Texas

[oldhen2345]

Hot today, and of course, the AC quit on me yesterday. I opened the house and turned on all the ceiling fans, brought out a box fan to blow in my face. The guy will be here Wednesday to look at it.

 

[NickyPick]

So, the forecast has rain for the next 10 days, but only next Tuesday and Wednesday are over 50%, so if that holds, we'll only get two days of rain. Our little riding mower is still at the shop, so I did a pass around the house area with the tractor and bush hog. It's not neat, but it's at least looking mowed.
My goatlings are getting more confident at moving out in the horse pasture (10 acres). Today was the first time that, while the horses were in to eat, they came through the open gate, through the barn, and out in the back 6. I need to do some more training with the dogs, but between my hollering, their chasing/hesitating, the goatlings ran back through the barn to the main pasture and then back through the large chicken pop door to their shelter/feed stall. Yay for goats being smarter than chickens. But, I think we will need to shut the gate after the horses come in to eat now, since the goatlings now know how to come through all the gates and out the barn.
On the chicken agenda. Tomorrow, I'll be working with my dad (88( on snake-proofing my nursery/infirmary coop. I've got both a chick shipment on 7/28 and 2 broody hens that I think I'll move over with some eggs. After 3 years of living here and no predator chicken loss, I've been finding dead older hens with no marks on them. 18 hens in the last 8 months,

 

[Elyrian1]

Storms last night just about shook me out of bed. There's a lake in the back of the yard again, lol.

 

[Matejka]

Enjoying the cool. We don't use a/c, so I so look forward to cool. Like our $50 electric bills too.
Cloudy, stormy clouds, breezy no rain, 85 degrees.

 

[oldhen2345]

Enjoying the cool. We don't use a/c, so I so look forward to cool. Like our $50 electric bills too.
Cloudy, stormy clouds, breezy no rain, 85 degrees.

My AC broke- so glad of the lower temps and rain tonight. Enjoying the cool

 

[Matejka]

I am in a really bad mood. Everything's ugly. Family!
HA!
That's a word. I don't have family, I have users, losers and ignorers.
I am currently outside, taking anger and frustration out on yard. I'm pulling cutting destroying.
On a good note, I do try to find beauty everyday- it's nice and cool-good yard destroying weather.
THIS TOO SHALL PASS

 

[RUNuts]

I am in a really bad mood. Everything's ugly. Family!
HA!
That's a word. I don't have family, I have users, losers and ignorers.
I am currently outside, taking anger and frustration out on yard. I'm pulling cutting destroying.
On a good note, I do try to find beauty everyday- it's nice and cool-good yard destroying weather.
THIS TOO SHALL PASS

I wish you peace.

We are getting a deluge. A nice, but dreary, Monday morning.

 

[drumstick diva]

Matejka, I have moods like yours often. I have very little family. When our mother died my sister took off for NM. She didn't want to get stuck with our father. I GOT him and made my life miserable. He beat me up two Mother's Days in a row because he remembered I had a son and wasn't married. My brother had two many stairs he said, so not a good place for our father.

When my father fell off a ladder (just the first step) because he hadn't anchored it or extended it fully (it was an A-frame) - he fractured his back in 3 places. Had to have a hospital bed in the basement with an IV. None of us knew how to program it , whatever except for my very young son. He had watched the nurse and was able to duplicate every thing he saw her do.

BTW it is true "Only the good die young!" My mom passed at 77 due to breast cancer that had spread. She had refused chemo & or radiation. My father died at 90 - from inhalation pneumonia. I was told he had dementia and had forgotten how to swallow properly. Well that was THEIR story anyway. He was in a nursing home then and had been confined to a wheel chair. He kept busy going into other patient's rooms and stealing anything that caught his eye.

The nursing home called often to say he had pneumonia again and again and that he needed "last rites." Then he would rally . The last time they called, was indeed the last time and he died. It was quite a shock because he had bounced back so many times before. My father did visit me twice(as a ghost) or my imagination- where he tried to choke me to death or worse. Thankfully he found someone else to haunt or ???. I didn't need anymore nightmares.

BTW my son turned out to be a computer whiz(must have been spontaneous combustion ( I used to joke) and got hired as soon as he graduated college. I was just a lowly dog groomer(a job I loved)- my brother only respected people that made more money than him. He worked for the government for 28 years. Yet our sister who worked for local government made more $$ than him.

When my brother realized he was "stuck" with me as about the only living local relative he decided I was better than nothing and we sort of get along now. Though he does throw hissy fits if I take too long to count out change for the store clerk, and was madder still when the clerk went to hand me some small change and she dropped it and the conveyor belt swallowed it up. It was only a few pennies.

My brother lives alone and loves it (sure needs to hire a cleaning lady though) I live alone and hate it. I'd love to have a dog but, can't afford vet bills on top of my own bills. Besides I figure I'm getting closer and closer to my "expiration date," and would have no one that would take a dog that outlived me.

One of the shopping centers out here invites folks with dogs to bring them on weekends - so I love to go there and get to pet them all. One little black dog saw me and we both fell in love. Unfortunately her owner did not want to give her up.

 

[Matejka]

Animals are better friends than people.

 

[oldhen2345]

I know how ya’ll feel. I decided a few years ago that my main problem was expectation. I expected my family to let me know when someone was dying, or having a baby or getting married. I expected my family to visit more than once every 10 years. I would visit, call- keeping it light with no recrimination. I kept getting hurt. Well, now, I have no expectations. if they call, ok, if not, ok. If someone’s baby is three before I get a picture, ok. I have a small circle of friends who are kind, considerate and sweet. Family, whatever. Make your life make sense to you, strive to be happy.