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[karl E lutz]

Good morning chicken wranglers,
Gotta work all of the holiday weekend don't ya know it would work out that way!
Rngr good looking rig and all! Q what an accomplishment Bathrooms are the worst! Kitchens are next. Oes good to hear from you sorry for the troubles!
Back to the grind!
Do not beaugart those brownie points sourland if there are extra we all need to share!
God Bless!

 

[rngrbill]

What I was catching were bluegills. there are Large & small mouth Bass and BIG CATFISH there also. I mean like up to 30- 40- 50# catfish. Where I'm from a 1-2 # catfish was considered big. We called them Hornpout.

Why is it every time we get a brownie point we have to cash it in and spend a couple on credit??

 

[quercus21]

Bathrooms are the worst! Kitchens are next.

I hate running into water damage with bathrooms. Or with this bathroom, the previous owners made a sub wall for the wainscot. The toilet tank didn't sit right, close by not good enough. So the wainscot and sub wall had to be removed. Reinstalled the wainscot (thinner) and stained. Also, no water valves in the water lines leading into the bathroom. Anyways, she's happy. You should have seen the gleam in her eyes when I gave her the brad nailer and let her at the trim......

Why is it every time we get a brownie point we have to cash it in and spend a couple on credit??

Count yourself a blessing, I think my brownie points have a variable expiration date.

 

[oesdog]

Well I think I need a coffee.
Everything is still so uncertain here but will battle through. We have another meeting with the powers that B next week so hopefully things will again start to move on. Been really busy today which is good.
We now have Strewberry wine, Blackberry wine, Pear cider, Rhubarb wine and Apple wine on the go (Yeah well you all know what my house is like and I soooooo need all this alcohol! Ok I didn;t use all the fruit for booze I did make 2 jars of Blackberry jam. You really do need to eat something with all those bottles of booze!
Now I am collapsing in a heap and trying to work out how many bottles needed ! DH is doing ok today and has enjoyed a bit of fun.Though he has had to go to bed for a time as the old chest was playing up so maybe we over did things. He had to take his GTN again but he will be ok after a rest. - The fruit here has done really well this year. I still have a number of crab apple jams left from last year and it does take a year for the wine to be ready so this lot wont be getting drank anytime soon.. We have only three bottles of apple wine left from last year ooooops! The pear cider should be real nice and ready for Christmas.( I did mention that word didn;t I?)

Is anyone else doing wine or jams on here?

Oes

 

[rancher hicks]

You sound like a friend of mine. He can always find the Lightning in the cloud not the silver lining. I know some times the lightning is the silver lining.

If you mean me, don't take everything I say as serious. Sometimes I'm just kidding.

 

[rancher hicks]

Morning,

Great looking pictures rngrbill. I like your set up. What kind of fish?

Hello ose, welcome back.

rancherhicks, thanks for the offer, but I don't know if the birds would survive a 4 - 5 hr ride in the back of the truck.

Scored some major brownie points the last couple of days. Enough to share, if anyone needs some. Bathroom is all done. It's a small 1/2 bath. I am going to keep it rolling, with calamari stuffed with eggplant and pasta tomorrow. She's funny, she loves her eggplant. There was a time when our youngest daughter would just ask for potatoes when we went out to eat. No matter where you went, and they had to be "real".

Trying your idea rancher, froze some tomatoes. Tomorrow, I'll make some more sauce. I have to get back into the shop, I have a few projects to get out. The up to my youngest daughters house to do some work. Rerouting some plumbing, leveling a cement floor, and straightening a door frame.

Enjoy your day

Kaj

Shoot, twice I drove nearly that far for chickens. Drove all the way back from PA with a box of chicks.

I was thinking, freezing tomatoes and then thawing them and canning saves water blanching. Plus no added water from blanching too. So even if you stuck them in the freezer overnight it wouldn't be bad.

 

[rngrbill]

OES Wines sound good but I'm not a big wine drinker. One batch would last many many years. Now Beer (Irish Stout with Oatmeal added to smooth it out) is my vice. and only 4 weeks more or less to start drinking it. DW does strawberry jam, dill pickles, a sweet sliced pickle, a green tomato relish and freezes a lot of veggies. I plan on doing some salsa and maybe some piccalilli.
Glad to see you are keeping busy.

 

[rngrbill]

If you mean me, don't take everything I say as serious. Sometimes I'm just kidding.

I Don't take him serious either. I have learned over the year If a Blue is in he is Red if a Red is in he's Blue. At noon he'd argue that it was midnight. and sometimes he seriously believes he is right.

 

[rancher hicks]

I Don't take him serious either. I have learned over the year If a Blue is in he is Red if a Red is in he's Blue. At noon he'd argue that it was midnight. and sometimes he seriously believes he is right.

Well what can I say?

The only thing to take serious is I love ya,

Rancher

 

[rancher hicks]

Hi
Sorry I have not been on for a bit. I have not been too well of late and things have gotten the better of me!
We still have Danny at home. Things seem to be so long in getting done here. Everything is on hold for no real reason at all!
We were told it would be all done and sorted by September and yet here we are days from September and nothing is any further on.
The hospital has been in touch about the surgery for hubby which they say will be early Autumn - Um isn;t that any time from September through mid October?
So anyhow been a bit frustrating really and then I get to thinking am I really doing the right thing after all or am I just simply walking away from parental responsibility and abandoning a child that needs me so much! Then I think darn he is 27 yrs old and normal kids would be long flown the nest? One day he attacks me and nips and bites and I think I can't handle this or I am extremely tired and dropping on my feet and feel I can't go on. Then I see him smile and giggle and sing his songs and play with us and I feel so darn bad about the whole thing all over again. I supose if this had of happened in the summer it would have been done by this stage and it would have been a natural progression of his life and ours.
This last respite has been hard because I don't think the respite centre is looking after him well. He came home with yet another bruise today and he is to go back to them on Monday. But then they have cancelled his placement with them because they got wind of the possibility he may go into supported living? Which means they gave his place away before we even know if he is really going to go to the other place? So no more respite place after that. All very stressing.
Gosh I am going on SORRY!
The chickens are fine! Still got all 7 and Amber is a pain in the Bum litterally! She is a horrible old crow getting! How can a bird that is hand reared and lifted all the time turn out to be so darn horrid? Now when I go in the pen I lift her up and love on her because I know she doesn't like it! She runs after my ankles so I upend her. I show her the oven and check her weight!

Anyhow they are ok even the old girls are doing fine. The PRs. Aggy and florry are getting over being a bit sick and are looking a lot stronger. Issy is going in to Molt and has virtually stopped eating but she still calls the others to the food and then drops hers for Betty, Florry or Aggy to eat. She doesn't feed Gwendalin, Lilly-beth the Maran babies or Amber! Just her own three girls ha ha it is like I have two different flocks in the one pen.
Anyhow it is late here and as ever I am rambling on about a lot of nothing! Thanks for all the folk who have asked after me and been so nice!

Oes

Well now dear you know I love ya and I think of Danny often when I'm in church and see Adam in the Choir. Not sure what all is the problem but in my effort to lift your spirits.
My nephew James has schizophrenia and he spent some time away in a group home in another city, but his mom wanted to bring him home and they did. My brother didn't. After he was home for awhile he told his parents he liked it in the home. Needless to say he didn't get to go back and they've since moved to another state and he's still at home. Point being what's best for Danny might not be easy. Sometimes love is doing what's best for someone else even though it breaks our hearts.
I'm be praying for you as always.

As for Amber I understand, having had more than my fair share of mean chickens. I don't keep them and suspect they end up in someones frying pan.

Take care,

Rancher