Coffee anyone ?

[Blue Sky]

@Blue Sky your new place is black clay? When it rains, you will have some

No sandy. Never lived on that.

 

[Baymule]

No sandy. Never lived on that.

So you are going from black clay gumbo concrete/goopy gooey mud to sand? Oh, you are SO going to LOVE the sand!!!! Sand has its drawbacks but is nothing like black gumbo. Our land in Livingston was black gumbo. My feet would slide apart just standing still when it was wet. It stuck to my boots, every step, my feet got bigger. Once, against my advice, my husband buried his one ton truck to the axles. It took a bulldozer to pull him out. Our place in Lindale was pure white sugar sand, like a Florida beach. I’ll take sand over black gumbo any day! Black gumbo cracks house slabs too, our house slab in town was cracked, the garage was separated from the house. I don’t like black gumbo, in case you haven’t noticed. LOL
My new place seems to be a mixture of sand and clay with red clay/dirt if you start digging. I’m happy with that. Good luck with your new place, you are going to be real happy with it!

 

[Baymule]

Finished my second cup of coffee. Made extra to make sweetened coffee and cream, to put in a quart jar for iced coffee later this afternoon when I need a caffeine kick. LOL Hopefully I can finish taping and floating, take down all the blinds and cover windows with plastic. If the Doublewide Goddess smiles on me, I may even cover cabinets with plastic too. So close to being able to spray with Kilz! Oh, forgot the covering light fixtures too.

 

[Mini Horses]

Coffee is hot and ready, help yourself! Cream is fresh, just spun out yesterday.

Overcast and gloomy because of that. Rain? Maybe?

So I have a big pot of cottage cheese working. Hope it's edible when done. Regardless, chickens will still devour it. . First time I've tried this. Plan to start a jar of yogurt later, more mozzarella this evening. Extra eggs are easier to pawn off than milk. . Looking at 6dz of those.

Right now I need a kick to get into gear!

 

[Baymule]

I finished the taping and floating. Tomorrow I sand what I did today and do touch up. Knees and legs said ENOUGH! I quit at 2:30.

 

[Mini Horses]

Raining here!! had run to corner store, then had to sit in truck in my driveway at return for 20 min of heavy downpour. Stepped into an inch running down the concrete...after about 45 of heavy stuff, slowed & still raining -- slow and steady. We can use a couple hours of this. Hope we get more tonight. We're dry several inches deep!! I don't like that.

Update. The cottage cheese was that & quite good. Wow...who knew I could this ?! very tasty with the blueberry preserves I made last week.

 

[Baymule]

I woke up at 4:00 got up and washed dishes. They have been piling up, been to tired to stand up that long. LOL Coffee is ready, cereal for breakfast. Back to the farm this morning to do more prep work for painting.

 

[Mini Horses]

Coffee, chores, work....life goes on. Have a great day everyone

 

[Blue Sky]

So you are going from black clay gumbo concrete/goopy gooey mud to sand? Oh, you are SO going to LOVE the sand!!!! Sand has its drawbacks but is nothing like black gumbo. Our land in Livingston was black gumbo. My feet would slide apart just standing still when it was wet. It stuck to my boots, every step, my feet got bigger. Once, against my advice, my husband buried his one ton truck to the axles. It took a bulldozer to pull him out. Our place in Lindale was pure white sugar sand, like a Florida beach. I’ll take sand over black gumbo any day! Black gumbo cracks house slabs too, our house slab in town was cracked, the garage was separated from the house. I don’t like black gumbo, in case you haven’t noticed. LOL
My new place seems to be a mixture of sand and clay with red clay/dirt if you start digging. I’m happy with that. Good luck with your new place, you are going to be real happy with it!

And no foundation watering. Or far less. A real struggle to keep trees alive. They can be watered but cracks can pull the root systems apart. My pond is going dry too. Upside to that is bentonite can be applied. This place looks so different from early May when it was purchased. We’ve done our best but we’ve never seen it so dry here.

 

[Baymule]

Coffee is ready. This morning I’ll be clipping wire to T-posts. Gotta quit early, hitch the stock trailer up and go get tires put on it.