I also wish I could have kept Merlin. DW had the "I'll never get back to sleep" mindset rather than "Merlin is doing his job, I can ignore it" mindset. I doubt she would be happy having a dog bark at night whether she had to get up in the morning or not.
I can generally avoid migraines if I avoid my migraine trigger foods. I sort of feel like I'm walking on that grass strip between the road with fast traffic and the sidewalk. I can occasionally eat a bit of something and stay on that strip but I never know how close I am to the wrong edge so I don't take chances.
@CntryBoy777 Rascal (lunch cat) and Christofur (lunch cat Jr) come running when I get a plate out or open the refrigerator anywhere near lunch time. Though Christofur seems to not care for ham anymore, Rascal has gotten double share the last 2 times. We give the tuna water to the cats though I'm not generous with the actual tuna
It was low high 40°s yesterday and 50°s today, Melted all the snow except where I had blown it. This is our near future, nothing like freezing rain and sleet overnight
I've been collecting the scrap metal from various locations in preparation for a SINGLE trip to the metal recyclers. Given the snow had all melted off it I figured I better get it moved before the snow covers it back up again tomorrow. I dug into the pile that has been in the front yard for the last 4 years (I know, I KNOW!). That pile was originally covered with a tarp by the contractors and I THOUGHT it was lumber they had delivered for the rebuilding. Found out when they were about done that was not the case, at least not by then because I KNOW they had some new lumber in there at times. I was expecting to find some small roofing pieces to scrap and some full pieces that I could keep for some unknown future project. There was also some scrap wood in there and a couple of fairly decent length pieces of PT 4x4 and one 6x6 probably 5' long. Good deck support that!
Well whoever put that metal roof on did it wrong. Holes all through the ridges. I would have thought that holes on the deck would be BAD and holes above it in the ridges would be GOOD since water wouldn't be running past the fasteners but I watched a video done by a roofing company a year or so back and the guy said the most common mistake people make is to put the rubber grommeted screws in the ridges. So it is either all scrap or I decide that whatever I make will be done wrong or will have holes where there should be none and maybe they can be patched with roofing tar or something.
The plywood I put up before to make the rabbit "feeding station" was resting on some old chicken wire loaded with snow and before it warmed up the snow in the wire was the peak of the Q&D structure. Today all the rabbit food was a wet mess since the snow melted. The bowl was, of course, directly under the peak of the structure. I took one piece of roofing that was about 3' long to make a new rabbit "feeding station" tunnel. I then leaned the bigger piece of plywood over it and against the CP fence to keep the 9" of snow we expect tomorrow from pushing the tunnel down.
No sign of the rabbit today but since the snow melted it probably had plenty to chose from. The alpacas were out all day, rain or not and they were pretty wet. The chickens must have thought spring had sprung with the snow gone and the temp up, they were wandering all around their normal haunts up by the house. Yuki must have been out in the rain then got into the dirt in the barn alley. She is the most brown White Rock there ever was! Won't the poor girls be surprised and
when it is 15°F tomorrow morning and -8°F Sunday morning ... and their outside world is again covered in white stuff they wish to avoid.
