Granny's gone and done it again

[Granny Hatchet]

he found a box in there with mold on it. Had some treasures in there!

 

[Granny Hatchet]

including his wisdom teeth. lol yuck.
sweet dreams all

 

[Wishing4Wings]

Goodnight!
Drooly. Wasn't that one of the 7 dwarfs?

 

[BigBlueHen53]

We got 3 eggs today!

But you know it's because I went out and bought 3 dozen.

My EEs are starting to lay, too! I got 6 eggs yesterday, I think. Have been getting 2, 3, sometimes 5. I think it's my OG hens, the 3 yo, that are laying, these are good big eggs. Yay!

 

[CapricornFarm]

well Ive done something to my eye and it really hurts.
Yesterday it felt like sleep in the outer corner and a little itchy so I rubbed it and caused it to hurt. Robert said it looked red there. Today he said it looks better but it is a little swollen and blurry and the pain is pretty aggravating.

If you get shingles in your eye, you need to see an eye doctor.

 

[CapricornFarm]

Did you all hear about the earthquake in Oklahoma? 4.5. From.. fracking?? What? https://101theeagle.com/big-earthquake-reported-by-thousands-just-hit-oklahoma/

That's how they extract oil from layers of shale.

 

[Cynthia12]

That's how they extract oil from layers of shale.

Yep, just didn't know it could cause an earthquake. Doesn't surprise me though.

 

[CapricornFarm]

well farm in the am Hopefully , depends on the weather.

I am going to bow out (gracefully) for the evening

Good night all, sweet dreams, warm fuzzies and prayers

There he goes, Twisting off.

 

[CapricornFarm]

So i sent i rooster and 2 cockerels off to new homes. Got $80 for them.
I was driving to Martinsville and saw a likely place to look for rocks. So i pulled off between a gas station and a tax preparer. Spent about 2 hours there, and it was time well spent. Got a bunch of rocks and enjoyed myself the whole time.
On my travels today, i saw 12 deer! Those things are everywhere. And three dead skunks, and a dead possum.

 

[BigBlueHen53]

Is everyone gone? Before I go to sleep, I shall tell A Tale of Three Cars. Granny enjoys stories, she can wake up to this one.

This story begins with a big blue SUV that is driven by The Man. Halfway to work one day last week (Thursday?), he calls me and says he has a bad flat tire, he thinks he hit a rock and the tire is ruined. Irrepairable, he thinks. He gets the spare put on it, drives the remaining 10 miles or so to work and calls AAA. They tow the car to the Goodyear shop that does most of our repair work, I go get him after work, and we are down one car. No worries, we still have GirlChild's Jeep and my little car.

The Goodyear place says they will order us a couple of new tires and we wait.

Today, GirlChild's car goes in to a different shop. She's had an appointment for two weeks to take her Jeep in to get her rear passenger window fixed. It won't power up; it's been stuck in the down position for a couple of months and I kept forgetting to make an appointment to get it fixed. But I remembered, finally, and today's the day. She'll be happy not to be driving around with a black trash bag duct-taped over the door where the window should be, lol. So GC and I drive both our vehicles to town, drop hers off to be fixed, and then spend a busy day in town shopping.

About 3:45 The Man texts me to remind me he has no vehicle and I have to pick him up from work. So GC and I make a mad dash to his job and arrive just in time to get him. On the way, we get a phone call saying GC's car is ready - in the town we had spent all day shopping in. So the three of us turn around and drive back to town to get it. They will be closed when we get there, so I call them and pay over the phone with my credit card. No problemo.

However, on the way back to town, I hear a strange noise coming from my car. A noise it doesn't usually make. A noise like a butterfly's wings. Softly ... tapping. No. You don't want to hear tapping coming from your car's engine. As soon we get to the car shop and get GC's Jeep, I stop, lift the hood, and check the oil. And my fears are justified. There is but a trace of oil in the crankcase. I send GC and The Man to the nearest gas station to get two quarts of oil, which we put in, and we go our separate ways - GC to visit a friend, The Man and I to home.

But wait, there's more. Home is about 30 miles away. TWO MILES from home, I start to smell something not right. Like ... exhaust. Or something burning. It's definitely a mechanical smell, and not a good one. But we are nearly home. There are no alerts on my dash. We don't know what to think. We pull up next to the house. The smell is overpowering. I kill the engine, pop the hood. The Man gets out, lifts the hood. And there....

...under the hood we see the engine coated with oil and starting to smoke! And there is no cap on the crankcase. Apparently my dear husband, after adding oil, did not screw the cap on tightly and it worked itself loose and fell off!

Once again we called AAA and they towed this car to the Goodyear dealer. And we called GC and asked her to come straight home as we now have ONE good car among the three of us! Hopefully the tires will be installed on the big blue SUV tomorrow and then we will have two. No idea WHY my car had no oil, that's a whole 'nother issue!.

It was nearly 8:00 by the time we got home, and none of the animals had been fed. We have a few "jumpers," young chickens that fly out of the run but of course can't fly back IN, so we had to hunt for those in the dark. Found 'em, too! And clipped their wings, the little rascals.

It's been a very long day. Hopefully tomorrow will be a lot less interesting.

Good night, Grannyland. Thanks for listening, if anybody made all the way through this epistle!