Coffee anyone ?

[RR Homestead]

The horse I just brought home came from a stables where no new horses have been added for 2 years, no horse has left and came back. So I felt safe that he is not sick. My new neighbors from Switzerland, the daughter is acting like I brought disease and pestilence to the neighborhood, they don't want me to even come over. I purely understand the need to take precautions, but this woman is paranoid. I saw her out in the field filling in hog rooted holes with a shovel for fear that her horses might get hurt. Gee, how the heck do wild horses survive in the rough country? I'm not going to trailer him all over the place and expose him. I will take him to the vet for a coggins test and I might get the vaccine, I will research that.

It's amazing the panic over this current virus. People are acting like it's a new one. Panic all around. We have a lot of "horse" people like that around here. Even clean up any poop piles in their pastures every day. I'll never forget the first time I saw someone do that. Blew my mind. Of course in a stall I get it but a large pasture?!

Lay a long tarp on the floor, pack boxes on it. You want the "fold" to the front, pull tarp over boxes and duct tape it and tie it. Hint on corner grommets, wrap twine around the corner above the grommet or tie a knot at the corner, then wrap and tie twine above the knot.

We were actually discussing that. That may be what we do. Tarps are always handy. Will be able to reuse it after moving. Going to need several very large tarps to do this but I think this might be the answer.

I was going to suggest industrial size/weight trash bags. A tarp makes more sense.

That was our thinking until we started tossing around a a couple tarps. The amount of bags would be a lot to fill the trailer with boxes. It's definitely not off the list of possibilities along with the tarps.

Storm watching eastern TX and Louisiana:

Watching as I'm typing this. Always watch these live streams. Have friends in KY that often are under watches. A little different thinking now that we are moving to where this kind of weather happens. This stream is hitting me a bit differently now.

Good afternoon everyone!
Closing has been postponed. Was supposed to be today. Trying not to get frustrated. Mostly with those who are dragging things along as if this hasn't been happening over a month now. Engineer was out today and according to the sellers all was great which was expected. The mortgage company already had plenty of proof everything was done properly. Not sure why they thought to wait two days before closing to demand a report. The report should be in tomorrow. Hoping to still close by Wed. but not sure how that will happen now. We were supposed to sign today for Wed. closing.
Sitting down with some coffee for a few. Pumpkin in the oven baking. Still 8 or so more to go. Need to go out and process some sort of animals waiting for processing but not sure that will actually happen this late in the afternoon now. Maybe I'll get set up today and process the first group of chickens tomorrow. Get them cooking tomorrow night and stock started when they are done cooking the next day. Just need to decide if i'm canning or freeze drying the meat. Stock will take days and will be freeze dried into bouillon powder or plain stock. Need to check inventory and see what we need more of. There will be another round of chickens but we are waiting on them until we are closer to actually leaving so we can still have fresh eggs. Those will probably just go into the freezer until I have time at our new place. Have the breeding rabbits to process as well. Was waiting to be sure we are actually moving before doing them. Same with the remaining goats and sheep.
Y'all have a great rest of the day.

 

[Baymule]

North side of Houston just had a tornado...

It tore roofs off and toppled trees.

 

[Weldman]

Welp looks like the temperature is falling further than anticipated this weekend, we will see sub zero temperatures in November that we don't see till later in the month of December.
Blowing 40 mph winds and torrential rain this evening, I finally broke the customer as he threw in the towel cussing up a storm calling me insane and I'm yelling back, you wanted to poke fun at me about shutting it down for rain and I'm not moving fast enough. Now you get to see the side of me I try to keep a lid on, suck it up lets keep going, he ran inside abandoned ship

 

[drstratton]

I was looking forward to it. I was so tired of lurching around like I’d been on a 3 day drunk. Tired of the pain, just ready to have the middle of my leg cut off and shove a new mechanical knee in the middle. I did 2 rounds of therapy. Look for a sports orthopedic surgeon that uses robotics.

Same here. Blew my knee out when I was 15, they sent me home with exercises. Ran around for 20 years without an acl and a torn meniscus, which constantly locked up on me. After we got married hubs said we need to get your knee fixed. So had my acl replaced. Dr said I would probably need a knee replacement in 10 years, made it 18. The final straw was not being able to push the clutch in on my car.
Sorry, I waited so long. Gave me my life back.

 

[drstratton]

I’m not 24-7 yet. It’s Murphy’s knee. It acts up at the worst times. More often than not I can work around it. This latest bout is alarming because it appears to be weather related rather than overuse. And I’m really paranoid about doctors. So I’m keeping the original equipment for now. I’m glad to hear you’ve had such good results with your replacement.

Just an FYI, if it swells up on you, you can be pretty certain you have ligament damage. Might be worth getting an MRI. Like @Baymule said, find an orthopedic sports surgeon that specializes in knees.

That kind of pain is not fun.

 

[fuzzi]

This evening I made mock mince for my pie:

One more full day of work tomorrow. I have a few more things I would like to get done before I head out the door. Once I get home I'll brown the sausage for the stuffing, maybe make the cranberry sauce.

Wednesday I work a half day, then go pick up Caleb. It's going to be interesting, cooking Thanksgiving while watching a puppy!

 

[drstratton]

Retirement is going to be amazing for you!

It will be interesting to see if puppy will need any timeouts...lol

 

[Baymule]

Coffee is ready. I went to bed last night at 8:30 and went right to sleep. TV was off due to the storm, and I slept until 4:30 this morning! 9 hours of sleep and I still feel tired. Watching channel 13, Houston news and they showed the damage done by the tornado yesterday. For once it is not a trailer home park. It is a upper scale real nice neighborhood, big fancy homes and they are torn up. Roofs off and damage, but not totally obliterated like a tornado can do. It is going to storm again this weekend. My new neighbors that got the triple wide modular home set up are finally going to be able to move in, they closed on it 2 weeks ago. Naturally they are moving this weekend and it will be storming around 3 or 4 Saturday afternoon. I've asked a few neighbors to help and they will be out of town. My son and I will go help.

 

[farmerjan]

Coffee is ready. I went to bed last night at 8:30 and went right to sleep. TV was off due to the storm, and I slept until 4:30 this morning! 9 hours of sleep and I still feel tired. Watching channel 13, Houston news and they showed the damage done by the tornado yesterday. For once it is not a trailer home park. It is a upper scale real nice neighborhood, big fancy homes and they are torn up. Roofs off and damage, but not totally obliterated like a tornado can do. It is going to storm again this weekend. My new neighbors that got the triple wide modular home set up are finally going to be able to move in, they closed on it 2 weeks ago. Naturally they are moving this weekend and it will be storming around 3 or 4 Saturday afternoon. I've asked a few neighbors to help and they will be out of town. My son and I will go help.

Hate to tell you... but 8:30 to 4:30 is 8 hours not 9......

 

[Baymule]

Hate to tell you... but 8:30 to 4:30 is 8 hours not 9......

So who said I could count? I got more sleep than I normally do, so naturally I'm a little brain dead.