Posted on 01/05/2019 10:33:52 PM PST by greeneyes
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YOU RAN OUT OF PALLETS??? How could that be...
LOL. They look so cute. Do they belong to you?
So I just had to google “haint blue” to see what it looks like. Love it!
yum yum, lamb is my absolute favorite
This is the first house I’ve had that has a nice ‘sittin’ porch’ and that was the first thing I wanted to do.
The Fates (or maybe the Haints?) were with me on this one, as we need to replace the bead board anyway, so I can more easily paint it before it’s re-installed. :)
The Flock of Sheep belong to a neighbor about a mile away. A cop came out to have his photo taken with them...
Ha. That’s kinda neat.
Years ago we had a stray goat show up outside our goat pen. Turns out it was recently purchased and got away from it’s new owner about 5 miles away. It was a hoot trying to catch it.
Looks like the sheep are saying - Hey this looks like a pretty nice place, let’s stay here.
Used em all! I only had 14! LOL
There’s a never-ending supply of free pallets available where I work. The warehouse manager loves it when I haul em off because it saves him on disposal costs. I just keep an eye on the heap, and when they toss out the 3’x3’ size I chuck em in the back of the Red Menace and take em home.
Is Mrs. Bender holding out on the sour cream apple pie recipe? #1 Daughter made a buttermilk pie over the holidays that was absolutely delicious, but sour cream apple sounds even better to me.
I’ll get that recipe for you ASAP! I like your posts and photos and equipment as it parallels my younger days although I never had a tractor...
Guess I should get back on the ping list so please reinstate me. I’m finally getting the big tree in the middle of the currently defunct garden pruned waaaay back so that should help with the sunshine. The ol’ knee is still bad but I need to get outside more so might as well go back to trying to garden.
Have some indoor plant shelves set up recently so can get some veggie seedlings started.
Hardly any boats out here since the big flood in Oct. They lowered the water a half dozen feet so people can clear out their destroyed docks (ours) but there’s still going to be dangers under the water which are going to be scary when the summer recreation begins.
Will be glad to add you back.
I have some trouble with knees now and then. Researched it. Dr. pointed out that the fluid that helps knees needs a bit of movement to get it where it’s needed.
He had the patients sit and let legs dangle. Then the moved the foot forward an inch or two and back. Several minutes several times a day.
I do it and it seems to help, but then I skip and it back slides. LOL
The Dr. said that he himself had been in a very bad accident, and rehabbed his knees that way-took a few years, because of how bad it was, but also because those parts of the knee totally replace every 4 years.
Really, huh?!? Well, that's most interesting. Actually, I just started to dangle my leg but will incorporate the movement.
I had lost weight by practically starving (hey, when you can't move to burn calories, you have to starve). The knee has improved from 18 months ago but I threw caution out the window when that same side's shoulder started hurting and have put weight back on the past few months. And now that side's heel is killing me. If it's not one thing it's another. Would like one day with nothing hurting.
A winter storm watch is set for noon Friday in SW Missouri.
I have a 1:30 pm date to donate blood at the local K of C.
I’m wondering if this will be canceled...
I had lost weight by practically starving (hey, when you can’t move to burn calories, you have to starve). The knee has improved from 18 months ago
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Actually intermittent fasting is one of the best ways to lose weight. Insulin levels raise when you eat-especially sugars and carbs. Insulin tells your body to store fat. So not eating works.
Check out Dr. Fung’s Videos on YouTube. He explains the whole thing. He works with morbidly obese-it’s been a while since I read his book or watched the Videos.
I sympathize. Had shoulder problem, which I solved using physical therapy exercise I found on the web. Heel pain so bad I couldn’t walk.
I finally figured out that when I stood at the sink, I was putting a lot of pressure on my heels, and then other stuff I noticed and read.
Shoe inserts, mats on concrete kitchen floor, and no more walking barefoot seems to have cured that for now.
Brrrr! Careful driving.
Here, it’s supposed to reach 60 and through the week. Rain tomorrow. Yesterday was 70-something.
DANG!!!!! What’s the world coming to? Hubby happened to walk out the front and caught some workers from down the street loading their truck with the logs from our tree trimming. Thieves!!!!! Right there in broad daylight. He told them he’d have given it to them if they’d asked but you don’t steal.
He called the neighbor so they’re out loading it up into the neighbor’s trailer before it disappears again.
We never had problems until recently. In October, some weirdo meth head had jumped the fence and was in the yard and refused to leave. Just the day before, we’d always kept the front door wide open, but blocked with a cattle panel so the old blind dog could go out that way rather than going down the back stairs. Since that day, the door is shut and locked and I’m keeping a little friend with me.
Good grief, we’re going to have to start nailing everything down.
May have to have the company of that little friend if I get back to gardening this spring. Geez. Times have certainly changed. This is ridiculous.
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