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I did a Home Depot order for in store pickup, because it is a drive and I wanted to be sure they had the items in stock. I got my come pick it up text. I went to the locker and there were was an update extra item @ $25. I briefly thought about sticking it to the big box store, but thought I don't need the money. So I can gave it to customer service who almost didn't want it. A few minutes later I was buying a framing nailer. I have put off buying one my whole life, but at my age I would rather spend my time doing something besides swinging a hammer. So after looking OMG so many variables. I called a neighbor who is a contractor. I asked what's up with the 15 degree, 21 etc. He explained it and asked what I was looking for. I told him a nothing fancy pneumatic. He said he went all cordless and had a lightly used pneumatic for $50. I said heck yeah. So maybe that was as karma. I did the right thing and saved over a hundred bucks and still have my integrity. Maybe this should go in the good news thread.
 
@Hooch I had verifications from several sources that the mushrooms I had were what I thought they were, that is the only way I would have been able to feel safe about it. Books, online resources, and at least one other person verified the type of mushroom. I understand your hesitancy. I hope you can find a reliable and safe mycology club for next time.
 
I had a zero tolerance grouchy day!!🙄 All went fine at the building, then I went to Walmart!😳 Not the one I like, the one close to the Tractor Supply! Very poorly stocked and too many pajama people!! Then Tractor Supply was really poorly stocked!☹️ Last day of a big sale and NOT wanting to give rain checks! Corporate got a not so nice email!! Took a 10min nap earlier and lost the grouchies!! Going to play with the donkey for a bit, hope he's not grouchy, lol!
 
My old fridge crapped out three weeks ago. We went to Costco in the big city, and they had Hisense 20 cft plain Jane refrigerator and/or freezer units for $800.00. We bought one. The next day the old fridge started working again but we kept the new fridge just in case. It was cheaper by half than any other brand of any size. They were going out the door faster than you could shake a stick. (Another strange saying)

Today we were back to Costco. We saw two of them on the road headed back our way, and when we got to Costco, they were marked down to $600.00. We got the second to last one. Too good a price to pass up.
 
I got up and tried to dig a hole to bury Temjin but couldn't finish & needed help.

Took my new pc over to friend's house to have him install new psu (and leave cables for optical drive & ssds). He put power steering fluid in my truck to make it steer better & motor oil on the tailgate hinges to help it open more easily too. Got the bracket to hold the computer mounted to the shelf. Bracket straps were too short so we got bungee tie downs. Will rig something later.

Brought friend out to help dig to bury Temjin.

I'm back home and exhausted and my back & hands hurt. Haven't slept since I found Temjin.

had been ugly crying really hard before but kitties were trying to comfort me.

I'm lying down and Boo has been sitting on my chest purring but Rupert just came over and plopped himself between Boo & my face and Boo is now walking away. Rupert is giving me a mustache with his tail. Earlier when I was crying he started rubbing his nose over my tears and purring for me.

Fippy has finally stopped growling and seems to be in a good sleep- he's next to me and I put a blanket over him to keep him warm since it is nice and cool inside.

Need to take some naprosyn and get some sleep.
 
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@ClemKadiddlehopper the calf is kept with mama. She has milk ready to go in the teet. I can feel it as I'm squeezing. The baby tries to suck but can't get the milk to come out. I've watched him sit there and try over and over on all 4. It is hard even for me to break the seal when I milk her. I gave her the dose of LA 300 today. In a new development, this is what his poo looked like this evening:
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Well now here’s one more thing 🙄 If you thin some yogurt for him to suck, will help his tummy 😕
 
zannej said:
I got up and tried to dig a hole to bury Temjin but couldn't finish & needed help.

Took my new pc over to friend's house to have him install new psu (and leave cables for optical drive & ssds). He put power steering fluid in my truck to make it steer better & motor oil on the tailgate hinges to help it open more easily too. Got the bracket to hold the computer mounted to the shelf. Bracket straps were too short so we got bungee tie downs. Will rig something later.

Brought friend out to help dig to bury Temjin.

I'm back home and exhausted and my back & hands hurt. Haven't slept since I found Temjin.

had been ugly crying really hard before but kitties were trying to comfort me.

I'm lying down and Boo has been sitting on my chest purring but Rupert just came over and plopped himself between Boo & my face and Boo is now walking away. Rupert is giving me a mustache with his tail. Earlier when I was crying he started rubbing his nose over my tears and purring for me.

Fippy has finally stopped growling and seems to be in a good sleep- he's next to me and I put a blanket over him to keep him warm since it is nice and cool inside.

Need to take some naprosyn and get some sleep.
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You all miss Temjin♥️
 
Had company this weekend which was fun.
Yesterday Hubby and I went to an estate sale. The old fella who passed was 102 and had lived in the house since he was 5 (with his parents). We found a couple things but my new toy is:
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I’m so stinkin’ excited to use it. It’s kerosene and I think from the 50’s. Will do some homework on it here shortly. Getting it cleaned up first. Please disregard the mess- garage is a disaster at the moment.
Worked outside all day, had a fire burning, got the garden all pulled up, Hubby tilled in some compost- just a lot of general cleanup.
Shower felt good!
 
LadyLocust said:
Had company this weekend which was fun.
Yesterday Hubby and I went to an estate sale. The old fella who passed was 102 and had lived in the house since he was 5 (with his parents). We found a couple things but my new toy is:
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I’m so stinkin’ excited to use it. It’s kerosene and I think from the 50’s. Will do some homework on it here shortly. Getting it cleaned up first. Please disregard the mess- garage is a disaster at the moment.
Worked outside all day, had a fire burning, got the garden all pulled up, Hubby tilled in some compost- just a lot of general cleanup.
Shower felt good!
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Wow, cool find!! Updates must come!!
 
Oh, that looks like fun, Lady L! Let us know when you get it going. Busy day all day. Animal chores this morning and little granddaughter and I picked 8 more buckets of small tomatoes. Got two buckets washed. Six more maybe tomorrow. Got the downstairs floors all cleaned, and the furniture dusted. Laundry. Little granddaughter made a banana pudding, and I made a summer sausage and cheese platter, and we went to my favorite cousin's place for supper. A few more cousins stopped in, so it was a good evening visiting. It's been a long time since husband has felt well enough to go, but her son in law helped him up the ramp and into the house, and he did just fine.
 
Yesterday, Dawn and I gleaned about a hundred lb. of just-dug russet spuds. Put about 60 lb. in boxes on layers of straw down in the basement and took the rest to two of our neighbors, one with seven kids, the other with four plus a high school-aged foreign exchange student. I'm sure they'll be eaten (the spuds, not the kids) within a week or so. We grow our own Pontiac Reds and Yukon Golds, but why bother raising russet potatoes? We do live in Idaho, amirite?

Kyle is the Bishop of the 5th Ward and also the ophthalmologist who did my cataracts and a double blepharoplasty (shortened up my eyelids so I could see). He's a great guy and lets me use his front-loader/backhoe and then borrows my woodworking tools. The other next-door neighbor, a dentist, (they're both almost a quarter-mile away, given the size of the fields here) was the leader of a gang of thugs who showed up two days after we moved in, and unloaded the moving van for us.

*BEGIN RANT* This is why Dawn and I are anti-bugout, and anti-attempt to have some sort of super-hideaway where no one knows where we are. At our age and level of expertise (old, and still kind of n00bie), We need to be tied to others -- friends and neighbors -- because we feel that our chance of surviving and prospering in any sort of post- SHTF simply won't be possible with just the two of us.

And -- if I may be so bold -- I doubt if more than 10-20 percent of the people in the "prepper community" would be able to actually move to an isolated area and make a go of it (like being able to actually survive a year) without taking advantage of the fact that there are lots of other folks nearby who would be more than glad to help you, as long as they know you're willing to help them back if the need arose.*END RANT*

I know that lots of you are already homesteaders -- many of you are better at it than we are and that's cool. But I'm talking about the keyboard warriors who are basing their plans on magically exiting the city without being caught up in a twenty-mile parking lot with not the faintest idea of where to go and how to get there. Sounds like a bad plan all around!

After Dawn turned 62 and finally reached retirement age, we knew that both of us are older and, although we're still pretty spry and in good health, it's not always going to be easy living isolated from everyone else.

When we finally decided in 2018 to relocate and begin homesteading (at ages 74 and 62) we took our ages (and ignorance of farming) into consideration and built that issue into our plan. We checked out weather/climate conditions, USDA growing seasons a more laissez-faire state and local government, and a mindset which involve neighbors helping neighbors. Back in Mesa AZ, I realized that most of my friends were family-oriented folks, building a year's supply of food for when SHTF, and most were friendly and pretty well armed... and most of those friends were Mormons.

Today, most of our other neighbors are LDS, too; but completely cool with our faith and/or beliefs -- which are definitely not Mormon -- and we're completely cool with theirs.

I believe my esteemed colleague, Ms. Amish Heart, understands quite well that a religious outlook or structure can certainly pay dividends, and I'm hoping that this will only get better if-and-when the infrastructure is degraded, whether by a Government failure, an EMP, or any other mishaps in the future.
 
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That is a cool find. And being kerosene is good - it's expensive but boy it's a lot easier to store than gasoline.
So sorry about the kitty, zannej.
Amish that's great that Husband was able to get out for a bit!
I've been exhausted and sick and have done stupid forgetful things and talking too much in a work meeting things and life has just generally been miserable. Lost most of the week to being ill and didn't get anything done on either house. Thankfully I work remotely so didn't need to use a big chunk of sick leave, managed to do some basic file work during the week. Started feeling a bit better today and even went outside and picked a few apples; the rain finally stopped for a bit and there was some sunshine. Then my brother calls and says he has to take Mom to the ER; still waiting to hear what's going on, but with my cough and obvious sore throat voice I know they won't let me in the door to wait with him so here I sit hoping to hear from him.
 
Agree, Old Whatshisname. Religious structure runs our small town. And it is of benefit. I'm not practicing Amish, but my family is. I'm anabaptist, so I'm in the amish structure of beliefs. My favorite cousin's adult daughter lives in the big house next door, and when we got there for supper this evening, she grabbed me and said she had to show me something right now! So they've enlarged their mud room when they had their basement redug. She's turned her mudroom into the beginnings of a pantry. She had a bunch of buckets of packaged flour, oats, and sugars. She had the start of other packaged goods on another shelf. Her home canned goods had not been brought up from her mom's basement to theirs, yet...they're waiting on their new basement windows to arrive. She was so excited! I've been nagging on her for awhile, and these last price increases at the grocery store hit home with her. She ordered two 50 lb bags of oatmeal from Sisco (we have local delivery) after seeing the Aldi price jump. Think she paid $56 a bag. That was high, but the store is higher. Our next door neighbor let it be known that their basement is their grocery store.
 
The naprosyn kicked in and I decided to try to sleep. Was just about to drift off when Mom paged complaining that the dog had gotten into the living room with her and was barking. She wanted me to come get the dog out and she wanted food. I got up and heated up a frozen chicken alfredo (family size) and let the dog out. We ate and watched a little TV and then I headed back to my room and racked out for a little bit.

I'm not as sore but I'm tired and will try to get more sleep in a bit. My alarm is going to go off in awhile to remind me to take my meds and then I'll try to get back to sleep.
 
Felt I didn't sleep at all last night- I probably did, but my brain seemed on overdrive. I was tempted to stay in bed this morning but thought I'd be better off up, with the intention of tiring myself out. Si Cleaned the kitchen, and emptied the fridge and above freezer to use up bits; had a load of eggs, so have 8 yoghurt containers with six eggs beaten in each going to the freezer. Had some leftover pastry, made almond slices for lunch boxes, mash for today and tomorrow is cooked (I use an ice cream scoop to portion) and I have an apple cake in the oven also. About to head outside to do chores, after a quick hoover- the cat dragged out dust bunnies from all the radiators - then spending the rest of the day at the desk. Have a good Monday all!
 
going to dig the rest of our small plot of jeruslehem artichokes, a few will be left for next years crop. we didn't grow a big garden this year and had a wet spring so these chokes just popped up on their own. I watered a bit the last part of the summer and my they are delicious and tasty.
Also emptying out a spare room for our renters/house share family to have a bedroom for their 10 year old. The room has been a stash spot for the past coupe of years so it's like a treasure hunt. From the mouldy gourds to the brand new supplies and various buckets of my home processed freeze dried goods..
 
LadyLocust said:
Had company this weekend which was fun.
Yesterday Hubby and I went to an estate sale. The old fella who passed was 102 and had lived in the house since he was 5 (with his parents). We found a couple things but my new toy is:
View attachment 118177
I’m so stinkin’ excited to use it. It’s kerosene and I think from the 50’s. Will do some homework on it here shortly. Getting it cleaned up first. Please disregard the mess- garage is a disaster at the moment.
Worked outside all day, had a fire burning, got the garden all pulled up, Hubby tilled in some compost- just a lot of general cleanup.
Shower felt good!
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Looked this morning: states right on it 1923. So she's a centennial this year 😊
 
I decided to clean up the little coffee table my computer sits on and the area around it & under it. Needed to reach under to unplug the old battery backup and plug in the new one. Mattress has shifted askew and was blocking. I pushed on it but it kept springing back at me. I got on the other side to lift & pull but it was too heavy. My brother had been up a couple minutes before but had gone to sleep. I woke his lazy butt up & asked him to help me. He fussed but he eventually got up and helped. He griped about having to work morning shift bc he opens today-- but he closed yesterday so he didn't get out 'til 1am. Having people get less than 12hrs between shifts should be illegal. Since he refused to help me dig a hole to bury the cat yesterday I didn't feel too bad about waking him. It took less than 60 seconds. It took him longer to get out of his room than it did to help.

I scrubbed the coffee table as best as I could. Took the computer off the rolling stand and tried to clean the stand. Decided to cover it with shelf liner instead.

I used some paracord to loosely tether the basket to the UPS. I mounted the hood on the back with Velcro. It looks so much better in black than it did in green Nice and shiny. The cats were so confused when I was moving stuff around. LOL. I pulled out some un-used power cords and set them aside. some are junk and will get thrown out. I put blue tape on the ones that were plugged in and wrote what they had been plugged into so I knew which ones were priority and which could go in a power strip. I really need to put the conduit back over my monitor's power cord. It is extremely thin.

Before the mattress had blocked access to get under the coffee table so the cats were excited about the new area to explore. For some reason they don't want to step on the basket on the UPS. It wobbles a bit. LOL.

Anyway, I had to lie on my side on the floor and reach under the coffee table to unplug the old UPS and then had to do the same to plug in the new one. That was a royal pain. I wish I were flat-chested bc I got snagged trying to get back up. LOL.

Got everything plugged into the new UPS and it seems to be working well. Hopefully it won't have any issues. I totally forgot to take my meds yesterday and need to catch up today.
 
Had an odd day, I finally got up in time to score a few groceries, but all the clean clothes I have are black... go figure. So rather than stink, I decided to look like a Johnny Cash fanboy. Well, I get to the Kroger and every third person IS WEARING ALL BLACK! Is there a Goth/Emo convention in town? ANTIFAgs meeting? National Johnny Cash day? Church Of Satan rally? Who knows? Who cares? LOL
 
@zannej , I'm so sorry about your kitty!
Walked at about 6:30 this morning.
Took DH to VA clinic at 9 am, then went to Dollar Tree for Halloween candy in case we get any kids.
Went to Aldi for a few things.
Came home and A/C fellow came over. $8200 complete for a new central unit with 10 year warranty. Yikes! But DH wants to get it done. Old unit was about 15 years old when we bought the house.
Set up DH's pills for the month.
Made a bunch of croutons from some homemade bread that was frozen for awhile.
Made some business calls including Legacy Cremation Services. I hate to make those adult type calls but have been putting it off for over a year. Need to know process and cost for future- hopefully way in the future- needs.
Will water roses tonight- still need rain!
 
Trying to recover and rehab from total knee replacement surgery. Home health came today to check my bandage and progress. He was more interested in telling me about his recent travels than my knee and counting my exercises. 🤬 He’ll be back again Wednesday to change my bandage and do my exercising again. He wasn’t very encouraging and his responses to my questions were vague. But here is my therapy dog.
 

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Trying to recover and rehab from total knee replacement surgery. Home health came today to check my bandage and progress. He was more interested in telling me about his recent travels than my knee and counting my exercises. 🤬 He’ll be back again Wednesday to change my bandage and do my exercising again. He wasn’t very encouraging and his responses to my questions were vague. But here is my therapy dog.
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And he saw my exercise bike and asked me if I’d been riding it. I was told only 25% weight bearing in my right leg. I told him I’m waiting to get an ‘okay’ from the doctor to do any more than what I’ve been told I can do.
 
Do you have a therapy cooler full of your favorite beverages and snacks?
How about a therapy ball bat for that dildohead HH loser? One must
consider such things. When I feel the sting of gout coming on, I move a
cooler full of drinks,a box of pop-top food, and plastic cutlery next to
the bed. and a wide mouth Jug to whiz in. saves everybody trouble.
 
winds-of-change said:
Trying to recover and rehab from total knee replacement surgery. Home health came today to check my bandage and progress. He was more interested in telling me about his recent travels than my knee and counting my exercises. 🤬 He’ll be back again Wednesday to change my bandage and do my exercising again. He wasn’t very encouraging and his responses to my questions were vague. But here is my therapy dog.
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Hopefully he has his act together better on Wednesday!! Glad you have your therapy dog!😃
 
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