That's what hubby says but I'm more than ok with the "less fun".
What's everybody doing today?
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That's what hubby says but I'm more than ok with the "less fun".
I am sure my wife would agree with you.
I say that my wife spent a year falling in love with me and the rest of her life trying to change me into what she wanted to be I love with.
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Will be cleaning the kitchen.
Doing the laundry.
Don't know if I will have the granddaughter tomorrow yet.
Had last week off cause her daddy had been on vacation.
Need to go collect last week newspaper from my dad.
Might go for a walk too.
Doing the laundry.
Don't know if I will have the granddaughter tomorrow yet.
Had last week off cause her daddy had been on vacation.
Need to go collect last week newspaper from my dad.
Might go for a walk too.
Hubby and a young friend worked on one of the deuces to try to get it started
I made breakfast
washed hubby's work clothes
played with the pups and sat under the oak tree for a while
made lunch ( chicken salad and cole slaw)
we got a quick hard shower of rain
made choc chip cookies
watching some tv ( even though I don't have any satellite. watching this website. its free http://watchnewslive.tv)
waiting on the baseball game to come on lol
have to make supper then get the coffee pot ready for hubby in the morning
I made breakfast
washed hubby's work clothes
played with the pups and sat under the oak tree for a while
made lunch ( chicken salad and cole slaw)
we got a quick hard shower of rain
made choc chip cookies
watching some tv ( even though I don't have any satellite. watching this website. its free http://watchnewslive.tv)
waiting on the baseball game to come on lol
have to make supper then get the coffee pot ready for hubby in the morning
Right now I am sitting on my butt 'playing' on my laptop. After I made and cleaned up after lunch I was going to go outside and mow the lawn, but my wife told me that she would do it and that I needed to relax after my busy day. She of course added that I should not to argue and just receive 'the gift' from her. So now she is out mowing and I am trying to relax... but all I can do is think of things I should be doing instead. 
My wife today decided she wants to lose some weight and maybe get in better shape. So she wanted to go for a walk. She does not do well in any kind uneven ground so we drove to town and walked 2-1/2 miles on the streets. She did well but that was only one day. Will she continue?
Right now I am sitting on my butt 'playing' on my laptop. After I made and cleaned up after lunch I was going to go outside and mow the lawn, but my wife told me that she would do it and that I needed to relax after my busy day. She of course added that I should not to argue and just receive 'the gift' from her. So now she is out mowing and I am trying to relax... but all I can do is think of things I should be doing instead.
Come pack and load the trailer for me.
If you just lived in an RV you would be fully relocated by now.
But sadly I don't, so I have to pack. I'll be loading up one of the freezers tomorrow.
Moving is so not fun! The upside is that everything gets cleaned and lots gets to go elsewhere than new home. Good luck Grimm and Terri.
We went up to the mountain house today and got it ready for winter. Drained water lines and water heaters and shut main off to save on power. Otherwise we would be paying to heat a house just to keep the water from freezing in pipes. Did a final mow. It really is beautiful. I hope whoever buys it appreciates the beauty of their surroundings. While the last water tank was draining, we sat under the pergola in the chairs we are leaving for the next folks - watched the river flow by like we would do when we lived there.
On a side note, took my folks two lg plastic totes of family China. I told my mom I didn't want it (& my kids don't want it.) She said I couldn't get rid of it, I had to take it because it goes down the women's side of the family. . . so she took it back. She has also taken back a twin bed and a three tiered table. My brother and I know we'll be dealing with it again some day but at least neither of us is storing it in the mean time. Have any of you had to deal with family pieces that you didn't want or have room for? I'd be curious to know how you handled it.
We went up to the mountain house today and got it ready for winter. Drained water lines and water heaters and shut main off to save on power. Otherwise we would be paying to heat a house just to keep the water from freezing in pipes. Did a final mow. It really is beautiful. I hope whoever buys it appreciates the beauty of their surroundings. While the last water tank was draining, we sat under the pergola in the chairs we are leaving for the next folks - watched the river flow by like we would do when we lived there.
On a side note, took my folks two lg plastic totes of family China. I told my mom I didn't want it (& my kids don't want it.) She said I couldn't get rid of it, I had to take it because it goes down the women's side of the family. . . so she took it back. She has also taken back a twin bed and a three tiered table. My brother and I know we'll be dealing with it again some day but at least neither of us is storing it in the mean time. Have any of you had to deal with family pieces that you didn't want or have room for? I'd be curious to know how you handled it.
My siblings decided one year that my parents needed a set of fine China for their 25th anniversary.
Thankfully I was deployed at the time. I would have not picked out that particular pattern.
When my folks were packing getting ready to move to town.
They tried to give me the china.
It stayed with them while I was being deployed again.
Tonight dad tried to give me the china.
Instead I left with fresh green beans, red, green peppers, from my brother's garden.
China is still at dad's.
I know in the future, hopefully not in near future the China issue will come back up.
Thankfully I was deployed at the time. I would have not picked out that particular pattern.
When my folks were packing getting ready to move to town.
They tried to give me the china.
It stayed with them while I was being deployed again.
Tonight dad tried to give me the china.
Instead I left with fresh green beans, red, green peppers, from my brother's garden.
China is still at dad's.
I know in the future, hopefully not in near future the China issue will come back up.
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Mom tries to give me stuff all the time. Stuff I don't want. Then if I take it, and she sees it, she thinks I took it from her. She also sees things of mine that she thinks are hers. Right now, she thinks a 1950's Betty Crocker Cook Book I have is hers. It's not. I bought it at a thrift store. So last time she was at our place, she tried to swipe it. I swiped it back. She is also after a set of salt and pepper shakers she thinks are hers and thinks that they are antiques. They're not. I bought them a few years back at World Market. We go round and round. She called me yesterday and said she is giving me a silver carving set, since I'm the only one who cooks and carves things. I will try my best to avoid getting it when I see her. Her birthday is next month, and I found the exact Cook Book on Amazon. That's what she is getting from me, even though she never cooks. She values "stuff" so much, that she's gotten me to the point that I don't want anything. I think one of my sisters got her china years back.
Today as it was too hot to be outside being 38 oc we made some condensed milk from food storage, a lemon cheesecake, a double batch of peanut and peanut butter biscuits and a double batch of white sauce premix. I swept the kitchen floor to get off the mess and we packed the cooled biscuits into storage containers and I put the finished cheesecake and white sauce mix in the fridge.
This afternoon I thinned out and transplanted beetroot and silverbeet growing too close together and watered the turnips, carrots and transplants in with saved rainwater and DH covered the potato plants that grew huge with a bit more soil and planted more corn seeds in areas where they didn't come up. I then watered the gardens for 30 mins with town water, used the rest of the saved rainwater from the tank to water potted fruit trees with and a tad of town water to fill up the kangaroo water.
Tonight's dinner was the rest of our homemade pizza and dessert was our homemade cheesecake.
This afternoon I thinned out and transplanted beetroot and silverbeet growing too close together and watered the turnips, carrots and transplants in with saved rainwater and DH covered the potato plants that grew huge with a bit more soil and planted more corn seeds in areas where they didn't come up. I then watered the gardens for 30 mins with town water, used the rest of the saved rainwater from the tank to water potted fruit trees with and a tad of town water to fill up the kangaroo water.
Tonight's dinner was the rest of our homemade pizza and dessert was our homemade cheesecake.
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I bet you're excited, Sewing, to grow your first garden at your place!
Plan to go to the grocery this morning for some fresh fruit and veg...we were at Sams yesterday afternoon, but everything was overpriced. Husband doesn't notice at first, I think because everything is plastic packed. So I pointed out that tomatoes were $2.25 a lb there. I can get them for a buck a pound at Sprouts. Have a ton of green tomatoes on my plants that I might need to pick by Thursday if the weather report is right.
Plan to go to the grocery this morning for some fresh fruit and veg...we were at Sams yesterday afternoon, but everything was overpriced. Husband doesn't notice at first, I think because everything is plastic packed. So I pointed out that tomatoes were $2.25 a lb there. I can get them for a buck a pound at Sprouts. Have a ton of green tomatoes on my plants that I might need to pick by Thursday if the weather report is right.
@Amish Heart yes we are really excited as the garden beds took so much longer to create here with the hard soil and building the kangaroo enclosure structure around them . Half are raised beds and half in ground.
Sorry to hear a lot of places are putting up their prices there and hope Sprouts keeps their prices reasonable for you.
. Half are raised beds and half in ground.Sorry to hear a lot of places are putting up their prices there and hope Sprouts keeps their prices reasonable for you.
Big, end of the year competion this weekend. Cleaned and check for function the pistol and rifle I will be using.
Stupid elk came, pulled up and ate our chives. Well maybe that will just add flavor to the meat
We finally got rain.
1/2" overnight.
I been neglecting pruning my blacberry bushes/arbor for the past 2-3 years , and they are crazy everywhere.
To much work to hand trim/prune, so while I still have the bush hog attached to tractor, I think today I will mow them down to about 2 ft .
They probably won't produce next year....but look out the next year.
That's it for today.
Jim
1/2" overnight.
I been neglecting pruning my blacberry bushes/arbor for the past 2-3 years , and they are crazy everywhere.
To much work to hand trim/prune, so while I still have the bush hog attached to tractor, I think today I will mow them down to about 2 ft .
They probably won't produce next year....but look out the next year.
That's it for today.
Jim
Building a stand for my truck canopy so that I can just slide it on and off as needed rather than lifting it from ground level. As a bonus I can store some stuff underneath. Also working with the new dog we have on probation. Feeding our guests and doing cleaning. One week left in the busy season (early May to mid October) then we can begin to catch up on some stuff. The B&B is open year round, not that we see many guests in the off season, but the few we do see helps the cash flow and we don’t have hired help to worry about
Went to get grand daughter.
Her, her Aunty's dog Oaklee were going around around in circles chasing each other.
I helped Aunty get trash ready for can.
Picked up a few dishes.
Granddaughter and Oaklee still going in circles.
Got one load of laundry washed, it's in the drier now.
Well everything but my shirts they are hanging on shower rod on hangers so they don't shrink.
Grand daughter has new night shirt cantaloupe colored shirt shrank quite a bit.
Grand daughter stayed with Oaklee and Aunty today.
She went with her dad yesterday to pumpkin patch.
All the kids had fun.
They were slightly grubby when they got home.
But good time had by all.
Grand daughter was still tired from the week at her dad's house.
It will take Aunty and I few days to get her back on her schedule.
So Aunty kept her today, I'll take her Friday.
So I'm doing housework instead of having grand daughter.
Her, her Aunty's dog Oaklee were going around around in circles chasing each other.
I helped Aunty get trash ready for can.
Picked up a few dishes.
Granddaughter and Oaklee still going in circles.
Got one load of laundry washed, it's in the drier now.
Well everything but my shirts they are hanging on shower rod on hangers so they don't shrink.
Grand daughter has new night shirt cantaloupe colored shirt shrank quite a bit.
Grand daughter stayed with Oaklee and Aunty today.
She went with her dad yesterday to pumpkin patch.
All the kids had fun.
They were slightly grubby when they got home.
But good time had by all.
Grand daughter was still tired from the week at her dad's house.
It will take Aunty and I few days to get her back on her schedule.
So Aunty kept her today, I'll take her Friday.
So I'm doing housework instead of having grand daughter.
Got all my stuff above done , plus some other tree trimming.
Feels good to get outside and work in decent weather.
I'm pooped.
Jim
Feels good to get outside and work in decent weather.
I'm pooped.
Jim
Made some pumpkin pie spiced liquid creamer and some dry chocolate creamer (will add s/f candy canes when available) - both sugar free. Because it has got to cool off soon!!!
Revival this week at Church so staying busy with that and daily chores and daily walk.
Revival this week at Church so staying busy with that and daily chores and daily walk.
Getting ready for winter here. Drained almost all our water catchment tanks so the valves would not freeze and break.
Helped wife plant a bunch of flower bulbs.
Helped wife plant a bunch of flower bulbs.
Didn't sleep well last night so I slept in. Been slowly getting ready to head back to Wisconsin for work. Another 8 days on the road. Yay...
Not a lot done today as it was so hot but DH did 1 month of book work for the RSL club and got a call from the local post office that visitors wanted to see the RSL museum so DH went down and opened it up and showed them around.
Tonight DH washed the dishes and cleaned the benches and I wiped them and put them away. Tonight's dinner was fried chicken thigh cutlets with steamed vegetables and cheesecake for dessert.
Tonight DH washed the dishes and cleaned the benches and I wiped them and put them away. Tonight's dinner was fried chicken thigh cutlets with steamed vegetables and cheesecake for dessert.
Got up to go see the guy at the funeral home for some loose ends.
Had to take the truck.
Guess I'll be taking this in for fixing later.
I can't remember the last time I had a flat.
Jim
Had to take the truck.
Guess I'll be taking this in for fixing later.
I can't remember the last time I had a flat.
Jim
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Got the animals fed. No easy feat today because all the hot air balloons were flying this way and all the animals were not liking it. They fly low enough to see faces and hear the sound of the burners. Roosters and dogs hate this. Must of had 50 over our house, and one landed in the back field. Our son's dog is now so exhausted from running and barking, he is crashed out. Getting ready to blanch 10# of carrots for the dehydrator. Took out celery, cabbage, and green onions. I planted 40 bulbs of green onions indoors, and I swear, they must grow 2 inches a day. I just cut the greens small and dehydrate, leaving the bulb to continue growing. I have a call back with our granddaughter in California's foster care caseworker. Looking for an update to see if we can have her. For guardianship. I won't even talk about foster care. What a racket. Plan to do some more cleaning out this afternoon.
Went to change the oil on the riding mower and couldn't find the tube for draining the oil!?!? Belongs with the oil and filters...I don't remember borrowing it for any emergency repairs. Bummer.
Instead of an oil drain plug the mower has a "tee" fitting. One end is the plug, another end has a on/off valve and the branch of the tee is for a 1/2" flexible tubing to fit over. Run the other end of the tubing under and through so the engine oil doesn't drain on any of the mower parts.
Drove to town. Bought 10 feet (shortest length they had) of 1/2" I.D. clear flexible tubing, adhesive numbers to replace the pealing and faded ones on our mail box, and chicken feed. Straw is for the wife's cat houses and if any if left over for the chicken nesting boxes.
Clean of the old address numbers from the box box. Clean the area for the new numbers. Apply masking tape on along the bottom of the mailbox where the new numbers will be placed. Used a level and a pencil to draw a straight and level line on the masking tape. Tear the top half of the backing off the first number and position using the penciled line as a guide. Did the same with the rest of the numbers before removing the masking tape. Then removed the bottom half of the numbers backing to finish applying.
Carry the chicken feed out to the coop to place in dedicated metal trash cans (keeps the coons out). Bungee's strap the lids on.
I'll change the mower oil after the next time I use it. The way the tree leaves are falling it will be soon.
Post pictures and "how I did it" in the firearms section.
Fix a ham and cheese sandwich for lunch.
Instead of an oil drain plug the mower has a "tee" fitting. One end is the plug, another end has a on/off valve and the branch of the tee is for a 1/2" flexible tubing to fit over. Run the other end of the tubing under and through so the engine oil doesn't drain on any of the mower parts.
Drove to town. Bought 10 feet (shortest length they had) of 1/2" I.D. clear flexible tubing, adhesive numbers to replace the pealing and faded ones on our mail box, and chicken feed. Straw is for the wife's cat houses and if any if left over for the chicken nesting boxes.
Clean of the old address numbers from the box box. Clean the area for the new numbers. Apply masking tape on along the bottom of the mailbox where the new numbers will be placed. Used a level and a pencil to draw a straight and level line on the masking tape. Tear the top half of the backing off the first number and position using the penciled line as a guide. Did the same with the rest of the numbers before removing the masking tape. Then removed the bottom half of the numbers backing to finish applying.
Carry the chicken feed out to the coop to place in dedicated metal trash cans (keeps the coons out). Bungee's strap the lids on.
I'll change the mower oil after the next time I use it. The way the tree leaves are falling it will be soon.
Post pictures and "how I did it" in the firearms section.
Fix a ham and cheese sandwich for lunch.
