Bruce's Journal

[Senile_Texas_Aggie]

Any word yet on when your tractor will be ready?

 

[farmerjan]

Maybe sister in law ought to live with you and DD2 go live where she doesn't have to work for her board???? Or pay you board so she doesn't have to help????

 

[Bruce]

It nice that you have someone helping you Bruce, perhaps you can invite her to stay longer ???

She's been here a month, leaving tomorrow. She lives in VA and is a teacher. She had to be here 2 weeks and have a negative Covid test before she could go visit her parents 45 minutes south. Only M-W-F.

Any word yet on when your tractor will be ready?

Haven't heard a thing. For all I know it will show up in the yard with no notice like the last time when it had hydraulic lines in the backhoe fixed!

Maybe sister in law ought to live with you and DD2 go live where she doesn't have to work for her board???? Or pay you board so she doesn't have to help????

See above Having her here for a month wasn't a bother at all. DD1 and her BF got old after about a day. DD1 is heading back to Canada on Friday, she came back 1.5 weeks ago from 2 weeks in VA dropping BF off at home. Had her Covid test on Thursday and hasn't heard anything which supposedly means she's clean. They tell you within 48 hours if the test is positive. She SHOULD get a phone call and will get a letter from the state health dept in a couple of days (if Sister in law's experience holds).

We've talked about having DD2 pay rent but haven't ever gotten to it. Of course now she is unemployed (though making more sitting home until the Fed $600/week stopped). She says she wants to move out but doesn't seem real motivated to find a job that would pay enough to afford an apt somewhere. So do we charge her now which makes it harder to save up money to move out or don't charge her so she has a better chance to move out??? Catch-22.


SIL and I sheared Teddy yesterday. He was good as usual. Still took over an hour and a half, I'll be sending the hand shears in to get sharpened. Those boys are sure dirty!!!!! I mowed the fenced area yesterday after shearing, got the Queen Anne's Lace cut down before it could reseed. Pretty but invasive and neither the boys or the hens eat it.

Had a vet out to cut down Laddie's front teeth today. Apparently being long isn't as horrible a thing as I believed but he took care of it. Guess that isn't something I'll need to have done again since their lifespan is usually around 15 years and he's at least 9 (if what the prior owners told us is true). The vet said they aren't like horses, can't tell age by looking at their teeth.

They don't look great but they are done. Not sure what is going on with Teddy's hair on the upper part of his legs unless spending time in the pond does that. No need to cut it at all and an odd brownish color. Head and tail still black, the rest getting pretty darn gray. Sorry no "before" pictures.

 

[thistlebloom]

Charge rent. It's good practice for being a grownup. You can put the money aside, without her knowledge and use it to help her with the first, last, and security deposit on a place of her own.
Our boys paid rent, enough to cover utilities and a little groceries. They also helped out with the yard, and did their own laundry. They cleaned up after themselves too, which was a no brainer and what had been expected of them since they were little.
Paying your parents rent to live in their house is a very good motivator to get out and pay rent to a stranger.

 

[Bruce]

Good idea Thistle! I'll have to chat with DW about it. And figure out how much to charge. I know my sister in So. Cal. charges her kids $300/month ... if they are working. Nothing when at school or not working. Her daughter has had some nasty medical issues for years.

BTW, I've got some pretty purple flowers on the bean plants

 

[thistlebloom]

My Carminat are spindly things this year, but the Fortex and the bush beans are looking good.

 

[farmerjan]

When I graduated high school, got the summer off... no rent. Come Sept if I went to college no rent of course, but I didn't go to college. Got married in Oct but paid rent in Sept. Brothers paid rent after their summer" free" until they moved out. We all had to follow the same rules too as when in school... of course had a younger sister there who needed the routine and all... but all those restrictions were a good motivator to move. This was back in the 70's... paid like 100 month and still had to do things around the house. And you didn't b#@ch or moan about helping either.
@thistlebloom 's idea to put the rent money aside to help out when she moves out is a nice gesture.... better than what alot would do, mine included....

 

[Bruce]

Still nothing on the tractor.
I think I should have kept checking the zucchini plant after not seeing anything for weeks and weeks.

 

[farmerjan]

They will hide just to see how big they can get!!!!!!!!

 

[Bruce]

They are very good at it! I brought in 3 really big Suyo Long cucumbers today. The difference between a big Suyo and a big zucchini is that the cucumber is still good all the way through, the seeds don't get big like "regular" cucumbers.