The Old Folks Home

[MrsMistyReal]

The baby and I have the house to ourselves, pretty much. Grandson has been wanting to watch a series of movies of some kind, and stay up all night. He's been bugging about it for awhile. Well, last night was the night. The entire household watched Harry Potter. The other kids dropped off by 2:00 am, and the other adults were done by 3:30 am. He and I stayed up until 6:30 am. The baby woke up at 9:30. She's fed, changed, and is entertained, so I'll let everyone else sleep in.

Yesterday, we dealt with boxes from when we moved in, that either needed to be unpacked, or stored in a better location. I'm almost done with them, and have the back bedroom just about cleaned completely out. I've been working at it steadily for about 3 weeks now. In a few days, we can move grandson's car bed in.

That's awesome just stay hydrated and rested

 

[MrsMistyReal]

I picked the first of my ripe grapes a bit ago. It's only a 2 year old plant but its out out a bunch considering the size of the plant. A few more days and most of the rest should be ripe.
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They are so sweet.

I'm so jealous yummy

 

[MrsMistyReal]

Thanks! It is quite an effort here to get the fire out. The fire crews have their base camp at the yolo county fairgrounds. There are a lot of them resting between shifts

I can't even fathom what they're going through,plus all medics & medical staff including all that reside there,complete terrorall the best & thank you for keeping us posted

 

[pennyJo1960]

Morning we have all been paid my bills already paid have to head in and deposit for the guys

 

[chrisb01]

I saw you on America's Most Wanted or was that Cops no maybe it was America's Dumbest Criminals

Must likely on Unsolved Mysteries..

But I've been on the others too..

Thanks Misty, I needed to laugh, good one..

 

[MrsMistyReal]

Must likely on Unsolved Mysteries..

But I've been on the others too..

Thanks Misty, I needed to laugh, good one..

That's incrediblenot a problem

 

[microchick]

We caved to the heat and humidity. It's only in the mid 80s but the humidity is in the mid 70s and that sun is blazing. Dh has been brush hogging the pasture and where he had mowed I could just feel the heat radiating up from the grass on my legs.

We did manage to get the last of the Black Locust cut up and hauled back to the barn. We have both Black Locust and Honey Locust. I'd much rather deal with the black than the honey. At least the black doesn't have the brutal thorns. They both put out some serious BTUs though as far as heating is concerned so we always trying to harvest one or two and use the wood on the really cold nights.

By the time we got the bucket loaded we were both pretty cooked. We were at the bottom of a hill and no breeze was hitting us. Even the dogs found shade and flopped down. Sitting in the AC drinking a glass of ice water and trying to cool down.

@ronott1, you and yours please stay safe. Sorry to hear that you folks are starting the wildfire season early this year.

It's dry here but not nearly as dry as it is out there. We were wondering today if it was too dry to shoot off fireworks here tomorrow night. Since the pasture has been brush hogged and dried it's pretty combustible.

@drumstickdiva and @MrsMistyReal, thank you for the well wishes. I'm so glad that I moved the broody inside even though it is a bit of a hassle. She is comfortable and her eggs are doing well. This is Betty's first brood and she is very dedicated to her eggs. I've seen her off the nest twice so far and finally had to start holding food and water under her little beak to get her to eat and drink. I'm keeping my fingers crossed that all goes well for her hatching out 5 healthy little fluffy butts.

My disastrous 4 hens co-brooding chicks turned out to be 4 pullets and 1 cockerel. The pullet god was smiling down upon me this time. Dare I hope for a repeat?

@getaclue, how wonderful that the kids have adults like you to take care of them. My parents would never do anything like that. I can remember my brother and I sitting up til 1 or 2 AM watching horror movies together but we were in our teens at the time, What fun that would have been!

 

[MrsMistyReal]

We caved to the heat and humidity. It's only in the mid 80s but the humidity is in the mid 70s and that sun is blazing. Dh has been brush hogging the pasture and where he had mowed I could just feel the heat radiating up from the grass on my legs.

We did manage to get the last of the Black Locust cut up and hauled back to the barn. We have both Black Locust and Honey Locust. I'd much rather deal with the black than the honey. At least the black doesn't have the brutal thorns. They both put out some serious BTUs though as far as heating is concerned so we always trying to harvest one or two and use the wood on the really cold nights.

By the time we got the bucket loaded we were both pretty cooked. We were at the bottom of a hill and no breeze was hitting us. Even the dogs found shade and flopped down. Sitting in the AC drinking a glass of ice water and trying to cool down.

@ronott1, you and yours please stay safe. Sorry to hear that you folks are starting the wildfire season early this year.

It's dry here but not nearly as dry as it is out there. We were wondering today if it was too dry to shoot off fireworks here tomorrow night. Since the pasture has been brush hogged and dried it's pretty combustible.

@drumstickdiva and @MrsMistyReal, thank you for the well wishes. I'm so glad that I moved the broody inside even though it is a bit of a hassle. She is comfortable and her eggs are doing well. This is Betty's first brood and she is very dedicated to her eggs. I've seen her off the nest twice so far and finally had to start holding food and water under her little beak to get her to eat and drink. I'm keeping my fingers crossed that all goes well for her hatching out 5 healthy little fluffy butts.

My disastrous 4 hens co-brooding chicks turned out to be 4 pullets and 1 cockerel. The pullet god was smiling down upon me this time. Dare I hope for a repeat?

@getaclue, how wonderful that the kids have adults like you to take care of them. My parents would never do anything like that. I can remember my brother and I sitting up til 1 or 2 AM watching horror movies together but we were in our teens at the time, What fun that would have been!

May many prayers and blessings come your way

 

[ronott1]

I picked the first of my ripe grapes a bit ago. It's only a 2 year old plant but its out out a bunch considering the size of the plant. A few more days and most of the rest should be ripe.
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They are so sweet.

They look like very tasty grapes!

 

[bruceha2000]

Hubby thinks the run doesn't need a door, just go through the coop. Argh!

DD2 is going daily to feed an old horse, a couple of cats and some chickens. Given the heat, I suggested she take our 1 gallon waterer and put it in the run. The run attached to the coop has no door, there is no way to put the waterer there. I think the run needs an engineering change.

Sunset last night was awesome though..A blood red sun is something to see.

Red sky at night, sailor's delight.
..... unless the red is due to a nearby fire.