Share your day May 2013

TWH...speaking of being busy, you've had your share! I bet us old gals could work circles around the young'uns, bad backs and all.

Yes, the ticks and snakes and turtles are out here in full force. Hubby nailed a large cottonmouth in the creek this afternoon and the dogs are getting their daily tick check, had one on my butt cheek yesterday, not attached, just crawling..Yuck! So far the chiggers haven't gotten us yet, except one for me.

I spent three days digging deeper ditches on the sides of my driveway and patching washouts that happened during the last gully washer. I had new gravel delivered and spread today and had to smooth that out by hand with a rake. Now it looks like we're in for another big frog strangler for the next three days, which means all the loose, new gravel will probably end up at the bottom of the hill...can't win for losing some days.

Coon #6 went to join his buds today. He had to wait until late afternoon to hitch his ride as we were busy with trying to finish the driveway before the gravel truck came..it gave him some time to sit and think about the error of his ways.

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Good ol' #6,...is there no end? Not cute anymore...no, definitely not cute!!

I'm starting to question this living in the woods idea. It seemed like a good one at the time.:rolleyes: Today, I'm feeling envious of ladies who spa, lunch and shop all day.
 

I did another all-nighter last night and didn't succumb to Nod until about 5 this morning.

At 7 I was jolted awake by a loud crash coming from somewhere outside. I stumbled to the door, looked out and lo and behold, a bucket crane was tearing down an annex next to the church on the corner.

There's the church, right on the corner, a beautiful old place; next to it is a school, formerly a Catholic grade school but since the bidget cuts is just used by church groups for meetings. A driveway separates this school from an annex they built later (probably in the '70's). It was this annex they were tearing down.

The de-construction lasted most of the day, and when I went for a walk at 6pm tonight all that remained was a huge pile of brick and boards.

Soon, I fear, I shall be living on a 20-acre vacant lot ... :(
 
Ozarkgal said:
Boy, what a rude awakening! I'd love to get my hands on those old bricks...how about sending me enough to do a patio?:playful:
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There are actually enough to build a few patios, but I think the shipping and handling would be a killer! :p

That Guy said:
Not to worry. I'm sure the building will be replaced with something wonderful . . . like WALMART. Wheeeee....
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It would have to be the world's smallest Wally-Mart, because the lot is only perhaps 40'x100', but I wouldn't put it past them to try. :mad:

You'd be hearing reports of a black-clad figure stealing around at night and of the resulting explosions the next day ...
 
That Guy said:
No! No! No! You NEVER want to become one of those vapid narcissists! Please! Keep working on the life in the woods bit. Much more rewarding.
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Thanks for the encouragement That Guy. You, of course are right, but I had a weak moment of being extremely tired and feeling sorry for my self. I was never one of those vapid narcissists, even when I lived in the city and had all those amenities at my disposal. My spare time was spent at the barn where I kept my horses breathing in the smell of horses and fresh air, never did fit in with the mall gals.....
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Keep Manhattan, just give me that countryside. (Guess this will be my ear worm for the day.:()

Today, it is stormy so not much outside work will be going on. I've been working like a day laborer for the past three days, so I think I think I'll take it easy today and let my back catch up to my brain that is in constant planning mode. Yeeeaaah, right!

Also, That Guy, did you get those succulents planted? I used to have a lot of potted cactus..some got huge and I only started them from the tiny potted ones. I enjoyed them because they come in such a variety of wonderful shapes and some have beautiful blooms. They are a bugger to transplant though when they out grow their pots.
 
Ozarkgal said:
Thanks for the encouragement That Guy. You, of course are right, but I had a weak moment of being extremely tired and feeling sorry for my self. I was never one of those vapid narcissists, even when I lived in the city and had all those amenities at my disposal. My spare time was spent at the barn where I kept my horses breathing in the smell of horses and fresh air, never did fit in with the mall gals.....
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Green acres is the place for me.
Farm livin' is the life for me.
Land spreadin' out so far and wide
Keep Manhattan, just give me that countryside. (Guess this will be my ear worm for the day.:()

Today, it is stormy so not much outside work will be going on. I've been working like a day laborer for the past three days, so I think I think I'll take it easy today and let my back catch up to my brain that is in constant planning mode. Yeeeaaah, right!

Also, That Guy, did you get those succulents planted? I used to have a lot of potted cactus..some got huge and I only started them from the tiny potted ones. I enjoyed them because they come in such a variety of wonderful shapes and some have beautiful blooms. They are a bugger to transplant though when they out grow their pots.
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It's tough livin' in the city and not fitting in. Makes me feel bad for the "Valleys" who have to drive over the hill to get some waves when we "Locals" just walk down the street. Well, I feel bad for them until they get in the way . . . !

Glad you are taking it easy for a day. Smart to take a break.

Yep, got succulents planted. Sorta hodgepodge and curious how things will fill in as they grow. Drove by the post office and found a little piece of ice plant with roots attached that the gardener had pulled while getting the area weeded. Popped into the back of the truck and into the ground at home. Have heard about slimeballs stealing people's plants right out of their yard . . . does this count? Boy oh boy, do I know about transplanting cacti! Have developed a pretty painless method of letting it rest on the shovel as I dig it out and plopping in it's new spot pretty easily. Still, a job where one needs to pay attention through the entire process.
 
SifuPhil said:
It would have to be the world's smallest Wally-Mart, because the lot is only perhaps 40'x100', but I wouldn't put it past them to try. :mad:

You'd be hearing reports of a black-clad figure stealing around at night and of the resulting explosions the next day ...
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Was actually thinking 7-11 but thought Wally was a more obnoxious example. As for black-ops . . . some guys torched a hotel that was being built along the shore in Half Moon Bay a number of years ago. Naturally, the developers just started over and today it's a "lovely" tourist trap.
 
Spent the last few days ripping up carpet from the living room and the bedroom. The carpet wasn't the problem, it was all of the staples holding down the underlay - a real pain in more ways than one. Going to wash walls and freshen up the paint on the main floor of the house and then put down new floors. Although I'd love to have hardwood, that won't work with the dogs so I'm going to go laminate and then put that "For Sale" sign up. Doesn't feel like retirement but it is much more fulfilling work.
 
TICA said:
Spent the last few days ripping up carpet from the living room and the bedroom. The carpet wasn't the problem, it was all of the staples holding down the underlay - a real pain in more ways than one. Going to wash walls and freshen up the paint on the main floor of the house and then put down new floors. Although I'd love to have hardwood, that won't work with the dogs so I'm going to go laminate and then put that "For Sale" sign up. Doesn't feel like retirement but it is much more fulfilling work.
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Funny how doing work for yourself is so much more rewarding then workin' for the man...
 
Winding down packing up the camper for camping/fishing trip that we'll be taking after the holiday traffic rush. We'll be gone a couple of weeks, no computer, phone, etc. Furkiddos are also looking forward to getting back to nature. :eek:nthego:
 
SeaBreeze said:
Winding down packing up the camper for camping/fishing trip that we'll be taking after the holiday traffic rush. We'll be gone a couple of weeks, no computer, phone, etc. Furkiddos are also looking forward to getting back to nature. :eek:nthego:
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Ahhh, getting back to nature. When visiting my son and daughter-in-law in Austin, went toooobing down the river. Every time the current would push one of us toward a logjam along the shore, my daughter-in-law would say in her sweet, darling way, "Nature!"

Yes! Smart to wait until after the holiday traffic calms down. My family never traveled on the holidays and it was really weird to do so when I left home.

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OH, Krewl fate! Proof the universe has a perverse sense of humor. Was congratulating Hello Kitty and myself for beating (so I thought) the gophers . . . HA! They've regrouped and are back with a vengeance. Of course, the attack is in the rock garden. New succulents are getting munched and/or pushed up and out of their new homes. Arrrrghhh!!!! The fight continues.... @#%^&*!!!
 
Seabreeze..have a great trip. We'll miss you....Travel safe and bring back lots of good memories to share!


How much wood does a woodchuck? Mystery solved...They don't chuck any wood, they dig dens under my shed. Yesterday, as we were putting away things from our shopping trip, hubby looked out the window and asked what was in the pasture. I grabbed the binocs, and danged if I knew....some kind of strange animal munching on the grass..oh, wait...there's two of them. Hubby guessed they were woodchucks. I googled them and sure enough, big as life, that's what the critters were. That solved the mystery of what made two huge holes, tunneling under the shed overnight.....Well, the coons seemed to have slowed down, at least for now, only to be replaced by wood chucks.:banghead:

That Guy...I'll see your gophers and raise you a woodchuck and a coon....I have moles also, if you would like some of those too. I'll throw them in free with the rocks;)
 
Ozarkgal said:
Seabreeze..have a great trip. We'll miss you....Travel safe and bring back lots of good memories to share!
How much wood does a woodchuck? Mystery solved...They don't chuck any wood, they dig dens under my shed.
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Thanks so much Ozarkgal. :) I've had some suspicious holes in my yard, surrounded by piles of sand/soil...never saw the culprit, but suspect it may be a woodchuck. :p
 
Ditto the safe trip, much fun, and catch a lot of fish Seabreeze! We will miss you but have a wonderful time:eek:nthego:

That Guy and Ozarkgal: I'd have to fold -- all I have are those awful mutant looking moles and they are destroying the ground. I used to have a dog that would dig for them, kill them and leave them for me to find; he's the only dog I've ever owned that would go after them.

I'd like Louie-the-Weasel dog next door a whole lot more if his JR/mix egotistical self would tear up the yard and leave me some dead moles instead of trying to steal the cat food like Marley-the-Weimaraner does <sigh>
 
Well, after giving the coons and ourselves a break for the last two days, hubby set the traps this evening. Didn't catch a coon yet but, yeaaa..we caught the feral cat that has been lurking about for two months, eating the cat food and spraying "his territory" with his urine. Hubby chased him off this afternoon again, but it didn't take. He came back for seconds tonight, and now he gets to go for a ride. He is very feral and very belligerent.

There is now a possum out there checking out the cat..don't imagine he's too happy being the evening entertainment. We've lived here three years next month and haven't seen as many animals the whole time as we have in the last three weeks.....

Oh yeah, yesterday we came within inches of hitting a coyote on the highway when he darted out in front of the truck. Hubby's quick brake reaction was the only thing that saved his hide. We seem to be wildlife magnets lately for some reason.
 
Ozarkgal said:
We seem to be wildlife magnets lately for some reason.
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I'm wondering if this weather might be a factor? We have more critter activity than usual and closer to the house.

There's been a rabbit eating bird seed under the feeder every AM. Then there's the gray squirrel that comes right to the sliding glass door and devils the heck out of one of the dogs.

We now have two types of Woodpeckers duking it out at the bird feeder. The Red-headed fella has been here a couple years - I don't know where the other one came from.

There was the wild turkey headed for the barn the other AM and they never come close to the buildings. The Admiral was stalking him and thought his fat feline self was going to kill that turkey but Mr. TWH went out and shooed the dumb turkey back into the pasture.

Folks on a couple of the horse forums have been talking about seeing snakes when they haven't been used to that.

There's been plenty of rain, I see berries on the bushes, so I know they're not hungry or thirsty.


I'm thinking the weather is so "skew-hawwed", as dad used to say, that it's got all the animals on the move in a way we're not used to seeing:confused:
 
Same here with multiple animal sightings. Could be . . . the end of the world... Somebody, t'row dem bones, read those tea leaves, spin in circles, eat some majick poison and let us know.

Super moon. Hope you watched it rise. Closest to Earth in its perigee and beautiful. Mercury, Venus and Jupiter are doing some wonderful things right after sunset.

So, the gopher battle continues. Oh, not to worry. I've got raccoons, moles, coyotes, deer, rattlers AND mountain lions to contend with. So far, only the stupid gophers are the problem...

My older sister up in Northern California just wrote to tell me two BEARS crossed the road in front of her as she was driving and made eye contact with her... Not Yogi!

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Yes, the moon is glorious. I look at the sky every single night, after lights out at the barn, so I never miss anything going on up there:D

ThatGuy, when I lived in SoCal and my yard was more gophers than dirt, somebody told me to throw un-chewed Juicy Fruit gum down the holes because they love that sweet smell, will chew the gum, can't digest it, so suffocate from it.

I had tried everything, including those whackadoo electronic devices; all those did was buy somebody an expensive supper out of my checkbook:(

The juicy fruit gum did seem to work but using the gum was about the same time a white barn owl took roost in the 40' palm tree in my front yard and the gophers seemed to disappear. The baby owls fell out of the nest with frequency but the gophers disappeared.

When the owls fell out, I would wrap them in towels and carry them somewhere down toward Riverside, to a lady who rescued/rehabbed Raptors and turned them loose away from population once they were ready.
 
TWH. I've heard about the juicy fruit gum thing but may just have to try it, now. Hear and have seen lots of owls at night but need to alert them to the latest crop of critters. Would think coyotes are feasting on them, too. Probably more than enough to go around.
 
Hmmm...more copperheads here this year, so I hear - haven't seen one yet, myself. Something digging holes in the backyard; not sure what as yet. They say animals are on the move more before a big earthquake....sure hope that's not it.

I do think it's this wacky weather, for some reason.
 
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