Good Morning!!!! 45F @ 7:00AM. Areas of dense morning fog. Partly cloudy. High 61F. Winds NNW at 5 to 10 mph.
Glad to hear you and yours are back and the trip home went smoothly, Rip. You have a big job on your hands taking care of the wife and the farm! Little by little, though, things will get better, the weather will get warmer, and it won't be so hard. In the meantime, though, a Google search for local adult services might turn up someone who could help with shopping, or spell you while you get out for a while. Caregiving is tough work, and there's help out there if you look.
Hope you get the meds figured out soon, Buckeye. Hives are no fun.
Wish you lived closer, Don. I'm thinking about some paver projects, and those extra tools you have would be a big help.
If anyone here ever wants a nice break from the demands of daily living, 3 "hots" and a cot, a "soothing" pastel (puke) colored environment, and free entertainment with episodic daily floorshows from those "free spirits" who suddenly feel "liberated," I have the secret "mantra" to give you all the "vacation time" necessary. All one needs to do is to confide "certain statements" with the admitting "professionals." Later, if one is "well behaved" they can get "grounds privileges."
All this talk of insane asylums, and regular police log posts about nut jobs acting out in public around here, had me awaking to a nightmare this morning. Somehow I was being inducted into a mental institution. It was late evening, bedtime in fact. I was shown a rough ramp leading down into a black hole, with straw on the floor and voices coming up the ramp, and told to go down there to find a place to sleep. I told the old woman/fellow inmate that was my guide that I hadn't slept on the floor for forty years and I didn't intend to start now, and that's when the trouble started. I woke up at that point, and hopefully won't get to find out how it ends tonight. So tell me, Dr. JB, am I crazy or do I just have a very dim view of this nation's facilities for taking care of the infirm? :confused2:
Saw a note in the American Rifleman yesterday that NRA has partnered with MetLife to offer insurance. Called 'em up, and got the same song-n-dance about no insurance for you, with the new excuses of a gravel driveway and earthquakes. But the nice lady did offer me a very attractive auto insurance rate for the truck, so at least that's something. They wanted $2800/year to insure the Vanagon though, so I'll have to think a while about that...
Sprayed 45 gallons of 3% glyphosate yesterday, dousing weeds growing up on the various trails around the property, the driveway, and in the vegetation free zone immediately next to the house. Had a little left over and was headed up one of the steeper hills in the front meadow when I heard a loud SNAP! from the rear end of the side-by-side and it started sliding backwards. The front wheels were spinning, tearing up the ground, but not the back, and the brakes were barely holding. Managed to get it backed down to the bottom but had to sidehill a bit, and that got my heart a pounding. Poor thing drug itself back to the garage with just the front wheels, so today I'll try to figure out what broke. If I'm lucky it'll be a busted axle or hub spline, if not it could be the transmission and time for a new vehicle.
Hope everyone enjoys the weekend!
