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What are U doing today? (Ongoing thread)
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Dec 14, 2018 02:09PM
Oh my what an ordeal. Glad you weren't hurt.
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Poviticia is Slovakian bread. Google it and you'll be amazed.
Things went better as the day wore on. We had the company Xmas party & gave out presents. I gave away a lot of bowls since they cleared a hedge row bordering our parking lot a few months ago. I got a lot of wood to turn, so the owners each got big walnut bowls & various friends got more. I didn't have enough made for everyone, so I picked names out of a hat & those people got their pick of the ones remaining. Seemed to be a big hit.
Jim wrote: "I think I caused a poor policeman to wet himself this morning. Problems with our alarm system & a really crappy alarm rep. He walked in while I was hidden in the alcove behind him fiddling with the..."funny - odd behavior for a policeman - but he probably did have a mishap and wanted to leave asap
Christmas Eve - going to a former neighbors' home. Then taking a ride through town to check out all the lights and decorations of homes and streets.Tomorrow, Christmas Day is my husband's birthday. No worries - he doesn't miss out - we've been celebrating his birthday since Thanksgiving! He's a bit spoiled - and deserves it too!
Happy Holidays everyone.
I have a great granddaughter, Lucy who will be four years old on the day after Christmas. Tell your husband Happy Birthday.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOUR HUSBAND, LINDA!
Merry Xmas. We're having ours with the kids tonight. They're going to his mother's tomorrow.
Merry Xmas! The dogs gave me my present by letting me sleep in until after 5am before they told me it was time to get up & feed them. We had our Xmas dinner last night with Erin & Josh. Corn beef & cabbage! Then we opened presents & talked with one of the other kids. I got the complete series of "Science Fiction Theater".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Science...
MERRY CHRISTMAS TO YOU TOO. ENJOY YOUR GIFTS.TODAY IS FAMILY DAY.
Mass at eight o'clock AM; then breakfast with daughter, son in law, grandson, his wife, granddaughter and her man friend, four great grandchildren and Oila what a commotion. But, fun anyway and then my husband cleaned my very bad looking stove top as a Christmas present. Otherwise I got three lovely plant arrangements from various "kids." Now time to watch a Christmas movie. Nice weather as I just finished a walk. Have a great rest of the day my goodreads friends.
Glad you're having a merry Christmas, Nina. We are too.
We got some really crappy hay last summer & the goats haven't been eating it well. Normally, we just toss a flake into their house (a 4'x4'x4' cube with a 20" door cut in the front) & they eat most of it while the rest turns into bedding. They have too much bedding now, so Marg asked me to make a hay feeder to hang on their gate. She looked around for one, but couldn't find one she liked, so just hung a hay net.I made one up out of scraps of rabbit wire. It's about 20" square, 4" deep at the base, & 10" deep at the top, so it fits a flake of hay nicely. I covered the back wire with some hardware cloth. I hung it by just weaving 2 pieces of brace wire down the back to cup the bottom & come up a foot or so. I bent them over the top of the gate & it's been holding up well.
You and Marge are both quite creative.
I guess everyone has heard the news that Alex Trebek, the host of Jeopardy, has stage 4 pancreatic cancer. This is terrible news. Jeopardy & Trebek have been a constant in our lives almost our entire marriage; about the time our youngest boy was born & he's in his mid 30s now.Trebek says he's going to fight it. He says he can't die because he had 3 years left on his contract. I don't think there's much hope from the little I know, though. Terrible. He's an icon.
https://www.npr.org/2019/03/07/700991...
Heard the same this morning - keeping his sense of humor for sure! Let's hope he can beat the terrible odds
Jim wrote: "I guess everyone has heard the news that Alex Trebek, the host of Jeopardy, has stage 4 pancreatic cancer. This is terrible news. Jeopardy & Trebek have been a constant in our lives almost our enti..."Terrible news! Alex Trebek was terrific and so likable!
Absolutely, Alex Trebek was terrific and likeable.
A big loss for everyone!
It's getting on toward spring, so we've used up most of the hay in the barn. We store it on big (6'x10') pallets that have a single sheet of plastic running under them all. I pick the pallets up each year & rake all the loose hay out, but I found a surprise this year.In between 2 pallets I found a long pile of the gravel that's under the plastic. Looked like a dog or groundhog had dug it up. About a foot from the end of the pile there was a hole in the ground, but the plastic was unbroken for at least 3' all around it. The plastic wasn't bubbled up or anything. It's like the gravel was somehow dug up through the unbroken plastic. When I cleaned off the chaff, I picked up the plastic & poured the gravel back into the hole. It filled it perfectly.
I'm totally confused by how this was possible. I'm thinking aliens.
A truck upstream from work leaked a lot of detergent & then we had heavy rains. It made huge mounds of bubbles next to our parking lot & the wind swept them all over.
What a picture! How crazy! Incredible!
The wind was pretty horrific here yesterday. It was 50mph with gusts up to half again as fast. I had to dodge a small dead tree that was hanging out in the road from my hedgerow. It was whipping back & forth held by grapevines. My son-in-law got to it before I got back out there. I wound up spending over an hour screwing down the big barn's roof. 2 pieces were folded back & a bunch was lifting up. I must have used a pound of screws up replacing nails. Up & down the tall ladder dozens of times in high winds. My legs aren't happy today, but at least the horses & goats didn't come help me. There's a hole in one piece, but I think we'll have to live with it.
I think that was the only real damage. There's one dead tree that fell out of the woods into the barn field, but nothing down on the fence through the woods as of dinner time last night. I'll have to check again tonight after work.
Our Internet service went down, too. It's wireless & they said their antennas had gotten blown askew. No one was planning to climb the tower to fix them yesterday.
How awful, Jim! That wind did a lot of damage! Terrible!Frightening too!
I heard there were tornadoes in KY so glad you at least escaped that although fifty mile an hour winds are no fun either.
I don't think there have been any tornadoes up in our area. They tend to stick to the lower areas like just south of Frankfort, about 20 miles south. We're 450' higher up.I'm not sure if I'll have Internet at home this weekend. The winds damaged the wireless tower. I don't know how extensive it was & we're never a very high priority on the repair list, so it may be Monday before I'll be checking in after I leave work today soon.
OK, Jim. Thanks for the heads-up.
Joy, there are online pharmacy spammers joining groups. I've found them in one of mine & glanced at the members here where I found 7 more. You should delete them which will also block them from rejoining your group. Most of the profiles listed "Canadian trusted online pharmacy' as their website, have just a few books read, & the currently reading book is often pharmacy related. If you click on the 'Members' link on the right side of the page, you'll see a list of all members. There is a 'sort by' drop down on the right. Change it to 'date joined' & you'll find the top 7 are all spammers from Carolyn down to Monika9. You'll see they've all joined in the past few days. Iain is NOT a spammer, so don't delete him or any below him.
OK, JIM. THE DEED IS DONE. THANKS FOR THE HEADS UP!
Glad to help, Joy. Marg bought a new horse trailer yesterday. It wound up being a bumper pull instead of a gooseneck. Pretty nice, although she's in hock for 5 years. Trailers are expensive. This one is a steel frame with an aluminum skin, 2 horse straight load with a tack room. Very nice ramp that has springs to balance its weight.
We had the kids up for a corn beef, cabbage, & red potato dinner with cheesecake for dessert. Marg soundly trounced us all in a game of 500 rummy. Nice birthday dinner for me.
Happy birthday, Jim. Good luck with the new horse trailer.
Well, Happy birthday and were you born on St. Pat's day?
My daughter has living quarters in her horse trailer. In years past she and her husband had such good times camping out on trail rides.
Nina wrote: "My daughter has living quarters in her horse trailer. In years past she and her husband had such good times camping out on trail rides."That sounds like fun, Nina.
I tried out Red today. I'm not sure we'll ever be best buddies, but I think he'll work for my short rides around the farm & occasional outings. He's a chestnut Quarter horse, about 18, 15.1h, so pretty old & taller than I wanted. He carries his head a lot lower than I like, too. Still, he's got a fairly smooth trot that I had no trouble sitting to in the bareback pad. I'll definitely need that since he's got a pronounced back bone. Anyway, I'll let The Boss (Marg) work out the details, but I expect we'll get him on a semi-permanent, free lease. We take care of maintenance & feeding, but give him back when or if we want to.
My daughter heard from her friend in CO about the recent blizzard. She wanted to get to her miniature horse in the barn seventeen feet from her house and couldn't see her way and almost got lost when she finally found her barn and horse. The snow was up to the horses's head and she finally rescued it and it lived. Another friend there her horse was in snow up to it's neck. Terrible; plus all the flooding in NB.
Fun to work out a new horse. Good luck with him.
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