Coffee anyone ?

[Baymule]

Coffee is ready. I’m going to try to have the house ready to spray with Kilz by Monday. @Ridgetop’s DH spent 2 days on taping and floating the walls, there is still a little to do. He told me to use a sanding screen instead of sand paper and to get the sander with a pole handle so I wouldn’t have to climb up and down the ladder. After they left yesterday I went to Home Depot and got that plus a few more items. Can’t seem to be able to walk out of there for less than $200.

 

[Mini Horses]

@farmerjan leaving for goat pick up in next half hr, just getting a bite before...taking coffee in my travel cup for couple hr drive. 😊. @frustratedearthmother I can't wait to see his kids arrive either!🤣 Gonna be a long winter.

Chores done, heads counted, gates checked, trailer hitched. Second road trip in this month for me. 🤔. Glad to be done because I have canning all weekend!! So drive, load....drive, unload. Pick green beans. Trim beans while waiting for milk to be cheese .... That's multi tasking!! there's a crapload of eggplant ready to pick. That will be sliced, breaded, frozen, for eggplant Parm.. I see a busy weekend coming up.

 

[frustratedearthmother]

@Mini Horses - safe travels!

 

[Blue Sky]

Good morning. Iced coffee with cinnamon. Knee is improved but have had a stomach bug. Keeping things watered has been a chore. Hubbs has done most of it. Have safe pen and round bales in place at new ranch. About 3/5’s packed, need to put the spurs to that. Lucky the bottle lamb is identifying as a dog and was trying to help Leo move sheep. He does not want to be weaned, Nope. The dogs get house breaks depending on temps. We had five consecutive 108 degree days last week. And I hope everyone gets all bonded and cozied up in preparation for the car trek to the new place. No rain in the forecast but a modest cool down- upper 90s.

 

[Blue Sky]

My pasture.

 

[Alaskan]

My pasture.

I bit dry ain't it?

 

[Baymule]

@Blue Sky your new place is black clay? When it rains, you will have some bodacious mud!

 

[Blue Sky]

@Blue Sky your new place is black clay? When it rains, you will have some

No sandy. Never lived on that.

 

[Baymule]

No sandy. Never lived on that.

So you are going from black clay gumbo concrete/goopy gooey mud to sand? Oh, you are SO going to LOVE the sand!!!! Sand has its drawbacks but is nothing like black gumbo. Our land in Livingston was black gumbo. My feet would slide apart just standing still when it was wet. It stuck to my boots, every step, my feet got bigger. Once, against my advice, my husband buried his one ton truck to the axles. It took a bulldozer to pull him out. Our place in Lindale was pure white sugar sand, like a Florida beach. I’ll take sand over black gumbo any day! Black gumbo cracks house slabs too, our house slab in town was cracked, the garage was separated from the house. I don’t like black gumbo, in case you haven’t noticed. LOL
My new place seems to be a mixture of sand and clay with red clay/dirt if you start digging. I’m happy with that. Good luck with your new place, you are going to be real happy with it!

 

[Baymule]

Finished my second cup of coffee. Made extra to make sweetened coffee and cream, to put in a quart jar for iced coffee later this afternoon when I need a caffeine kick. LOL Hopefully I can finish taping and floating, take down all the blinds and cover windows with plastic. If the Doublewide Goddess smiles on me, I may even cover cabinets with plastic too. So close to being able to spray with Kilz! Oh, forgot the covering light fixtures too.