Ridgetop - our place and how we muddle along

[Bruce]

No one in my family will ever know the difference! HeeHeeHee!

And now you have egg yolks to make truffles! (the candy kind, not the fungus)

How would you like to take a trip to Arkansas and organize my shop?

Hold on there STA, she needs to come to my place first!

 

[Senile_Texas_Aggie]

Hold on there STA, she needs to come to my place first!

If Miss @Ridgetop and her family move to Texas, I'll bet she would love to come to your place in the summertime to get some relief!

 

[Bruce]

And organize my shop!

 

[Ridgetop]

These lights don't compare to Greybeard's show. The first photo shows lights on the fence down to the house, the front fence and disappearing down the hill in front. The second picture shows the light strings going down the hill along the fence about another 150 feet. DH has 2 or 3 more strings to put up. I will try to get a picture from the bottom of the hill looking up. The pictures are not very good, but the lights illuminate the entire road. We don't need the exterior lights when the Christmas lights are on!

STA & Bruce - I would love to organize everyone's tool rooms, but you would have to do the work while I sit on a chair and direct. I will make the labels for you. Oh yes, and drink coffee.

I am exhausted! But having that job finished has given me a second wind. I made 4 different types of Christmas cookies yesterday. Got up early this am and made 8 pies - 6 pumpkin, 1 pecan, and 1 mince (heavy on the liquor!). Then made the cranberry orange gelatin salad and the accompanying ginger curry sauce, a 5th type of cookie, and fresh cranberry orange relish. Wine and Martinelli's cider is chilling.
Set my Thanksgiving table. DH has offered to chop the onions, celery and apple for the stuffing tonight. I just have to put it all together, stuff the bird, and put the bird back in the fridge until tomorrow am wrapped in a damp rag so he or she won't dry out.
Tomorrow after we eat, the kids do the dishes while I collapse!

Next week other 3 ewes are due to lamb. Still wondering about Dorset yellow. Not much udder yet and only 1 week till lambing according to marking date. She will go to the auction if she doesn't lamb this year. Dorset Green is definitely pregnant and her udder is filling up and evening out. Both Dorsets are due next Tuesday. Lil Sweetie is due next Wednesday. Hopefully, I will get another purebred Dorper ewe lamb from her.

HAPPY THANKSGIVING!!!

 

[Mike CHS]

You are wearing yourself out but Happy Thanksgiving.

 

[Baymule]

If Miss @Ridgetop and her family move to Texas, I'll bet she would love to come to your place in the summertime to get some relief!

That's why we have air conditioning!!!

 

[Baymule]

Ridgetop your workshop is amazing! I could live there! LOL

May you have a Happy Thanksgiving and enjoy your family. What you have done is beautiful testament of a Mother's love for your family.

 

[Bruce]

STA & Bruce - I would love to organize everyone's tool rooms, but you would have to do the work while I sit on a chair and direct. I will make the labels for you.

You know, even that is immensely helpful. I look at all that stuff and other than things that already have a specified area, think "where should this go?"

 

[Ridgetop]

All over for Thanksgiving 2018 except the best part - the leftovers!

Enter Christmas, stage left and right simultaneously! Christmas decoration storage boxes are now in the house ready for me to put up.



DH, sweet man, ordered me not to get on the ladder to put them up! No worries though - I just got 2 new aluminum step stools (one for the house and one for the Tool/Workshop) that are 3 or 4 steps high. The steps are wide (deep?) so they are comfortable to stand on. Half price so it's a win. Lighter to move around and more stable than the step stool or the large ladder I usually use. I am going to take a little break today though. Our friends are suffering from Bridge withdrawal and we need to do an intervention!

I will start decorating later this evening or tomorrow am early. Then on to the Christmas cookie baking. I am ordering some gifts on line. Kids and grandkids will get a check, and a gift to open. Trying to make shopping easier for myself As we get older it is harder to find DH gifts. Maybe a nice set of SOCKETS?!

 

[greybeard]

I do not put up many Christmas lights myself. Would not even be visible from the nearest public road.
Truth is, I never took the ones around the porch rails down from last year. Way too dark out here with nothing to reflect the light for them to make much impact.

Now the new LED lights will only allow you to connect 3 or 4 strings together.

That's odd, unless it is specific to icicle type lights. . The 100 light LED C9 lights I use say I can string as many as 30 fifty two ft strings end to end (1560 ft/3000 lights) and the 200 light C9 set says 15 sets together is the limit (again, 3000 lights).
I have some 25 ft C9s that say I can string 45 sets together, end to end, for 1,250 ft. It is of course always limited by the current carrying capacity of the wires the string is made with.

(Honestly, I am truly shocked to learn California even still allows Christmas lights or any other type Christmas decorations.)

My cousin always decorated his place in Paradise but not their primary residence in Mountain View.