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Accomplished: Nothing

But I finally watched Frozen II today. Lol.

It's like end-of-winter blues here or something. I just have no motivation.

Dad got the car back from the shop and everything was covered under warranty so he didn't have to pay anything. Since the car didn't cost anything he gave me money to buy a few things.
 
Spent today working on our tilt table (made for laying cattle on their sides for foot or vet work). We bought it last year in rough shape so we are replacing all the wood and cleaning up the rust. I gave up on removing the old rusted bolts and cut the wood out and then cut the bolts out of the frame. I want to have it ready for when the vet comes out next week.
 
Spent last 2 days trying to sort out a newly purchased camera system, switch, & server. Servers aren't my thing. Just going in circles. Hope one of the other supervisors will help out. Gonna have to get facility folks involved too. I've got too much going on right now to take on a project I have no clue about.
 
Firewood, then went and helped the bil pull his truck into his dads yard, he figures the fuel gelled or it got a bit of ice in the line. fed the shop cats,
 
Oldest sister called. Small puddle of water in her basement. I drove over for a look see. A little seapage from a old basement window.

Half hour phone call reference some local board business.

What I thought was going to be a slow afternoon wasn’t.
 
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Terri9630 said:
If the big one got stuck and caused the second to die, I wouldn't count that against her. Sometimes it happens.
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That is what I figured. I think she is a good mom to the 4 kits and they are happy wiggly little bunnies. She is okay with me handling them and checking them but she has to see what I am doing. She is very proud of herself with her babies.
 
Had one of those "listen only" meetings so took the laptop out to the greenhouse and listened while building a frame to hold the lights over the bed where I'm going to start seeds. Shoveled the four inches of wet snow off the pavement outside so I could roll in another bed and get it thawed. Need to pick up more chain and some screws when I'm in town tomorrow so I can build the frame on the second bed. Hopefully I can start seeds this weekend.
 
Finishing up tax paperwork today to take in tomorrow. I delayed doing it which I normally don’t do. Got some questions written down for her too. Some regarding buying a place and some about finally ending our business.
Did some more research on Morgage companies to talk to today also. Hopefully find someone that’s helpful this time and will help walk us through the process. Answer the questions we have hopefully. Maybe ease the frustration a bit. Needed a break from the games that apparently are played. With these new “Covid” laws they are trying to pass we may have no choice but to get out.
 
Was able to confirm we can move mom to her new place on the 19th! Hooray! Nephew and his wife are coming from OK to help us move all her stuff. Am excited. Mom's not, but change is hard. I keep reminding her that she won the lottery of sorts, and that they picked her out of everyone to get that apartment. And then she says, "That's right, I'll take it!"
 
phideaux said:
Taking the granddaughter to pick up the little Ford Focus (36 mpg car) .

Will have lunch in the big town.

May look at a Prius (50 mpg car)

Cold again today , snow by weekend, temps down to the teens.

Nice to be retired to help the kids and grandkids.

Still gotta start to remodel the laundry room.
Soon.

Great day to be alive.

Jim
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Just a thought: might look at a Mitsubishi Mirage. I got 45-52 MPH with mine and just gas & can be resold. If something happens with a Prius, you have to pay someone to take them if you can find such a place/person due to the batteries.
 
The Lazy L said:
When I drove an old mangled Chevy S-10 I appreciated the higher gas prices. Every time I fill the S-10 with gas its valued doubled. :D
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I don't like S-10s because my best friend almost died in one. I had a bad feeling about it but he bought it anyway. Tie rod came loose after he had it worked on (they forgot to put the cotter pin back in). Truck flipped and rolled 7 times. Against my advice, he purchased another one from a relative. Tie rod came loose. He stopped, got out, and walked away leaving it on the side of the road and never went back for it. I think he had his relative come haul it off.
My brother had a Chevy 1500 but the dealer tried to fix it fast and dirty and put the rear of an S-10 on it. U bolts kept breaking and driveshaft kept falling off. He ended up having to junk it and I loaned him $ for a Honda Ridgeline.

Katie Müller said:
@zannej - We didn't know she was pregnant and got her her rabies and distemper vaccine, and we think that's what might've caused the kittens to die while in the womb. It was sad, but she was kitty #9 at the time and we didn't really want to have two more. And seeing that we have 10 cats now, had she given birth we'd have 12 right now.
Dad paid the dog license yesterday and said it was a good thing there's no such thing as cat license or it would be $80!
Probably going to write today. Then window-shop on Wal-mart.com and Amazon. Lol.
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No license requirements for dogs or cats where I live thankfully. If they did they would probably charge out the wazoo and have tax on it too. I recently looked it up and while the rabies vaccine can cause cancer (which is why they moved the injection site to the leg instead of closer to the spine- I found this out the hard way with my beloved 16-yr-old cat Sara) it will not harm fetuses. Not sure on the distemper vaccine.

Woke up to power going out due to a thunderstorm yesterday. Was out a few hours.
Went to Lowes to shop for windows. Nothing in stock. Special order to expensive. Employee advised just buying the window on sale online from the store. Difference of under $100 vs $500. Took Mom to get her booster shot.
Cleaned up puppy crap (puppies refused to go out in the rain and after it let up a bit they went out but came right back in through the back door and got on the kitchen table to eat the cat food).
Unjammed the float lever 3x.
Got my friend a new deadbolt bc his ex stole a key (claimed she left it in his house and that it just disappeared) and has been letting herself in to use his electricity and internet and water when he's not home.
Today I'm waiting for it to warm up so I can go check the float lever again and let puppies out. Still nasty weather though so I'm expecting they will come inside and get on the table again. They like to climb and jump apparently. I really need to find them a home.
Planning to work on figuring out how to take the pipe mount adapter off of an air pressure D-switch to move on to a float switch. Just had an idea that I hope will work.
 
The last big fat sheep finally had her lambs , 3 big boys all doing ok so far. Goats are due starting next weekend and we have a lot more of those than sheep. And running out of hay but grass is growing so it's not too critical we get more right now.

Making lunch at the moment, Italian chicken, potatoes and broccoli

Also looking into buying a new washing machine. We must have one without a lock, so it gets complicated and expensive, but I think I found one a few hours from here.
We want to get more solar panels also , so we can run everything on solar. Right now we have enough solar for minimum refrigeration but would not be able to run all our freezers or the washing machine on it.

We are trying to figure out what we should get that might not be available anymore, or hugely expensive if we wait too long. I hate not knowing what is going to happen. I am assuming it will be bad in many ways, but not exactly sure what to prep for at this point.
 
Grimm said:
Got a surprise this morning when I went to feed the rabbits. Our Rex doe, Bon-Bon, had a fifth kit 16+ hours after the others were born. It was stillborn and she made sure not to birth it in the nest but in her litter box. I cleaned it out and gave her some raspberry leaf. I thought she killed one of her live kits but they were all fat and wiggly in their nest when I counted. The stillborn kit was much larger than the others so I think he got stuck and it took her some time to push it out. She didn't eat much yesterday because she was still in labor and I thought she was depressed so I gave her rosemary. She gobbled it up! No baby eating which I am happy about.

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A second stillborn kit. This one I got to it before she started eating it. She was eating the placenta and licking the kit. I might not breed her again if this continues.
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How many is normal for a rabbit? If that happened to our sheep or goats they would probably die , never heard of one having it that much later. Do rabbits have an afterbirth you can check for to see if they are all out?

We found a baby rabbit outside once and for some strange reason ( there are a gazzilion out here and they get into the garden sometimes) tried to feed it and keep it alive. I gave it goat milk but it didn't make it
 
sonya123 said:
How many is normal for a rabbit? If that happened to our sheep or goats they would probably die , never heard of one having it that much later. Do rabbits have an afterbirth you can check for to see if they are all out?

We found a baby rabbit outside once and for some strange reason ( there are a gazzilion out here and they get into the garden sometimes) tried to feed it and keep it alive. I gave it goat milk but it didn't make it
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They can have 4-12. Each baby has their own placenta so it is hard to tell how many they are having unless you take them to a vet for an ultrasound.

I think from now on I will give them some lavender after they give birth to help and watch my Rex doe for similar behaviors with her next litter.

Rabbits need a very fatty rich milk and only nurse once or twice a day. If a baby is out by its self grazing it might not need milk anymore. They can self wean as early as 4 weeks. They start eating solids as early as 2 weeks if they are wild rabbits (not domestic breed ferals but true wild hares or cottontails). A good emergency milk replacer for rabbits is KMR until you can get rabbit formula (Wombaroo).

Take a look at some of the time lapse videos of baby rabbits on youtube. They grow so fast!
 
Got the granddaughter into her new to her car.
She's over excited.
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40 mpg supposedly on hwy.

Helping clean house today.
Ready for some lunch

Wish it would warm up outside . Got stuff to do, but need to work on the utility room , or I'm never gonna get it done.

Grass is really green. Many trees are budding.
Suppose to snow and get temps in low teens Friday.

Jim
 
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phideaux said:
Got the granddaughter into her new to her car.
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Yea! Good car - I like the red! That first car as a teenager ... doesn't matter what it is ... it's a memory for life!

Both my kids are down a car now. Daughter's husband totaled one of theirs right before they came here to visit from Hawaii. Now they just went back, and are looking for a replacement car. Then this morning - my son's car was stolen. When it rains, it pours!
 
phideaux said:
Got the granddaughter into her new to her car.
She's over excited.
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40 mpg supposedly on hwy.

Helping clean house today.
Ready for some lunch

Wish it would warm up outside . Got stuff to do, but need to work on the utility room , or I'm never gonna get it done.

Grass is really green. Many trees are budding.
Suppose to snow and get temps in low teens Friday.

Jim
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Same here, and you still say you DON'T live in Texas🤔🤔🤔! Awesome car😉😃!
 
Chicken day at little granddaughter's school today. It's a small school, only about 45-50 students from K-8. The principal dressed up in a chicken suit and they did the chicken dance. Each class was given a stock tank of 20 or so meat chickens (about 3 weeks old) that they will care for until butchering time. It'll help them fill their school freezers for school lunches.
 
@phideaux gotta love new car day for the younguns. I drove a hand me down, 1978 4 door, brown Chevy Malibu in high school. After graduation I worked all summer as a roofer to earn the $ for a 5 year old, 1986 Chevy Cavalier. It was cheap and slow and rattled like a baby's toy, but it got over 30 mpg and I drove it for six years and 80k miles. I got good memories of that piece of crap. Hope that girl has the same good memories of her first car!
 
I don't know anyone with a bomb shelter, Magus.
Finally got the groceries dated, repackaged and put away. They had a few bags (3) of the Tyson chicken quarters for $5 a bag for 10 lbs, not the best cuts and the back bone left on for sure, but I grabbed them. Cut the leg from the thigh and all the extra hanging skin, cleaned it all up and frozen 4 gallon bags and we are having a big pan of them baked tonight. Expecting snow in the middle of the night, so maybe school tomorrow, maybe no school, we'll see.
 
Pearl said:
Giant house to clean today!!
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I hope you don't have to deal with what a friend of ours does, she cooks and does some house cleaning for a woman that is a nudest, this woman has a bowling alley in her home and a tennis court outside, guests bowl and play tennis in the nude and it drives our friend crazy, she's trying to get this woman other help as she is 75 and it's just too much for her to handle. We've never met this woman, which is probably a good thing, I've asked our friend how old this woman is and she said that the woman would not tell her her age. Our friend said that this woman has a lot of money, once owned a wine company and has a wine cellar in her home, she gives wine to our friend, who then gives us bottles of wine, mainly Pinot Noir, which is very good and one of the bottles had a price label on it for $185. This woman knows about us and that we have a neighbor that takes care of foster children, she gives new clothing to our friend to give to us for our neighbor, so in spite of what our friend has to deal with, that woman is generous.
 
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viking said:
I hope you don't have to deal with what a friend of ours does, she cooks and does some house cleaning for a woman that is a nudest, this woman has a bowling alley in her home and a tennis court outside, guests bowl and play tennis in the nude and it drives our friend crazy, she's trying to get this woman other help as she is 75 and it's just too much for her to handle. We've never met this woman, which is probably a good thing, I've asked our friend how old this woman is and she said that the woman would not tell her her age. Our friend said that this woman has a lot of money, once owned a wine company and has a wine cellar in her home, she gives wine to our friend, who then gives us bottles of wine, mainly Pinot Noir, which is very good and one of the bottles had a price label on it for $185. This woman knows about us and that we have a neighbor that takes care of foster children, she gives new clothing to our friend to give to use for our neighbor, so in spite of what our friend has to deal with, that woman is generous.
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If she's pretty there's probably a lot of guys who would clean her house for free!
 
Spikedriver said:
If she's pretty there's probably a lot of guys who would clean her house for free!
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Our friend has told us that this woman throws parties and invites her exes and their wives and yes I've told our friend that it's probably a good thing I've never met this woman, I already have enough issues in life without adding that to the problems.
 
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