Share Your Day (February 2013)

Good to hear SeaBreeze, I always get out as soon as I have 60 degree weather. Anything under that is inside exercise for me I am a true " Desert Rat " and just cannot deal with the cold if it's under 60. Headed out again tomorrow.
 

I've been slacking on my walking. I normally go for a thirty minute walk at least once per day but haven't been doing so lately.I can tell the difference too.Some body needs to give me a kick start.

I did get the big garden bed tilled yesterday. I put a lot of manure on it in the fall and wanted to get it tilled in a couple of weeks or so before planting time. I will till it again the first of March and plant taters.
 
YEEHAW! 69 today! Gotta love that, I will certainly find things to do outside today and enjoy this great sunny weather. We for sure will have a couple weeks of cooler weather before it get this nice for good so I'll take advantage.
Laundry day here at Chateu Merrell, and what ever else comes my way.
Make it a great day everyone !:sentimental:
 

We topped out at a dry and peaceful 64 on Tuesday. Since the air was peaceful, I put my injured horse back with the herd for the first time since last October. Gonna be another fuzzy warm day, so I will spend a lot of it outside, doing some clean-up.

When I turned Joker into the big pasture, I sat up on the ridge enjoying the spring-like warmth and watching everyone graze. They are my Feng Shui no matter where I am on the property:sentimental:

To say they are a lot of work is an understatement but horses have saved my sanity and kept me out of big trouble (not little but certainly big) all my life. I owe them --- especially that little Bay Arab (second from left) who came into my life, starving, five weeks after I lost my son and only child in a car accident. He will be 27 April 1st:love_heart: The grove of trees between The Boys and the barn is the pet cemetary lol It doesn't look like it, but we are only 12 miles from hospitals and shopping, in either direction.


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OUCH...beautiful day yesterday so I raked two pickup loads of leaves around the house yesterday. If not for the gangsta's I would be tempted to leave them, but I have to keep the ground clear to discourage the snakes (I HATE SNAKES). Snakes are my greatest fear of living here, did I say I hate snakes?.

We had a nice campfire in the late afternoon and cooked turkey sausage. I was done after that and hit the sack early!

More of the same today, I still have a patch left to rake. Thank goodness for my brother who picked up all the piles and hauled them away. I am tempted to cut down all those blasted trees! I have to finish the raking today before the sore muscles take hold.
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Great pic TWHRider, thanks for sharing. Ozarkgal, that sounds like a busy day to me. Snakes, yeah other than the one we have here i can do without them. Enjoy your day
 
TWHRider, lovely scene, thanks for sharing. It's a blessing that the horses are a comfort to you in coping with your son's passing. :rose:
 
Thank you all, for the compliments;)

Even though it may often sound that way, I have not had a "Mayberry" kind of life; it has had some pretty dark moments, followed by moments like the picture. It's been pretty up and down, most of my life, a lot of which I can blame on my own choices - lol

I've had my own horses and paid for them, since I was 12 - they have always been my source of salvation when things got rough.

Ozarkgal, that is all pasture you're looking at; we have 22 acres and I am from the old school of "about five acres per piece of large livestock.

There is nine acres out of vision, to the left, that we let the neighbor take hay from until he reduced his horse and cattle herd. It would yield about 300 small squares on a good year.

My horses love to graze over there but they would not touch the hay, once it was baled. So I buy their hay from professional horse hay growers - can you say "cha-ching, cha-ching" :(

They are persnicketty-not-too-hungry-snotfaces and I have no idea how they got that way:rolleyes::rolleyes:
 
Took a nice two mile walk on a wooded trail, didn't see any wildlife. Caught a shot of these geese and seagulls loitering in a parking lot though. Getting ready to make some grilled salmon and yukon gold potatoes for dinner.

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Hey..did everyone leave town and forget to tell me?:playful: I've had a couple of busy days with an unanticipated trip Mountain Home to hubby's opthomologist yesterday afternoon. He had cataract surgery in December and was experiencing some soreness in the eye. A dialation and a 2 minute laser procedure and we were outta there, :eek:nthego: but a 3 hour round trip..living in the sticks has it's downside when it comes to getting anywhere.

Big whoop today. Went to town to do my dog laundry (the gangstas have a lot of blankets and dog bed covers that don't go in my washer) and pick up a few grocery items. On the way back my brother wanted to take a "shortcut' instead of the highway.

The so called shortcut turned into 5 miles of 10 mph bumpy, washboardy, dusty gravel road. About 2 miles into it I wanted to choke him out. 4 miles into it I wanted to take him on a gangster ride and throw him out of the truck at 70 mph:mad:, except I could only go 10 mph in fear of having the fenders fall off.

I did see one thing that was kind of a scene right out of a Norman Rockwell painting. We came upon a bunch of cows near the fence next to the road, gathered around a little (and I mean little) old grey haired lady as she was feeding them from a bucket. She looked to be around 75-80, wearing an old straw hat and tall muck boots. Her old dilapidated farmhouse looked as old as she was, as well as the old barn with the old rusty tin roof peeled back.

I'm betting she was born on that farm and never left. She is truly one brave dear soul for standing in the middle of a bunch of hungry cows with a feed bucket.

Burning the midnight oil tonight as the ol' back is biting me from all the leaf raking this week..glad that chore is done for another year.
 
Good Morning Forum, overcast but sun trying to come out here in Vegas this am. Mid 50's. Laundry awaits, oh Yippie ! then a haircut this afternoon. That's the plan for today. Everyone have a good one.
 
Ozarkgal said:
I did see one thing that was kind of a scene right out of a Norman Rockwell painting. We came upon a bunch of cows near the fence next to the road, gathered around a little (and I mean little) old grey haired lady as she was feeding them from a bucket. She looked to be around 75-80, wearing an old straw hat and tall muck boots. Her old dilapidated farmhouse looked as old as she was, as well as the old barn with the old rusty tin roof peeled back.

I'm betting she was born on that farm and never left. She is truly one brave dear soul for standing in the middle of a bunch of hungry cows with a feed bucket.

Burning the midnight oil tonight as the ol' back is biting me from all the leaf raking this week..glad that chore is done for another year.
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How heartwarming that sight must have been, would bring a tear to my eye for sure. :sentimental: The store recommended by TWHRider http://www.backontrackproducts.com/ is something to consider for your back pain. They sell stuff made of ceramic material that works pretty well. Bought my hubby some long-johns (PP type material), and he's happy with them. Thanks again TWH!! :love_heart:
 
Ozarkgal, what a great story and visual!:applause:

Seabreeze, I am so happy the long-johns work! Monday I am ordering the mesh dog blanket for my Dobe/Rott. I rescued her literally on death's door, hairless with sarcoptic mange and fractured pelvis exactly 9 years ago this coming Wednesday. Kara still had a bit of a puppy bark but it was obvious she had given birth to puppies shortly before I picked her up and brought her home. Our road is so wooded, I never could find the puppies. Anyway, her hips are really starting to bother her, so I'm going to get one of those mesh blankets for her and hope it helps.

That segways nicely into the new cat:grief:

I'm afraid I've got a new cat and there might be more on the way
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There was a convicted sex offender living next door to us in late 2011 - thru May 2012, until he got arrested for the 4th time.

Someone had dumped a very preggars cat off, that he and his wife took in. She had four kittens in early June, 2012. When the man got hauled off to jail, the wife moved out and naturally the cat and kittens all stayed under the porch of the rental house. I couldn't catch any of them to take them to the no-kill shelter but I did keep them fed and watered.

In July, 2012 a very nice young couple rented the house and they had a 7-month old baby. The mom was only 19 and wanted to keep the mama cat and the kittens
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So here it is, 8 months later and all of a sudden the kittens are starting to wander over here but a very passive male kitten has decided to move in, much to the consternation of my current barn cat crew. He does not want to fight, does not want to take over the barn, so I have to wonder if, being so passive, that the more aggressive alpha brothers banished him.

The other "kittens" show up at night when we're bringing the horses in but, they won't come in the barn; just this gray kitten. They are all well-cared for and very healthy looking but the other thing I am wondering is if the renters might have stopped feeding the cats because only the husband is now working, plus going to school at night, and they just don't have the money.

This all really tisses me off because I offered to get mama kitty spayed and take the kittens to the no-kill shelter before they got so big, nobody would want to adopt them. The young girl insisted she could find homes for them thru her FB friends ---- here it is 8 months later and the kittens are still here
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Since it appears Smokey wants to live here, I can catch him, and he's better off neutered before a really aggressive Tom half kills him, I guess he's going to the vet this week to get 2/3'rds of his jewels removed<---something my Ex said I LOVE to do and is why I prefer male animals, given the choice --there might be some truth to that - lol. I can only hope (I guess) that he stays here after I spend the money.

I am ready to spit nails over this whole situation. I am not a cat person to begin with, yet I have two rescues in the house, 4 at the barn and Number Five Barn Cat "on the way". If the rest of the kittens (who are all eight months old) wander over and don't go back home, there goes more money.

Not to mention my original cats are all discombooberated; they know these cats so won't tear into them, yet I can see the WTH confusion on all their faces.

The Saving Grace to all of this is that Mr. TWHRider IS a cat person.

I knew when I sold one of my saddles, the money would end up going somewhere I didn't want it to go
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TWHRider said:
In July, 2012 a very nice young couple rented the house and they had a 7-month old baby. The mom was only 19 and wanted to keep the mama cat and the kittens
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So here it is, 8 months later and all of a sudden the kittens are starting to wander over here but a very passive male kitten has decided to move in, much to the consternation of my current barn cat crew. He does not want to fight, does not want to take over the barn, so I have to wonder if, being so passive, that the more aggressive alpha brothers banished him.

The other "kittens" show up at night when we're bringing the horses in but, they won't come in the barn; just this gray kitten. They are all well-cared for and very healthy looking but the other thing I am wondering is if the renters might have stopped feeding the cats because only the husband is now working, plus going to school at night, and they just don't have the money.

This all really tisses me off because I offered to get mama kitty spayed and take the kittens to the no-kill shelter before they got so big, nobody would want to adopt them. The young girl insisted she could find homes for them thru her FB friends ---- here it is 8 months later and the kittens are still here
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Since it appears Smokey wants to live here, I can catch him, and he's better off neutered before a really aggressive Tom half kills him, I guess he's going to the vet this week to get 2/3'rds of his jewels removed<---something my Ex said I LOVE to do and is why I prefer male animals, given the choice --there might be some truth to that - lol. I can only hope (I guess) that he stays here after I spend the money.

I am ready to spit nails over this whole situation. I am not a cat person to begin with, yet I have two rescues in the house, 4 at the barn and Number Five Barn Cat "on the way". If the rest of the kittens (who are all eight months old) wander over and don't go back home, there goes more money.

Not to mention my original cats are all discombooberated; they know these cats so won't tear into them, yet I can see the WTH confusion on all their faces.

The Saving Grace to all of this is that Mr. TWHRider IS a cat person.

I knew when I sold one of my saddles, the money would end up going somewhere I didn't want it to go
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I'd be ticked off too...the new neighbor girl thinking she would rehome the kittens through Facebook....really? :rolleyes: Such a shame for those kittens now. :( If they can't find the means to feed these cats, then they need to rethink THEIR daily menus. :mad:

Looks like Smokey is your new boy anyway. :) Good you're having him fixed, that's the only way he'll survive I believe. You're an angel for taking care of this kitten...I just feel sad for the rest. I can't believe that your offer to spay the mother and take the kittens to a no-kill shelter was rejected, WTF??? :confused:
 
SeaBreeze said:
I'd be ticked off too...the new neighbor girl thinking she would rehome the kittens through Facebook....really? :rolleyes: Such a shame for those kittens now. :( If they can't find the means to feed these cats, then they need to rethink THEIR daily menus. :mad:

Looks like Smokey is your new boy anyway. :) Good you're having him fixed, that's the only way he'll survive I believe. You're an angel for taking care of this kitten...I just feel sad for the rest. I can't believe that your offer to spay the mother and take the kittens to a no-kill shelter was rejected, WTF??? :confused:
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At the time, she was only 19 and with a 7 month old baby on her hip. One often tends to have emotional visions of grandeur when they're that young.

I think I've only seen two of the four kittens, so far and I haven't seen the mama kitty - at least I don't think so. Mama was solid black as are two of the babies; one tiger, and the gray. I THINK the black I keep seeing is the same one and sadly, I think it's a female - at 8 months you know what that probably means:(

I'm getting Smokey fixed this week. If I can catch the black, it will get fixed too; I just hope it's not preggars yet - that's going to be a discussion of "now what" with the vet if that's the case. Our no-kill shelter will take them, if I bring them in but they are way over-crowded and the kittens (well young cats by now) will just get thrown into crates with other cats.

I am such an idiot, I can't do tha, so whomever I can catch is getting cut and snipped. The biggest worry, then, will be Coyote and Red Tail Hawks if the Hawks run out of rodents to dive bomb.

I'm not even wasting my breath with a face-to-face conversation with her. I fed the mama kitty before she moved in, so I'm taking charge.

Besides, her Weasel Jack Russell/mix (that she rescued and is NOT neutered), has decided I'm the enemy because I chase him out of the barn when I catch him in there stealing cat food. I keep the cat food up high on the shavings bags but the little b**t*rd climbs up them to eat the cat food.

He is well fed, he's just a little weasel thief. He has challenged me twice on my own property and walks backward, growling when I point and say "go!" He'd be dangerous if he weighed more than 20 lbs. I've dealt with 100+ lb dogs coming into my barn, uninvited, so dealing with him is not a big deal.

I'm not saying anything about the dog either because these kids really are good kids and keep quietly to themselves. The man works a full time job and goes to school at night to be an electrician; he's got enough to do without the old lady next door beacthin' about the kittens and the dog that I'm pretty sure he didn't want in the first place - lol lol.

They are great neighbors compared to some of the people that have been in that rental. There's only 18 houses on this 3 miles stretch of road and the only d**n rental is the little cottage literally 12 feet from our property line - lol lol We were able to buy all the bare land around the little house but the Legend-In-His-Own-Mind real estate agent wanted a bloody fortune for the house and one acre. At our age it wasn't worth it spending 65K for a house that honestly isn't worth 25K. We would have paid the other neighbor to bulldoze it down, if we could have bought it --- the infrastructure is that bad. The old woodworking shop is worth more than the house, IMO. Some renters require I carry a gun to the barn when I'm home alone, some don't. I'm happier dealing with the these animals than some of the people that have been in that house:eek:nthego:

Anyway, Smokey will hopefully get neutered this week and if I can catch any of the siblings, they'll get their turns, as well.
 
Oh damn, Monday it is ! Another breezy, party cloudy day ahead for us. Grocery shopping on the agenda and usual household chores. Back on schedule for work tomorrow afternoon. Be glad when work picks up I like them FAT paychecks !
Have a great day Everyone.
 
TWHRider, it's always tough living near renters, and if they're good, quiet, clean people, you can forgive a lot of other faults like their pets. The Jack Russel sounds like he can work a nerve, lol. I had a neighbor with an aggressive Chihuahua, who was always out front loose, and would run over to me when I got out of my car, barking and growling. He bit his owner numerous times, so I was very annoyed at having to deal with that so often. But...better than some creepy people coming over to me, to hit me up for money or favors...will take the four-legged animals anytime. :playful:
 
Started the day by giving my dog a bath, prepping him for his haircut tomorrow. So, he stayed home to dry off in the heated home, while I went out for a walk in the park, here's some pics...Had grilled rib-eye steaks and orange cauliflower for dinner

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Seabreeze.....Wonderful pictures as usual. The dogs look like they are having a great day playing in the park. The dog on the rock looks like a coyote stalking prey..lol. Too bad your boy had to miss the fun. What is the story on the horses? Yummm..ribeyes or my favorite steak...what is orange cauliflower, a variety or a dish?

Today, my dogs are in store for what yours got yesterday, a bath! Stinky, stinky from playing country dogs. The have been romping in the woods and the ticks are coming out on warm days, so they have to be inspected every day and sprayed as needed. They look like shaggy orphans, except for their heads and necks which I keep groomed to standard..funny looking, but functional in the cold .

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On Friday we had to have a huge tree cut down on the hillside beside the driveway. I was looking very precarious, as the ants had gotten to it and it was dying. Two local yokels came to cut it down, and it was like the 3 stooges -1. I held my breath until that baby was down, fearing it wouldn't fall exactly as planned and I would be making a call to the insurance company for a new house. They got it down with some difficulty and it landed where it should and all is well, except we have major cutting up and clean up to do now. Now that the leaves are taken care of, we have the tree to deal with.

Always something, never nothing is my motto!

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SeaBreeze said:
TWHRider, it's always tough living near renters, and if they're good, quiet, clean people, you can forgive a lot of other faults like their pets. The Jack Russel sounds like he can work a nerve, lol. I had a neighbor with an aggressive Chihuahua, who was always out front loose, and would run over to me when I got out of my car, barking and growling. He bit his owner numerous times, so I was very annoyed at having to deal with that so often. But...better than some creepy people coming over to me, to hit me up for money or favors...will take the four-legged animals anytime. :playful:
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I started a new thread in ChitChat on this subject so we don't hijack this thread. I have lots to add to this conversation!:mad:
 
Seabreeze what great pictures! Yes, whose horses are those?

I'm not that big of a meat eater but the orange cauliflower sure sounds good.

Have you ever eaten rutabagas fixed like mashed potatoes - with milk and real butter? I love them fixed that way, otherwise they are way too bitter for me. Remember I'm the one that can't stand the taste of coffee or beer - lol lol lol

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I started a new thread in ChitChat on this subject so we don't hijack this thread. I have lots to add to this conversation!:mad:
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And I replied In Kind - lol lol These folks are the ones that moved in right after the Sex Offender Guy went to jail and the Landlord was then able to evict his wife.

That house has bad karma -- the "ill" of that house goes back before we built in 2003.

I told Mr. TWHRider, if we ever were able to buy that place, I would have that house leveled and I wouldn't even build a storage shed on top of the dirt where the house sat.

I remember you talking about that tree. I'm glad it's down and your house is in tact. Thanks for the cutting down visual - lol lol lol I think I might have had to leave the property - lol lol lol
 
I have to try the rutabagas. I only put them in stews or soups, but I like them. Anything with milk and butter or sour creme is good by me..lol Maybe we need to go to the food thread next;)
 
The orange cauliflower was just a variety, I was seeing green and purple also in the stores, so thought I'd try one. Tasted like regular cauliflower to me. Never ate rutabagas at all, but mashed with milk and butter would be a nice first try. ;) There's a rental stable at the dog park, it's located in a state park area. I think those horses may have started out as rescues, at least that's the rumor. Seen a couple of incidents with dogs and horses over the years, some were the dog's fault, and some were either just skittish horses or inexperienced riders...scary nonetheless. :eek:
 

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