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it's quite a challenge you've got there. :) i always enjoy reading up on what is going on and how it all works together. :) also cheer you on through the victories. :)

got Mom's sewing machine back to working. long two days of dealing with Mom's stubborness and drama as much as i love her she can be a challenge at times. she has not read the manual very much if at all plus she's not spent any time trying the basic things mentioned in the troubleshooting...

one thing i did quite early here was go down into the crawlspace and put hardware cloth over all gaps i could find. considering the damage all the mice were doing crawling in the walls and even some chewing on electrical wires it was pretty much required. mice can make such a smelly mess. i...

they had us down yesterday for rain and snow but the rain didn't happen and also not much snow which was perfectly fine for me as i'd just tired myself out digging out the wet stuff we'd gotten the day and night before. glad to say that this morning there was no new snow and i went back to...

ice cream in December can be a perfectly acceptable dinner, especially if it is butter pecan ice cream with extra cashews added... yes, that's what i told myself... but i also had half a peanut butter sandwich and some oranges to make sure it wasn't only dairy and nuts.

it snowed a lot yesterday evening and into the morning (the wet heavy kind). and then this morning the power went out for a few hours. threw off my entire morning routine and schedule. we fired up the propane fireplace and had breakfast of hot chicken soup (we needed the can to warm up the...

if you can find the places they are using to get into the house and seal those up it helps. at first when they built this place there were ways the mice could get into the outside walls but when i was staying here i couldn't sleep because of all the noise the mice made crawling in the walls. i...

Mom had a large buck run in front of her the other day (it came out of a corn field that hasn't been harvested yet), she said had she been going faster she would have hit it. it was getting towards the end of the day, but also there is still some hunting going on which causes more deer to move...

sounds like a good plan to me. i slept in for a few hours extra but i did get to sleep late too, but that was because i had a nap earlier in the evening. in the winter my sleep schedule gets all messed up until the days start getting longer again. it is really easy to have some dinner and...

the spores can travel through the air or by flowing water. if they land someplace that is suitable they'll grow and send up mushrooms. it doesn't take that much for them to grow (some of the places they come up here are thin layers of wind-blown debris and limestone mulch which is put down...

i've seen the results of vehicle and moose collisions... not pretty at all. we don't have moose in this area.

the hunters have been out the past few weeks thinning them out but there are so many of them it doesn't make much of a dent in the population. vehicles take about 1/4 of the amount that hunters do.

oh deer! nothing fun about that (i've hit them and had them hit me). i try not to drive at night around here any more.

the ones we get here at home that pop up from time to time are the morels and i usually don't eat them i just let them spread more spores around. it's not prime territory for them so we don't see many. considering when we first moved here there were none at all (and for 15yrs later) then the...

yay! congrats to them and to you. :)