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Been with Dad nearly every day.
Packing my overnight bag will be packing up my car tomorrow for overnight kid sitting on Thursday night.
In between trips have been sewing up quilts to relax some what.
Ate some soup this evening.
Will be taking apart a quilt tomorrow.
I will be giving this quilt as a Christmas gift this year.
I don't like how this quilt top looks, so will take it apart and redo.
Have completed 3 quilts so far.
Got several more to finish this year.
Still knitting blankets for Charity too.
Knitting washcloth for gifts for Christmas too.
Pulled up some of the garden, cleared out the tomato plants.
Repotted peppers into flower pots.
Also repot cabbage, carrots, garlic.
Moved all the plants and flowers inside.
 
Ahhh! I had forgotten how good Solomon's Seal works!

Yesterday I busted concrete out of a hole, today was a chainsaw and fence clearing. It's been a couple years since I've done this kind of physical labor and needed Sseal.

Every tendon, ligament and muscle group were screaming at me this evening. Until I remembered Sseal, took a dose. It's wonderful for an over worked body. It actually heals tendons, ligaments, torn muscles and broken bones. It relieves pain by calming irritated tissues. It even helps calcify and strengthen bones, an amazing plant.

I'm feeling much better now. I'll take another dose at bedtime.

Tomorrow will be busy, a trip to town is needed and more fencing when I get home. Hopefully I'll get most of it done.
 
Hey @zannej are they dealing with rats or mice at your friends house?

If it is just mice you could try making a couple of beer traps (rats are too big), just take a big plastic cup, dig a hole (in a place that is protected from the rain) deep enough to put the cup in up to the rim, then take vegetable oil and wipe the entire insides of the cup up to the edge of the rim, put the cup in the hole, smooth the dirt up to the edges of the cup, pour in about 3/4" of beer: It will attract snails, slugs, and field mice..... they get in and can't get out and drown or drink themselves to death (not sure which with the mice)....
 
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Isn't fun having to add studs in corners and elsewhere so you can hang and secure the drywall? I didn't now of this need when I was framing my house and I was pissed when I started hanging the drywall. If I was aware of this when I was framing up the wall I would have nailed in the studs at the beginning when it woud have been easy instead of having to deal with it later on having to work around electrical and other stuff.
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Dad always said you'll how to do it when you're finished. Next time, bet you're remember the corner studs!
 
Patchouli said:
@Peanut I didn’t know that about SSeal. My foot smarts pretty good by the time I get home. Can’t hardly wait to get my hands and feet on the herb mix I bought. Hopefully it’ll be here this weekend. Something feels so messed up in my foot in different places.
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You are supposed to be all healed up and dancin' :dancing: Hope it gets to feeling better soon.
 
The Lazy L said:
Dad always said you'll how to do it when you're finished. Next time, bet you're remember the corner studs!
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Exactly. And a few other things I will remember as well. But, for the first house I ever built I guess I did OK. Or, I am doing OK since it isn't done yet.
 
Walked first, then walked dogs.
Got some canned and boxed food together to donate for Church project. Delivered that.
Washed rugs and dog blankets.
Swept house.
DH went to set an appt. for chest x-ray for VA. When he gets home we will fire up the tiller.
Prayer meeting tonight.
 
The Edmund Fitzgerald was lost with her entire crew of 29 men on Lake Superior November 10, 1975, 17 miles north-northwest of Whitefish Point, Michigan.

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https://www.shipwreckmuseum.com/edmund-fitzgerald/
 
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Tried to reply to something but didn't work

Went to the dentist, so happy that is over! 2 fillings, but done now until the next problem comes up

I don't think I will do anything else today, dentist appointments cause me stress. I had a few shots of alcohol after I got home
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My mom has to take a "happy pill" before she goes to the dentist and obviously has to have someone else drive. She's gotten better since going to the current dentist (my previous dentist) for the past 10 years.
@backlash Would you mind zipping over to our place and doing the same (except RV, it's good.) 😂

I have to say something nice: I have a Bose soundlink speaker that I despise (that's not the nice part.) The thing is possessed and starts talking in the middle of the night. I keep it in the stairwell, wrapped in a towel, behind closed door. Can't stand having the thing in the house. I tried contacting dell which is where I purchased it. They said no return so I called Bose but didn't have a serial number. Today, I remembered to bring the thing with me (still have box, packaging, manuals etc.) and called again. They are taking it back and sending me one that plugs into the computer and has an on/off knob - old school. I'm pretty thankful. I like my music and bose sound, but "smart" or bluetooth contraptions with a mind of their own are not welcome in our home.
(The "smart" washer & dryer are in the basement and we brought our old Kenmores off the mountain. Our stove isn't "smart" but is digitalized and is a PIA so not far behind the "smart" appliances.) At least when we build, I know what not to get.
 
LadyLocust said:
My mom has to take a "happy pill" before she goes to the dentist and obviously has to have someone else drive. She's gotten better since going to the current dentist (my previous dentist) for the past 10 years.
@backlash Would you mind zipping over to our place and doing the same (except RV, it's good.) 😂

I have to say something nice: I have a Bose soundlink speaker that I despise (that's not the nice part.) The thing is possessed and starts talking in the middle of the night. I keep it in the stairwell, wrapped in a towel, behind closed door. Can't stand having the thing in the house. I tried contacting dell which is where I purchased it. They said no return so I called Bose but didn't have a serial number. Today, I remembered to bring the thing with me (still have box, packaging, manuals etc.) and called again. They are taking it back and sending me one that plugs into the computer and has an on/off knob - old school. I'm pretty thankful. I like my music and bose sound, but "smart" or bluetooth contraptions with a mind of their own are not welcome in our home.
(The "smart" washer & dryer are in the basement and we brought our old Kenmores off the mountain. Our stove isn't "smart" but is digitalized and is a PIA so not far behind the "smart" appliances.) At least when we build, I know what not to get.
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I used to take a happy pill the night before and then again prior to the appointment. Halcyon maybe? Instead of freaking out I would get in the chair I would be happy and giggling.

I highly recommend it for anyone that has issues with the dentist.

Ben
 
I spent the day fitting corner studs in the 100+ year old house and installed the last of the insulation I have on hand. I am down to the last of the full size 2X4s (actually 2X4) but it may be just enough.

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In preparation for the window change in the kitchen I turned my attention to completing the demolition of the interior wall and trim around the old windows.

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Hopefully finish that tomorrow. That will simplify what my brother has to when he makes it over to to do the window change.

That's it for me.

Ben
 

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I can hope but I'm not counting on it. Wells in the area are between 200-500 ft deep.
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That's probably because you'll be tapping into the Ogallala Aquifer, which Texas, Oklahoma, and New Mexico have been pumping the heck out of for all these many years, when we lived in the panhandle of Texas, some of the wells for center feed irrigation were down over 600 feet.
 
This morning I went to town and picked up 6 wooden posts at the ag center. I tried to get a haircut but one place was closed and the other was closing for a family emergency, darn. I like small towns but having only two barbers means I might not get a haircut when I want one.

Back home I continued working on the gate post section of fence. I got it cleared, pulled up all the small stumps but one. Didn’t have the energy for digging post holes so I put new cutting edges on the post hole diggers with an angle grinder. Everything is ready when I get back to it, supposed to rain tomorrow.

Afterwards I went to my cousin’s farm and picked up hay, he likes those big green tractors. It was some really good Bahia, fertilized and wrapped. I saw him cut and bale it just 2 weeks ago. It smelled wonderful, great hay. The scent is usually all I need to judge the quality of hay.

5ft x 6ft rolls weigh about 1400lbs and I got 4. That’s about 5500lbs of hay. I need about 4000/4500lbs for the winter so I’m set, even if winter runs long. I’ll supplement with protein tubs so no critters here will be hungry.

I’m exhausted, I guess I’ll be in my chair the rest of the evening.

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Peanut said:
Ahhh! I had forgotten how good Solomon's Seal works!

Yesterday I busted concrete out of a hole, today was a chainsaw and fence clearing. It's been a couple years since I've done this kind of physical labor and needed Sseal.

Every tendon, ligament and muscle group were screaming at me this evening. Until I remembered Sseal, took a dose. It's wonderful for an over worked body. It actually heals tendons, ligaments, torn muscles and broken bones. It relieves pain by calming irritated tissues. It even helps calcify and strengthen bones, an amazing plant.

I'm feeling much better now. I'll take another dose at bedtime.

Tomorrow will be busy, a trip to town is needed and more fencing when I get home. Hopefully I'll get most of it done.
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Tinqure? I need to find some of that
 
Yes, tincture. When I was still raising cattle I used it often. CFS forces me to be sedentary. This was interrupted several times a year by intense periods of physical work. Cutting/baling hay, loading or hauling cattle. I was very prone to pulled muscles, sprained joints etc.

Solomon's Seal is great those type injuries. It relieves the pain and speeds healing. First time I used it was root right out of the ground. A few days prior I picked up a new born calf, about 80lbs. It was the worst back injury of my life. I went to the ground instantly, had to walk on my hands and knees back to the house.

I was in serious pain for over a week. DP and I were in a national forest scouting medicinal plants one morning. I already knew I wasn't going to make it past lunch, was hurting pretty bad. DarrylP spotted some solomon's seal growing wild. I dug up some root... blew off the dirt and took a big bite, in a half hour I was pain free.

There is a little trick to harvesting Sseal root and not killing the plant. Each year the plant adds another half inch segment to the root. It grows parallel the ground about 1/2 inch down. The plant stem is connected to that newest segment. You have to dig very carefully around the plant and find the root.

As long as you leave the newest/youngest root segment and the stalk of the plant it will but back up the next year. If you harvest the whole root you kill the plant. So, I harvest the old segments.
 
Cut or break, they snap like string beans at the nodules. BUT! Sometimes there are dozens of tiny stringer roots, sometimes not. But if there are lots of little roots more care has to be taken when digging.

Just gog ly SS roots and look at photos and you can see the different ways they look.
 
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Today (and yesterday) was "networking stuff upgrade" at my house. Swapped out a router, updated firmware on multiple routers, set up tagged VLAN trunks to connect access points and routers, rearranged which client devices connect where, reconfigured VPNs and firewalls, documenting new deployment in PDF network diagrams (in process). Man, we have a lot of stuff connected to the internet in our house. As part of all this I'm trying to make things easy on my wife if I were to kick the bucket. She doesn't have the networking knowledge/experience to do much with it, but she knows a few networking friends that would be able to manage things if given my documentation. My network diagrams use pictures of our actual devices labeled with what rooms they physically reside in (rather then generic network symbols) so my wife and a networking helper could easily locate them.
 
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