Coffee anyone ?

[Weldman]

@fuzzi
Same here, full tilt. I understand I got 3 fleets/companies of equipment/machinery to single handedly maintain/repair, but odds and ends show up of other individuals trailers/semis/livestock trailers.
I'm supposed to be part time, I'm more like over time.

Snowing here again this morning, yep better lock it in 4WD. Got pretty dicey yesterday after a day of rain coming home since the last time they put rock down was 20 years ago when the rock only lasts 10 to 15 years.
The main road going to town is worse than the 3 miles of private road I put rock down to get to the main road. There is no rock left on the last 10 miles, and the first 20 miles rock has sunk into the mud. When I say rock that they put down, it's river rock not crushed the first 20 miles, like driving on marbles when they grade it and bring it back to the surface. Watch out when they bring the 3 and 4 inch river back to the surface, that really gets bad.

 

[fuzzi]

@fuzzi -- BTDT then not happy with no payck. After 50+ yrs of one, it's expected. So I found PT jobs that I could work adjusted hours, times, etc. Now I'm only "pushed" during a couple seasonal times of yr. Off this entire week. Consider options.

Another relaxing morning. Coffee is great being enjoyed this way, no rush to be leaving. Taking the week slow and pretending it's a "staycation". I've slept wonderfully 2 nights in a row

Liking this but, things need to be done. No push.

Gotcha. I do plan on doing some part-time work.

Oh, and what I forgot to mention is that I work in a department under main administration's control, BUT I am not their employee. They had a merger of sorts years ago, and I work for a medical institution, not the university.

It's complicated.

 

[Weldman]

Gotcha. I do plan on doing some part-time work.

Oh, and what I forgot to mention is that I work in a department under main administration's control, BUT I am not their employee. They had a merger of sorts years ago, and I work for a medical institution, not the university.

It's complicated.

I don't work for any of these clowns, I'm my own business, but it sure feels as I do and they act as such.

 

[Weldman]

and when it dries up more slop will stick. Thirty plus miles of fun

 

[SageHill]

Home from a great va-ca with the family. DS had everything planned wow. So much great food, followed by a few days in the OR wine country and stay at a gorgeous Air BnB. The ranch sitter stayed in touch with pics and text updates. This gal is a keeper - when we left Ree was in season - and the peak of breeding time at that. Between her and Obi and Zo (both intact males) she did an amazing job.

Got all set up to teach detection this morning, took Obi and Zo to go move sheep to a pasture for daytime grazing when............. a Mal or Mal-Akita mix came down from the avo grove. A bit of fence running, my boys as well - but they did call off (good boys) then the other dog found a coyote slide and came to join our two. A male - but intact or not I didn't take the time to look. Thank goodness the young pitty-mix didn't find the coyote slide. The grove manager finally came around and managed to have his dog come back. Soooo -- change of plans - decided not to bring the sheep to the pasture. The last thing I'd need is an unknown dog running amuck with the sheep and Obi and Zo trying to work - and I'm sure my two boys, both who can work with other trained dogs, would not be appreciative of the interloper.
Timing is everything - so I'm on the lucky side of timing.
Coffee almost done almost time for students to show up.

 

[Blue Sky]

and when it dries up more slop will stick. Thirty plus miles of fun View attachment 116590

Then it washboards and resets your teeth

 

[Weldman]

Then it washboards and resets your teeth

These will reset you spinal discs. Should take a picture of the wife’s Subaru broke trailing arm bracket. As in the bolts are still there with part of the bracket. Seen tailgates ripped off, snapped control arms, blown wheel bearings common and list goes on. This truck is a F450, imagine that on that road empty now.

 

[Blue Sky]

Waiting on storms and maybe torrential rain. It keeps getting pushed back 30 minutes so I nipped out to garden. I was pouting about having no time to get mint starts at the nursery today, when what did I find but a patch of peppermint escapees in the front yard. Easily transplanted. I have a formal flower bed bordering the back of the house that I couldn’t touch because of my spell of bad knees, feet and shoulders. It went to Bermuda and wild blackberries. This year the rehab is on. Amending the soil with the year old composted sheep manure, climbing roses and lavender and now mint are in. And lots more digging, yanking and swearing a pox on whoever introduced Bermuda grass to the south are on the way. The big bushes I inherited. No idea what they are.

 

[Blue Sky]

Photo forthcoming. Won’t upload.

 

[rachels.haven]

Don't take your shirt off in Idaho, that's including men, 3rd time caught it's a felony.
https://legislature.idaho.gov/wp-content/uploads/sessioninfo/2025/legislation/H0270.pdf

Dang, they're doing a lot of thinking and talking about boobies and specifics on the job for being (self) righteous, pure, faultless leaders. Gross, stupid turkey politicians. They should mind their own business. That rule is just going to be weaponized against people someone doesn't like and abused and I'm sure local laws "cover" all that and more already. Last I checked there weren't armies of half clad people running around the streets...maybe in their heads...Just gross.