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Damn good thing we don't have socialized medicine like some countrys.
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I stopped at the endo doc on my way home, got the paper of what he wanted scanned, now I can go anywhere I want.

I ASSUME, the place the endo sent me collects a commission on each referral, just like big pharma does with med docs. I don't really assume, know damn good and well they get referral cash...:devil:
 

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So here we are, once again, with no one showing up for late evening BS and it is not even the weekend so y'all can claim you were out dancing.
Oh well...
How was your day, Rich?

We inspected an insurance company (building) today....fairly easy day... thank god. Wrote the report, showered, done.

Then made some organic oats, chia and quinoa porridge (?)...guess you could call it that....mixed in some lemongrass, red apple, lemon & lime peel (grated), banana.....lil cinnamon and allspice...damn that tasted good. EDIT...forgot the real honey and real maple syrup.
 

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I may see a chiropractor on Thursday, it's really amazing what they do now, it's a far cry from just adjusting bones....if you can find a young DC, they pretty much have a cure or help for any ailment.
 

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How was your day, Rich?
Then made some organic oats, chia and quinoa porridge (?)...guess you could call it that....mixed in some lemongrass, red apple, lemon & lime peel (grated), banana.....lil cinnamon and allspice...damn that tasted good. EDIT...forgot the real honey and real maple syrup.
Cold. Well, like 73 and a stiff wind. Had to wear a jacket when I went out to repair the chicken coop ramp, fix the calf stall gate (did I tell ya we got a new baby last week?) and fix the latches on two cow pen gates (etc., etc.). Got another calf coming in the next 24-48 hours.

Lannie just turned four heads of cabbage into six quarts of sauerkraut and we'll be harvesting another 8 or 10 heads tomorrow. Most of the tomatoes are red now too, so I need to get busy picking those (between fence repair projects). She brought in another big squash too so we had some fresh baked mashed squash and cheese with chicken for dinner tonight.
 

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Cold. Well, like 73 and a stiff wind. Had to wear a jacket when I went out to repair the chicken coop ramp, fix the calf stall gate (did I tell ya we got a new baby last week?) and fix the latches on two cow pen gates (etc., etc.). Got another calf coming in the next 24-48 hours.

Lannie just turned four heads of cabbage into six quarts of sauerkraut and we'll be harvesting another 8 or 10 heads tomorrow. Most of the tomatoes are red now too, so I need to get busy picking those (between fence repair projects). She brought in another big squash too so we had some fresh baked mashed squash and cheese with chicken for dinner tonight.
Damn, that sure sounds great...!
 

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What kind of squash?....really like acorn, or any other orange flesh squash. I've tried the type they call spaghetti squash, not much taste, at least that was my experience.
 

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made some organic oats, chia and quinoa porridge (?)...guess you could call it that....mixed in some lemongrass, red apple, lemon & lime peel (grated), banana.....lil cinnamon and allspice...damn that tasted good. EDIT...forgot the real honey and real maple syrup.
Just another query: Does GF like to eat the same stuff you make? Or if she is doing the cooking, do you like to eat what she makes? I know so many couples who are incompatible eaters I was just curious.
 

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Just another query: Does GF like to eat the same stuff you make? Or if she is doing the cooking, do you like to eat what she makes? I know so many couples who are incompatible eaters I was just curious.
She taught me a LOT, BUT...we both eat the same things, and LIKE it that way......made for each other?.....:teehee:
 

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What kind of squash?.
I do not know the official names. One patch grows something she calls Summer Squash and the other patch grows Winter Squash. They are both long and shaped like a two-foot long cucumber and both are yellow-orange (one darker than the other and has a more textured skin). The way she cooks them, they both taste great.
 

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She taught me a LOT, BUT...we both eat the same things, and LIKE it that way......made for each other?.....:teehee:
Well, if there is never any argument about what goes on the dinner table, it certainly makes life less argumentative. :)

Have a good sleep and don't work too hard tomorrow. I gotta get my ass to bed too. I am still sore from that long drive yesterday. My back seems to hurt more and more each time I put in 200-250 miles in the truck and it takes couple days to recover. What's gonna happen when I can't do this no more? Damn! Sigh...
 

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I got my computer back. :) I just have to figure out how it works now, and my fingernails keep sliding off these new keyboard keys, LOL!

I only have time for a couple comments:

1. I never liked butterscotch, so I've never attempted to vape it. I like everything else except tobacco.

2. It was butternut squash. (The other "summer" squash is yellow straightneck.)

And now I must dash. I'm late again!
 

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@inspects Lannie informed me that your GF wanted to put cabbage on your belly because (apparently something only women know because some use it to reduce breast size after giving birth), fresh cabbage leaves supposedly reduce inflammation. Or something like that...
 

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AMAZING! Look at this... a whole day and not one person had anything to say. Are all the old pharts dead now? Or just forgot how to talk?
Oh well...
One more time, good night to everyone who was never here.
 

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AMAZING! Look at this... a whole day and not one person had anything to say. Are all the old pharts dead now? Or just forgot how to talk?
Oh well...
One more time, good night to everyone who was never here.
Worked all day, had to take the GF out to dinner.....day is shot again.....:vino:
 

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Worked all day, had to take the GF out to dinner.....day is shot again.....:vino:
There really are time I wish we were closer to a restaurant so I could take my gurl out to dinner. But when it is a two hour drive home from any decent restaurant, it just never happens.
 

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There really are time I wish we were closer to a restaurant so I could take my gurl out to dinner. But when it is a two hour drive home from any decent restaurant, it just never happens.
May need to make a late walmart run some week...so you can kill two birds with one stone.
 

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May need to make a late walmart run some week...so you can kill two birds with one stone.
Late night Wally World run? Never happen (90 miles one way to nearest Walmart, 105 to another in a different direction). And because she gets up about 4 AM, she won't stay up past 8 PM.
 

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Late night Wally World run? Never happen (90 miles one way to nearest Walmart, 105 to another in a different direction). And because she gets up about 4 AM, she won't stay up past 8 PM.
Man you weren't kidding when you said your in gods country, or out in the boondocks or something to that effect
 

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Man you weren't kidding when you said your in gods country, or out in the boondocks or something to that effect
Yeah... Draw a quick map... imagine 27 miles east to the nearest gas station and mini-mart. No real restaurant. 42 miles north to the same (no restaurant). 48 miles west to the same (no real restaurant). Real restaurant? 75 miles SW, but if you want a "good" restaurant, 100-105 miles south. This is why we have three freezers and two refrigerator/freezers. I shop one day a month and we have to keep enough on hand for two people and a zillion cats and dogs. Chickens, cows, horses do not require refrigerated food. Can't cook? Have a happy death.
 

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Unfortunately, you are probably right. But, hopefully, it won't stick until after Thanksgiving.
The garden pittering out?

I have cantaloupes watermelon and sweet potatoes growing like no tomorrow. The sun is only hitting the garden for a couple hours now, due to sun setting further south this time of the years. The quail and rabbits don't seem to like the leaves or stalks, PERFECT.....:)
 

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You ever get the bobcat running, or was it something else giving you problems when plowing snow?
I got it running (accidentally and short term). It is 34 years old. It will never be reliable. I will beat on it each time it is needed. The push snow blower is broken permanently, so the Bobcat is my only hope. I am no longer capable of shoveling by hand. And when you have 3-6 feet in the driveway, a shovel is insanity anyway.
 

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The garden pittering out?
Actually, things are just now coming to fruit. Lannie and I will probably spend the next several days harvesting. She's gonna have a huge canning job ahead of her and with the new calf and another one due any day now, she'll be back to milking within a week and busier than hell. I still have a bunch of fence work to do and, sadly, because of the back pain, I haven't even started on firewood yet and can find no one who will do it for me (i.e., no one I can buy wood from).
 

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Actually, things are just now coming to fruit. Lannie and I will probably spend the next several days harvesting. She's gonna have a huge canning job ahead of her and with the new calf and another one due any day now, she'll be back to milking within a week and busier than hell. I still have a bunch of fence work to do and, sadly, because of the back pain, I haven't even started on firewood yet and can find no one who will do it for me (i.e., no one I can buy wood from).
Late start for the garden kinda screwed things up.
 

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It was 90 yesterday, not 77. ;) And Dale, Rich is right, the garden is just starting to produce. There are quite a few ripe tomatoes out there now, the cantaloupes are about as big as a softball (PLEASE God let them get ripe! It's our only fruit!), I'm in the middle of doing the sauerkraut now, and there are some nice fat butternut squashes out there I need to can up for winter. The summer squash is getting away from me. I should have been canning that the last couple of weeks, but with everything else going on, I just haven't had the time. Eh, even if it's "old," the chickens like it, so it won't be wasted.

The weeds won the battle this year, however, and it's kinda hard to find anything out there. I know where to look, because I know where I planted stuff, but I bet Rich doesn't even remember we have melons. ;) I did lose my beans. I mean, I know where they should be, but the tangle of bindweed and amaranth all over them is impenetrable. Cucumbers are the same. I've only found a few, and I KNOW there have to be dozens and dozens in there. I'll find them when they turn into yellow schoolbuses.... argh.
 

Draconigena

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It was 90 yesterday, not 77. ;)
Really? I must have been thinking of the day before. I just don't remember it being hot yesterday.... oh well... gettin' too oldt.
cantaloupes are about as big as a softball (PLEASE God let them get ripe! It's our only fruit!)
Well, technically, honey, tomatoes are a fruit, even though everyone thinks of them as a veggie.
 

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