She slept in until 5.30am
Bumped walker into a few walls
Says that she is just groggy, with sore arm
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Bumped walker into a few walls
Says that she is just groggy, with sore arm
Morning!
It got cold here, for us, the last 2 days. I woke up to snow yesterday! Only 1/2", was gone that afternoon, but it was pretty. Jessie, of course, found snow on the deck and had to inspect it. She came in just complaining! Little ears and paws were so cold, lol. It's 24* now, going up to 52*. Sun is shining. I'm staying home. Plan is to watch TV and wrap coils. Hugs to you all.
Stay safe and healthy
It got cold here, for us, the last 2 days. I woke up to snow yesterday! Only 1/2", was gone that afternoon, but it was pretty. Jessie, of course, found snow on the deck and had to inspect it. She came in just complaining! Little ears and paws were so cold, lol. It's 24* now, going up to 52*. Sun is shining. I'm staying home. Plan is to watch TV and wrap coils. Hugs to you all.
Stay safe and healthy
For the 2nd day in a row, it's just too damned cold to go outside and do anything. At least with our remodeling, we found air leaks we didn't know we had, and sealed them. I am sure the double paned windows are helping too.
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Morning!
It got cold here, for us, the last 2 days. I woke up to snow yesterday! Only 1/2", was gone that afternoon, but it was pretty. Jessie, of course, found snow on the deck and had to inspect it. She came in just complaining! Little ears and paws were so cold, lol. It's 24* now, going up to 52*. Sun is shining. I'm staying home. Plan is to watch TV and wrap coils. Hugs to you all.
Stay safe and healthy
It's cold here, too. Got into the teens last night, and isn't supposed to get out of the twenties during the day today. I am bundled up with a folded throw over my feet, and I'll probably stay like this all day. We got some snow yesterday afternoon and last night, but it was no more than about an inch. What little bit there is will hang around for the next few days, though, because it's supposed to stay cold.
If I wasn't working, it would be a good day to make a pot of soup.
A good friend of our family, a young lady my son used to date and was friends with before and has remained friends with since, has two young daughters about 11 and 13. Her little girls lost their dad (the friend's ex-husband) the other day to Covid. He was unvaccinated. My family loves that young lady and both of her girls, and we are indescribably sad for them.
Please, again, if you aren't, go get vaccinated. This man who passed away was young, barely 40, and his death is made even more tragic because the children are involved. They have no power or influence to change what their adults do (or don't do), but they are the ones who pay the highest price in the long run.
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That's so sad. My prayers for the family and friends. I got the first two shots but haven't gotten the booster, now I am thinking maybe I should. I don't know, I am such an untrusting person but this is making me re-think it a bit.
Bah! "Yeah well, you just keep your warm weather too!" *chuckling*
Dreaded going out just a little ago. -3C here this morning. Fed Maow cat and his buddy. About had a beagle pup get adopted. Next door neighbor's pup. He come walking half down our hill behind me fussing at me. Maow stopped, turned around and looked at the pup.
Poor pup stopped, got on his belly. Maow just kept his gaze fixed, looked over his shoulder at me to say "go on, I got this." Come in the door, looked out through the glass inlay, pup walked back up to the road and down to his home. Maow just sat there.
Had to chuckle.
I had a medium sized dog approach me on the beach recently
He presented his tennis ball
I gave him a huge snoogle and told him that I know what he is doing. And I'm not spending the next 10 minutes having him come back for repeat throws. Not that I mind. But not ideal for owners
He presented his ball to the next young couple. They threw it. And I could still hear him barking and human saying leave them alone when I left from an exit about 100 metres down
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They got suckered in, didn't they?!? lol
Today, I installed the window awning I made from vinyl 1x4s and angle iron, saving me a shitload of money, while still having a nice presentable awning that will shield that window from hail and the heat from the summer sun. That window faces south.
The awning over the double window was factory made forever ago, and restored to the best I could do. I chose vinyl 1x4s over wood for obvious reasons. It will never crack, warp, split, rot, or become homes to certain insects.
The awning over the double window was factory made forever ago, and restored to the best I could do. I chose vinyl 1x4s over wood for obvious reasons. It will never crack, warp, split, rot, or become homes to certain insects.
That’s a great idea. I have 3 windows facing east and the sun is killer till around 11am.
Thanks for the tip.
Nice colors on your house also!
One of my neighbors saw me loading 4 storage totes into the bed of my truck, and asked me what I was doing. Being honest, I told her I was taking pecans to Abilene to sell. It turned out she wanted me to take 2 burlap sacks full, and sell them for her. After all was said and done, she gave me $5 out of the $85 she got for her pecans. I got $150 for the ones I had.
My grandma & pap used to do up walnuts, black English I believe. They lived in VA & would get people making special trips in from IL, MA to buy the walnuts they had done up.
Pap would haul them out, dry them, crack them. He took them in to grandma in pans. She would sit watching her soaps, picking out walnuts. She laid them up in her windows to dry further.
She would bag them in plastic bags. Usually she used 2 kilogram bags meaning 4 pounds of walnuts. She did use 1 kilogram bags as well. Very rarely did she use 1 pound bags. She charged $7 per pound and I know one year the folks from MA bought 100 pounds, maybe more.
Toward the end of her doing walnuts she had started charging $9 per pound. The folks in MA never batted an eye, kept buying 100 pounds or more each year. Grandma used that for Christmas money.
Pap also taught me about trapping for pelts. Had one good year for fox, bottom dropped out. Uncle Buddy tried getting me going after mink but they proved too evasive to warrant going after too much. Yep, learned tracking, stalking while doing.
Good memories, thanks.
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My grandma & pap used to do up walnuts, black English I believe. They lived in VA & would get people making special trips in from IL, MA to buy the walnuts they had done up.
Pap would haul them out, dry them, crack them. He took them in to grandma in pans. She would sit watching her soaps, picking out walnuts. She laid them up in her windows to dry further.
She would bag them in plastic bags. Usually she used 2 kilogram bags meaning 4 pounds of walnuts. She did use 1 kilogram bags as well. Very rarely did she use 1 pound bags. She charged $7 per pound and I know one year the folks from MA bought 100 pounds, maybe more.
Toward the end of her doing walnuts she had started charging $9 per pound. The folks in MA never batted an eye, kept buying 100 pounds or more each year. Grandma used that for Christmas money.
Pap also taught me about trapping for pelts. Had one good year for fox, bottom dropped out. Uncle Buddy tried getting me going after mink but they proved too evasive to warrant going after too much. Yep, learned tracking, stalking while doing.
Good memories, thanks.
I remember my mother getting a 50lb burlap bag of black walnuts from a neighbor in about 1962. She was pregnant with my half-sister then, and said she was craving walnuts. Things are great in homemade cake, pumpkin bread, or ice cream. Absolutely delicious. Black walnuts are very distinct from regular walnuts, too; they have an entirely different flavor (in case anyone doesn't know this already - BB, I know that you know it).
Hubbs brought me a couple pounds of pecans in the shell yesterday. I'll eat those 8 or 10 at a time, cracking them with my hands. Have also made homemade butter pecan ice cream in the past, but probably won't this time. Dairy just bothers my digestion too much these days.
@Lady Sarah, good on you for industriousness, and for helping a neighbor! Pecans are like gold these days. I wish we had planted a few trees when we moved here. It would have been time for them to bear some years ago, and I'd have been having a big time!
Oh yeah. Couldn't count how many times I got the "runs" from eating too many black walnuts out of the drying pans. *chuckles* Uncle Buddy got the runs too.
Once you start eating them you start craving them. The juglone found in the walnuts, while toxic also gives them a very distinct flavor a person can crave. This element in the nuts gives folks the runs if they eat too much.
We would always stop eating them once we realized a mild stomach ache. We come to know it wasn't long from then we'd be in the bathroom. It was our cue to know we had gotten "too much of a good thing".
My mom and I used to crack open the pecans and sell the shelled pecans by the one pound bag. Folks refused to pay more than $4 a pound, when stores were charging more than $10 a pound. It wasn't worth the effort to do that anymore.My grandma & pap used to do up walnuts, black English I believe. They lived in VA & would get people making special trips in from IL, MA to buy the walnuts they had done up.
Pap would haul them out, dry them, crack them. He took them in to grandma in pans. She would sit watching her soaps, picking out walnuts. She laid them up in her windows to dry further.
She would bag them in plastic bags. Usually she used 2 kilogram bags meaning 4 pounds of walnuts. She did use 1 kilogram bags as well. Very rarely did she use 1 pound bags. She charged $7 per pound and I know one year the folks from MA bought 100 pounds, maybe more.
Toward the end of her doing walnuts she had started charging $9 per pound. The folks in MA never batted an eye, kept buying 100 pounds or more each year. Grandma used that for Christmas money.
Pap also taught me about trapping for pelts. Had one good year for fox, bottom dropped out. Uncle Buddy tried getting me going after mink but they proved too evasive to warrant going after too much. Yep, learned tracking, stalking while doing.
Good memories, thanks.
Can't really do that with the shipping rates either. Folks would be better off buying them at stores rather than from me plus the high shipping rates. It's getting higher than giraffe pussy nowadays, and it's only going to get worse.
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Hubbs just told me he paid $3.99 for these pecans in the shell yesterday. Shelled ones have been upwards of $7-$8 a pound around here for DECADES, unless you happen to find them at Dollar General. I don't blame you a bit for refusing to sell shelled ones for $4 a pound. Besides which, it's a lot of work to shell a pound of pecans, then pay for supplies to package them in and all that, only to get paid so little for them.
A lot of what they go for around here, in small local stores, especially, depends on what kind of yield people's trees had in the current year. If everyone who grows them has them coming out their ears, then they're cheap. Otherwise, they're not. Usually it's a year high, then a year low.
Over the past 5 or 6 years, we really haven't seen a bumper crop. The last time we really saw a huge harvest was about 15 years ago, and the buyers were only paying 25 cents a pound. We were bringing in 600 to 800 pounds every few weeks. This year, I brought in 400 pounds total with only a month until they stop buying. Last year, there was no crop. None of the trees in the region produced any pecans at all. I have never seen that happen before. It used to be that you could predict the next season by how the current season did. Now, all bets are off.
Can understand that & see it that way as well. Wife is supposed to be getting yet another raise. She'll soon be clearing 35K a year, maybe 40K. She started at around 25K with the guy apologizing for such a low wage. We been scraping by on 10K a year between us both for quite a few years up until then. She told him "think I'll manage."
Ah but if only t'were so. *sighs* We're surviving but that's about it. Stay here in this not insulated house without heating much longer, not sure. Fraking stupid in laws! Her BIL insulated the interior walls but did nothing exterior. Of course, with the cinder block cracked to hell, really no use either. Anyhoo, we'll "get by". Seems we always do.
Aye. I used to enjoy pistachios before I had all my upper teeth pulled. All it would have taken was to bite down on one pistachio, and shatter a tooth like putting a ceramic coffee cup in a vise. Oddly enough, my lower teeth are all good.
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A bit of sad news. Our bearded dragon passed away. Not sure why. Might have been her favorite snack last Monday, when she swallowed a hornworm whole, and hasn't eaten since.
Shit. Sorry
*wanders round doling out hugs to anyone needing/wanting wanders on until everyone gets at least one hug, then sits to reflect*
Once again, Texas proves it cannot handle winter. We got a bit of freezing rain, and before it started snowing, we lost power for about 16 hours. Thankfully, we have a gas deerbourne heater in the living room, because that's where we slept in our recliners.
I don't care what some rodent in some other state saw. My hubby (named Phil) did not see his shadow on Feb. 2nd, due to overcast skies while freezing rain was coming down.
He is not a meteorologist, but neither is the oversized rat so many depend on. We predict that y'all will be watching the weather day to day and week to week, forgetting about rat superstitions.
He is not a meteorologist, but neither is the oversized rat so many depend on. We predict that y'all will be watching the weather day to day and week to week, forgetting about rat superstitions.
Drown it out.
It's a shame Sepultura like so many groups fell apart once they started becoming golden.
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And the thing is, there will be a ton of people that will actually go see it live.
They must be really bored to go stand in the cold to see that shit.
we have nothing
just farmer's almanac meteroroligists who typically say that it will either be warm, or cold, or somewhere between. And it might be wet, if it is not dry and drought conditions. But they are usually sure it will mean dire fire conditions
Can imagine firefighting in the bush must be damn tough. It is rough up this way when it gets into the forests, especially along or up mountains. My "class" in the Navy was fireman. Yes we got what is civilian class three fireman training. Would not care to attempt that any more. Likely die just suiting up.
yep
this recent article was interesting
From the air they resemble giant Japanese calligraphy, but these outback shapes are evidence of the masters of fire
Images intended to help open up the outback to mining following World War II instead deliver a lesson from the last generation of Indigenous people to live in the Great Sandy Desert on how to protect life and the land.
www.abc.net.au
We decided the weather was good enough today to adopt a new baby into the family. Yes, there is a plastic one in there too.
Saturday I sent some trademark grumpy old man letters to politicians about state of the health care system
Today, Monday, received an email from office of the Chief psychiatrist requesting my phone number to investigate the issue
Also missed calls then text from hospital triage
I rang triage and the lady said that they had opened an internal investigation into my case
We had a chat. Including about quality whiskey. And she said that while I had been referred to the community team. She thought I need crisis assessment team to sort meds enough to let community team be helpful and me open to care
CAT rang 9pm and said that they want me at Casey hospital 3.30pm tomorrow. Offered me a cab voucher. I said that I can public transport OK
The hospital is 90 minutes away
Today, Monday, received an email from office of the Chief psychiatrist requesting my phone number to investigate the issue
Also missed calls then text from hospital triage
I rang triage and the lady said that they had opened an internal investigation into my case
We had a chat. Including about quality whiskey. And she said that while I had been referred to the community team. She thought I need crisis assessment team to sort meds enough to let community team be helpful and me open to care
CAT rang 9pm and said that they want me at Casey hospital 3.30pm tomorrow. Offered me a cab voucher. I said that I can public transport OK
The hospital is 90 minutes away
Hopefully, you'll get better treatment. Go into town today for a 1 PM Monday here talk session. The lady I see is just a social worker with some psychology background. We usually end up have nattering. She and I both aware I don't quite fit the standard treatment model.
Hell, I could likely write a psychology text book. *smh* Know a lot of my issue stems from self confidence, self esteem. Also know I constantly feel guarded. Need to keep the shadow in.
Sat Saturday here looking at writing related sites a bit. Kept thinking "would love to sit writing up a story". It lacks practicality for me though when I get so far and ask myself "so what", about the story.
There's the writer and reader contract, the reader asks the writer "can you keep me entertained, give me a story or characters to care about enough to read?" If a writer cannot even interest themselves, how can they interest readers? And so, I scrap it and leave off.
Practical to me then becomes, going and learning to be a plumber. They earn damn good money fixing plumbing issues. Not that money is all it is about. Got 15 years though to create a nest egg for me and wife, have to focus for that.
Can hear my step father now, "yeah, the only way you can amount to shit is playing with it."
Yeah.
Can say something brief without too much detail. He never knew about Honduras. I rather forget it.
Yeah, so when I say I needed to leave when twenty for fear of killing him, bang on. He pushed way too far.
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Have you named the new youngun yet? I've never been that into reptiles, but dang if he ain't cute!
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I'm not sure I can tell if you're pleased with that or not, but in my mind it's nothing short of miraculous. Here, we'd still be beating heads against the wall, trying to find someone who gives a shit, and even if you find that someone, if you aren't made out of money, then you're probably out of luck.
I hope you can soon get the help you need. Wish you nothing but the very best. Please give us an update when you can.
We don't know if it's male or female, and won't be able to tell for at least a few more months. In the meantime, we just call it "Tiny".Have you named the new youngun yet? I've never been that into reptiles, but dang if he ain't cute!