Share your day May 2013

Well, I've spent the morning researching forestry companies to help clear the land. I'm beginning to think I'm in over my head. I had some trees taken down last year where the pasture will be but all of the branches are still there and I don't have a tractor to move them around. I don't want to burn them for a number of reasons such as it getting out of control, and also don't want to be responsible for the smoke and damage to the environment. I've checked out chippers, but again, seems like a big investment to get one that could handle the volume. I think I've found someone who thinks like I do and will hopefully meet him there tomorrow to see what can be done. I've been in touch with a realtor and hope to have this house on the market next week. Lots going on here in the fog!!
 

Holding off major celebration . . . but, YEA! Was just joyfully interrupted by a phone call from the tv people. Good guy who know what to do. Why nobody else could have handled it as well in the beginning I'll never understand. Said he was from the escalation group which is exactly what I'd expected after all my emails to management. Obviously, there's a major problem with customer service if they actually need an escalation group. Seems the solution would be training the frontline people how to actually do the job and making sure they are doing it. Oh, well . . .

Now, have and order number, account number and appointment for a tech to come out and make the magic happen. Then, let the brain rotting begin!
 

Met the Forestry technician this morning. He's going to come up with "a plan"! Yay - because I sure don't have one! Black flies attacked us as we tramped through the forest but I love the feeling I get when I'm on that property (flies or not).

That Guy - do you have the boob tube in operation yet??
 
That Guy said:
Holding off major celebration . . . but, YEA! Was just joyfully interrupted by a phone call from the tv people. Good guy who know what to do. Why nobody else could have handled it as well in the beginning I'll never understand. Said he was from the escalation group which is exactly what I'd expected after all my emails to management. Obviously, there's a major problem with customer service if they actually need an escalation group. Seems the solution would be training the frontline people how to actually do the job and making sure they are doing it. Oh, well . . .

Now, have and order number, account number and appointment for a tech to come out and make the magic happen. Then, let the brain rotting begin!
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Never heard of an escalation group, but good for you for sending all those emails...the squeaky wheel gets the oil! ;) Yeah, smartest thing would be training the frontiline folks to do their jobs properly...guess that won't happen any time soon. :rolleyes:
 
TICA said:
Well, I've spent the morning researching forestry companies to help clear the land. I'm beginning to think I'm in over my head. I had some trees taken down last year where the pasture will be but all of the branches are still there and I don't have a tractor to move them around. I don't want to burn them for a number of reasons such as it getting out of control, and also don't want to be responsible for the smoke and damage to the environment. I've checked out chippers, but again, seems like a big investment to get one that could handle the volume. I think I've found someone who thinks like I do and will hopefully meet him there tomorrow to see what can be done. I've been in touch with a realtor and hope to have this house on the market next week. Lots going on here in the fog!!
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Your dilemma brings back memories of our efforts to move here. We bought raw land planning to build on it. By the time we cleared the land, put a driveway through, dug a well and put a septic in we were almost to the point financially, without even building the house of what it would cost to buy an already built place. We put the land up for sale and did just that. We looked a long time to find what we wanted, but since we lived out of state, it would have been very tough to co-ordinate and watch over all the work of building. We kind of put the cart before the horse in our research. If you are located closer to your property it will be much easier for you.


Good luck on your new venture and in selling your existing home.

Anyone want to buy some prime land in Arkansas?
 
Today BuckBuckBuck gets his freedom. I wish him luck in settling in. This evening we are having a campfire cookout with some friends who are Mexican. They are cooking a chicken dish called Tinga. The first time they made it for us it was so hot tears were actually running down hubby's face as he was eating it. It had such a good flavor you couldn't stop eating it though. The next time they made it they toned it down a bit, and we enjoyed it much more.

Sighhhh....The (a) coon is back in the chicken house. Night before last he figured out how to open the cat food container that has a snap lock lid as well as a bungee cord tying the lid down. This morning I found he chewed the corner of the door off and I found the bungee cord outside the building. When I opened the door the container was by the door licked clean. He completely ignored the trap with corn in it, and I'm surprised after all he ate he could get back out the door.

That critter goes down tonight. He will be caught and re-located in a different direction much further away. I kind of think it is the same critter as we have never had this much problem with coons.
 
The neighbor's back yard is a literal slippery slope, almost from right out the door.

This morning, I knew he'd never get the truck out from where he'd backed it to unload something.

Mid-afternoon the truck had been repositioned - well actually it slid.

A few minutes later, as I was heading to the front lawn pasture to mow with the John Deere, I noticed the truck had once again been "repositioned"; this time facing straight up and down with the back end much closer to the barbed wire fence. That kind of fence is easy to plow thru, leaving the truck with only a few scratches as it continues on its sliding path of destruction toward that 100 year old Oak tree, that I love and sits on our property -- wheeeeee!!!!!

We've had so much rain and the hill is steep enough, truck could easily have started sliding unless blocks were behind the tires. But the truck was spared sliding thru the barbed wire because I got the tow chain out of the workshop and took my trusty 4-wheel drive John Deere over to assist.

Rule #1 when pulling someone out of the muck, always make THEM hook to their own vehicle. That way if something breaks, it's their insurance not yours.
Rule #2 ask who's doing the driving and hope they're smarter than you give them credit for; meaning they will do what they're told, once behind the steering wheel.

Chain hooked, positioned driver gaves thumbs up and away we went. My Little Green Goddess walked the truck right out of her slippery spot up to the road, everyone breathed a huge sigh, said thank you very much, I said "yepperrr now go have beer, I need to mow" and life was back to normal -- well as normal as it can be.

Ozarkgal, I have visions ---- visions of you Wiley Coyote, squaring off with Rocky Raccoon alias the Roadrunner. I will be waiting for the next chapter in what sounds to be a never ending weekly series. That raccoon is really smart - I hope he doesn't get himself blown to pieces with the saw-off shotgun - lol lol
 
Nice job pulling that truck outta the muck, THW and smart thinking on the rules of engagement.

As for my day . . . I gotta to to work (boo hoo hoo). But, times goes by and nothing lasts forever so will just suffer through it...
 
Beautiful sunny day here, and the lawn was dry from the previous rainfall...so I mowed this morning. All was good, and then I came inside to shower and wash my hair. Wheellll...when I went to dry my hair, using my newest (and very noisy) hand-held hair dryer...I heard it get SUPER loud, then there was a loud metal clatter within the dryer, I jumped up and pulled the plug from the wall, expecting it to go up in flames. :eek: Anyhoo, all was well, and I just threw it in the trash, and used my trusty old GE dryer.

Finished the day with a nice grilled rib-eye steak that hubby made on the barby, sat outside for awhile and enjoyed my newly clipped grass with the dog and cat...mellow day. :tranquillity:
 
BBB's on the deck railing looking in the window crowing...we're goin'
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I have my mind set on trout on the campfire tonight.
 
Ozarkgal said:
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I have my mind set on trout on the campfire tonight.
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I have fond memories of trout fishing with my grandfather along the creeks near his home when I was a wee lad. The family would settle along shore, build a fire and pop 'em in the pan. Delicious. We also did grunion, grabbing them as they washed up on the beach and went clamming. Boy, those were the good ol' days!
 
Couldn't report power out without power... Just as it came back and I turned on the radio, they were reporting wires down and a grass fire just up the road. Never heard any sirens and don't see or smell smoke. So, guessing it was small and under control quickly.

After working the weekend, it's always strange going back on Monday as it seems an actual weekend is due. Come tomorrow and the next, I won't exactly be sure just what day it is . . .

Surf is up and knee is . . . still troubling. Hard to realize my charging "daze" are over...
 
All is fine in the world today so far...the racoon is once again trapped, going for a nice ride in the country this morning.

BuckBuckBuck has been practicing his wake up call for the last hour after I turned him out. Except for the two silly sister cats, they are mostly coming to grips with BBB being around. The Gangstas are learning more restraint in chasing other animals because of BBB. They barely looked at the coon in the cage this morning...or maybe it's because there have been so many of them lately the thrill is wearing off.

Going to town to do some dog laundry, blankets I don't put in my machine then home to pressure wash the deck, thinking about giving it another coat of stain soon.

Our fishing trip turned out to be sort of a bust yesterday, as far as catching fish goes. Had a great day though, the weather was awesome, the scenery was beautiful, and I was the only one that caught a fish. It was a wonderful pan size trout. I put him on a stringer in the water and told him to hope we didn't catch another one, or he was dinner tonight. It was his lucky day, he was set free to return to his river home.
 
Buh bye-buhbye buh-byyyye! (think Carrie Underwood's "Two Black Cadillacs") and don't come back Rocky, if you value your life:)

Buckbuckbuck - the ever persistent call of a Rooster - I'm glad it's you and not me. There would be times I wouldn't care how pretty he was - his beak might find itself in the stewpot for making so much racket - lol lol

"Happy Days Are Here Again" sings the fish. I'm not surprised it was you who caught the only fish. My life long friends, in PA, grew up deer hunting. Their husbands don't like hunting with them because they always get the first (oftentimes only) deer - lol lol lol

I am still whacking grass. I'm down to the last 8 gallons of the 72 gallons of diesel I bought ten days or so ago:( Old Bess the farm tractor gets about 87 MPG but I have to keep her in second gear, the pasture is so tall and thick. The John Deere is a 2005 and doesn't get near that kind of mileage. It's also a diesel but it's got all that non-polluting stuff on the engine, so not nearly as MPG efficient:(
 
Ozarkgal said:
All is fine in the world today so far...the racoon is once again trapped, going for a nice ride in the country this morning.

BuckBuckBuck has been practicing his wake up call for the last hour after I turned him out. Except for the two silly sister cats, they are mostly coming to grips with BBB being around. The Gangstas are learning more restraint in chasing other animals because of BBB. They barely looked at the coon in the cage this morning...or maybe it's because there have been so many of them lately the thrill is wearing off.

Going to town to do some dog laundry, blankets I don't put in my machine then home to pressure wash the deck, thinking about giving it another coat of stain soon.

Our fishing trip turned out to be sort of a bust yesterday, as far as catching fish goes. Had a great day though, the weather was awesome, the scenery was beautiful, and I was the only one that caught a fish. It was a wonderful pan size trout. I put him on a stringer in the water and told him to hope we didn't catch another one, or he was dinner tonight. It was his lucky day, he was set free to return to his river home.
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Unfortunately, the key word here is "again"... Looking forward to "once and for all". Buckbuckbuck sounds like he's got something to crow about as he's made himself at home. As for pressure washing the deck . . . does that mean "GET OUT THERE AND WASH THE DECK!"???
 
Well, the money grubbing purse-string holders announced another round of early retirement offers. Stingy little incentive and only two (count 'em TWO) lowly employees will be anointed the chosen ones. There are at least . . . well, far too many in my group who will be climbing over each other to scrape up the crumbs. Guess I'll be relegated to standing back and waving good-bye...
 
That Guy said:
Interesting you should mention that. Have recently noticed the grass just mowed in the field is getting taller. Too bad we don't have any goats to keep things trimmed.
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Just the mere mention of goats makes me want to rip my hair out, tear my clothes off and go running up the road...being chased by men in white coats. It's a been there, done that story and I still have flashbacks of my hubby trying to restrain me from going in the house to get the Colt .45..and I don't mean malt liquor!


TWH....Whew, yer makin' me tired and sweaty just reading about your mowing, how often do you do it? Quite an expensive proposition with the fuel costs, lucky you have Ol' Bess.

With having land the work is never done...when we moved here, silly, silly me thought it would be easy to take care of..after all, out of 10 acres, only about 3 are actually clear and we are sitting out on the wilderness surrounded by woods.

Little did I imagine that the flora and fauna in the woods have one mission, and that is to reclaim every square inch of cleared land...making it a full time job keeping it at bay!

Yesterday we started dividing the chicken coop aka cat house into two spaces, one side for BBB and the other for the cats. Today we have to put the chicken wire divider up and BuckBuckBuck will officially have a home. Yesterday he kept his eye on the remodeling and clucked his approval. I don't think the cats are going to be as happy...
dang.. all that work for one little chicken:rolleyes:
 
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