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We're going to Golden Corral in Cleveland, TN tonight, about an hour from us, for Tom's free Veteran's Day meal. Hobby Lobby is right across the street
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and that part of the trip is for my birthday which is in a week. Hope they have lots of yarn in the sale bins!

In honor of my b'day, our HUGE pre-holiday sale at Blue Roo is ending next Monday, November 18, so check out the slashed prices on some of the items, everyone! If you have questions about shipping costs on multiple items or any questions, just PM me or Ladyhawk here or at Blue Roo. The shawls/wraps are all buy more than one and only pay shipping for one. So, no matter how many you buy, you pay shipping for just one of them.

How does one get enough done in one day? I'm making stuff for the storefronts, now three of them since we have Ebay as well, and stuff for the family and I have to make time eventually to quilt my own queen size bed quilt I made prior to the house fire at the beginning of the year. Just can't get enough done!

In case you didn't read my blog post over there, we constructed a solid, mouse-proof door for our stand up crawl space which runs under the master bedroom and kitchen (the rest is actual basement). The doors were simple lattice and the floor in it is dirt so mice lived in the insulation under our floors ever since we moved here. No way to keep the critters out. Well, they cannot get in through the door now, period. BUT, the man who built the house didn't remove a couple of dead stumps from in there and the roots left nice little tunnels that mice are still using, ack! I've removed the stumps, which were completely old and dried up, but they had roots that go who knows where? Put rags soaked in ammonia into two tunnels and a mouse came out another one.

I have traps down there now and keep plugging holes, but I guess we'll have to forgo replacing any under floor insulation until we can pour cement on the dirt floor, an arduous task since it's about 34' x 10', a huge space. Can't afford to pay someone to do it. Maybe we can section off one area at a time, add a few bags, smooth it out, let it cure, then do another section as we can afford to do it, but that will take ages and we'll have to buy a float for the smoothing of such a large space.

Here are the old doors, then the new door. This door can be locked, unlike the other one.




New, improved door, which we did get painted gray like the concrete block walls B4 it was too cold. Ain't no mice getting through this one! At least, even with the tunneling, they don't have an open highway anymore.
 
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I did the bacon wrapped one, well sort of. I didn't have enough bacon to wrap the whole roast, so I fudged it. By the time the pork roast was done, the bacon was super burnt. But the flavor was in the meat, so it was still quite good.

Yum! Sounds heavenly. Everything is better with bacon, even burnt bacon, lol.
 
Have fun on your road trip Cyn. Happy Birthday and Veteran's Day. I am hoping to get a new heat pump installed today! I refuse to go another winter without heat!
 
Thank you, Mary. We have a heat pump, the original one, but we never use it. We heat with the wood stove exclusively.


I'm so angry right now. Ladyhawk had someone cut a lock on the nestbox of her bantam coop and steal two young Coch'anvers, a pair, out of it, sometime after 2:30 a.m. Thank God that her beautifully barred son of Isaac and his little pullets were in the front section or they'd probably have been stolen, too. The deer hunters are all drunk in the woods around her, shooting all night long, and spotlighting, and she lives in a n'hood with "special" people anyway, so hard to say who did it or exactly why. That's really hurtful and cruel!
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If I feel I'm in danger of stuff like this, I will get another dog and a BIG one, too, mark my words.

Well, we'll be leaving in a little over an hour or so. Hopefully, it will be a fun trip. The birds will be mad, having to go inside on a sunny day very early, but hey, they'll live.
 
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Sadly the thieves didn't even know what they had! So cruel.

Enjoy your dinner out. Your chickens will get over it!
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Sadly the thieves didn't even know what they had! So cruel.

Enjoy your dinner out. Your chickens will get over it!
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...unless Isaac kills one or more of his sons before we get back, lol. They are such lusty Lotharios lately, I swear, and most of the hens are hiding from them, sometimes, behind Ike! That never bodes well for the young males, to get Daddy all riled up with their antics.
 
Thank you, Mary. We have a heat pump, the original one, but we never use it. We heat with the wood stove exclusively.


I'm so angry right now. Ladyhawk had someone cut a lock on the nestbox of her bantam coop and steal two young Coch'anvers, a pair, out of it, sometime after 2:30 a.m. Thank God that her beautifully barred son of Isaac and his little pullets were in the front section or they'd probably have been stolen, too. The deer hunters are all drunk in the woods around her, shooting all night long, and spotlighting, and she lives in a n'hood with "special" people anyway, so hard to say who did it or exactly why. That's really hurtful and cruel!
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If I feel I'm in danger of stuff like this, I will get another dog and a BIG one, too, mark my words.

Well, we'll be leaving in a little over an hour or so. Hopefully, it will be a fun trip. The birds will be mad, having to go inside on a sunny day very early, but hey, they'll live.
That is horrible. And to know they needed bolt cutters to get them too. Is her property fenced?
 
Only partially. She's been trying to get someone to help her since they moved there. They have over 5 acres, like we do, rocky ground, and her DH is like mine, disabled vet, though they both push through stuff to get it done when they have to. Could be anyone, including the man whose three Rottie's who have met their fates on her property in three separate incidents, including the one the deputy shot. Could be revenge, could be kids being mean, could be anybody in that area. I'm about to send Tom up there to see if he can at least get decent pens built attached to the coops. Maybe two disabled vets together can get it done. Nobody up there wants to work for pay, it seems.
 

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