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Don’t forget they had to milk a cow or two, get the critters fed and tend to any other chores BEFORE they fed themselves. I grew up listening to my grandparents telling stories of life on the farm. Even though I was only a couple generations removed, It felt real and normal. My granddad would rise at 3-4 every morning. In bed by 9. It’s what he did all his life and it never changed.

Granddaughter duty all day. Need to replace a fixture, so gonna knock that out early. Found a Mushroom/wild rice soup recipe gonna whip up tonight. It’s soup weather now.

I didn’t have a dog in the fight, but that World Series was the best I’ve seen in ages.

Have a wonderful Sunday…and now the MZ——

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PS….we need to STAY on Standard Time!
I feel like we should stay on daylight savings time.

 
In one of my last bouts with poison ivy it was spreading what seemed to be weeks later. The doc reluctantly gave me prednisone and told me to back track and find the source. The not cleaned tool banister doorknob…. No way PI is in your blood stream. Still getting worse I re-nacted the day. I always put my car outside the garage when I work. That day I volunteered to clear out years of volunteer weeds and trees in front of my neighbors front porch. A little acetone on a clean rag and cleaned the arm rests and steering wheel in the car. Finally stopped the spread.
One of my worst bouts with PI and how I refuted the source and spread theory was one Christmas morning. My girl and I slept on the floor at her sisters. The house was full like 20 of us. On the floor Reece the chocolate lab that resembled his name slept with us. Remi was there for a while too. I woke up itchy and by mid day covered with the stuff. I don’t know what I took home with me that could have been spreading it or reenforcing it but I was weeks with the stuff. How I got it was Christmas Eve Pauli had the dogs out running loose in the Poconos chasing deer. Must not need leaves on the vine to get it either. Sometimes now I feel afraid of dogs I don’t know where they’ve been.
The oil from poison ivy can stay active for a year! So if you have it in your tools, or your shoelaces, or your boots etc, you can keep on getting it.

Worst I ever had it:
1. As a teen, we were partying in a field that must have had a metric fuck-ton of PI. I was super itchy so I took a hot bath before I went to bed. Essentially it was the worst possibly thing to do - it made the oil spread all over my body. Two weeks worth…

2. About 20 years ago I was weeding the garden. I pulled a “weed” out of the garden that was actually PI. Well… the roots have the most concentration of the oil. And then I worked the rest of the day, seeeating, rubbing my head and brow.

I needed up having PI all over my face and head. It was awful.

Both times were about 2 weeks worth of living in fuck city…
 
Ya know, you got me thinking about this. The 95 year old ford has a Bakelite distributor that I believe is original. I know there's a lot of Bakelite from that era that's still around, in various old collectible stuff. Anyway, In 70 years I'm not going to be worried about any of it! :ROFLMAO:

Cold one out there this morning. We had frost setting on everything at 10pm last night, and it didn't get any warmer. Took down the last few bean poles and fences and tomato supports in the garden. This morning made 4 passes over it with the tiller. Looks like nice fresh black dirt again. All the detritus is ground in and buried, save for one or two corn stalks that popped up near the surface. It probably didn't need tilling, but looks better now.

Might scrounge up some lunch. It's feeling like that time already.
I gotta clean our garden. It’s a mess.

It feels good to clean up a garden - prep it for winter.
 
Good day today.

Good discussion abt a thorny topic this morning. Then off to the farm property.

Bucked (rounded) a few logs and took down some dead ash trees.

Then knocked out the rafters on the solar kiln. The angles can be a challenge for me, but I got it figured out. Took me some time, but knocked it out.

I still gotta skin it, put in insulation, paint it, build the doors and paint it. So getting there.

Then spilt some firewood and mowed the lawn at the building we maintain.

Bonfire and then dinner. Now football.

Almost 18k steps.
 
Good day today.

Good discussion abt a thorny topic this morning. Then off to the farm property.

Bucked (rounded) a few logs and took down some dead ash trees.

Then knocked out the rafters on the solar kiln. The angles can be a challenge for me, but I got it figured out. Took me some time, but knocked it out.

I still gotta skin it, put in insulation, paint it, build the doors and paint it. So getting there.

Then spilt some firewood and mowed the lawn at the building we maintain.

Bonfire and then dinner. Now football.

Almost 18k steps.
Holy crap is that a normal day?
 
I'll take the light in the mornings. Otherwise, fuck a fallback.


Dr.Tyler did not pass a very good afternoon. She fell when she wasn't supposed to be moving about alone. Hit her fucking head. Two CT scans in five days. I wonder if they looked to see if she has a fucking brain. Told her not to do this shit. She does what she wants/thinks is a good idea. We may have to teach her to drink herself into oblivion three times a day.


Off to get a few things done before hitting the road. Oh three hundred and all . . . .
 
I'll take the light in the mornings. Otherwise, fuck a fallback.


Dr.Tyler did not pass a very good afternoon. She fell when she wasn't supposed to be moving about alone. Hit her fucking head. Two CT scans in five days. I wonder if they looked to see if she has a fucking brain. Told her not to do this shit. She does what she wants/thinks is a good idea. We may have to teach her to drink herself into oblivion three times a day.


Off to get a few things done before hitting the road. Oh three hundred and all . . . .
Totally agree.!
 
I like bolts. Bolts are good.
Had a Chevy Blazer back in 2001... had 3 bolts holding the engine block in place.

One oil change my mechanic told me, "It's time to get serious about finding a replacement."

Seems one of the bolts was sheered off. A stiff breeze would likely finish the job on the third... and there was no way one bolt would hold that engine in place.

I really liked that car. The engine had over 200,000 miles and was raring to go for 3, but the body was disintigrating. If that 2nd bolt didn't break off, the windshield was a couple milimiters from rusting out.

Driving it in weather was... an adventure :LOL:
Right after we got married, my husband purchased a new Blazer. I was used to driving low sports cars. When I sat up in the Blazer, I was amazed how much I could see!

I promptly stole it from him. 🤭🤭
 
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