Farmerjan's journal - Weather

[Baymule]

Sometimes I wonder when you sleep!
That is interesting about the AWD. My car is AWD and the tires are filled with nitrogen. The dealership tried to pop me for $500 for nitrogen filled tires, supposed to only need “air” once a year. I told the salesman I wasn’t going to pay that, let the nitrogen out and refill with regular air because I have my own air compressor and know how to check tires. Of course they didn’t do that but salesman took off that $500.

 

[Mini Horses]

Wow.....the tires, nitrogen (?!?!?), air....all that makes me glad to have old vehicles!! Truck is 4WD, car not. Trailers just roll along and rarely have much weight to consider anymore for tire type. Makes a flat from a nail a minor thing.

Glad the hawk was caught in time. Now to have the right timing with gun in hand.


ETA -- what ever happened with those turkeys?

 

[Bruce]

Costco does Nitrogen but I don't think they charge for it. Presumably nitrogen doesn't "leak out" through the tire compound as fast as "ordinary air" ..... which is 78% nitrogen.

All a gimmick if you ask me. If you need to add a couple of pounds are you going to go somewhere than has a nitrogen tank? No you are going to use your little home compressor. Get a good gauge, check pressures every few weeks or so and add or subtract as the ambient temps dictate through the seasons.

Turned around and went back to the store and asked a large gentleman to walk out with me. No problem after that!

Excellent decision! I wouldn't open the doors either.
And I'm sorry you had to deal with that trauma.

 

[farmerjan]

Friday night. I slept til after 7 this morning... and the right knee he worked on has been sore...

Went out and let chickens out of crate. They stayed in the shelter eating and drinking and then when they came out they ran along the side right out back to the thick pines where the chicken hawk cannot fly into.
I took the meters and the hoses out of the car, put them in the carport in the storage thing, since I won't be needing them for a few days. Came back to the front porch and the buff hen was right there headed for the holly tree since there is some brush around the bottom of it... Don't know where she had been... but she was not going out in the open so she knows. I remember I found that bunch of buff feathers one day and had thought she was "toast"... so that hawk must've tried to grab her also and she got into some overgrown grass and weeds.
Of course DS didn't bring the gun back this morning... he finally showed up with it after dark... and dropped it off... he was on the da$#%d phone the whole time... said I'll call you later which I knew was BS...

He never mentioned going to get the car.... never heard from him all day.... and I had stopped at the garage earlier because the fan on the car just fixed was making a noise... mechanic tapped the cover and it quit whining... he said they do that on occasion, and if it made the noise again to just tap on the cover under the pass side dash... and I said I was going to try to get a ride back to get the other car and he said that they might just drop it off if they had to go to the parts store ... he said they make that trip several times a day some days... and if it was at the house then I would know they had a chance to do it.

So, I hadn't mentioned the phone situation yet since I was really not in love with the new phone. I did go back and get the foldable flip phone... and had 2 weeks to decide. I have been wrestling with it... and kept it past the 2 weeks so it is mine. I am not in love with it. Too much crap that I prefer to be on the computer at the desk using... but it would erase all the contacts everytime I manually shut it down. I was beyond Pi$$ed off with it. Took it to the Verizon store; I had it activated and the young guy was great helping me get "started" on it a couple weeks ago. But this time I was not happy at all... and he was off that afternoon... and after doing a few things there, the guy who waited on me said I needed to go back to Best Buy where I got it as it was not a Verizon thing; it was the phone.
So, today I made a special trip up there to have the "geek squad" as they call their techs, look at it. Was supposed to make an appt but I didn't realize it... but they weren't busy and had time before the next scheduled appt... so took me after a simple process for another walk in customer.

He went in and changed some setting and then asked about having the numbers "stored" in a google account so if anything happened to the phone, they could be retrieved and put into another phone. Otherwise he could set it to just be stored on this phone... much like my old flip phone... but if the battery went dead or is got damaged and would not turn on there would be no way to retrieve them... and of course you cannot buy a battery for when the old one stops holding a charge like my old phone.... So I finally agreed to have a google account (g.mail) so that the numbers can be retrieved in case of this phone "going bad". He did say that android phones were better than iphones because everything on an iphone can only go through apple... androids had more flexibility for "fixing" some things on them... more apps available... and that one reason they stopped having removable batteries was just to make people buy new phones every few years, to "upgrade" to more complicated technology, and to make sure they could not be "worked on"....this is an android...

I'm still not in love with it after over a month with it. Doubt I ever will be. The size works okay, although bigger than the flip phone, as it will slide in the pocket... it is very "slick" so slides off anything that is not level. I do not put anything else in that pocket now so as to not scratch it... it is still too big to be comfortable in my hand. I cannot use it one handed like my old phone either... At least now when I turn it off and then back on the contacts are still there. I have so many numbers for farmers' cell phones and their wives phones and things like that... equipment dealers.... all sorts of stuff that I might only use once in awhile but want to have handy.... You cannot get a "protective cover " for it since it folds... I actually use a "coozy" to slide it into in the car so it will not get scratched when not in the pocket.
Hate typing on it for texts... even "enlarged", the letters are too small and close together and I have so many spelling mistakes. I know that takes some getting used to also...
I had never had a cell phone before the one I just had to give up... but I liked it from the beginning because it felt comfortable and it was not complicated. I could type out a message pretty fast even with there being 2-3 letters "per number" .... I have never liked using DS's phone and it is bigger than this one... I am not sold on this one either. But the "normal flip phones" that you can still get are bigger and too thick and feel "cheap"... except for the "hi impact ones that are supposed to be indestructible" and they are just too thick and bulky.

So that is the saga of the "new phone" and trying to make it at least "work" for me. I am still looking at phones so that if I find one that is smaller and more comfortable, I might change back.... but they told me when I got this one, once they deactivated my old one, because of the 3G status, that even if I didn't like this one in the 14 day trial, that I could not get the old one reactivated, but would have to go to something else, because it would have to be able to use the new 4 and 5 G systems. It would be dead before the end of this month anyway.....

So after I just came on home, didn't feel like doing anything and didn't even stop at the stockyard to see what cattle were doing. Got home and the red forester was here in the driveway for me... so don't need a ride to go get it.

I went out and crated the 3 chickens, and then came in. Then DS showed up with the gun a little bit later... I haven't eaten and should make something but not in the mood to do much.

Just got a text from DS about going to look at Christmas lights tomorrow night... not sure I want to go in a vehicle with a bunch of people.... maybe if I go once then they will stop asking... I am just not in the mood to go anywhere with them.....

Got to get up and go test in the morning... supposed to be some showers coming through this evening...clearing off tomorrow and decent for a day or 2; already put the trays of sample bottles in the car. I am going to go by the laundromat and wash a big load of jeans and some sneakers and bulky sweatshirts all in one big load... the sneakers wash so much better in the tumble type machines instead of the agitator one like I have..... the basket is in the back of the car ready to go also.

Supposedly there is a closing set on the house on NH... the other "heirs" have all decided that they don't have any money to contribute to the upkeep of the house through the winter... it has been funded from money from the sale of the vehicles and all that this spring... and you all know that lawyers don't work for nothing... but there hasn't been any out of pocket for any of them so far; now they are having to face up to having to come up with money for the taxes and ins and then minimal heat and snow plowing and all through the winter... da#n the sorry bunch of them.... DS and my brother are so done with dealing with them.
Still have not heard back from my sister..... from back when I went up to get the truck and Marji offered to go get the cookbooks... sister has not returned her calls either. But she has had time to make another trip to Fl to her daughters' to see the baby again.... just no time to return a phone call....

Time to eat a little something and go to bed. 3:30 will come early.....

 

[Mini Horses]

Phones!!!! I'm 2-3 months into mine. More comfortable with it BECAUSE it was that or almost nothing. Certainly not back to the old 3g we both liked. Mine is now just an alarm clock under my pillow 😫. I find new capabilities, by accident 🙄, and you will too. Figure no need to stay angry about it....another change forced upon us but it hasn't been a pleasant one. Mine isn't the flip. Sized bigger than I want...I've begrudgingly adjusted. I try to think of it as a smaller tablet than the one I use everyday. Helps.

I've had issues now with my tablet to deal with. Since the phone has capability for "hotspot" I gave up my dish internet. Saved that $ and it was kinda lousy anyway. Plus side -- I have net anywhere. Down side -- updates changed several things on my tablet programs! 🙄🤔😲😫😵‍💫. Surprise! BOO!!!

I'm real glad I had made a list of login/passwords, etc. Then had several notices from banks, CC, etc as I logged in to pay, or, that my device was no longer recognized. A lot of proving who, again. resetting and such crap. Been a trip!

Your vehicle return worked well!! 😁👍. That's a plus.

 

[Baymule]

I always kept a backup list on paper, in a file (the old times kind, we’re talking Manila folder, not the cloud) I need to make another list, have moved too much, can’t find it. I kept a list on computer, it’s broke, needs to go in shop. I passed on a chance to buy a brand new laptop on super sale, because I didn’t want to put it on a credit card. Trying to be responsible and pay off what I have on them now. And what did I just do??????
I’ll tell y’all Tuesday. I’m afflicted.

 

[farmerjan]

Sat nearly noon. It is still wet and rainy out there but not raining as hard as it was when I got up to go to work. It was a real steady kind of rain earlier. I did put the rain gauge back out last night since it was supposed to be in the mid 40's.... will check it later. Got down to 44 overnight, it is 51 now and doubt it will hit 55 unless the sun comes out later. It has gotten breezier than it was earlier.

Went to the farm, and testing went fine. Farmer came to the barn before we were done milking and so when I went in to do the computer stuff, he was there and we talked a bit. He is having a real battle with the colon cancer effects... things looked good several months ago, now not as good, and the chemo has kicked his butt. He goes in for surgery in 10 days, they are going to remove a piece of the colon, where the tumor was and where there is alot of scar tissue from the radiation, because they cannot get a clear picture now like it was 4 months ago. If all goes well, and they don't find anything, it will heal, he will have a colostomy bag, then they will go back in and reattach the colon together and he ought to be good to go once that heals. It is hard to see it... I have been testing them for over 30 years.... he is 10 yrs younger than me.
Left the farm and went and got some breakfast and went to laundromat and did the big load of jeans and sneakers and sweatshirts..... Since the sun is supposed to come out and the clouds and rain be done here in a few hours, I want to hang them out and they will have tonight and tomorrow to dry. I have some white clothes in the machine here that I soaked that I am going to run through so they can get hung too. Fore cast is to be decent Sun and Mon and then showers coming back in for a few days mid-week.

Went out and let chickens out of the crate and the buff hen was in the shelter and scooted out the back again, but at least she didn't run for the corner.... brought the samples in the house and filled the sink up with hot water to soak the dishes. Going to get them washed up here in just a little bit.

I am tired, didn't sleep real good... I might try taking a nap if it doesn't clear up outside soon.
Talked to another farmer that i had texted a few days ago... he apologized for not getting back to me... and we set up testing for him next Thursday aft. I have a bunch more on the list to get lined up.
Got to call the farm that wants to send another tank sample... but I am not going to go get it until Monday morning. Samples won't go out until then and I don't feel like dealing with him today. Monday will be soon enough to go get the sample, to send.

This rainy weather has shoulder aching and knees are a little sore still. Oh well, the fun of being "in my prime"

 

[Baymule]

@Ridgetop is an inspiration to us, she’s in her prime of life! Heck fire, all we need are a few replacement parts here and there and we’re good as new!

A rainy day, and you went to work this morning. Sounds like you will be busy for part of the day, but try to kick back a little and let it rain.

 

[Mini Horses]

Sorry to hear about your friend with colon cancer. That's what took my DH out! It had spread to his liver when found😔. A guy who had a colonoscopy every year...last one just 10 mos before.

 

[murphysranch]

@Mini Horses : OH NO! Hubs has had his colon scraped out alot. Last peek in there was pretty good. I'm soooo sorry that the dreaded disease still took him. Hugs.