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This morning, I will walk first.
Look for a missing magazine article.
Do our personal filing for the year and put away.
This afternoon, I get my hair cut.
This evening, Bible Study.

We did get the inversion table finished! It takes up some room. We are getting rid of a large chair that doesn't get sat in much in the living room and putting it there. We have a pretty small house so if we add something large, we get rid of something.
 
Woke up with what appears to be a sinus infection, based on what I saw when I blew my nose. Lost of blood and yellow in there. I don't feel stuffed up or anything though. Not sure what today will bring. The Rav4 has a coolant leak somewhere so I've got to get it to the shop. Gotta do some cleaning too. I'll see how that goes...
 
done with the animals just in time for a big downpour. We are having a thunderstorm like Florida in August here in February, wow, weird weather for sure. We let the sheep out , cleaned and put them back in. They knew they wanted in too LOL, stood at the gate looking sad, even if it wasn't raining then.
I messed up all the way around this year with the sheep and could kick myself. Usually I am much more organized with all that. Not only did I forget to write down when we put the ram in, I also forgot to buy CDT vaccine a few days ago. The ewes should get that around 2 weeks before they are due ( so they can transfer immunity to their lambs) but now I think I only have a week left. They look like they are ready to pop any day now

Just started on my sauce for lasagna , it will have to cook for at least another hour , so we will eat late.
 
Finally finished outside chores. The sun came out and it's lovely outside, so picked up sticks to refill my kindling buckets, too. Wow 34 degrees and sunshine feels like summertime.
Off to the shower, lunch, and into town and stopping at neighbors, too.
 
-29 here in the mountains. The booster pump went out on the bus and no replacement available. That means almost zero heat. I have had cold feet and hands for a week now even with mitts and good winter boots. I have permission to refuse kids trying to get on the bus without winter gear. It's been peaceful.

They got new transit buses. Made in Georgia and stupid as all heck. They have heat but it cycles on and off. As soon as the bus reaches set heat temperature, it cuts off the heat and turns on the air conditioning. Some creative b***hing going on about that one.
 
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To me it depends on size of the eggs. If they're laying big eggs, I'd go to whatever size XL eggs are selling for at the grocery store and add $1 to the price. If they're laying smaller eggs, like a lot of free range chickens seem to do, then add $1 to what the store is selling regular size eggs for.

Store bought large eggs haven't hit $6 here yet, but they're at $5.49 and climbing...
Yikes. Makes me miss having chickens. I think the ones I got from 4H were supposed to be fryers but they were good egg layers. They had very large eggs. Sometime they had triple yolks. I've noticed the size of the "jumbo" eggs has gotten smaller and they are no bigger than regular sized eggs-- although tis possible someone has been swapping eggs out of the containers.

Phone has been ringing with spam calls. Caller ID said "Probable Fraud" on one of them. So annoying. Didn't even bother answering.

Had 10 cats in my room earlier (so only 2 were not in). I'm trying to motivate myself to clean the litterboxes.
 
Spend all morning working on the snowblower. Finally got everything working, took it out of shop and started down the road. Everything was working great, for the first 200 feet. There was a tree across the road. Tried backing up and slid off the road and got stuck. Went and got the tractor and pulled it home, then cleared the tree. Saw that both rear chains were twisted off the tires. So back in the shop again. All fixed now. After I warm up I'm going back out and try it again.
One thing I noticed was there's about 4 inches of solid ice under the snow.
 
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