T's Wed. coffee time----->

[Mugwump]

...and the coffee is great !.....MMMmmmmm 

....50deg's now...headed to 70 and NO rain til the weekend... ....

..so...I guess I'll mow....trim...and putz....yada yada.....it'll be a good Sassy walk day for sure too.....

....yup....time for more coffee........

[wsantia1]

The coffee is great. There is no rain here yet but with the temperatures going up into the mid 70s they say we may get some t-storms this afternoon. Hopefully not.

[Mugwump]

The coffee is great. There is no rain here yet but with the temperatures going up into the mid 70s they say we may get some t-storms this afternoon. Hopefully not.

I keep thinking that if we're getting all this moisture now......winter will be brutal......lotsa snow.....

[waterboy]

Supposed to be a nice day here. Hope so as I have some salmon soaking in brine and the smoker all set up.  Need to go in and get an oil change this morning and then it is a day of smoking fish.

[Mugwump]

...well into pot #3 now.....getting a slow start....LOL.....sput sput....

...smoked salmon......Mmmmm......enjoy 

[Ron Sower]

 Good morning folks...

  ....another clear morning here...no rain...

...haircut today and putzing...calling around to see what my new glasses lenses are gonna cost me...frames are still in good shape and I like them...

...Lucy's still in Tacoma...I think this is the first and last time she''ll want to stay at her daughter's home for 6 weeks at a time...!  I will not be telling her "I told you so"...I'm glad she did it because now she knows....I love Jen and Emery(g-daughter) but they have their lives and we have ours...

[Tony44]

Morning is great sat on patio for a hour and had my coffee even some toast but the sparrows wanted it more than me. Now have a few water changes and get ready for work.

[wallace]

Its that crazy week before I leave town on vacation. Spend 2 weeks trying to get everything in some kind of shape where I can be gone and the construction people and fighting neighbors can go without a babysitter... then get back and spend 2 weeks cleaning up all the sh*t that hit the fan while I was gone. Sometimes I envy people that punch a time clock. (There... I needed to gripe about this.)

[LizStreithorst]

That's what happened to me when I went to goat shows for the weekend except that work was not a problem because I am an empire of one.  I always came home from a show in a piss poor mood even though I usually won big because it seemed I would always arrive to a crisis of some kind.  My husband was not a country boy and if anything went wrong with animals he was at a loss.

The worst was when I took a week off to go to the National show.  I had a very loyal employee at the time...the kind you get once in a lifetime.  He got arrested in Louisiana and thrown in jail.  It wasn't his fault.  The guy's a cop now.  When he didn't show up for evening milking my husband called my vet, and that dear man came and milked and fed until I got home.

These days I have animals that can do for themselves for 3 days.  I ask a neighbor to come down and pet the dogs once or twice.  I don't believe I'd risk being away for over a week, though.

Good luck.  Have enough fun to make it worth it dealing with shit when you get back.

[wallace]

The animals are, or should be, covered. The work side is tricky, there are ongoing projects and I'm a one-man show - nobody to pick up the slack.

I'll do a big WC tonight and throw some baking soda in to hold the pH up. Its all ro.

[LizStreithorst]

A bag of crushed coral would be better.  The buffering from baking soda only lasts 24 hrs before the pH starts to drop again.