all the furniture pulled away from the walls and damp dusted, walls washed, blinds damp dusted, windows cleaned and carpets vacuumed. It smells so much fresher in here now and not so dusty or musty from the slow combustion fireplace going.

Just got the kitchen to deep clean tomorrow and we are done and ready for our inspection .

 

[Meerkat]

Today we started off the day with each of us stain removing clothing, putting on a load of washing and hanging it on the clothes line and then we both got up to watering half of the back lawn with the saved grey water from our showers and washing machine.

We then set about deep cleaning both the lounge room and bedroom and they now sparkle after having all the furniture pulled away from the walls and damp dusted, walls washed, blinds damp dusted, windows cleaned and carpets vacuumed. It smells so much fresher in here now and not so dusty or musty from the slow combustion fireplace going.

Just got the kitchen to deep clean tomorrow and we are done and ready for our inspection .

Sew, This made me tired. I think first I'll defrost and clean out freezer. Then wash porch since didn't get to yesterday because of rain. It takes it too long to dry out when there is moisture i nthe air.

Good morning Sew and all here.:green man::lil guy: