The Old Folks Home

[Sally PB]

Three more degrees and I'll definitely be oblique.

Right!

 

[pennyJo1960]

Good Morning Old Folks !
We are cold but dry still this is normal late November.

 

[Peep_Show]

We're getting pretty frosty now. Realized how cold the mornings are when I went to check the bucket traps and I have mouse-cicles in a block of ice. Oops!

 

[pennyJo1960]

New treat for dogs?

 

[Sally PB]

23 days to the Solstice!!!

 

[Nomadicus]

23 days to the Solstice!!!

Hard to believe the days will start getting longer so soon. I have just gotten cured of summers heat. Oh well the earth still turns and around and around it goes.

 

[RedwoodCoastChick]

Sunny day and 62.8 degrees - must get out there and finish winterizing the rose beds while soaking up some sunshine today & tomorrow before our rains return. Which is happening starting Thursday, wet all the way into next week as far as the Weather Service is forecasting. The soils are still saturated from the earlier rains and crusty frost still covered the shadier areas through yesterday.

I need to dry out some fresh dirt for the chickens' under-cover dust bath, too - they've managed to toss out half the old dirt and somehow track in big chunky wood chips. Thanks a lot, ladies. Add "spa attendant" to my list of chicken chores this week...

 

[CapricornFarm]

Good morning, OF. I miss Maggie Mae. There's a picture of her and me above the computer table and another in the bookcase.

And you didn't even want a puppy, as I recall.

 

[ronott1]

I have a dog that wakes me up at 5 am like clockwork. She has her ways. She starts by thumping her tail on the floor. Whack, whack. She is so happy to be awake. Me not so much. I pretend to be asleep. Oh, she can fix that. She gets up, comes over and starts licking my hand, my foot, my knee, anything that's poking out of the blankets. Slurp slurp, wake up, Mom. It's morning! No it's not. Go away. I tuck everything in under the blankets and snore lightly. Go away, I'm asleep. Not time to get up yet. She is not fooled. She picks something up in her mouth, a towel maybe. A sock. A cat toy. Anything. She's a Golden. Joy is something in the mouth. And she starts pacing. Toenails on the hardwood floor. Click clack, click clack ... OKAY ALREADY! I'M AWAKE! GAAAHH! I put on my robe and take her outside. Yes we have dog doors. But she wants my company. I go back to bed till 6:30. That's feeding time. Sigh. Tell me again why I have kids? I mean, dogs?

Dogs and Cats have a schedule for sure!

 

[ronott1]

Sunny day and 62.8 degrees - must get out there and finish winterizing the rose beds while soaking up some sunshine today & tomorrow before our rains return. Which is happening starting Thursday, wet all the way into next week as far as the Weather Service is forecasting. The soils are still saturated from the earlier rains and crusty frost still covered the shadier areas through yesterday.

I need to dry out some fresh dirt for the chickens' under-cover dust bath, too - they've managed to toss out half the old dirt and somehow track in big chunky wood chips. Thanks a lot, ladies. Add "spa attendant" to my list of chicken chores this week...

We should get some rain here too!

Our ground is not saturated at all yet.