ducks4you
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"Puddles" is what we call Eva when she is naughty. We call her "Fluffles" when she is good.
How you keeping yourself busy?
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ducks4you
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Believe it or NOT, refinance loan signings (and buyers and sellers packages) are considered essential work. I have to change/wash clothes after each signing, wash my shoes, not touch anything I can help, we are doing signings in garages, and I take hand sanitizer with me.
Pyg's surgery total costs will be, when it's all said and done, about $3,000.00
Gotta earn it, so I can pay back my Discover Card!
On the other hand, DH and I started to pay with cash beginning of the year, and we have never maxed out a credit card. THIS has been our card since 1987, used to be owned by Sears, btw.
Also, mowing.
Pyg's surgery total costs will be, when it's all said and done, about $3,000.00
Gotta earn it, so I can pay back my Discover Card!
On the other hand, DH and I started to pay with cash beginning of the year, and we have never maxed out a credit card. THIS has been our card since 1987, used to be owned by Sears, btw.
Also, mowing.
flowerbug
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things greening up nicely there!
we are not too far behind, maybe a few weeks. things getting green here.
digitS'
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Doing some up-potting in the greenhouse most days.
Mowed the lawn Tuesday. It was a typical early spring mowing where I'm lost in the shade not knowing where I have mowed and where I haven't. Sunny spots, the grass was somewhat high - raggedy looking so better now. Happy the mower started on the first pull, just like usual. It should have an oil change but I don't have enuf 30 weight. Other hardware visit needs adding up.
One will be a paintbrush. I spent over an hour wrestling a fence post outta the ground. Well, it wasn't the post, that was rotted and broke right off. It was the concrete around the post! The neighbor had a volunteer tree at the corner of her backyard fence. The way she and her son chose to deal with it was to prune branches as they came through her chainlink fence. The trunk continued to grow and branches were left for a year or two. The thing is about 2' tall and a mess and within about 12" from the corner of my picket fence. New neighbor and that tree ain't coming back. I intend to make sure of that. If it was actually allowed to grow, it would push over both our fences. Too casual in dealing with the problem over too many years. I could dig only on one side of that concrete with the mass of tree roots to break through.
Today, I put plywood on the inside of 2 doors that I built through our back fence in another neighbor's yard. Insulating the doors and covering with the foil covered insulation board, didn't work. The mice over the last 2 winters decided those doors would make good homes. Yuck. Caught one. If there is another in the insulation, it's doomed.
More moving plants into fresh soil mix and larger containers. Good enuf busyness for awhile but it will be out in the big veggie garden, soon!
Steve
Mowed the lawn Tuesday. It was a typical early spring mowing where I'm lost in the shade not knowing where I have mowed and where I haven't. Sunny spots, the grass was somewhat high - raggedy looking so better now. Happy the mower started on the first pull, just like usual. It should have an oil change but I don't have enuf 30 weight. Other hardware visit needs adding up.
One will be a paintbrush. I spent over an hour wrestling a fence post outta the ground. Well, it wasn't the post, that was rotted and broke right off. It was the concrete around the post! The neighbor had a volunteer tree at the corner of her backyard fence. The way she and her son chose to deal with it was to prune branches as they came through her chainlink fence. The trunk continued to grow and branches were left for a year or two. The thing is about 2' tall and a mess and within about 12" from the corner of my picket fence. New neighbor and that tree ain't coming back. I intend to make sure of that. If it was actually allowed to grow, it would push over both our fences. Too casual in dealing with the problem over too many years. I could dig only on one side of that concrete with the mass of tree roots to break through.
Today, I put plywood on the inside of 2 doors that I built through our back fence in another neighbor's yard. Insulating the doors and covering with the foil covered insulation board, didn't work. The mice over the last 2 winters decided those doors would make good homes. Yuck. Caught one. If there is another in the insulation, it's doomed.
More moving plants into fresh soil mix and larger containers. Good enuf busyness for awhile but it will be out in the big veggie garden, soon!
Steve
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baymule
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Just be glad that you can work. Millions of people are out of work, it's crazy. A restaurant in town is selling take out for cost to keep his employees working.
Beekissed
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Still building fence and trying desperately to get to work on the garden so I can build a raised bed or two and plant some spuds, get some more rhubarb and asparagus in the ground and also finish the spring/pond there. Started it and never got back to it and it's overflowing its banks.
Lots of rain, wind and now cooler weather here....some days we'll be almost up to 80*, some days 30-40*...typical spring weather here.
Lots of rain, wind and now cooler weather here....some days we'll be almost up to 80*, some days 30-40*...typical spring weather here.
seedcorn
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Weather sounds like here.
Since I’m home bound and weather is what it is, spending way more time on this web site.....
digitS'
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Out/about today, on what turns out to be a once a week excursion. It seemed like there was about 20% of the cars that I might have expected about 9am, about that percent of customers in the hardware and grocery stores.
It's something of a novel experience to me, as well. I take some pride in staying home on a winter day. Two days of going nowhere is also a pleasure. Seven days? Little has changed with the recent weather so spring is somewhat on hold. I parallel parked the pickup, today. While doing that, I'm wondering when was the last time ... 6 weeks ago? I don't drive the pickup that often on snow and ice. Was it 3 months ago? 6?
Back home, I'm thinking that it was quite a day. Then realized that it was still morning ...
I will have to be off to the distant garden, soon. That will be a change of pace even if most of my activities now are outdoors. I saw some Oregon grape in bloom in the sunniest, low-elevation locations, today. That's my phenological marker to plant peas and the other early crops.
Steve
It's something of a novel experience to me, as well. I take some pride in staying home on a winter day. Two days of going nowhere is also a pleasure. Seven days? Little has changed with the recent weather so spring is somewhat on hold. I parallel parked the pickup, today. While doing that, I'm wondering when was the last time ... 6 weeks ago? I don't drive the pickup that often on snow and ice. Was it 3 months ago? 6?
Back home, I'm thinking that it was quite a day. Then realized that it was still morning ...
I will have to be off to the distant garden, soon. That will be a change of pace even if most of my activities now are outdoors. I saw some Oregon grape in bloom in the sunniest, low-elevation locations, today. That's my phenological marker to plant peas and the other early crops.
Steve
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As a call center agent, I normally work 9 hours starting at 12:00mn, If that's not enough to keep myself busy? I don't know what else.
so lucky
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I have been sewing, worked a big jig saw puzzle, watched a few things on TV that I normally haven't watched before, like the FBI and NCIS shows. The garden is too wet to do much. Weather has been up and down, wet and windy. My plants I started indoors are asking to be put outside, but they will have to wait a while longer.
I have had the hummer feeder up for about 3 weeks, and April 15 is always the target date for me. Haven't seen a single hummer yet this spring, so that is kind of a bummer. A hummer bummer. Still waiting. I even put a piece of red fabric out on the balcony, to help attract them.
We saw an elk wander through the neighbor's yard a few days ago. It is part of a herd that was released to their own devices around 10 years ago. We had seen footprints before, but this was the first sighting for us.
I have had the hummer feeder up for about 3 weeks, and April 15 is always the target date for me. Haven't seen a single hummer yet this spring, so that is kind of a bummer. A hummer bummer. Still waiting. I even put a piece of red fabric out on the balcony, to help attract them.
We saw an elk wander through the neighbor's yard a few days ago. It is part of a herd that was released to their own devices around 10 years ago. We had seen footprints before, but this was the first sighting for us.
