Sitting with a cup of coffee. (coffee lovers)

[Woodsdweller]

Can moles survive the Florida humidity? She may be hunting moles or voles.

Sourland would sprinkle a little black pepper along her favorite routes.

Too hot, too humid and too many people who act old. Getting old is not sinful - acting old is.

x2

Everyone alive has to grow older, not all grow up.

 

[Peep_Show]

Coffee good this morning. Woke to light rain and a dusting of snow on the mountain that is visible through drifting clouds. A nice time to just nurse a hot mugful.

The dogs here are not diggers, but they are snoopers and manage to harass the wildlife in our enclosed backyard, an expanse of lawn ringed by rosebushes, shrubbery, flowerbeds. The other day it was a nesting Gambel Quail hen that one took out, so now -- with the blessings of Fish & Game -- I've got the Brinsea churning away in the other room with 15 small eggs. I cannot really lay total blame on the dog as I sort of neglected to do a timely weeding/cleanup of that section of the roses.

I look out at the yard and marvel at the explosive growth happening now that Spring has sprung. It'll be nice to have fresh roses in the house again. Usually there's one in a bud vase on my bedside table, a nice thing to wake up to.....that and coffee.

 

[3goodeggs]

Quote: My elderly grandfather would lean over the grocery cart and nudge me, point to a lady shopping and say, 'Look at that little old lady pretending to be old."
It used to embarrass me, but now that I am getting older, I understand what he means.
"Don't give into it."

I have a lot of hot pepper. I will try.
I might just fence off the front yard and make it inaccessible to her until her brain grows a tad bigger and she understands what the screaming and shrieking and flailing of arms means.
or move. I could move.

 

[TeaChick]

  Thank you.  and Yes it is!
We are going to set up a separate bank account for our son with a Debit card and only put an allowance in it so that we can keep track of his spending as well as keep an eye out for fraud.

I agree on the curse.

Yes, if congress and Pres. had to live with the "insurance" that they approve for everyone else, it would be different.

Insurance isn't the only problem, they legislate their own pay!!!!!!!
I wish! Ugh!!

 

[TeaChick]

tea chick are you a zombie yet?

Not quite. Working on it though. lol

Very full but very blessed day.  Pa is nodding peacefully in pain drug fog in his recliner after having hernia surgery this morning.  A bit longer than scheduled because the surgery was a bit more "involved" once they had him "zipped" but everything put back together just fine.  NOW comes the hard part.  Getting this man to follow dr's orders and not chop wood, drag the field, throw feed sacks, etc. for the next month.  Figure I should get him to behave as long as he still has trouble shuffling to the bathroom without drugs.  Once the pain lets go tho I know all bets are going to be off and the fight will be on!    
The down side to having a hard working man who can't sit still.   

My g-pa (young enough to be my dad, really) had surgery on his neck FINALLY back in Jan. It was all g-ma could do to keep him out of the shop.
My DH is a hard working man too. When he hurts his back, it takes forever for it to heal. I hate that!

Isn't that what handcuffs and shackles were invented to solve?

I'll have to get me some of those for making DH stay put.

At least it's not boring.

NEVER!!!!!!!

 

[TeaChick]

hey mr. sourland. 
Is it still cold there?
I think you should move to Florida and take up hibiscus farming. 
I know a place.

That's what I miss second most about central Fla, hibiscus!

Hey gang. 
so, I have an issue. 
okay more than one, but the issue that I am battling at this moment is the dog holes in the front yard,
I knew when I got the retriever that there would be holes.
but.. This is just unbelievable.

I have been bringing sand home from the nursery and filling holes all week. She is now unfilling the same holes.
Now, I understand that a dog needs a laying hole. They have three well defined, well place holes that they get to keep. They are out of sight, out of the way and if you can't find a dog that is where they will be.

So I am not anti-hole.
But the puppy digs these little narrow holes just big enough for her nose and she snuffles in it. I do not know what is down there, but it moves all over the yard because there is not one square foot of my front yard unscathed.
It looks like there was a war out there.

I love my dogs. I accept that they gotta do what they are genetically programed to do, but what do I do to stop this madness?!
I need to get rid of the mystery smell. but it is a mystery.

In a case like this I ask myself, what would sourland do?

My dog digs just enough to fit her nose in too, but it's usually where something else, like an armadillo, has already dug during the night.

My elderly grandfather would lean over the grocery cart and nudge me, point to a lady shopping and say, 'Look at that little old lady pretending to be old."
It used to embarrass me, but now that I am getting older, I understand what he means. 
"Don't give into it."

I have a lot of hot pepper. I will try.
I might just fence off the front yard and make it inaccessible to her until her brain grows a tad bigger and she understands what the screaming and shrieking and flailing of arms means.
or move. I could move.

 

[Chicken Ladies]

someone has spent A LOT of time thinking about zombies.....

Around our house, the guys were trying to decide if misquitos could infect people and cause the spread of Zombies...It was rather entertaining.

 

[ocap]

i was going to comment on a few of the posts but by the time I had caught up with all of them my memory and cup of coffee were both empty.

 

[kyexotics]

i was going to comment on a few of the posts but by the time I had caught up with all of them my memory and cup of coffee were both empty.

And I was going to comment, read your post, laughed, took a sip of my 'coffee' and forgot what I was going to post. So, how about a simple, GOOD MORNING YA'LL!

Little sidenote, one of my favorite things on these beautiful bluegrass mornings is grabbing morning cup of coffee, standing on porch and watching the hummingbirds swarm my feeders 5' in front of me...I just love these lil buggers and we get lots of them, so many, we'll have 6 8seat feeders FULL with lines buzzing around waiting for spots! We're very fortunate and I take it in...I know, I'm weird, but sharing it helps me feel normal,..

It's an old video I shot but shows some of them on a slow day:

 

[Puddin Fluff]

Around our house, the guys were trying to decide if misquitos could infect people and cause the spread of Zombies...It was rather entertaining.

It would depend on the amount of time the virus could survive outside the host. I know when research on Aids came out many people were also concerned with this because it is a blood born pathogen but they say there are 2 reasons mosquitos can't trans mit it 1) Aid virus is very fragile outside the human body and will die quickly and 2) mosquitos have an in "straw" and an out "straw" when they bite. They inject with one, and suck out blood with the other so in theory you should not be in contact with the blood they have already tasted.

i was going to comment on a few of the posts but by the time I had caught up with all of them my memory and cup of coffee were both empty.

That is why I do the annoying multiple quotes. Otherwise I would forget too!

And I was going to comment, read your post, laughed, took a sip of my 'coffee' and forgot what I was going to post. So, how about a simple, GOOD MORNING YA'LL!

Little sidenote, one of my favorite things on these beautiful bluegrass mornings is grabbing morning cup of coffee, standing on porch and watching the hummingbirds swarm my feeders 5' in front of me...I just love these lil buggers and we get lots of them, so many, we'll have 6 8seat feeders FULL with lines buzzing around waiting for spots! We're very fortunate and I take it in...I know, I'm weird, but sharing it helps me feel normal,..

It's an old video I shot but shows some of them on a slow day:

Cool video. We have at least 3 hanging around our feeder right now. We shall see how many come this year.