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I can't imagine all that....hope you get them all back
We just have a very small farm and don't have to go look for miles when our animals get out
What's everybody doing today?
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We just have a very small farm and don't have to go look for miles when our animals get out
I am putting the proverbial rear end in a recliner. My wife's car is in the shop, so she has to use my car. I am stuck. Sounds like a good day to sit on the patio, and enjoy the birds and a good cigar.
Hope you’re able to get everyone back safe and sound.
Had a situation like like where I kept my horse. It was someone’s many acre backyard that abutted watershed land. We had horses, mini donkey, freezer calves, chickens, ducks, geese, turkeys, sheep, llamas and a couple of emus. Emus escaped one day and we could hear them sounding off in the forest. We would ride out every day to try and capture them (worse than roadrunner). Caught one and returned him to his upgraded security pen. Local police called one day. It was over at the local school, corralled in the backstop on the baseball field. Local driver called the police after claiming not to being drunk but seeing a 6 foot tall bird on the side of the road.
Going to work! Just a day in the rut!!
Need to do some mowing, but that's not happening until Saturday morning! We need a thread, " what do I need to do today", I need more back burners to put things on!!
Need to do some mowing, but that's not happening until Saturday morning! We need a thread, " what do I need to do today", I need more back burners to put things on!!
They don’t do it so you buy less. They do it so they have less employees. The front store of the pharmacy I work at put them in. Once they were there about a month, the received a cut in there budgeted hours. Now that there are no employees dedicated to ringing the register they can be doing other tasks.
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Taking little granddaughter to Hobby Lobby after lunch for material for her sewing class tomorrow. I once mentioned something about Hobby Lobby to our amish neighbor, Marlon (he's about 35, married, 3 young children), and he firmly said that he would never, ever go in there again and there's absolutely nothing he would ever need in his whole life in that store. His wife loves the store. Ha.
We might also tackle her school supply list at Walmart, we'll see. But need to check what I have here first, I keep a stockpile.
We might also tackle her school supply list at Walmart, we'll see. But need to check what I have here first, I keep a stockpile.
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@Morgan101 I’m sorry to hear you are stuck in the recliner before you could get outside. That’s just awful.
Maybe later.
Walked early before the rain, this morning. Supposed to rain most of the day.
Will be re-canning the cheese sauce and canning some blackberry lemonade concentrate, today.
Also, doing my caregivers workshop that I didn't get to yesterday.
Will be re-canning the cheese sauce and canning some blackberry lemonade concentrate, today.
Also, doing my caregivers workshop that I didn't get to yesterday.
Dropped daughter to work then went on to a local town to pick up some groceries - with no list 
decided I would just buy what was on special. So, several packs of mince later- we are having burgers tonight, and for the freezer I've made pasta sauce, lasagna and a shepherds pie. The weather is incredibly heavy here, feel like I will just draw up my chair on the porch next to Morgans and enjoy the smell of a cigar!
decided I would just buy what was on special. So, several packs of mince later- we are having burgers tonight, and for the freezer I've made pasta sauce, lasagna and a shepherds pie. The weather is incredibly heavy here, feel like I will just draw up my chair on the porch next to Morgans and enjoy the smell of a cigar!
Don't get hurt getting out of that recliner Morg!!!
I'm busy watching Perry Mason reruns. When that is over I will recline and take a nap. Truly a grueling day.
Sipping coffee in my recliner.
Have to finish packing my weekend bag for a mini road trip.
Leaving tomorrow, with my friend.
I'm still learning his co workers names and what everybody does.
But on a more serious note, both of my sons seem to like him.
Some of my bills are already paid will pay the rest before the end of the day.
While he 's off to work I will have to learn how to make better pie crust.
Mine was tough yesterday.
But I was slightly distracted yesterday too.
Seems weird to have a man's shaving kit in my bathroom.
I have already tripped over his work boots.
He makes me smile, by just walking into the room.
Have to finish packing my weekend bag for a mini road trip.
Leaving tomorrow, with my friend.
I'm still learning his co workers names and what everybody does.
But on a more serious note, both of my sons seem to like him.
Some of my bills are already paid will pay the rest before the end of the day.
While he 's off to work I will have to learn how to make better pie crust.
Mine was tough yesterday.
But I was slightly distracted yesterday too.
Seems weird to have a man's shaving kit in my bathroom.
I have already tripped over his work boots.
He makes me smile, by just walking into the room.
Took today off again.
I'm realizing the older I get, the less willing I am to put myself through doing a full days work while sick.
I do plan on going tomorrow n Friday though.
I feel way better, I haven't been sick in years. This got me good.
Today isn't going to be exciting..just more rest.
I'm realizing the older I get, the less willing I am to put myself through doing a full days work while sick.
I do plan on going tomorrow n Friday though.
I feel way better, I haven't been sick in years. This got me good.
Today isn't going to be exciting..just more rest.
Coffee, Trying to get some current info on a wild fire to the west, woke up to heavy smoke cover,
What the heck is "Mince"?
How do you make a pie with it if you don't know what it is?
Alright Magpie, this is a question for you.
I though I knew what the American version of "Mince" was but it wasn't quite right.
How do you make a pie with it if you don't know what it is?
Alright Magpie, this is a question for you.
I though I knew what the American version of "Mince" was but it wasn't quite right.
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We just got all the cattle back home, plus a couple range cows that followed them. The horse is still missing. We'll look for him later. The wife has an eye doctor appointment down south. I checked several miles of fence this morning, it all looked good. Except the gate in our north west corner was down. I'll replace it when we get home tonight.
Tirediron,
We were going to head over the mountain your way. It's not going to happen now.
I found out last night, the park is on fire and they are evacuating Jasper.
. Everywhere is on fire and the roads are closed in many places except for evacuees and fire fighters. There are literally no rooms at the inns and no stopping is allowed. People are having to drive all the to way to PG and loop back around the long way to get to Calgary and Edmonton. There is no room in BC for them because of all the fires here.
We were going to head over the mountain your way. It's not going to happen now.
I found out last night, the park is on fire and they are evacuating Jasper.
. Everywhere is on fire and the roads are closed in many places except for evacuees and fire fighters. There are literally no rooms at the inns and no stopping is allowed. People are having to drive all the to way to PG and loop back around the long way to get to Calgary and Edmonton. There is no room in BC for them because of all the fires here.
Mo,
Mince is ground meat. Aka hamburger ect.
Mince is ground meat. Aka hamburger ect.
ClemKaddiehopper,
Thank you for the information.
No wonder he looked at me funny.
When I put an American (okay, Missouri version) of what I thought was mince pie in front of him for supper last night.
Will Shepard's pie work as a "mince" pie?
It's in the range. I make a French tourtiere as a version.
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Cleaned up all the brush dad cut down yesterday—it was blocking some of the water view. Two heaping gorilla carts full. Reinstalled the screen door that was repaired.
It’s 80* here with 75% humidity—ac has been turned on. Even the dog complained. Making BLTs for lunch.
It’s 80* here with 75% humidity—ac has been turned on. Even the dog complained. Making BLTs for lunch.
@Mountain trapper be very careful about livestock getting out for very long on a roadway.
There was a very good family in the town of Burnsville Ms near where one of my cousins lives.
He owned a general store and furniture, appliance store they were very good to all of the people around the community and would sell even cheap appliances on very long term payments with very little to no interest for those who needed it.
He also owned a lot of pasture land and he leased it to some of the people who ran cattle locally.
One of the people he leased to never checked the fences he just let them go.
A tree limb fell onto one of the fences next to a US highway, some cattle got out and an ILLEGAL Mexican ran into one and was injured.
The Illegal found a good lawyer who did not sue the man with the cattle they sued the land owner and took almost every penny he had made over 50 years of being so good to his community.
He quit the stores and left his daughter to run it with what little they still had he would barely speak to anyone after it for years.
Courts and lawyers can get money from a person who gets beaten nearly to death for an illegal who did the beating to pay him for his time and skinning his knuckles.
There was a very good family in the town of Burnsville Ms near where one of my cousins lives.
He owned a general store and furniture, appliance store they were very good to all of the people around the community and would sell even cheap appliances on very long term payments with very little to no interest for those who needed it.
He also owned a lot of pasture land and he leased it to some of the people who ran cattle locally.
One of the people he leased to never checked the fences he just let them go.
A tree limb fell onto one of the fences next to a US highway, some cattle got out and an ILLEGAL Mexican ran into one and was injured.
The Illegal found a good lawyer who did not sue the man with the cattle they sued the land owner and took almost every penny he had made over 50 years of being so good to his community.
He quit the stores and left his daughter to run it with what little they still had he would barely speak to anyone after it for years.
Courts and lawyers can get money from a person who gets beaten nearly to death for an illegal who did the beating to pay him for his time and skinning his knuckles.
The BAR association needs a comeuppance reall real bad , a rope with 13 loops type
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It's all open range around here. If someone hits a cow, they pay for it.
Here's a few of them heading home.
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This I know how to cook.
Thanks Clem!
I also know how to make Shepard's Pie.
Same here. Posted open range and killer cattle guards to keep them where they need to stay. You hit a cow, you pay for it. Elsewhere, it's bad news for the farmer/rancher if someone hits a critter.
it is a mess out there right now, we haven't seen real rain for a month
the fire just west here is reported out.(by locals the .gov site is still in yesterday)
Revelstoke is now on evac alert. It's a crap time to be on a driving vacation. 40°+C temps.
We had one thunderstorm for five minutes yesterday, first in over a month and it started 100 new fires. Going fishing tonight before that area decides to burn or the lake gets shut down for water bucketing.
To add to the fun, there is a shortage of avgas due to the refinery in Edmonton being shutdown for awhile due to something or other. Helicopters don't fly without it.
We had one thunderstorm for five minutes yesterday, first in over a month and it started 100 new fires. Going fishing tonight before that area decides to burn or the lake gets shut down for water bucketing.
To add to the fun, there is a shortage of avgas due to the refinery in Edmonton being shutdown for awhile due to something or other. Helicopters don't fly without it.
