Sometimes animals show us that they have their own mind about things. I hope your 4th evening is better than your morning
I need to restock my 5 gallon water jugs, and I bought a couple of 100 gallon stock tanks a few weeks ago. Not exactly for earthquake prep, but for power outages. Without power, I have no water and PGE is reminding us that there may be 48 hour power down times if fires or other disasters warrant them shutting off the lines. Even though my biggest goats cant even reach the bottom of the stock tanks, and the littlest cant reach to the top even, I can always use buckets to scoop water for everyone. As long as I have water, I will find a way to get it to my babies! 
Absolutely YES yea for you!! You've got some great progress there.
You are doing fine. There's progress in the exercise department!! Remember muscle weighs more than fat cells and that will account for some of the scale being still at times.
LOL! But I did OK. Passed the test with flying colors.... at least that is what grandma said.... but then again, it is like an unwritten requirement that grandmas have to say the grandkids artwork is always "fabulous" ….. so you might want to take that one with a grain of salt! I think I did OK, mostly because it was electric, literally just pop the battery in, hold it away from you, hold in the lock button and push the start. I cant stand pull start toasters cause I can never get them to start. I may need to get myself an electric weedwhacker! It would make a lot of stuff faster around this Patch Of Weeds! (Haha...get it... cause that is my farm name...
) So Uncle A is an engineer. We were working on removing some crazy secure fenceposts for grandma. We started by cutting through one bracing pole at ground level using a small power saw. Took several minutes and a lot of work. We regrouped and decided that 5 sets of these were going to be miserable on our part. We went with the "lets try it and see what happens" method of using Uncle Ks hand braided, super strong, fancy, high tensile rope (you might note that Uncle K was not present, but had made this rope specifically for and advised grandma to use it for heavy duty projects... something about it being safer??? IDK 
), and Uncle As 5500 lb truck to add some muscle to our side of the equation. We also opted to use some gravity since grandma has some pretty steep downhill slope to her property. We successfully pulled all the posts, but we lived and learned a few things.... one is that if your rope slips off the top of the pole when it bends, while pulling with thousands of pounds of pressure.... the resulting knot will never come out, don't even try! The next was, that same thousands of pounds of pressure along with the friction caused by the pulling, will melt the rope ... because apparently the very soft material is composed of some kind of plastic. Grandma was worried about uncle Ks response to us admitting we broke his rope after the first couple of uses.... I figured that since we were already going to be in the dog house, we might as well use it to finish the job so we did..... and we broke it even more! 
BUT.... we finished the job! and with way less time and effort on our parts, than we were initially planning on. I said they should just blame me when they confess that we broke the rope, since I will be safely back home in the middle of the desert with thousand degree daily temps... no one would dare come to find me here! 
LOL! (No real worries, the plan is to thank Uncle K, let him know the shenanigans we were up to and offer to pay for a replacement rope/material.) I am still sore from all the work. Even Doodles has never done that much work in her life and kept going back to our "regroup and discuss things" benches, trying to get us to quit cause she was tired! 
It was soft as butter and mild…. Lightly breaded and cooked perfectly! Made all the work worthwhile . Slowly but surely I am knocking things out. I hate slowly.... and adulting sucks sometimes.)
Um, a pull start TOASTER? And how does one clear weeds with a toaster?
