so waht ya doin today?

he did that yesterday.
comeonRick keep up.

looks like the wife is working a double today,, i'm guessing she's working swapping someone a shift and planning on taking the other 2 drunken monkey's down to Pokie tomorrow or the next day.
 
462 said:
I was out at 0700 moving potted plants, pulling up stepping stones, wheelbarrowing them to the other end of the house, and stacking them so the plumbers would have places to pile trench dirt. The temperature was 37. It was cold. Neighborhood roofs were frosty. It was so cold my finger tips were frozen from pulling up the cold stones. Finished at 0800. Temperature was 39.
It was still cold.

Plumbers arrived at 0900 and made huge piles of dirt, the young tunnel rat burrowed under the walkways, 52 feet of copper pipe and PEX tubing was laid and leak tested, and the huge piles of dirt were thrown back in the trench. The guys were treated to water, coffee, and a dozen mixed doughnuts. Well, eight actually, because my wife and I had two each. Big bucks, but it had to be done.

Big rain -- .7" to .8" -- is scheduled to start tomorrow morning.
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Perspective, it's all about perspective!
 
Wind continues but the rain is letting up...I think. Got a dental appt early and then maybe I can get some stuff done. I don't do well trapped in the house. Idle hands and all that. The shop/garage is a mess but it was too windy to hump the contents outside to where they go, to various other buildings, etc. Some days the little jobs just become overwhelming when you look at starting them.

I did survey the work required to install a water softener at Matt and the Angels house. Easy enough job except for the water drain. Gonna have to get creative on that part. OTOH, I did mention that we had no freezer space for his venison! I think he went and got a small chest freezer. Hope so, 'cuz I can't store it.
 
Yesterday was rifle opening day, always first Wednesday after Thanksgiving here.

I haven't hunted out there for a couple of years and it's getting hard enough to do and recover one that I probably won't much anymore, but I have a honey hole tree stand in a (now dead) locust tree which has been a good producer of venison for a long time.

The act of getting into that stand before dawn and watching the sun come up over the lake waiting for a deer has become a deeply personal, almost spiritual event for me. That tree is dead and it won't be safe next year, the flood that did it in appeard to have killed off the others in that spot, so yesterday was likely the last time.

I saw a lot of does I chose not to shoot. Clear and very cold like usual, beautiful day. Stumbled into a yearling fawn on the way out, froze to see what it would do and despite being exactly down wind from me, it walked up almost close enough for me to pet it. Never did spook, just lost interest and walked away.

Shot a coyote who showed up at dusk which derailed any momentum I might have had to shoot one of the does that were visible. No deer, but it's been a long time since I spent an entire day alone in the woods, it was good, but I was worn out.

Big tract of public land, opening day and not another soul the whole day, not even a game warden. It was an unusually good day.
 
Home a second day from work with the crud that tests negative for covid, strep, and flu. It's going around like wildfire, pounding sinus headache, palate/neck/shoulder/upper back ache, brain fog, horrible sore throat, things taste wrong, acid reflux, nausea, and about 24 hours of total exhaustion, spells feeling clammy/feverish/hot but no fever, today the sore throat turned into a hacking cough. If it ain't some new strain of covid then it's something just as bad. Wheee.....
 
Bret4207 said:
Perspective, it's all about perspective!
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Yep, when the average late Fall and the entire Winter temperatures rarely if ever drop to 32, let alone below freezing, 37 is cold. My comfortable outside temperature range is 50 to 75, but if I'm working 45 may be doable and 65 is perfect.
 
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Up till 2020 my buddys wife was "sick" every other month. She watches neighbors kids daily after school. About 1/2 the time she shares it with her husband.

Yea I know the perils, of the rug rats...
 
The weather here has been terrible. Humid, gloomy, gross weather alternating with brilliant, clear fall skies, then rain and more gloom, lows alternating between 33 and 65, it's no wonder the trees and people are perpetually ill. The only normalcy is brought by artificial climate control. I'm SUPER happy that I did all the work earlier in the year to climate control my shop.
 
My stepmom taught K-6 for 32 years. She said she was sick almost constantly for the first couple of years teaching due to constant exposure to the viruses and bacteria, then it stopped and she hadn't had a head cold or any other bug since. I've never known her to be sick once in 35 years. I know the medical establishment says there's no basis for this phenomenon but it's too common to discount.
 
Last time I got the crud none of us had been anywhere or around anybody else for days. I blamed my shop cat for it since she was the only one who had been off the property.
 
i had a heart cath done on Tuesday (i don't need a heart stent) and now i'm done with deer hunting until next Tuesday. i wanted to go Saturday and i told the nurse, but she said "go ahead, if you rip the artery plug out and you get here, just remember it will hurt and my hands will be next to your groin...." and she smiled, menacingly. so i'm going wait until Tuesday, just like the nurse said.
 
Yeah, flu is going around here, as well. Friend of my wife's just got it. And her hubby is 88 of 89. People who come to work sick are doing nobody any favors. Same with parents who send their kids to school sick. We are a me-first society.
 
462 said:
Yep, when the average late Fall and the entire Winter temperatures rarely if ever drop to 32, let alone below freezing, 37 is cold. My comfortable outside temperature range is 50 to 75, but if I'm working 45 may be doable and 65 is perfect.
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Exactly, you need perspective. Come on up in a month or 2. I'll give you a whole knew appreciation for what cold is! Free of charge too!
 
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