I was at an off road event the other day. Young driver thought having a 4x4 made you invincible. He was deep in the snow and bush after sliding out of control on an icy road. Helped him learn how to use a winch and shovel.
What's everybody doing today?
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Yeah. These kids think 4x4 means not having to worry about anything. Without some kid of metal stud for grip, 4x4 is just as useless as anything else when you're on ice. Can't tell them that though.
I had to learn the hard way in my youth just how stuck you can get a 4x4? Hopefully he has learned it now too. You could tell me lots in my youth but I seemed determined to learn most things by experience
We started off the morning with myself sweeping the kitchen floor, laundry and toilet and then I cleaned out the bottom of the bread machine in the kitchen that was full of crumbs and put on a loaf of bread in the bread making machine. I then topped up the salt, sugar and flour from storage containers and DH filled another 10lt storage container with sugar we had on top of the fridge waiting to go in it. Went to the storage pantry and got out another 2 x 10lt storage tubs of flour and put them in the kitchen. We keep 3 x 10lt storage tubs of everything in the kitchen for ease of use.
DH then went out and trench composted the vegetable scraps from the kitchen in one of the large vegetable garden beds out in back paddock and fed the cat. On to this afternoon where we cleared the kitchen table of stuff and I took out the recycling to the wheelie bin. Then out to the back paddock vegetable gardens where we weeded a 10 x 5mt garden bed and saw our watermelons are coming along nicely and they are about the size of tennis balls. DH has just finished turning on the drip irrigation systems for the gardens and off again.
Only thing left to do tonight is wash up the dishes in the kitchen, have dinner and a nice cool shower as we are roasting here with the temperatures today being 16 oc - max 36 oc.
DH then went out and trench composted the vegetable scraps from the kitchen in one of the large vegetable garden beds out in back paddock and fed the cat. On to this afternoon where we cleared the kitchen table of stuff and I took out the recycling to the wheelie bin. Then out to the back paddock vegetable gardens where we weeded a 10 x 5mt garden bed and saw our watermelons are coming along nicely and they are about the size of tennis balls. DH has just finished turning on the drip irrigation systems for the gardens and off again.
Only thing left to do tonight is wash up the dishes in the kitchen, have dinner and a nice cool shower as we are roasting here with the temperatures today being 16 oc - max 36 oc.
You're a busy lady! I guess our seasons are opposite. I'm just now starting to get myself even thinking about spring!
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I need to bring more wood into the garage before the rain/ice/snow mixture gets here later on this morning. The last couple weeks have really sucked down the wood.
So are you going to put some water in there for the poor thing? :sarcasm:
@NannyPatty yes we like to keep busy most of the time and thank you. We are opposite season here in Australia with us being in summer. Always good to plan ahead with your planting too 
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When I got up at five today there was just enough light to see the same bull elk drinking out of the birdbath again. Actually the water was frozen and he was licking it.
Just some laundry and straightening up around. Maybe start a new project with the chalk paint.
Doing this,that and the other.
How are things going? When is the funeral gonna be?
Ok. No idea about the funeral yet. They haven't even found out what he died from and signed off on him yet. From what the coroner said they got ahold of his nephew in Wisconsin and he'll be in charge of the arrangements and since he's all the way up there,who knows how soon he'll get it done.
Water line finally thawed out at rental property, everything working good...
Man ...thats a relief.
Jim
Man ...thats a relief.
Jim
The garage has wood again. Snow is comin down hard. I'm indoors being a slug the rest of the day.
After I clean the driveways off from the snow, cleaning the fire pit for the next guests then find the leak in the built in vac system
Wife's colonoscopy went great! Now I'm ina deer blind.
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Got a huge pot of collards cleaned, destemmed and cooking I got off containers in greenhouse today.
Emptied the 2 reservoirs one dip at a time, dried em with large towel then vinegared them ,rinsed, dried and stood up against the wall. Moved tomato plants over for more room.
Saw our first tiny little tomato baby today.
Emptied the 2 reservoirs one dip at a time, dried em with large towel then vinegared them ,rinsed, dried and stood up against the wall. Moved tomato plants over for more room.
Saw our first tiny little tomato baby today.
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Went to my 6 months doc appt. today with a new doc since we moved. I had gone in a month early to fill out new patient paperwork so of course I was told I would have to do it again as they had lost it this morning. Told the secy. that I will find another doctor office as I had done what I should do and this was a really bad start. She looked up and there was my record right in front of her. Figures! All went well afterward and I like the new doc, he reminds me of our favorite veterinarian. LOL
Home now and getting some paperwork together for tax lady on Thursday. Did some housecleaning. Leftovers for dinner--turkey pot pie. That's it for today, hopefully!
Home now and getting some paperwork together for tax lady on Thursday. Did some housecleaning. Leftovers for dinner--turkey pot pie. That's it for today, hopefully!
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Mixed bag lately.
Still recovering from falling through the step.
I'm a multi-hued person atm.
The scrapes weren't deep and I'm shaking the flu which seemed to come back and have a second swing at me.
I found out the hard way that the cord I brought for my whipper snipper is too small and the cat knocked over the two stroke oil bottle.
I thought I had screwed to lid on tight but ob. not tight enough.
Now it's a wait until pension day to buy more oil and large gauge cord.
It bugs the heck out of me to dig deep and get hard headed about getting a job done esp. when I'm not well
and everything goes pear shaped.
I tried to take the battery out of the car to put in the ride-on mower and the kid who replaced the car battery screwed the battery clamps down so tight he stripped the edged off the bolts. *sigh*
I have skinned knuckles to show for my efforts and a ton of frustration and not much else.
The space around the battery is very, very tight so I can't get a shifter or a heavy duty spanner down
there to get any sort of decent leverage happening.
At this juncture I'm thinking that drilling the bolts out is the only way I'm going get them out.
Buying a new battery is going to be the expensive way of fixing the ride-on situation BUT it doesn't fix the
car battery issue.
I'm open to suggestions.
ATM the car battery issue is a can I'm going to kick down the road until I get over my utter disgust.
Still recovering from falling through the step.
I'm a multi-hued person atm.
The scrapes weren't deep and I'm shaking the flu which seemed to come back and have a second swing at me.
I found out the hard way that the cord I brought for my whipper snipper is too small and the cat knocked over the two stroke oil bottle.
I thought I had screwed to lid on tight but ob. not tight enough.
Now it's a wait until pension day to buy more oil and large gauge cord.
It bugs the heck out of me to dig deep and get hard headed about getting a job done esp. when I'm not well
and everything goes pear shaped.
I tried to take the battery out of the car to put in the ride-on mower and the kid who replaced the car battery screwed the battery clamps down so tight he stripped the edged off the bolts. *sigh*
I have skinned knuckles to show for my efforts and a ton of frustration and not much else.
The space around the battery is very, very tight so I can't get a shifter or a heavy duty spanner down
there to get any sort of decent leverage happening.
At this juncture I'm thinking that drilling the bolts out is the only way I'm going get them out.
Buying a new battery is going to be the expensive way of fixing the ride-on situation BUT it doesn't fix the
car battery issue.
I'm open to suggestions.
ATM the car battery issue is a can I'm going to kick down the road until I get over my utter disgust.
Rainy day here, so cooking getting a couple meals prepared, paying bills, crocheting, cleaning
@Tank-Girl to get extra leverage put a pipe over the end of the shifter handle and work out further, the pipe will give you extra leverage to get the sucker off, put your legs in a brace position in case the handle comes off the shifter though . Also try squirting some WD4o on the nuts and leave for 5 mins before you start trying to remove them, it will probably free them up a bit.
I used to do this with truck tyres to undo the wheel nuts with the tyre lever and it works a treat.
. Also try squirting some WD4o on the nuts and leave for 5 mins before you start trying to remove them, it will probably free them up a bit.I used to do this with truck tyres to undo the wheel nuts with the tyre lever and it works a treat.
What Hunt unit? LOL
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Mine,too!!!I had to take a second look.My tree lines are a little thicker but it looked like looking towards the tree stand from the field behind us.
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Thing II came over for Coffee this morning. We went shooting. I taught him some Tactical Pistol drills. Follow up shots on 3 persons at different distances instead of double Tapping and Room Clearing with a Pistol alone. Room Clearing with a Pistol and one other person with a Short AR. Moving and shooting against multiples. It was a "RUSH" for him. His confidence Level is Rapidly Rising. He said Video Games are not good tactical training. He also thinks that I move like an Animal. "A Scary One". We had lunch in Town, then cleaned guns.
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