What's everybody doing today?

[snappy1]

I'll walk first.
Clean baths and sweep at Church and then pick up in parking lot.
Clean and clean out fridge.
Do personal year end filing.
Cook burgers.
That's enough.

 

[sonya123]

Ok I will bite
I am not a lawyer. I have no degree in law
My answer is from life experience
Is there a fence around the property?
A fence would be “do diligence “ the school is acting in a manner to keep the child safe from harm
A special needs person has the same civil rights as any other person and can leave when they wish to leave

we had a kid in our neighborhood that kept running away from school ( we knew the parents, the girl was adopted and had issues) and guess what, the police came and picked her up for skipping school. Kids are actually required to go to school , at least used to not that long ago

 

[Pearl]

I don't get it. He sleeps in our bedroom until about 1.30 to 2.30, then wakes me up me to come out to the living room to stoke the fire then sleep on the couch. He then goes to sleep in front of the wood stove. He's always cold. Weird dog.

That's my Bear, except he's not always cold. He gets me up between 1:30 and 3:30 to go outside to pee, I put wood on the fire, he hits the couch! If it's too early (), I go back to bed!

 

[sonya123]

You have one of those early morning German dogs too!!

mine stays in the crate at night, our dogs are not allowed on the furniture
but he's fine with the cold plus now that he is an adult can wait to pee until morning too
right now he is sitting next to me wanting to go out in the rain

 

[sonya123]

Ugly day today, sleet, rain, ice pellets and supposed to later snow
so animals will definitely all stay in
Oh yeah, we had a really bad thing happen yesterday , one of the small bucks somehow go over the fence ( we do not know how, it's a newer fence, no holes, 48 inches) so he was with ALL the girls, including of course the many little ones we did not want to breed yet, and the ones that are supposed to go to the meat processor in April. I hope he didn't get anyone pregnant, but he probably did. Nothing I can do about it now.

I am not going to try the Ryanair thing again today, will try again next week.

 

[Amish Heart]

Uncle Melvin came down with the flu, so his 100th birthday party has been postponed. Poor guy. Not sure what I'm doing today...suspect I'm driving back into the bigger town to see if the pharmacist showed up to work at Walgreens today. I have a couple of dehydrators to fill with beans, and a bunch of dry beans that need to be repackaged. Today is Epiphany

 

[Morgan101]

I have a friend coming over to help me wire the solar panel to the generator. Not really "wired" more like hooked up running the cables from the solar panel to the generator. Generator is probably an exaggeration. I would call it a big battery that you can charge in your house or by solar panel. The term "help me" is also a gross exaggeration. I will more than likely be watching him do it even though we both feel pretty confident that together we can read the directions.

After that we are off to the cigar bar for an afternoon of smokes. I definitely see a Cohiba in the near future.

 

[Spikedriver]

Don't feel like doing a damn thing today. After lunch my daughter and I will meet Pops at the nursing home and go visit mom.

 

[Patchouli]

Under the weather, laying low.
@sonya123 hope you are able to get what you need with the tickets. Did you say you will fly out of DC? Reagan? To Dublin.
I’m not doing much of anything today.

 

[Hooch]

Morning everyone..
I woke up when it was still dark. Tried to get a tad more sleep but just enjoyed a quiet lounge untill I got steamrolled by both pups.
Everyone's fed n watered. Found a few nice feathers with beautiful metallic sheen as I was feeding the birds.
Its supposed to snow starting today , and with a few exceptions keep snowing for like two weeks.
This should make life interesting..
By next friday it looks like below freezing for daily highs n possible negative temps a few nights. That's pretty normal tho..but uggh..
Today, after my coffee, I'll walk the pups, get a fire going n work on organizing and purging inside stuff.
Then relax n work on a rug and either read or watch a documentary or podcast..
It's supposed to get windy in higher elevations too later..

 

[Supervisor42]

We went to a lot of nice restaurants while we were up there and apparently my cell phone ate too much.
Riding home in my shirt pocket, the battery is now twice normal size and popped the back off:
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Good thing I rarely use it, because it be 'los muertos'.

Got my new battery today, and my phone is alive again!

 

[Hooch]

Ugly day today, sleet, rain, ice pellets and supposed to later snow
so animals will definitely all stay in
Oh yeah, we had a really bad thing happen yesterday , one of the small bucks somehow go over the fence ( we do not know how, it's a newer fence, no holes, 48 inches) so he was with ALL the girls, including of course the many little ones we did not want to breed yet, and the ones that are supposed to go to the meat processor in April. I hope he didn't get anyone pregnant, but he probably did. Nothing I can do about it now.

I am not going to try the Ryanair thing again today, will try again next week.

I had a similar happening once, but it was my neighbors buck that escaped their barn, busted through the fence between our property then somehow managed to tear down my gate into the female pen with my retired doe and her last daughter.
I already had one of her bucks on my property for like a year..another escaped boy but he was a sweet buck and really very entertaining. He ended up keeping my buck company AND I knew my neighbor was having major health issues so I told her not to worry about it. However, i didnt know she had not banded another young buckling who was trouble n likely ran this older one off.
By the time he made it to my place he was big , aggressive and a problem.
I'm sure someone breed the females. I got home n it was a circus. Now all 3 bucks had access to the females..my buck was trying to chase away the other two. The wethers were all running around not really knowing what to do. The horse was completely watching the whole circus unfold. Everyone was panting n stressed except the horse.
I called my sick neighbor to see if she knew who's buck it was and when I found out it was hers , I was pretty pissed. And she admitted the buck I had been taking care of wasnt actually hers ..she wanted to use him for breeding eventually and was her friends.
I thought It was hers n helping her out untill she got better. She should have returned the friends buck n banded her own buckling when she got sick.
It was frustrating..I then told her she had a hour to come get her bucks before I shot them. I was angry but she was a friend too n I know she never made great decisions regarding the management of her animals. She was older n had a big heart n always took on more than she could physically handle. Me n her daughter who became friends would usually help her make things doable but her daughter had moved n I didnt have the time, finances or energy to do both.
After I cooled off, I walked the nice buck back to her place. He went back to his real home soon after. And roped n draped the ornery one back..he escaped again because he had destroyed what was left of her barn gate, so she sold him like a day later and we managed to get him loaded up from my property since he came back down since I didnt have time to repair the gate n fence yet good enough to keep him out.

 

[Bacpacker]

Up at 430 to go to work. Raining all morning. Looks like a break for while now.
No idea when I get home

 

[Plainflatlander]

Finished storm preps today. Expecting 6+ inches of snow overnight into Sunday. Rest for the rest of the day.

 

[Amish Heart]

We have a few inches of it on the ground still, but not expecting more till Monday night. Next week's temps are going to be brutal. Ugh.
Looks like I do need to go into town for husband's prescriptions, and verified that they are open today. So may as well load up on feed and fill a cart at Aldi while I'm in the area.

 

[ClemKadiddlehopper]

I will finish splitting and stacking the ginormous wood blocks and then go fetch the rest of the wood pile A and stack it next to the wood shed.

I need to dig up two small lilacs I planted last spring and bring them indoors. December was crazy warm and they broke dormancy. Its supposed to be -35C in two days and they won't make it if I don't. They can go under the lights with my herbs.

My fruit trees and bushes stayed dormant but they may not survive such a huge temperature swing.

 

[Neb]

A quiet Saturday, cartoons and watching the snow fall.

Same here except I watched a delivery driver drive in snow for the first time.

My sister and a neighbor shoveled the road way just to get him out of 5he road so the salt truck could get through. Don't know if it bald tires, or inexperience but the truck kept sliding sideways.

He asked me to send a video so he could update his boss. The irony is the driver's last name is "Winter".

Ben

 

[ClemKadiddlehopper]

That's just sad. Must be bald tires. There is hardly any snow or much of a grade.

 

[user 4485]

Crying today...... the kittens I wanted were adopted by the foster caretakers. It took two weeks for someone to let me know that. Second time this happened to me. I am broken hearted.

 

[Bluedanube]

Made our monthly run to Costco a day early. We exited the store just in time for the first snow to start slapping us in the face. It isn’t the gentle fluffy stuff, more the ouchy stinging stuff, and I definitely didn’t want to do the 25 mile trip after it started sticking! Now I’m cuddled up on the couch with the cat drinking some coffee and watching another episode of The Crown.

 

[Tommyice]

Crying today...... the kittens I wanted were adopted by the foster caretakers. It took two weeks for someone to let me know that. Second time this happened to me. I am broken hearted.

Maybe you could get on the foster list.

 

[Tommyice]

Company just left. Good day had by all. Kitchen is mostly clean. I’m beat.

 

[sonya123]

Under the weather, laying low.
@sonya123 hope you are able to get what you need with the tickets. Did you say you will fly out of DC? Reagan? To Dublin.
I’m not doing much of anything today.

already got the flight out of DC booked , Irish airline direct to Dublin
I just need to get tickets from Dublin to Germany. There are several options, but I want to fly to a small airport closer to where my dad lives than Frankfurt, which requires a train ticket after the flight but it's not very much
So if the Ryanair doesn't work, I can book another flight to Frankfurt and take the train
It's just annoying. If I had know that, I could have just book the flight all in one instead of now getting 2 sets of tickets. But that's ok. Son is happy we will have half a day to see Dublin or the area around airport at least

LOL if all else fails we can take the ferry to England and a train from there

Didn't even look today. I talked to my brother and he has not flown with Ryanair in a while and did not have to do this crap trying to get an account, but he thinks it was probably just their website not working. I will try again Monday

 

[sonya123]

I had a similar happening once, but it was my neighbors buck that escaped their barn, busted through the fence between our property then somehow managed to tear down my gate into the female pen with my retired doe and her last daughter.

This is not the first time it has happened to us either. We had the same thing happen the first year we had goats, before we got the fencing repaired and electric added. The neighbors 2 bucks got over the fence but, at that time our girls were already pregnant. BUT we had our gigantic buck go visit theirs a few years later That one was friendly to humans, but destroyed 3 doors to get to the girls. We sold him
Then we had 1 little girl jump through a window to get to the big girls and got pregnant at 5 months. She had 3 kids and her and kids did fine much to our surprise, but we usually never breed them before they are at least a year old

 

[Amish Heart]

We ended up going into the bigger town...brought husband to the truck in the wheelchair, he just went in his pj's. Little granddaughter and I went into Atwoods and loaded up on feed, then on to the pharmacy drive thru, then filled a cart at Aldi while husband napped in the truck. Am wiped out now, and glad I put pork in the crock pot early this morning. Unloaded and put away all the groceries, unloaded 480 lbs of feed, and some dog food. Aldi was crowded...people shopping before more snow hits on Monday, I suppose. Watching their price on the little bottle of olive oil, and it went up again this week, another 40 cents. Lentils and split peas were a good price at 99 cents a lb, so I got a box full.

 

[Hooch]

This is not the first time it has happened to us either. We had the same thing happen the first year we had goats, before we got the fencing repaired and electric added. The neighbors 2 bucks got over the fence but, at that time our girls were already pregnant. BUT we had our gigantic buck go visit theirs a few years later That one was friendly to humans, but destroyed 3 doors to get to the girls. We sold him
Then we had 1 little girl jump through a window to get to the big girls and got pregnant at 5 months. She had 3 kids and her and kids did fine much to our surprise, but we usually never breed them before they are at least a year old

They are definitely clever about escaping and breaking in. That pregnancy almost killed my doe. She had 3 kids n one was stuck..I couldn't get it out n the vet barely did. Then it was a few weeks of major TLC and feeding those babies. She tried to feed her kids somewhat but standing was tough ..they did manage to feed from her as she layed down on her side.
I'm surprised she recovered actually and didnt bloat or get mastitis.
She is happily retired from breeding. Her and her first kid she had 9 years ago now are my field harvest technicians now. I kept her first kid , made him a wether and they will die here together.
I might get goats again ..but not now. I'm focusing on retiring in a few years without a bunch of critters at first so I can go adventure..if that works out..

 

[Pearl]

Crying today...... the kittens I wanted were adopted by the foster caretakers. It took two weeks for someone to let me know that. Second time this happened to me. I am broken hearted.

I was thinking of you today, was hoping you had them!! Don't give up, there are so many that need homes! If they were adopted by their foster parents that is good for them, they don't have to leave the home they are in now!! Your kitties are coming!!

 

[Spikedriver]

Had a good time playing Jokers and Pegs with Mom and Pops. Then my daughter "took" me to a new shopping area in Ames on the way home. An old shopping center that used to be anchored by a Kmart, has been remodeled into several stores for younger people with TJ Maxx, Old Navy, Skechers shoes, Five Below, and a Pet Smart. She got some nail polish but resisted the urge to buy clothes.

She does need some new dress clothes. Her senior class trip will take her to D.C. and the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. She is the class secretary and at the Tomb, she and the other class officers will lay the wreath. She needs to be dressed appropriately for such a solemn honor.

 

[Bacpacker]

Had a good time playing Jokers and Pegs with Mom and Pops. Then my daughter "took" me to a new shopping area in Ames on the way home. An old shopping center that used to be anchored by a Kmart, has been remodeled into several stores for younger people with TJ Maxx, Old Navy, Skechers shoes, Five Below, and a Pet Smart. She got some nail polish but resisted the urge to buy clothes.

She does need some new dress clothes. Her senior class trip will take her to D.C. and the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. She is the class secretary and at the Tomb, she and the other class officers will lay the wreath. She needs to be dressed appropriately for such a solemn honor.

That is quite an honor for to get to help lay a wreath

 

[Pearl]

Stock up run day here too! Hub and I went to Atwood's, Sam's and Walmart! Always fun putting everything away once home!! Artic front coming here end of the week, will we get ice, I sure hope not!! Could get stupid cold, so we will be prepared! Huge job tomorrow, cleaning my building and cleaning some empty office carpets.... upstairs ! Hauling the carpet machine up the stairs, yeeha!