The WE2's

Hubby got a whole 6$ for the metal he took to the recyclers...guess it's better than a poke in the arm!  Anyway...that part of it's done.  He worked today so when it started raining about 4:00 or so, he didn't hinder him.  He's hanging rock.  Tomorrow he'll work on our bathroom project since the wood he wants to load up for the city to pick up (he'll bring it here for the 11th pickup since the homestead's date has already been) will have to wait.  He doesn't want to try handling it when it's soaked.  

I just did some of his work pants and hung them on a line under the carport here.  No room for a long line.  I didn't get any laundry done early enough for him to take...and he's got enough work to do to try and put clothes in the homestead's dryer and then bring them here.  I'll put in a load shortly and then go with him in the morning and tend to the drying. 

Our Abby-girl is being stubborn about going out to potty in the rain so...no "bone" for now. Checked Gas Buddy and the gas is almost a dime cheaper in the town where the Roost is plus we have to drive there to put our water bill in their drop box. Every penny saved is a penny earned!

Printed out the plans for hubby...yes...this is definitely workable on our homestead.  A bit more lumber than my "Rack" that I used to hang buckets on (and still have my cukes hanging!) and wouldn't have to worry about them swinging in the wind or breaking the bales.  Thanks!

This was absolutely a "hard work, heavy lifting" day for both of us!  Hubby took the day off from working for his customer and while he chopped and loaded tree limbs and brush I pulled grass starts from the potato beds.  He helped me lift one of the wire guards off one of them, the potatoes were growing so nicely...and I didn't want them growing through the wire.  We'll let the other bed's plants get a bit taller also.  I like to make sure that what I'm pulling isn't a tiny little 'tater! (Even though I can usually tell)  The radishes I planted in a planter a just about ready to pick and eat.  In the solo cups there's tomatoes and spinach so far.  In the peat moss cups there's zucchini and tomatoes (of course) and I think some other's...just didn't look real good.  There's some tiny little heads popping up in my flower pots and hopefully the herbs will be soon.  The tubs...radishes looking good as well as lettuce.  This cold, warm, cold, warm, rain back and forth they don't know what to do!  All my transplants are looking good also.  

We headed for the county recycling place and dumped the limbs and brush and then went to the municipal building and paid 10$ for a cubic yard (?) of compost (it's beautiful stuff) and then put down some cardboard and then a tarp inside the trailer.  Got it loaded and one of the trailer tires went flat!  SOOOOO glad we were in Miss B...because in the back (under the bed/dinette we keep a small compressor.  It sure pulled our tail out of the fire today for sure!  We haven't had to use it but a couple of times but it's worth every dime we paid for it.  Then back to the homestead we went, put down a big rubber tarp from a billboard and then backed the trailer of compost onto it ... and shoveled and raked it all off the trailer.  Then covered it with another tarp and secured it with bricks and exercise weights (LOL) so cats can't get in it.  Later on we'll some mulch (it's free) and put it on that side of the property also so we can use it when we need it.  We have some serious landscaping we'd like to do once these other projects are settled down a bit.

Tomorrow hubby will tackle his metal recycling and get a few dollars from the various metals.

Anyhoo...it's been a long day. 

We both enjoyed a cup of hot apple cider when we got home and then I had a frozen pizza in the freezer so it was an EZ on the cook night!

I took a couple of Magnesium caps a bit ago.  They sure help relax muscles and that seems to help me sleep better.  I may wake up for a  bathroom trip but instead of laying awake for 2 hours I'm able to go back to sleep.

I do have the Arnica gel in case my ribs give me any issues as they sometimes do when I do a lot of lifting...like pulling on a tarp full of compost! LOL

Our city has pretty much opened things up with precautions.  The municipal building hubby had to wear a mask and "sit on the "X" on the bench to await his turn.  Oh well...at least they're open and we could get our compost paid for.

Everybody take care, stay safe and healthy and enjoy the sunshine...I hear it kills bad germs etc.!

5 hours ago, Littlesister said:

when he needs to go to bathroom

After my first husband passed, I kept the bedside toilet.  It is very sturdy, has hand rails and has the bucket/pan under the lift up seat.  It's a gem and I'm glad we kept it. In a pinch we can use it with some sawdust as a compost toilet.  Until the bathroom is finished I just use my "Go Girl" and go in a detergent jug.  Hubby has his own jug! LOL

Been trying to absorb things...and getting very little sleep.  My sis in law messaged me that she and my brother have decided no more chemo, and only pain management via morphine and another powerful drug...starts with a C...  Anyway she's "scheduling" visits so he isn't overwhelmed by too many.  I know her well enough to know that their friends will come first, then family...and family is only myself, my sister and one younger brother.  So I asked for this Monday (even though it's supposed to rain) and I'm taking a casserole.  They have a fairly large covered deck so we won't be scrunched up inside their RV.

I've laid awake for two nights trying to get my head around this, and finally last night came to the conclusion that it's better for him to go "his way" right there in their RV at the lake, with her and their two dogs, and friends and family able to come say their hello's and goodbye's...rather than get admitted to the VA hospital again and NOBODY able to come see him.  I am at peace now that they made the right decision...but it's not EZ.

Hubby's got the brush cleaned up at the homestead and ready to load on to a friends trailer to take to the recycle center.  Glad Miss B has a powerful engine and can easily pull it.  I'll go with him to help and I want to check the garden.  The rain was a regular toad strangler yesterday so everything got watered good, but still want to check on things.

Hubby worked at the homestead and I took care of some food preservation.  We bought a 5# tube of hamburger so I separated it out in our 1/2# portions (more or less) and was able to get 11 bags for the freezer.  Then rough cut some Amish roast beef end cuts and bagged them up...except for 2 for our supper.  Fried them and then had mashed potatoes, gravy and green beans.  Yummy!  Now I have a small Farmland ham that I pulled from the big meat freezer and thawed, I'll slice it into breakfast portions.  I can usually just cut one slice about 1/4 inch thick and then half it for us. 

Was supposed to rain today but didn't...so it was good for hubby's project of cleaning up and "rearranging" things at the homestead.  He'll need to see if the city recycle center is open so he can take his huge brush pile and deliver it to them!

It's supposed to rain (yeah?) tomorrow so hopefully that will make the potato patches happy!

Hubby and I just finished watching a video...and boy was it an eye opener.  Her web site is VAXXTER.com.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-51GjcFDRN4. 

She was being interviewed.  Also listened to a couple of youtube videos by Rick Joyner regarding this mess.

I was born to parents who were both born in the mid 1920's ... and had a step dad that was around until he was 98.  My grandmother on mom's side lived through most of what its mentioned.  I was always very curious and asked lot's of questions about "what was it like?" and have so many memories stored in my mind.  Setting at the feet of our elders gives a lot of insight, if we'll just take time to dig those memories out of their minds...before it's too late.

9 hours ago, Annarchy said:

after having my heat stroke

I think one gets more susceptible once they've encountered any heat related encounters.  Heat exhaustion isn't quite as bad but still recurs.  Ask me how I know.

21 hours ago, Jeepers said:

Usually when the city notices you it's because a neighbor complained. 

We're thinking it was the woman across the street with the teenage boys that gave us so much trouble last year.  Or...it could have been because they were initiating the "Operation Clean Sweep" for the entire city and were driving the streets.  Who knows?  Hubby did a lot of "re-arranging" today as well as cutting up brush (the old blackberry canes etc., that we had just piled)  and piling it as high as his head.  He'll take it to the recycle center (he'll have to use a friends trailer) ... IF they're open.  

Worked all day (except for lunch) at the homestead.  Hubby got If mowing done and I poured water down the watering tubes on our tubs. Still have to water the tops until the seeds come up, but it's really nice not having to water the tubs but once a week...unless it rains.  Then the sky fills them up.  We're supposed to get some rain in the wee hours, that's why hubby wanted to get the mowing done at the homestead as well as at the Roost.  I have radishes coming up in one of the tubs.  In the mini green house I have a zucchini that's up...I planted 3 (I think) seeds but really only wanted 2 plants.  The other 2 might still emerge.  The radishes in there are really looking leafy...so hoping we'll get some to roast.  I didn't plant very many in that planter. 

The city's on us with threats to "remove" this and "remove" that!  They don't understand a man that does scrap metal, nor a man that collects brush to take to a city dump THAT'S CLOSED...!

The letter threatened to put a lien on the property!  We'll do what we possibly can, and then they'll answer to our attorney if they start overstepping.  After all...aren't us Seniors supposed to stay put!

Guess they've got some employees that are roaming around the neighborhoods taking pictures of peoples property .... and not sheltering in place themselves!  

Was pretty warm today, about 80...ish and sunny, but did have a nice breeze.

Had some comfort food for supper.  Nice boneless pork chops, fries and asparagus spears.  Oh...we do have a few spears in our wild thing garden.  They'll need to go to seed again, but one was almost a foot tall and big around as my little finger.  I've already got plans for a new spot for them, in a raised-type bed along the fence line between the garden and Abby-girl's yard.

If it's not raining tomorrow we'll probably try to get the area where we want the pole beans, broadforked and the woven ground cover down and stapled.  Then put up the fencing and burn the holes on both sides of the fence, to put in the seeds.  That will give us two nice rows of beans.

Still have to get the tubs put together for the Okra that we want to plant in tubs on the south side, just south of the potato patches.

All the transplants are doing good, but the Comfrey looks sad around the edges.  But the mother plant looked terrible for a long time before she took root and still didn't really go great guns until the next year.

Praying Littlesister's life settles into a healthier routine and that her loved one climbs his way back to health.

23 hours ago, Littlesister said:

I am not sure I will be on here very much

You'll be missed!

Watched a video a long time ago, can't recall who, but they took a large cardboard box and lined it with foil and put a small bulb in it and used it for their starts.  I've often wondered if my "aquarium turned fireplace" would work as a sort of cold frame?  Years ago, I took an old aquarium, lined three sides with foil and then lined up t-lights across the bottom.  Loved it...a fireplace that is relatively safe ... for viewing only! 

I apologize not...but I told hubby that I'm sick and tired of all the drama on this crap.  We'll take the same precautions we take every year during flu season and just add the mask when we're in a store where they're not observing distancing rules etc.  Several times when we've been shopping, there have been other shoppers that are totally ignoring any precautions.  When we see them without a mask, we stop and wait for them to go on...and I have even turned my back to them!  They probably don't care a hoot, but at least I'm letting them know I'm NOT happy with them being that close and not wearing a mask. 

We are free to make our own choices, and like MtnR said...there are just certain things we're not willing to give up just because other people tell us to.  Our freedom is very important, and I think several states are observing that there are those who will resist any and all over reaches.  

I told a niece..."Watch my dear...when all those millenials start giving us "old folks" a cussing and want us pushed out of sight...that when there's no food in their frig nor their field, and they have no seed nor any idea how to plant a garden...we'll watch the "boomers" (and preppers) take back control of our country".  

Hubby worked again today...nice to have the extra dollars to add to our income.  Sat down this afternoon and paid all the bills that had come in the mail...so nice...and didn't touch a dime of the guvment check.

I washed the wool blanket that we removed from our bed and hung it out to dry in this lovely 70'ish weather with nice breeze.  We have a Serta Gel Mattress that we love, but in the winter time it doesn't warm up unless we're "in" the bed and generating some heat, so we put the HEAVY wool blanket between the mattress and the bottom sheet and then take it off when warmer weather sets in.

Dug into the freezer and found some more fish so we had Cod with fries, and used up the last of the stove top dressing from last night.  Maybe a weird combo...but quite tasty and using left overs is good!

Hubby took our girl for a nice walk before supper so she's a happy dog!

Haven't heard anything from my SIL regarding my brother but I'm sure she's got her hands full trying to learn how to care for him.  I would think a home health aide could be hired to come do the IV thing.  Surely the VA would pay for it, especially since he's fighting cancer.  Financially they don't qualify for any "free" aide like Medicaide.  Medicare would probably also pay some.  But I dare not mention it...at least not until she indicates something that would open the door to that kind of conversation.  Finances are a difficult subject ya know!

3 hours ago, Midnightmom said:

If you live near a Winco

Not so...I'm not even sure there's one within a 100 miles.

This morning the tow truck came and picked up hubby's truck and took it to a shop for diagnosis.  We're praying God's grace over it and that it can be repaired and not replaced...in Jesus' Name.

Then hubby got the call from his customer that the sheetrock had been delivered so he worked this afternoon putting some of it up.  Sorta tricky when you're doing it in a shed and the roof has a shed angle.  

I didn't do much other than run the vacuum and then fixed supper.  Had some bbq shredded chicken with some stove top dressing and some green beans. 

Opened the front door and storm door screen and let some fresh air in as well as turned on the ceiling fans (low)...until it got too cool.  It's that time of year when you don't know what the temps will be other than it usually doesn't freeze!  Hopefully this weather changing so often doesn't cause my seeds to stay dormant too long and not sprout...

12 hours ago, Homesteader said:

the retirement center for a few weeks

Listened to the Prez this afternoon as he spoke about "protecting seniors" etc.  Sounds like if the "squad" of investigators were to decide that a senior isn't being taken care of by their standards, they can take control and move them wherever they feel the senior would be safe.  Sounds awfully sinuous to me...? Told hubby when he got home "the worst place anybody wants to be right now is in a nursing home or senior facility"....you and your family could lose all rights really quick.

Rained most of the morning but went to the homestead with hubby this afternoon.  He worked there this morning so I went back with him.  Pulled a 4 1/2 square bucket, with holes in the bottom, and put some drainage mat in the bottom, planted some cucumber seeds and hung it on one of the hooks on our "Rack".  I'm going to see if I can just grow them in that and train them to travel down the rack or ... ???  Hubby doesn't like cukes but I like them as well as making sweet pickles/relish.  He'll eat the relish! 

He's still doing some mud work...takes a bit long to dry in this humid wet weather not mention chilly.  He's got a fan blowing on the bathroom but it still takes longer for it to dry.

I sat outside on the front porch (safe from the sprinkles) with my Abby-girl.

This month is our city's "Operation Clean Sweep" so everybody's putting all their "stuff" on the street/road to be picked up.  You'd be surprised to see some people driving by and gawking to see if there's anything they might salvage  All we have is the old wood hubby pulled out from the bathroom and nobody'd want that stuff! 

We're noticing so many homes coming up empty.  Since I worked many years for a Real Estate Broker who managed foreclosures when we see one it's like "yep...there's another one going into the tube".  Sometimes those houses stay vacant for years before banks get around to re-selling them....as is.  Some may just be rentals but when you see windows boarded and white notice signs inside screen doors, you know.

Sister in law says my brother is supposed to come home tomorrow for palliative (?) care.  No chemo for now and she's being trained by a home health person to administer antibiotics via IV's .  I bet she's scared out of her wits about this time...but would never admit it.  

Still trying to get that roasted hen eaten...so tonight we had "creamed chicken/veggies over bagels"...LOL Pretty tastey!  What do you call SOS when it's shredded chicken?  

On 4/28/2020 at 8:41 AM, Littlesister said:

quarts of water

I do the same but have been known to deliberately can quarts of water ... just to add to the water supply.

On 4/27/2020 at 9:54 PM, Jeepers said:

How do you open the lid when you want to use the food inside?

 

Tattler has a special opener but I just place one of those round "grippers" (from $Tree) on top and use the rounded side of my bottle opener.  Works for me and pretty cheap!

On 4/27/2020 at 9:54 PM, Jeepers said:

Weck jars that use gaskets and clamps

I'm betting I'd lose those clamps!  Just sounds like something I would do! 

1 hour ago, Littlesister said:

pray none of you have a love one that needs to go to hospital

My sister in law is going through similar circumstances with my brother.  He's fighting cancer...not covid!  But they will NOT allow her in.  I'm just wondering what Mr. William Barr would say about infringing on a person's rights?  They "might" be able to stop you but they cannot stop "him" from telling them to let you in???? Sorta like a school student cannot be told to certain things?  Just thinking...

On 4/28/2020 at 7:38 PM, Littlesister said:

WE2 how do you keep your greenhouses from blowing over?

If you notice (hard to see) we have what we call our "Rack"...it's a 4x4 treated piece of wood that has hooks on the patio furniture side...and the uprights are also 4x4 treated wood that's into the ground about 2 foot.  We strap the mini green houses to that "Rack". I used poly-type rope to tie it.  Seems to work just fine.  Could use bungie straps if needed.