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What are you doing today, II

Big Dog said:
Fighting with my CPA ............. grrrrrrr
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You're a big guy. You got this. ;)

Watched the movie Reagan this morning. Good movie.
Went to pick up our auction wins (about a dozen items) at lunch time. Stopped by a Mazda dealer on way home but didn't find anything I really wanted (looking at their used vehicles).
Got home and checked out my auction items. Did pretty good since most are in very nice or new condition.
Just ordered almost $200 worth of insecticide (targeting grubs in particular). Friggin moles are tearing up everything.
Tinker/putter this afternoon. Early bedtime as I need to take the Mrs. to the airport around 4AM.
 
bczoom said:
You're a big guy. You got this. ;)

Watched the movie Reagan this morning. Good movie.
Went to pick up our auction wins (about a dozen items) at lunch time. Stopped by a Mazda dealer on way home but didn't find anything I really wanted (looking at their used vehicles).
Got home and checked out my auction items. Did pretty good since most are in very nice or new condition.
Just ordered almost $200 worth of insecticide (targeting grubs in particular). Friggin moles are tearing up everything.
Tinker/putter this afternoon. Early bedtime as I need to take the Mrs. to the airport around 4AM.
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You got a yard roller I can borrow, one to plant seed and one to plant a CPA?
 
Big Dog said:
You got a yard roller I can borrow, one to plant seed and one to plant a CPA?
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I have a roller for flattening the lawn, several seeders and spreaders but what the hell!!! Who wants to plant a CPA?!?!? A new one might sprout out then a possible infestation. No thank you. ;)
 
I have a nurse aide I love and she's been one of my dependable girls.
She's been looking for a new apartment because Riverview here in town sucks.
My Landlady Rose told me there is one available out back, by the pond.
So Mara will be moving in.
I love taking care of my staff members, especially her and April.
 
I'm going to bed and watch All In The Family reruns.
Thanks Fred and Lenny for the birthday loves.
I don't expect anything tomorrow from my kids or friends.
I'll accept Happy Birthday!
Do NOT buy me anything!
 
pirate_girl said:
Oh yes!
I'll be turning 65 years old tomorrow.
Social Security took some bucks from my account to remind me 😄
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Happy Birthday PG ….. I always thought you were a lot older than me …… 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣. I been 65 for 6mos ❤️ …. I’m not getting SS yet but wife is. After me wanting to plant my CPA, may not be long …. 😏
 
Got some stuff done, not enough, but since the lovely Mrs_Bob wasn't home most of the day to watch, I think she thinks I was busy :beer:

One of tasks I've been putting off was replacing the belt on the Land Pride mower deck. That got done, will less trauma and no bloodshed, than I would have bet on. I'm not 100% sure, but I don't even think swearing was involved in the belt install. Old belt was stretched beyond recognition, I had nursed it through the end of last season, but it would fly off the spindles if they got caught up in rough grass or weeds. Ordered 2 replacements in the fall and the were sitting in the package on my workshop shelf all winter.

Nice weather today so I figured it was a good day swap on a new belt. Honestly the old belt was probably stretched close to 2" extra over spec! Had to make a few adjustments to the tensioning system, even then I couldn't easily get the new belt on and during 1 ill fated attempt the spring let go and tossed a screw driver under a pallet. Next attempt failed. 3rd time was a charm. Tighten the bolts on the tension system, checked everything. Installed the covers. Tested it. All good.

Neighbor watched from his mailbox, probably waiting for me to swear or bloody one of my hands. He walked back inside disappointed that the show was uneventful.
 
Starting front hub repairs on the Kioti, front left bevel gear threw three teeth. Policing 3 homesteads through Monday (all the same family on a trout rodeo with kids), 150 acres.
 
So about 6 winters ago, we had just gotten new glasses. Not long after I was out snowmobiling. I don't normally wear glasses when snowmobiling so I could have sworn I lost them out in the garage or had left them on the seat of the snowmobile before heading out. Either way I was certain I had lost them. I forced myself to use an older pair all scratched for about two years until we got new prescriptions. Mine didn't change much. I got new glasses then online. They broke. I went back to using the old scratched ones. We recently got new glasses again as we do every two years through our benefits. I got 2 pairs this time. Well, fast forward to this morning, we were cleaning up the living room and opened a drawer. Tucked at the back was a glasses case. We opened it and there were the new glasses I thought I had lost 6 years ago. Barely a noticeable change in my prescription. So now I have 3 pairs of prescription glasses.

I did go out this morning to plow snow for a while cleaning up from yesterday's storm. Other than that nothing much happening around here.
 
I've been going through some major shit today.
Had to see an attorney to grant me visitation rights in order to see my youngest Granddaughters.
Their Mother is a dramatic, (now drugged out idiot) or so I've been told.
No job, lives with some woman, she's pulled Maddie and Elaina out of school.
She even sent an email to the city of Defiance saying they were poisoning her children through the water.
Ty and Felicia are absolutely beside themselves over what to do about this.
I'm about at the end of my rope.
 
It’s been raining and I been ripping out sagebrush and burning it, hard to belive that in a full on downpour that crap burns like crazy. I had about 2 acres of it, I think I’m about 1/2 done need another week of rain before summer and I can finish it.
 
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I'm preparing for yet another late winter early spring snow storm. That's right. Another 20-35cm forecast for tomorrow. I was just out moving things into the garage and making room to push snow tomorrow.

On a side note, we started a spice garden this week. The kids are enjoying watching the progress so far. We have a window knook off our dining room with full southern sun exposure.

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NorthernRedneck said:
I'm preparing for yet another late winter early spring snow storm. That's right. Another 20-35cm forecast for tomorrow. I was just out moving things into the garage and making room to push snow tomorrow.

On a side note, we started a spice garden this week. The kids are enjoying watching the progress so far. We have a window knook off our dining room with full southern sun exposure.

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I've been THINKING about gardening.

Just thinking about it. Everything here is flooded.

Temperature swings are wild. Freezing to 70(F) and back to freezing.

But today I actually worked on a rolling shelf unit that will be used at the fencing club. And I went to the club for our weekly advanced saber practice. We have a fantastic coach from Chicago come in for the Tuesday practices, he gives private lessons and today we stayed late so he got to fence several of the people who were at today's practice. I also had 3 of my best Purdue fencers show up for today's practice. One of the Purdue fencers got a lesson. The other two just came to do high level fencing.

I skipped going down to the regular Tuesday practice at Purdue. I make 95% of the Tuesday practices on the main campus but honestly I'm pretty exhausted physically. I think I really need to get a lot more exercise into my daily routine. I stopped due to arthritis and now I get fatigued too easily (and gained weight too). I've been running EXTRA fencing sessions and working more with the University of Illinois/Chicago fencing club. Plus my private club. And still with the Purdue University club. And now a Purdue extension campus too. So I'm literally running around from campus to campus to club to campus to club . . . and I'm just worn out. So tonight I'm taking a break.

Also, I just drugged up one of the dogs. Big storm front coming through. Thunderstorms and tornadoes predicted. I want to sleep.
 
Melensdad said:
I've been THINKING about gardening.

Just thinking!

But today I actually worked on a rolling shelf unit that will be used at the fencing club. And I went to the club for our weekly advanced saber practice. We have a fantastic coach from Chicago come in for the Tuesday practices, he gives private lessons and today we stayed late so he got to fence several of the people who were at today's practice. I also had 3 of my best Purdue fencers show up for today's practice. One of the Purdue fencers got a lesson. The other two just came to do high level fencing.

I skipped going down to the regular Tuesday practice at Purdue. I make 95% of the Tuesday practices on the main campus but honestly I'm pretty exhausted physically. I think I really need to get a lot more exercise into my daily routine. I stopped due to arthritis and now I get fatigued too easily (and gained weight too). I've been running EXTRA fencing sessions and working more with the University of Illinois/Chicago fencing club. Plus my private club. And still with the Purdue University club. And now a Purdue extension campus too. So I'm literally running around from campus to campus to club to campus to club . . . and I'm just worn out. So tonight I'm taking a break.

Also, I just drugged up one of the dogs. Big storm front coming through. Thunderstorms and tornadoes predicted. I want to sleep.
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I've been thinking about gardening as well.
My back yard has little room for a real garden and the squirrels tend to rob the tomatoes and peppers. So mostly I am putting in floral sets, Inpatients and marigolds.
The inpatients are lovely, prettier than marigolds. However, squirrels hate marigolds, so I am getting even.

I currently have five new celery plants started from store bought stalks we planted over the last few months.
I eat two stalk pieces a day so this will be useful. They will live in the greenhouse this summer.

I will have five tomato plants and maybe three peppers, but they will be in the Greenhouse.

We did let the Koi Pond go dry over winter. A hawk discovered it last fall and removed the school of small koi. So, we shut off the water supply to it. That cut at least $150.00 a month of the water/sewer bill. The pond bottom was natural, so water seeped away daily and had to be replenished. That trickle air orated the water.

I plan to dig up the pond bottom. Really rich loamy soil. Placing it in the flower beds and tomato planters should give be a bonus crop.I calculate about 12 cubic feet of loamy soil.

I will be digging the pond deeper and set the bottom with a vinyl liner and a sump pump system for the waterfall. The plastic bottom will cost about $150.00 but payback in a month or two.

I plan to have two pumps. One very small one for a trickle to keep the water oxygenated. And a large one for the waterfall which will come on occasionally and only for show.

I already have the pumps and waterfall kit, along with bags of big round stones and colorful gravels, so very little cash outlay. Some PVC pipe perhaps and a large diameter garden hose are in the garage waiting their assignments.
 
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