What's everybody doing today?

[Pearl]

thanks, he will be a great loss. He was not just a pet but working dog that did a great job. We never lost any lambs or goat kids since we got the dogs. When one of the goats got stuck in the fence, he would sit next to it until we came and unstuck it. He was super friendly to humans too . I will really miss him

I don't know what we are going to do now, we are about to have lambs and kids. We usually split up the dogs and put one with the sheep and one with the goats but now we only have one. I guess we better really make sure the electric fences work at all times.
I wonder how Rose is going to do without him. She did eat yesterday evening, but did not want to go in the dog room where they usually spend the night if everyone is in the barn so I just left her with the goats for now.

We had a Great Pyrenees and Anatolian, when we lost the GP, we left the Anatolian with the goats. She very much preferred that and was a lot less social after losing her friend!!

 

[SoulSeeker]

Sorry to hear about your loss Sonya. Checked on a package that was to be here Friday. Went from Detroit to Phoenix to here in Vegas and back to Phoenix. I was hoping the USPS stopped the DEI crap, guess not. Maybe watch the Superbowl, putz with hobby, try hard to stay out of trouble.

 

[Hooch]

I'm not going anywhere today, too cold like a high of 29. My friends wanted me to come over for superbowl..I'm not into football and I'd rather stay home n keep my woodstove going.
I will walk the pups from here up the road again, still have some chores to do that I didn't get to yesterday. Looks like we got some more snow last night too.

 

[Spikedriver]

Got to the gym about 0830. I'm taking it easy today because I hit the gym fairly hard last night, and middle age fat guys hurt when they do too much. Lol.

I don't think I'm going to bother with the Stupid Bowl. I would just be rooting for a team to lose and that's a waste of my time. Although I do hate the Eagles and Philadelphia. The one positive thing about global warming is that Philly will someday be covered by the Ocean...

 

[Snowman]

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[Mountain trapper]

Going to work on widening the road in a few places so my truck will fit. Last night the engine on the snow blower froze up and wouldn't turn over. I'll put some heat on it so it'll start.

 

[zannej]

Took out some trash, cleaned up and got all the parts and tools organized so my friend could hook up water under the sink. Turns out one of the parts from HD was the wrong one. Correct box but someone had swapped out the fitting to full compression instead of fip to compression. I hadn't realized the box had been opened and it was a curbside order. I'm going to go look for the correct one and make sure the product inside matches the picture on the box this time.

At least my friend got the pex up into the underside of the cabinet but the floor was rotted from a leak and the underside of the cabinet crumbled away.

Friend fixed the leaking union though. O-ring was not seated properly.

I'm about to take my little brother up to get him lunch for his birthday, see if I can exchange the wrong part and get the correct one, and then go to samsclub for a curbside order.

 

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[sonya123]

Going to take Otto for a hike, doing laundry now. Getting ready for the next snow storm
I always try to do laundry on Sundays, since for some reason ALL the Amish seem to want to do theirs on Mondays, so there is not enough water pressure. It's fine, there is plenty of water right now, we actually have a creek from what is left over from the spring flowing right now, that only happens when it is really wet. Usually all the water just goes into the pipes

 

[Mountain trapper]

Made it out with the truck with no problems. Going back up there could be a different story though.
We're in town now having a couple burgers for lunch.

 

[Amish Heart]

Going to take Otto for a hike, doing laundry now. Getting ready for the next snow storm
I always try to do laundry on Sundays, since for some reason ALL the Amish seem to want to do theirs on Mondays, so there is not enough water pressure. It's fine, there is plenty of water right now, we actually have a creek from what is left over from the spring flowing right now, that only happens when it is really wet. Usually all the water just goes into the pipes

They do their wash on Monday for good reason...they wore their Sunday best on Sunday, and it needs to be washed and dried in case there's something unexpected mid week that they have to wear it, like a funeral, wedding, religious holiday. Not supposed to do laundry on Sunday, not supposed to do housework then either.

 

[sonya123]

They do their wash on Monday for good reason...they wore their Sunday best on Sunday, and it needs to be washed and dried in case there's something unexpected mid week that they have to wear it, like a funeral, wedding, religious holiday. Not supposed to do laundry on Sunday, not supposed to do housework then either.

I see....didn't know that and didn't ask
But yeah, they have a lot of those event going on all the time, I see the "wedding' sign to their location where they have them up all the time here

 

[Amish Heart]

Filled a cart at Dollar Tree and at Aldi. Half expected it would be busy with Superbowl snack shoppers, but not bad. The chip aisle looked pretty empty

 

[Mountain trapper]

Picked up $275 worth of fuel, a load of 1×12's and about 10 pounds of bacon. It was a tough ride coming up our driveway. I'll get the snowblower out in the morning and work on widening the narrow places on the road.
Other than feeding and watering the critters I'm going to take it easy, or whatever the wife tells me to do.

 

[Amish Heart]

Glad you got your bacon

 

[zannej]

Took the mis-boxed fitting back to HomeDepot and got a refund, then promptly got the correct one (I checked to make sure this time). Picked up samsclub curbside order and then took my brother to our favorite Chinese place. Grabbed some takeout for Mom since she didn't feel like going with us.

 

[Amish Heart]

Did your brother get a free meal because it's his birthday? Everybody does that around here.

Took the mis-boxed fitting back to HomeDepot and got a refund, then promptly got the correct one (I checked to make sure this time). Picked up samsclub curbside order and then took my brother to our favorite Chinese place. Grabbed some takeout for Mom since she didn't feel like going with us

 

[Spikedriver]

Just got a call from the boss. Apparently the train jockeys put two of 'em on the ground, one near North Platte, Nebraska and the other near Sidney, Nebraska. I've got to hustle out there tomorrow and show up at 6am on Tuesday. The double tracks at Sidney are wiped out, and the triple track at North Platte is also destroyed. That means my employer's biggest freight route between Chicago and the ports in California, is now non-operational. I'm sure they've got crews on site getting things put together so trains can run at reduced speed by tomorrow night. My crew will restore things to normal operations by the middle of next week. Looks like I'll have some long cold days coming up...

 

[Mountain trapper]

Got the diesel transferred to the bulk tank, it was on empty, and filled the 55 gallon day tank in the generator building. I'll work on the road some more in the morning and then go pick up another load of diesel, plus I'll stop at the Mennonite store and get a take and bake pizza for dinner. I might even have one of the girls make me a sandwich while I'm in town.
High temp was 19 today. Supposed to be colder tomorrow. At least -10 by Tuesday and more snow from Thursday thru next Wednesday.

 

[montanabill]

Went for nice sunday drive and got some great winter shots of the wife checking out mountain figures covered in the snow...she has 11K followers on FB so she likes to amaze some of them with what she is doing here in montana winter and summer.

We stopped at our favorite out of the way bar cafe for a snack and the owners grandson was busy making a fan with a battery powered drill and a bunch of straws and tape. He was also climbing up a 8 foot ladder helping hang new metal signs....the kid starts first grade this fall,,,,,great to see kids that do actual stuff.

As we were leaving I noticed a extra roll of duct tape in the car so I checked with the kids mom and then gave it to the kid...he immediately thanked me with wide eyes and ran off to build something else.

 

[sonya123]

Debating on tomorrow. It will be the last day this week we might go somewhere because of the bad weather coming. I would like to go swimming, but my ripped toenail is still healing up so I probably shouldn't. You are definitely not supposed to have any bandaids on you at the pool. But I would really like to go swimming.
We should probably do some shopping too but I only could use a few things. Never have enough bananas

 

[Mountain trapper]

We had a visitor at the bird feeder tonight. We watched him walk right by the chicken coop and never even looked at them. He did make a point of peeing on the dogs toys though.

 

[Heartbroken]

So sorry to hear about Axel, Sonya.

Brother came over yesterday and figured out how to light the pilot on the big old scary looking gas heater that hangs from the ceiling in my shop building. I never got it going last year. Not sure what to think of it, I was back in there today and the pilot is rather loud, as loud on the little deer blind propane heater when it's burning. I don't know enough to know if that's normal.

Got about 8" of fresh snow last night, woke up to a winter wonderland. Didn't have any problem getting out to church, and finally got myself out there in the afternoon to run the snowblower. It's hard to start and has issues, I think it needs a new carb, but I managed to get it going and got all the snow cleared. They're talking more coming in this week. This is how I remember winter from my childhood, snow came in November and stayed.

 

[Ekatarina]

Sunday February 9th 2025

9.00 pm right now

8f and snow showers until morning
Oh! well... tomorrow will be 0f

I dont know why ..but since 7 pm I was
So quiet in the house right now
I just hear the 10 wheeler snoring

Miss Ruben does ask me gently for me to hold her in my arms
then she likes to sit on my lap and look at the computer screen
and she just cuddle herself the closest she can in my sweater

Besides it was a good day..and tomorrow MONDAY
I have few things to do in my area

Again : Happy B Day = teeceetx

Good night whenever you go to

 

[Magus]

Axel didn't make it. Found him dead around lunchtime. We dug a big hole next to Heidi's grave and burried him. I hate losing dogs
Drinking lots of vodka and crying

I hate that. Losing my old Wompcat was almost like losing a child, but they'll be back!

 

[montanabill]

Debating on tomorrow. It will be the last day this week we might go somewhere because of the bad weather coming. I would like to go swimming, but my ripped toenail is still healing up so I probably shouldn't. You are definitely not supposed to have any bandaids on you at the pool. But I would really like to go swimming.
We should probably do some shopping too but I only could use a few things. Never have enough bananas

Have you ever tried super glue or nu skin on owies..

 

[Pearl]

Have you ever tried super glue or nu skin on owies..

My Mom would use Super Glue for minor cuts....I don't think I ever got Super Glue poisoning!

 

[Pearl]

Good night everyone!! I'll be up early as usual!!

 

[Peanut]

@Magpie Hope you and yours are well. Saw a news article about a madman stabbing people somewhere in Ireland...

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A quiet day, worked on some herb stuff. Nice dinner followed by tv.

 

[Patchouli]

I have been having trouble on all my browsers, sites don't load right, things are slow, and I'm getting my cookies burnt.... I realized that Microsoft gave my a new support in February called Copilot and it seemed to be touching every thing... So I uninstalled it. Poof, everything started working again. Thanks MS.

I uninstalled it, (Copilot), then noticed it was back in there again. I think I did something to it again. I'll have to check, I forgot. I was not happy about that, it was messing with everything I tried to type on word, etc. I use ms word a lot. I know there is another program others have suggested, or rather warned us we should use instead.