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Off to town this morning for alfalfa, hit the thrift shops, and ingredients for 2 large pans of spoon bread (for the funeral at Church). Only a couple of hours of sleep last night so hoping for a nap today.
Will put lawn chairs away later in prep for the tropical storm. No rain and light winds with clouds so far.
Off to town this morning for alfalfa, hit the thrift shops, and ingredients for 2 large pans of spoon bread (for the funeral at Church). Only a couple of hours of sleep last night so hoping for a nap today.
Will put lawn chairs away later in prep for the tropical storm. No rain and light winds with clouds so far.
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Sounds like our weather for now anyway.
I uncovered the raised bed, seeds are already popping up but this is gettign to be a job! Hubby is down and I'm not exactly up myself in the back. every several years my back goes out and for no apparent reason. Out old dog is got us both in sorrow guess I took the cowards way out by not putting her to sleep but it almost literily killed me first and last time I put one down, vet wanted me to go to hospital because of severe chest pain.
She is an old greyhound mix with retriever and the smartest, bravest dog we have ever had and that is saying somethign.cause we have had some really good ones. We prayed fro her to go last night.
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Thank you Snappy1!
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Our news is reporting tropical storm Gordon intensifies as it approaches the Gulf Coast, hurricane warnings are in place from mouth of the Pearl River eastward to Alabama/Florida border.
We are over eight hours away and are expected to get rain all week from this storm.
We are over eight hours away and are expected to get rain all week from this storm.
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I hope not Tiff. We are not suppose to get anymore here but we still have it coming in from the Atlantic.
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I hope not too Meerkat.
As I look around reading the weather news, most places are saying Gordon is being reported as an emergency but also with minor impact. Hoping the best for you'all and everyone in the area.
As I look around reading the weather news, most places are saying Gordon is being reported as an emergency but also with minor impact. Hoping the best for you'all and everyone in the area.
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I just finished up the repairs and maintenance on my wifes car and my own. Hers had a starter problem took it out and fixed it and then adjusted the bands on her transmission. Oil and filter and checked the antifreeze..
On my car I blew out the camber adjustment on a dirt road - Ok, I was going a bit fast through the turns and the adjuster self adjusted to maximum camber. While I was under it I found the fuel pump was leaking so I replaced it too. I adjusted the bands on my transmission, changed engine oil and filter and checked all the fluid levels. So now the cars are ready for winter except for the studded tires but I won't put them on until it snows. They are mounted to wheels and balanced. They happily sit in the corner of the garage until I need them.
Over the weekend I tore the gazebo down before it fell down. The person who built it didn't realize you can't span 16 feet with a 2x6. They also forgot to put the2x4s in the cross "rafters so it was just the PVC tube with PVC lattice over the top. It was sinking into the ground at the posts and the beams were bowing like hot wire in July. The posts were stuck in the ground with PVC sleeves and then a bag of concrete was poured around them. Concrete doesn't stick to PVC and there was nothing to stop the posts from sinking as they rotted. I think I will level the uneven ground after I pull up the bricks and lay some sand and crushed concrete as a new base and then lay a couple of layers of rebar and pour green concrete slab for a new deck. If I decide to put up a new gazebo I will make it from steel and make it so we get better shade all day long instead of just the three to four midday hours. I can hid the steel in the same PVC sleeves and engineer it to carry a lot more load than it will ever see.
I turned around and show my wife my backside while saying I worked my butt off. I don't have one anymore... but I can still be one if necessary.
On my car I blew out the camber adjustment on a dirt road - Ok, I was going a bit fast through the turns and the adjuster self adjusted to maximum camber. While I was under it I found the fuel pump was leaking so I replaced it too. I adjusted the bands on my transmission, changed engine oil and filter and checked all the fluid levels. So now the cars are ready for winter except for the studded tires but I won't put them on until it snows. They are mounted to wheels and balanced. They happily sit in the corner of the garage until I need them.
Over the weekend I tore the gazebo down before it fell down. The person who built it didn't realize you can't span 16 feet with a 2x6. They also forgot to put the2x4s in the cross "rafters so it was just the PVC tube with PVC lattice over the top. It was sinking into the ground at the posts and the beams were bowing like hot wire in July. The posts were stuck in the ground with PVC sleeves and then a bag of concrete was poured around them. Concrete doesn't stick to PVC and there was nothing to stop the posts from sinking as they rotted. I think I will level the uneven ground after I pull up the bricks and lay some sand and crushed concrete as a new base and then lay a couple of layers of rebar and pour green concrete slab for a new deck. If I decide to put up a new gazebo I will make it from steel and make it so we get better shade all day long instead of just the three to four midday hours. I can hid the steel in the same PVC sleeves and engineer it to carry a lot more load than it will ever see.
I turned around and show my wife my backside while saying I worked my butt off. I don't have one anymore... but I can still be one if necessary.
Going nuts 
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I just finished up the repairs and maintenance on my wifes car and my own. Hers had a starter problem took it out and fixed it and then adjusted the bands on her transmission. Oil and filter and checked the antifreeze..
On my car I blew out the camber adjustment on a dirt road - Ok, I was going a bit fast through the turns and the adjuster self adjusted to maximum camber. While I was under it I found the fuel pump was leaking so I replaced it too. I adjusted the bands on my transmission, changed engine oil and filter and checked all the fluid levels. So now the cars are ready for winter except for the studded tires but I won't put them on until it snows. They are mounted to wheels and balanced. They happily sit in the corner of the garage until I need them.
Over the weekend I tore the gazebo down before it fell down. The person who built it didn't realize you can't span 16 feet with a 2x6. They also forgot to put the2x4s in the cross "rafters so it was just the PVC tube with PVC lattice over the top. It was sinking into the ground at the posts and the beams were bowing like hot wire in July. The posts were stuck in the ground with PVC sleeves and then a bag of concrete was poured around them. Concrete doesn't stick to PVC and there was nothing to stop the posts from sinking as they rotted. I think I will level the uneven ground after I pull up the bricks and lay some sand and crushed concrete as a new base and then lay a couple of layers of rebar and pour green concrete slab for a new deck. If I decide to put up a new gazebo I will make it from steel and make it so we get better shade all day long instead of just the three to four midday hours. I can hid the steel in the same PVC sleeves and engineer it to carry a lot more load than it will ever see.
I turned around and show my wife my backside while saying I worked my butt off. I don't have one anymore... but I can still be one if necessary.
"Worked my butt off, don't have one anymore" sounds like my favorite humorist the funniest man not alive anymore,RIP Lewis Grizzard.
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we have been peeling and chopping onions all day. we still have about 4 or 5 dishpans to do .we have 8 gallons peeled and chopped and 4 more ice bags washed and ready to chop in the morning.guess i'll start canning french onion soup,carmelized onions, and just plain onions tomorrow. then we get to start on tater
you now i had to go into small town here today, and i had taters and onions on the back of my truck and nobody wanted any. i told them they were free and they still didn't want them. can somebody please explain this to me , because i sure don't understand it?
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I'll use that tired smiley today, Timmie. 12 hour day at work and another tomorrow. It stunk to come home and have to get dinner going.
I guess no one wants your free onions and taters because they have to be cooked. No one cooks anymore! But I'd take them!
I guess no one wants your free onions and taters because they have to be cooked. No one cooks anymore! But I'd take them!
@SheepDog I do not have a butt either but that is both because both DH and I never sit down & as my kids always said I was a reject from a split pin factory , welcome to the no butt club.
Those in the way of storms take care and prepare and hunker down and have generators at the ready, we are thinking of you.
@timmie most people don't cook or know what to do with vegetables sadly (fortunately we do) as my husband would say more for us and you too. Sad isn't it when people are literally unable to put food on the table as everything that is purchased is expensive prepackaged commercially ready to eat meals. I gave a friend some homegrown dried herbs in exchange for fresh free range eggs they had too many of and she asked me what do you do with them. I told her how to use them so she is going to put them into the large families meals. We can only educate people one at a time as they ask I suppose.
@Meerkat thinking of you and your husband at this time, a bad back stinks, and it can keep you down for some time. Try some Arnica or Comfrey cream as it may relieve so of the pain and or swelling.
, welcome to the no butt club.Those in the way of storms take care and prepare and hunker down and have generators at the ready, we are thinking of you.
@timmie most people don't cook or know what to do with vegetables sadly (fortunately we do) as my husband would say more for us and you too. Sad isn't it when people are literally unable to put food on the table as everything that is purchased is expensive prepackaged commercially ready to eat meals. I gave a friend some homegrown dried herbs in exchange for fresh free range eggs they had too many of and she asked me what do you do with them. I told her how to use them so she is going to put them into the large families meals. We can only educate people one at a time as they ask I suppose.
@Meerkat thinking of you and your husband at this time, a bad back stinks, and it can keep you down for some time. Try some Arnica or Comfrey cream as it may relieve so of the pain and or swelling.
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and i would gladly give them to you.
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Started the day with myself stain removing some clothing and loading the washing machine. Then off to the tip op shop as my lids arrived today and they did fit the bottles I purchased from there so we went back and purchased the whole box of 123 x 50 ml amber bottles for .10c ea (they don't appear to have been used at all) and they sell here for .60c ea saving $61.50 on usual prices. We will use these for our vanilla extract and other extracts as well as essential oils and sell the rest on the internet so the ones we need will be free. Also while I was there I got a book about herbs and making herbal remedies for 0.20 c so I am happy with that.
Got home and we decided we would do some gardening and we harvested all the ripe English and French Lavender in the gardens and banded them up and are yet to hang them on our curtain rail to dry. Then out into the back gardens where DH pulled all the spent broccoli up cut it into smaller portions and put them in the wheel barrow. While DH was doing this I planted 2 x 2 mt rows of turnip seeds into the gardens. Then we trench composted the broccoli into the unused garden bed to add nutrients.
Back inside where I put on the load of washing, hung it on the clothes line and watered a little of the back lawns with saved grey water from our showers and washing machine. Our grey water watering is beginning to show some signs of working as we now have sprouts of green grass everywhere but still lots of bald patches. It is much better using the grey water rather than town water as we are in drought here and our water costs a fortune if you go over the restriction limits.
Tonight's dinner is vegetable burgers made with all homemade garden vegetables and some tinned champignons and four bean mix.
Got home and we decided we would do some gardening and we harvested all the ripe English and French Lavender in the gardens and banded them up and are yet to hang them on our curtain rail to dry. Then out into the back gardens where DH pulled all the spent broccoli up cut it into smaller portions and put them in the wheel barrow. While DH was doing this I planted 2 x 2 mt rows of turnip seeds into the gardens. Then we trench composted the broccoli into the unused garden bed to add nutrients.
Back inside where I put on the load of washing, hung it on the clothes line and watered a little of the back lawns with saved grey water from our showers and washing machine. Our grey water watering is beginning to show some signs of working as we now have sprouts of green grass everywhere but still lots of bald patches. It is much better using the grey water rather than town water as we are in drought here and our water costs a fortune if you go over the restriction limits.
Tonight's dinner is vegetable burgers made with all homemade garden vegetables and some tinned champignons and four bean mix.
Went to a Junior Varsity football game yesterday evening. Had a blast! This is so good for boys growing up.
Folks see "FREE" and instantly think there is something wrong with the product or there is a catch. Put a price on your taters and onions, a bucket for the money and leave your truck unattended. Folks will then steal them and your goal of getting rid of them will be accomplished.
Staying out of the heat today.
Half of the front of house is finished so far. Doesn't look bad. Hubby did a great job. Anything was better than the faded stuff that was on there. Hubby said it wasn't quite done in but another year or so and it would've needed done since it was getting bad. It was 25 years old lol It took a lot of weather and sun damage before the trees got big enough to shade the house.
First thing this morning getting started on the bottom half since hubby got the top half done.
Looks good when finished
Had to Bandit proof some wires ( he's so bad with chewing wires) lol
Hubby even spray painted the dryer vent. lol It was an ugly yellow color since it was in the weather and stuff for like 25 years. Looks really good now lol
I've now lost my gas stove since hubby had to disconnect the line so he can remove the old siding on the other half of the house. Probably won't have it for a few days. Its no problem. I have a toaster oven , microwave and a gas grill. We'll survive lol
First thing this morning getting started on the bottom half since hubby got the top half done.
Looks good when finished
Had to Bandit proof some wires ( he's so bad with chewing wires) lol
Hubby even spray painted the dryer vent. lol It was an ugly yellow color since it was in the weather and stuff for like 25 years. Looks really good now lol
I've now lost my gas stove since hubby had to disconnect the line so he can remove the old siding on the other half of the house. Probably won't have it for a few days. Its no problem. I have a toaster oven , microwave and a gas grill. We'll survive lol
Why are you going nuts?Going nuts
Something new going on?
Or same old stuff different day stuff?
Got up early.
Had breakfast medicine.
Got ready for my day.
Doctor appointment today.
Good Doctor's appointment.
Got a lot of test results explained to me.
Seems that bacterial infection was a good one, if it stayed where it was supposed too.
Mine didn't. Mine traveled to the outside of my body. And that made it bad.
Instead of staying on the inside of my body where it was suppose to be.
That's how my Primary Care doctor explained it to me.
Also had a slightly allergic reaction to one of the antibiotics I took.
I can handle slightly lower dosage of the antibiotic 350 mg - 500 mg.
My body just doesn't handle 550 mg-1500 mg of the said antibiotic.
Makes my stomach ulcer bleed among other things.
Had to get more blood test done today.
Should know the results in a few days.
All in all good day.
Thinking nap for now.
100% chance of rain this afternoon and this evening.
Curl up book weather.
Had breakfast medicine.
Got ready for my day.
Doctor appointment today.
Good Doctor's appointment.
Got a lot of test results explained to me.
Seems that bacterial infection was a good one, if it stayed where it was supposed too.
Mine didn't. Mine traveled to the outside of my body. And that made it bad.
Instead of staying on the inside of my body where it was suppose to be.
That's how my Primary Care doctor explained it to me.
Also had a slightly allergic reaction to one of the antibiotics I took.
I can handle slightly lower dosage of the antibiotic 350 mg - 500 mg.
My body just doesn't handle 550 mg-1500 mg of the said antibiotic.
Makes my stomach ulcer bleed among other things.
Had to get more blood test done today.
Should know the results in a few days.
All in all good day.
Thinking nap for now.
100% chance of rain this afternoon and this evening.
Curl up book weather.
Also lost another 3.5 pounds. 
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Way to go, Mo. I gained 10 lbs when I had my knees done.
Thank you.
Had been stuck on plateu for 4 years,but now within 34.1 pounds of my goal weight.
Even my BMI dropped.
Pretty happy right now.
Also will be going back to yoga classes in October.
And have it in writing.
