Good morning!!!!

[Ed of all trades]

Always thought the big Dice are classy!

Maybe a dog or two in the back window with their heads bobbing up and down? Ed

 

[toppop52]

Randy, are you sure you don't want fuzzy dice on the Monte C to match those on your tractor?

You sure you weren’t Shecky Greene in a previous life? LOL

26 this morning! Looks like the last hard freeze though, so I can finally start planting flowers.
Went to cruise in last night, guy tried to pick up Ellen while we were sitting together at a picnic table. I finally explained how precarious the situation was getting and offered him three steps, he accepted. Ellen swore he must have been drunk, I voted stupid! She was embarrassed, I told her she couldn’t help being pretty and 6 years younger than me, and looks 5 years younger than that. It was funny, in a weird way, who does that?
Anyway, had a great time with friends we hadn’t seen in a long time and a good laugh.
Kids are coming this weekend for moms 95 birthday Sunday. Ellen is coming over this afternoon to help me organize and shop. After everybody leaves we are going trail riding Monday, she’s riding her pretty little 12 hand paint, I’m going to ride my favorite mule, Festus.

 

[riptides]

.... Monday, she’s riding her pretty little 12 hand paint, I’m going to ride my favorite mule, Festus.

Heaven help you with a woman that loves horses. Mine are lawn ornaments for me and they are still too much work.

Be wary..be very wary... LOL.

 

[toppop52]

Her horses are on her dads farm and they have plenty of help. All I do is saddle up and untack. I don’t want horses here!

 

[daugen]

Toppop loves horses, don't let him kid you, he just wants them under his car hood!

off to run the tiller up and down the corn rows, might take a break and go mow the roadsides with Kubota, nice break from the pollen,
cab filter really works. Likely a lot of trash to pick up first, which I'm trying to figure out how to not let it sour my mood but some of this stuff is
really yukky and it's hard not to. Haven't figured out why some folks think my property is their trash can. And with roadsides on two different roads,
i get double the fun. But otherwise it is fun, and a whole lot of dandelions are going to meet their maker shortly.

 

[Looking4new]

25 with a forecast high of 39. Wind S 10 mph. About an inch of snow coming and then changing to rain in the afternoon.

The tractor went to the dealers last night. His truck is a little big for trying to get into this driveway, so he turned around in the neighbours' driveway and we loaded right on the road. I absolutely love living on a dead end gravel road (2nd last house). He parked right dead center on the road and up she went.
She should be back on Friday.

daugen, are you going to make wine?


Have a good day all

 

[toppop52]

Drew, I have a reacher, I call it. It’s one of those things you squeeze the trigger to grip stuff. It has a barb clamped to the stationary side, I drive around in the Cub Cadet with a basket and pick up the beer cans and condoms.

 

[daugen]

Drew, I have a reacher, I call it. It’s one of those things you squeeze the trigger to grip stuff. It has a barb clamped to the stationary side, I drive around in the Cub Cadet with a basket and pick up the beer cans and condoms.

I've been using a little plastic pitch fork, helps to get floaters out of ditch water, maybe I should try something different.
I'd like an R/C one...like a cheap bomb disposal unit. Underwear, found that yesterday.
Not many condoms, probably aren't used around here...

L4N, I bet you watched that truck until it was out of sight. Tough to see the tractor go...better when it comes back.

 

[freedomlives]

Today is woodworking day. I wish the Shopsmith table saw could handle the width of boards I had to cross cut for the bathroom sink cabinet. Instead, I used a Skil saw, albeit Makita brand. The disc sander on the shopsmith came in handy to straighten out the boards, as the cuts weren't quite right angles. After I finish coffee, I'm making holes for dowels and gluing it up with polyurethane glue-- I'm too impatient for PVA glue, and then stain and put on two part epoxy clear coat.

Pictures of animals, probably tomorrow, when I set up fence somewhere else and move the goats and sheep.

Garbage here is collected every other week. The charge is 10€/person/year, regardless of age. The dump is on the territory of the village, so I think we get really cheap trash collection prices. Recycling is once a month plastic bottles, less frequently other stuff. Metal I just pile up to take to the scrap yard, where I get about 0.10€/kg for steel, more for aluminum. The relative difference in prices and purchasing power makes it worth it to haul a trailer of metal to the scrap yard here. Glass beer bottles have a deposit, and wine bottles we usually keep for bottling our own wine or juice. There is twice a year recylcing pick up for glass, even for paper. There is also a pickup once or twice a year for motor oil. A lot of paper and cardboard gets burned during the winter, and often just burned up in the field during the summer with branches. Hungarians drive up in vans buying scrap metal and used batteries, so I get 1 or 2€ for dead batteries. In the cities, gypsies pick up any wooden waste to use for fuel, and metal to take to sell at the scrap yard.

Tires are the only thing not collected. I've found creative uses for ours-- they are handy to fill low areas under the fence. Someone else in the village made stairs up a steep slope using filled tires, and I'm thinking I'll eventually do the same. Neighbors sometimes use them as fuel to start a pile of brush burning. Doubtlessly, this is breaking all sorts of national and EU laws. Oh well.

 

[Looking4new]

Drew, I have a reacher, I call it. It’s one of those things you squeeze the trigger to grip stuff. It has a barb clamped to the stationary side, I drive around in the Cub Cadet with a basket and pick up the beer cans and condoms.

Do the condoms go into the recycle container along with the rest of the plastics and rubber?