Coffee

[baymule]

Coffee is ready. I put the last 10 chickens on ice yesterday and will process them for the freezer today.

 

[baymule]

Coffee is ready! Moving a mailbox is at the top of my list today. I want to add another culvert to my driveway, but a mailbox is in the way. Can’t touch it, that’s federal. Owner lives in Houston and doesn’t even get mail here. He had to call the post office and give me permission to move it. Fire ants moved in it, and mine, during the non stop rains we had, liked it so much that they brought all their larva with them. I sprayed both boxes yesterday with ant poison.

 

[Gardening with Rabbits]

Coffee is ready. Coyotes were howling REAL close last night. Doge were in a barking frenzy. I got up and went out on the front porch several times last night. I yell Good dogs! And clap my hands until coyotes go silent.

When we lived in Kansas I used to go out at night and shoot a 22 in the air to get coyotes to leave. In the winter I cook food for puppies at night and I guess they could smell it and were coming right in the yard. Dogs barking did nothing and actually they gang up and kill a dog when it is alone.

I saw on the local news here a porch camera video taped a mountain lion walking around in their yard. I think it is about 2 miles from my house.

 

[Gardening with Rabbits]

I am having my coffee and still recovering from company that came. It was fun. She is a lot like her mother and her daughters were nice. We went to the Farmer's Market and it was 90 degrees that day. They stayed until it closed, so I was walking around I think for 3 hours in the sun and heat. Another day we went to a town north of here to go shopping and look around. I am really not interested in things like that but I tagged along and we went to a lot of stores and walked the streets and then coming back the youngest was saying she could not walk any farther and even the 18-year-old was complaining tired, so I felt pretty young lol.

The day after that I was worthless and just barely functioning but yesterday I was fine and did some weeding and I went shopping to a sale at Joann's. Everything looks good in the garden, but the beans have some bare spots that did not come up, so I bought a pack of Rattlesnake pole beans and I am going to go put those in where nothing came up.

DD's birthday is the 31st and she will be THIRTY YEARS OLD. LOL Does not seem possible. We are going to have her birthday on Memorial Day when everybody is off work and have lunch, cake and ice cream. She was born on a Monday Memorial Day May 31, 1993. My brother is working on the swing set he made for my kids years ago and putting in new hardware and seats, so he will be working on that over the weekend.

 

[ducks4you]

Got up to let the doggies out at 4:30. As usual, I leave them outside, then get the coffee ready to start on it's timer at 5:45.
It did.
I forgot to add the grounds.



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[baymule]

I’ve done that! Being really dumb, I’ve forgotten to put the pot under the drip and had a coffee bar!

 

[flowerbug]

Got up to let the doggies out at 4:30. As usual, I leave them outside, then get the coffee ready to start on it's timer at 5:45.
It did.
I forgot to add the grounds.



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that's grounds for punishment...

 

[Rhodie Ranch]

My DD's birthday is also the 31st! She was 10 days late too! She'll be 37. Holey cow...............

 

[digitS']

Whatever can be done wrong with machinery used frequently, I have done it. Making a mess, damage, maybe even injuries – but I'm usually lucky there. It helps to have fast reflexes .

Yesterday, it was slow reflexes and concentration. Over 3 hours spent pulling tiny weeds out of the carrots. It looks like the decision of where to sow these late-emerging carrot and parsnip seeds was really in error re: weed seed population. IF some seed is still waiting to pop up, clearing out the carpet of purslane (especially) may make the hours spent justified. Otherwise, there is little value to the effort. Of course, more purslane seed may germinate. Not only was I having trouble standing up from the effort but I came down with the hiccups after my sandwich break!

Today, I am recovering with sprinkler moving and lawn mowing in the yard – provided that we don't have an afternoon thunderstorm.

Had coffee with my 2nd breakfast but now a cup of catnip tea for a quick break pre-lunch .

Steve

 

[Gardening with Rabbits]

Whatever can be done wrong with machinery used frequently, I have done it. Making a mess, damage, maybe even injuries – but I'm usually lucky there. It helps to have fast reflexes .

Yesterday, it was slow reflexes and concentration. Over 3 hours spent pulling tiny weeds out of the carrots. It looks like the decision of where to sow these late-emerging carrot and parsnip seeds was really in error re: weed seed population. IF some seed is still waiting to pop up, clearing out the carpet of purslane (especially) may make the hours spent justified. Otherwise, there is little value to the effort. Of course, more purslane seed may germinate. Not only was I having trouble standing up from the effort but I came down with the hiccups after my sandwich break!

Today, I am recovering with sprinkler moving and lawn mowing in the yard – provided that we don't have an afternoon thunderstorm.

Had coffee with my 2nd breakfast but now a cup of catnip tea for a quick break pre-lunch .

Steve

Three hours is a long time.