Latestarter's ramblings/musings/gripes and grumbles.

[CntryBoy777]

Fill dirt here is about $80-90/load....long bodied dump truck....I have plenty of dirt, but don't plan on digging it and hauling with a wheelbarrow, when it is cheap..........our drivers here are not union, so we don't have to pay the premium.

 

[Latestarter]

No idea what dirt costs here... Haven't checked yet. But I'm gonna need several load to level out the area where I want to put the barn. And a dozer to push it all around and make it level/sloped away for drainage. It won't be top soil though... just fill dirt.

 

[Baymule]

You don't need a dozer to level dump loads of dirt, just rent a tractor with a box blade and a front end bucket.

 

[Latestarter]

My neighbor's cousin lives around the corner and does dirt work. He's retired, but the neighbor says if you ask he will do it. He has all the required equipment. It will be cheaper to pay him a couple hundred dollars than to pay many hundreds of dollars to rent a tractor with bucket &/or box blade. Depending on price, I might have him just do the whole job. Found this out while discussing putting in a pond with the neighbor.

So I decided I wanted some real Italian food for dinner tonight. Fired up the microwave and cooked me a Stouffer's lasagna with meat and sauce. Just finished writing an Email complaint to Nestle's about it. Started with one complaint and ended up with two. Tried to do it through their online submission form and it wouldn't let me submit... kept telling me "Please read the terms and conditions" GGGgggrrrrrr they want you to contact them then they set terms and conditions? WTF?

The complaint I started out with was "The lasagna noodles were in a large clump in the center of the container, dried out, with no sauce, and so burned to the bottom of the container during microwaving. I used a 1100 watt microwave and followed the directions. When I tried to cut it in the container in preparation for eating it, I had to hammer a butter knife through the noodles with my fist to get them to break apart. I've been buying these frozen meals for years and frankly, the quality has been dropping over time. The product looks absolutely nothing like what is pictured in your TV ads. I have several more in my freezer that were purchased at the same time as this one. I wonder what condition they will be in... To say I'm disappointed would be a mild understatement."

The best by date was Jan2019 Can you imagine?

Though we've had no rain here it has been continuous overcast and very humid and damp. The grass is not drying out and my foot wear gets wet going to/from the goat pen, even in the afternoon. So, no mowing I did solve the ants in the grain issue... I was at wally world last night and got a big bag of fire ant granules, not for where the goats are but for other nests, and a bottle of bug gone spray or some such... It's supposed to be an indoor/outdoor spray that blocks the ants as they won't cross it. I sprayed the entire circumference of both barrels up to just below the handles. No ants this morning, inside or outside the barrels. And I'm pretty sure it worked out to be substantially cheaper than what peppermint essential oil would have cost, and will probably last longer. just a guess.

 

[Alaskan]

Awesome on the ants, bummer on your world wanting to mold..


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And on the TV dinner. When Spouse was out of town I tried a frozen lasagna, it was pretty good too. I think it was Marie Callender. (Sp?)

 

[CntryBoy777]

We made lasagna last wk, and I made the comment to Joyce that the day I can't make it better than Stouffers I'd quit cooking.....ya need to make ya a big batch and freeze some Joe....that Stouffers is absolutely nasty.
Our weather has been about the same here, but the past couple of days the dew was quite a bit lighter, so I was able to get both fields cut in preparation for the coming rain. Yesterday, when shutting up the ducks and doing goat check, I got soaked with sweat....much more than when I was mowing in the filtered sunshine. The plan with the neighbors cousin sounds like it may be the way to go....worth talking to him about it anyway and find out the charge and how long it will take him to do it.....

 

[Baymule]

LS you are going to have to learn how to make your own lasagna. It's not hard. And it is sooooo much better than frozen blech.

 

[Latestarter]

I know how to make lasagna, and make a damned good one, but it's a LOT of work (to make it right) and take time. Not that I don't have time, I'd just prefer to spend it doing something else.

I think from now on I'm going to try to find Michael Angelo's: http://www.michaelangelos.com/clubProduct.php?productID=86
I've had it before and it's really substantially better. The only problem is, I consider one package one serving, they consider it four and 1/2! (1350 calories!)

 

[Baymule]

You're going to have to get in the mood to cook and cook up a batch for the freezer. Portion it out and you can have your own frozen dinners. I can't see the point of wasting your money on crap food when you can make so much better yourself. The next boring rainy day, spend it in the kitchen doing something nice for yourself.

I get it that you have worked outside all day, drag in tired and hungry. haha, how would like to have to cook for someone else besides yourself? I have pyrex dishes with plastic snap on lids that I make and freeze cassaroles in. I wrap them good in saran wrap and freeze. Take off the saran wrap, put in a cold oven and turn it on. Go take shower, relax in recliner and supper is ready!

 

[Alaskan]

Awesome on the ants, bummer on your world wanting to mold..


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And on the TV dinner. When Spouse was out of town I tried a frozen lasagna, it was pretty good too. I think it was Marie Callender. (Sp?)