Coffee anyone ?

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Pigs still eating their corn with thistle that is tossed in from various parts of the yard. Soon as my truck gets here I need to grab some peas mix feed cause they don't seem to happy with the corn anymore. Need to get them some hay, but that's going to have to wait till I get all my concrete blocks home. So far around 72 gotten another 15 to go (3 more trips) for a total of 287k lbs of concrete.
 
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Coffee in progress. Still just two lambs, but from the looks of it it won't be long and that will change.
Puppies are doing great - had their first shot and microchipped yesterday. A week from today one of my puppy people will be flying in from IL to stay the night and return home with her pup.
Had fun with them yesterday --- this is true fun and laugh stuff.....
The pups go trick or treating - kind of............

(trust me it's worth the click to youtube and watch)
 
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FDA doing a big frozen waffle recall (see FDA website) so I made pancakes today. I lived on them in college so after some decades I felt I could face them again. It’s Medicare enrollment time again. I enlisted Vladinia to answer my phone since I’m expecting a call my phone won’t recognize. She was lectured on feminine insolence for not revealing her age or date of birth. Lots of cheery female chatbots with perky midwestern accents also call with messages of varying grammatical coherency and always followed by a supervisor, special agent or licensed representative., clearly offshore. I need to get out more. Animals all good. Weather beautiful.
 
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Mini Horses said:
... It's getting tiring, these ditto days.
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THIS!!!! YES!!! That is the perfect term for these energy-zapping, soul-numbing, endlessly repeating routine days!
From now on when I'm hear "How ya doing?" a dozen times between the car & the breakroom, I'm going to start saying "It's another Ditto Day!"
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Weldman said:
This whole setup needs to be taken out, especially that brick that if any weight were on it would collapse. Put a proper one in place, sister one right beside it if you have to before pulling that one out. I would join all those with these, you could do with others, but to save work, put two of these up, one on each side, https://www.homedepot.com/p/Simpson...-Post-Cap-for-4x-Nominal-Lumber-AC4/203302181 Where is the vapor barrier they put in?
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Thank you, I do appreciate that.

I hired a house inspector about three years ago, and he said to get the area cleaned out (lots of wood and bricks littered all over) and that the block/post served no purpose. He said it wasn't an issue. The permanent support was added before the closing, as there was a temporary jack underneath. :ep

Finding someone to DO the work is the biggest hurdle. I can't, physically, and the contractors in the area just want to work on new construction. My bath to shower conversion was done by a recommended handyman. It's fine but he never hooked up the drain line, so all my showers have drained underneath the house. Until last week.

Here's the vapor barrier:
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Electrician came by this morning, added a breaker and wired the dehumidifier.

Steps, baby steps.
 
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Blue Sky said:
Not to mention attracting undesirable wildlife namely bears and alligators. I don’t know, being from the Midwest, whether a gator would take up residence in a ? sized pond but I’d end up with that one gator that hasn’t read up on habitats and behaviors lounging in my from yard. Don’t know how this will turn out.
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I forget where you live but I'd worry more about a big snapping turtle. They lurk out of sight more than a gator. One took a friend's dog while I was in college. Fairly small pond but when the guys dragged pond with chain net the snapper had about 3ft wide shell.
 
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Margali said:
I forget where you live but I'd worry more about a big snapping turtle. They lurk out of sight more than a gator. One took a friend's dog while I was in college. Fairly small pond but when the guys dragged pond with chain net the snapper had about 3ft wide shell.
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Oh great, now you’ve given her another “wildlife” to be scared of. 😂 And a big snapping turtle is a fearsome creature. Those things are MEAN. Sentry HATES turtles and learned how to tip them so he can bite them. He crunches their shell and kills them. Twice he’s gone off on snapping turtles, but on the other side of the fence and I was able to scoop them up, once with a shovel into a bucket and once into the tractor bucket. A third one got into the field, he was barking hysterically and kept jumping back. I went out there with a shovel and it was a snapper, lunging at him, then me. I beat the turtle to death with that shovel. Not taking a hunk out of MY dogs nose!
 
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