Share your day November 2013

Jillaroo said:
Well i have just finished repainting my concrete statue of a Lace Monitor on a large rock, the lace monitor is about 2 1/2 feet long and the rock is a bit larger it's higher on one end, not an easy task with a very bad back and all my other injuries, not as good as the first time i repainted it but at least it looks better than what it did an hour ago, now i am sitting down till the back is ok and i will start on the dreaded decluttering

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Good for you, Jill, I'm sure it looks very nice. Doesn't it feel so good to get it behind us, a job we've put off too long?

I hope your back recoups quickly, I can totally relate on that.
 
TWHRider said:
Ok Ladies, at the risk of getting whapped along side the head for name calling --- are those lizards suitable for pets? If not, why the attraction to have fake ones in your yards? Do the statues fend off other critters, like rats, or whatever similar rodents you folks have?

They're cute buggers - the striped one looks like you'd just want to walk right up and pinch his "fluffy" little neck - well I'd be dumb enough to try and I wouldn't hesitate to put his likeness beside the barn, in-between the deer and baby pig statues:stupid:
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I'm butting in here, but I'm going to be surprised if they make good pets. My g'son, RJ, has a blue tongued skink (purchased via a pet store going out of business sale) and tho Max is harmless...they DO NOT make good pets. He ALWAYS pees on you every time you pick him up and RJ has been handling him often and lovingly for 8 years. It's just another thing for my daughter to be responsible for in making sure the lights are on and off at certain times day/night, purchasing crickets for him, and washing more towels so he can be held. And since Max has grown so much, they had to purchase a HUGE glass aquarium for him, takes up one small wall and not at all attractive. You sure as heck can't bond with them, or I can't, and I'm the one who bought him...under pressure from g'son & w/my daughter's consent. Lizards as pets hold no appeal for me, maybe others, but RJ is the only one I know who would want one.
 
TWHRider said:
^^^^That's a good enough testimonial for me:clap:

BUT----------if I could find a good cement likeness of the striped guy, I would buy it and put it right at the corner of the barn, where everyone driving by could see it. I'll bet somebody would end up way down in the cow pasture, directly across the road:lofl:
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That would be a great idea. I bet you would have more than horses shi....to clean up.
 
Kept the doggie home today, 16 F degrees for our walk in the park, and a couple of inches of snow on the ground...

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Well after buying a pressure cleaner so i could clean the exterior walls of my villa plus clean the bird bath i get out there just now and it is absolutely pathetic, the pressure from the spray nozzle io put on the hose is stronger than this , so Pope you are getting your pressure spray back, must have been why it was marked down

 
Could account for it Jilly. I've had more than few of Pope nozzles fizzle out too, never buy that brand now.

Speaking of Lace Monitors as pets.... NOOOooooo!
We call 'em Goannas and they are among the least loveable creatures in nature. They can grow around 4 to 6 feet long. They're not venomous but a bite or scratch will infect you with every bacteria on the list as they're carrion eaters. They have claws like a velociraptor and if one is running away from something in your direction fall down flat or it will run straight up your body and sit on your head, sinking the claws in to keep it's balance. If you're flat they'll just run over you and keep going.Their natural defence is to run up a tree so go figure.

They're usually few and far between, never seen one around here although I'm told there are a few, bound to be I guess. They're not going to figure as one of OZ's most dangerous 'critters' but they are definitely not 'pet' material either.

I've picked up plenty of the Blue Tongues Katy and never had one pee on me. The fact they've probably already wet themselves because they've just been rescued from the dog's less than tender ministrations might have something to do with that.
I've managed to train her out of chopping them in halves now, she just picks them up gently and nudges and plays with them until I take them off her. They seem undamaged so I drop them over the fence and they waddle off. It's better than having to put down mangled ones before she learned what 'leave it!' means that's for sure.
I quite like Blue Tongues, they're fat, soft, warm and harmless. They can hiss big time though.

... and no, I can't imagine why anyone likes concrete goannas in their garden either, or gnomes for that matter... but then I have a couple of horse heads that used to live among the pot plants so who am I to judge?



 
SeaBreeze said:
Kept the doggie home today, 16 F degrees for our walk in the park, and a couple of inches of snow on the ground...

Beautious pic..SeaBreeze..That looks really frosty. I just got some doggie boots for the Gangstas recently. I am waiting for snow to see how they work...Just know this is going to go over like gangbusters with them though. I couldn't resist, Dr.s Foster and Smith had them on sale for $5.00 a set...if nothing else, I guess it will be picture worthy. I think your boy needs some too and he could go with you.

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It's been a rough couple of days. Yesterday was herding leaves around with a leaf blower. That's like trying to roundup cats on horseback. I decided to give it a go though after raking barely 1/4 of the backyard with a rake and my back was screaming at me, "I'm going to make you so sorry for this!"

Once I got the hang of pointing it in the right direction at the optimum level to the ground we got along much better and I was able to nicely clean about 1/2 of the back yard before completely giving out.

I got a pile of leaves 8 feet long and 4 feet high, and I haven't even scratched the surface of what's left. Every tree in the forest blows it's leaves on the three acres I have cleared. I really wish I could have worked on it some more today. Can't really say it takes less time than raking, but that's probably due to operator inexperience. It does a much cleaner job than a rake though. I had the foresight to cover the pile of leaves with a large tarp, so the leaves won't blow away until I can get back out and work on them some more. Probably won't be this week as they are predicting rain and freezing temps until next week.

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Had to go to Batesville and pick up prescripts and shop today. That's a whole day filled with joy.
 
We talked today about boots for the dog, but he's an old guy, and likely wouldn't appreciate wearing them. Not too many days where the snow and temps are too cold for his feet, on those days he can just stay home and rest his weary bones. I have a leaf blower too, and just the front lawn with the rocks that I use it on. It can take a long time, and a bigger mess can be made I found, lol. Sometimes I just get what I can with the rake and be done with it. That's a lot of leaves to deal with Ozarkgal, I know you don't bag them all up. :eek: My blower also acts as a vacuum, so I can suck up the leaves and they're cut into tiny pieces like dust. If it's just on the grass lawn, I use the lawn mower, that gets the majority of them.
 
I bought a leaf blower in Singleton, only used it once. It had a motor that sounded like a Pratt and Whitney in take off mode and I couldn't stand the noise and wasn't waiting around for the neighbours to shoot me.
I went back to using the hose to round them up and get them off the pebblecrete. The rest got chewed by the mower.
 
SeaBreeze
That's a lot of leaves to deal with Ozarkgal, I know you don't bag them all up. :eek:My blower also acts as a vacuum, so I can suck up the leaves and they're cut into tiny pieces like dust. If it's just on the grass lawn, I use the lawn mower, that gets the majority of them.
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Yes, my blower does that too SeaBreeze. Except it would take a hundred emptyings to do what I piled up yesterday.

I dread this time of year as much as I love it because of all the danged leaves. I'm talking ankle deep, blown a foot high against all the fencing, all around the tree rings, fire pit, garden areas, buildings and every crack and crevice on the place. The place I could actually mow to chop them up is minimal compared to all the small areas they get into that has to be hand raked.....

Bag them up? HaaaHaaa.. I would have to own stock in a plastics company. No, we load them into the bed of our little work truck and pile them up across the creek. Last year we did six pickup loads. This year that pile is well on it's way to becoming some nice dirt for the garden, so there's at least that benefit.
 
Jillaroo said:
Well after buying a pressure cleaner so i could clean the exterior walls of my villa plus clean the bird bath i get out there just now and it is absolutely pathetic, the pressure from the spray nozzle io put on the hose is stronger than this , so Pope you are getting your pressure spray back, must have been why it was marked down

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Well do i feel like an idiot, it works when you press the power button what a klutz , ok ok i'm getting old and that's my excuse and i am sticking to it.
 
Jillaroo said:
Well after buying a pressure cleaner so i could clean the exterior walls of my villa plus clean the bird bath i get out there just now and it is absolutely pathetic, the pressure from the spray nozzle io put on the hose is stronger than this , so Pope you are getting your pressure spray back, must have been why it was marked down

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Try a Protestant one Jill. :cool:
 
I like my Cyclone Rake. The mower chops them and the cyclone sucks them up. I pile them up for the compost or put them on the garden. We have one of those blower/vacuum things too for areas we can't reach with the cyclone.
 
Ok fellas it is fess up time on my behalf, i went out to the car to get the sprayer out of the boot to pack it up properly and thought i would have a peek at the manual, well watta ya know it's got a start button on the top of it, i'll say it again it's got a start button on the top, mind you i had plugged the lead into the powerpoint and connected the water etc , but i failed to press the bloody start button, i am normally spot on with things like this due top being on my own for 19 years, i am at a loss as to why i forgot to turn the bloody thing on, it works beautifully, mind you not as good as my daughters who paid $400 mine was only $58, i'll blame it on that darn Lace Monitor i painted yesterday, it must have sent my mind haywire. Now who else is going to be game to fess up to doing something stupid
 

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