Coffee anyone ?

[Bruce]

.motor most costly part. May find one from something else???

Anything special about the motor? Maybe you could find one at the "junk yard".

Of course, I had not charged batteries for drill, so by hand.

No way I'd want to do that!

Yup, now is the time to plant the cool season crops.

Yesterday I carefully chicken proofed the garden and planted corn, beans, watermelon, beets and lettuce.

Those are cool season crops? They would be warm weather here up in the cold northeast.

"Single wall" is an odd Hawaii construction method

Odd indeed, I hope no hurricanes pay a visit!

 

[Mini Horses]

Don't know what motor it requires. Only posted the info to do -- not doing it I hope

Wasn't bad on the screws by hand -- hammer & nail to get a hole, then put screw in with screwdriver. Sure glad only one panel tho. . I did charge the rascal!!!! Ready for a couple others to fix spots that need a tighten.

 

[promiseacres]

Coffee is on.
Chores then to the farm. DH is plowing some of the hay fields. Kid's and I going to pick up the bricks from the chimney. And maybe work on plaster I guess. DH plans on being out there all day. Made arrangements to get the puppy tomorrow.

 

[Baymule]

Thanks for the coffee. It sounds like a good day. I hope y’all get to work on the inside of the house this winter. Are y’all at the point of rewiring and plumbing yet?

Yesterday after we got home from BJs Dr appointment and running errands, we both took a nap. LOL I’ve taken the last two days off, time to get outside and get going. Got a post that 2 gates latch onto to close them, it’s broke off at the ground and barely standing. Need to replace it. I want to build a pallet creep feeder for the 2 lambs. They are my experimental lambs for me to learn how to build a creep feeder. And I need to pitchfork out the remnants of the round bale and get another one. I’ll get BJ outside for awhile. He can pull staples out of the broken post and help set the new one.

 

[Mini Horses]

Yet another morning of fog. Much heavier today. But see sun out there so should burn off faster than yesterday. Coffee is good this morn! I find my body being more in sync with no DS and personal wake ups, etc.

Chicken swap today that I want to investigate but, fog is bad and widespread. If it gets too late, no need to go. up early, had breakfast and ready....

I swear proofreading this darned spell check crap is a pain! Not just spelling but, totally different words!!!!!! How can I turn it off? Last week I apparently touched a spot unknowingly and it began reading to me. . Couldn't cut it off...didn't know how! Need some lessons. .

 

[Baymule]

Smart phones make me feel stupid.

 

[Finnie]

Not just spelling but, totally different words!!!!!! How can I turn it off?

You can turn autocorrect off, it’s in the settings somewhere. But however annoying mine is to me, I’ve gotten spoiled by all the words it fixes correctly, and I didn’t like having mine turned off. I do wish there was a setting where it would fix misspellings, but not edit correct words that it thinks you didn’t mean to write. When it changes a word that I spelled correctly really makes me mad. I mean really! How often do I manage to hit all the right keys, and then I STILL have to redo it?!
I’ve been experimenting with swipey text. It amazes me how accurate that is! But it’s just not second nature to me, so I don’t practice it enough.

Done with my second cup of coffee, and have used up more than my allotment of time posting in the different sister sites. Today’s work is to prepare for the Bird Fair tomorrow. I have been breeding budgies (that’s parakeets, if you didn’t know) for about 10 years. I have a website and I sell most of my birds from home, but I also take them to the quarterly bird fairs that the caged bird club here holds. Because of COVID, the May and August fairs were cancelled. I have about 20 birds to take this time. It could go one of two ways. 1) Bird buyers will be so glad to have the fair open again that they will buy up every bird in the place, or 2) Bird producers will have spent the COVID months breeding like crazy and flood the market, so that there won’t be enough buyers to go around. You never know with these bird fairs. Sometimes I sell everything I take, sometimes I bring them all back home with me.

So today’s job is to make sure I have enough clean display cages and figure out which birds will be in each one. And clean some used cages for selling, and get my van ready for loading in the morning. Weather is supposed to be great tomorrow, so no worries about the birds catching a chill. It’s an hour drive to the site. Nice day today, too, for using the hose.

 

[promiseacres]

Coffee is on.
DH go most of the plowing done, just a bit more today.
Kids and I cleaned up the bricks and picked up roots and trash. Kids thought it great fun to run and hide on the newly plowed soil.

 

[Baymule]

Thanks for the coffee. I got to clean out the space for the Sheep hay bale this morning. It’s a tight fit, so I have to scrape it back down to dirt between each round bale. I usually put it in the barn and lot for them to pee and poop on it. Easy made compost! Got a lot of laundry to do.

 

[promiseacres]

Coffee is on.
got the plowing done. Then picked up our new pup. Kids named him Cowboy