Fitting - That's why I buy KitchenAid mixers, so that all the attachments I've purchased over the past 35 years would keep fitting. UNTIL this year. I JUST (Friday) replaced my dead 6qt with a new 3.5qt, and NONE of my accessories fit in the front PTO. Back in the box it went.
This is on top...
Scrubbed windows today for the first time all summer. I skipped it all summer due to the siding and roofing repairs. Then harvest dust stuck all over. But that's almost complete so the scraping happened today. LOL They were so gross. I even did the chicken house and run and winter windows.
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We set ours free on the whole acreage. The icelandics take off and head for the north 40 acres, sometimes talking their more stupid little sisters to go with them. The prairie grass over there is 4 feet high (no cattle on it this season). It takes them forever to decide to come home, and you...
My strawberries are blooming. I have birds nesting in boxes. The rhubarb is sprouting new leaves as are the horseradish. I have volunteer tomatoes coming up, no frost or freeze yet.
HOWLING winds yesterday and today, but the temps are going to be dropping tonight, so finishing the winterizing is a MUST. It took me 3 hours to drain things and put them away and get the thermal covers and waterers out.
I'm not mentally ready for the cold.
I can't bake bread with the city water, it has chlorine in it, which stunts the yeast.
Certain times of year, up here at the ranch, I struggle too. Well water changes during the seasons, fall and early spring are high in minerals that the yeast don't appreciate.
BINGO. I'm ok with the native ones, but not the orange ones. I got sprayed in the face swatting at one crawling on my cheek, thinking it was a fly out in the barn. I smelled ladybug and ARGH! sigh of relief when I saw it fall and was a bright RED one. Phew. But STINKY