Coffee's Ready, Come and Sit on the Porch

[Country homesteader]

It's all by the coffee pot so brew a cup or pour a glass then let's sit on the patio and enjoy day break as the sun rises.
@packy you're having trouble with the auto repair and insurance but my less than a year old fridge decided to stop working yesterday and THEY CAN'T COME OUT UNTIL SEPT 26th TO LOOK AT IT . It's a good thing I have an upright freezer for the frozen food and a small dorm fridge for some of the fridge items especially FH med.

Last night's dinner- prepackaged pizza and SMOKED Chicken wings!!!!

 

[Mini Horses]

Wow...a WEEK wait for refer repair!?!?! That's bad! You're lucky with having small frig. Ice & coolers can be messy. But, pretend you're camping 😁 😍

It's daylight, lovely cool temps -- although a moist feel to air. Left windows open for the cooling and AC cool is drier. I'll get used to it. Heavy dew out there. Seems we're having a wind/rain event all along the VA/Carolinas coast on Fri & Sat. 🙄 plan ahead.

Gonna refill my cuppa and plan my day. 👍

 

[Country homesteader]

@Mini Horses I'm not happy about the wait either. I told FH are they goin to reimburse us for the cost of the lost of the food items He said just move everything frozen to the other freezer and he was going to call them to see if he can get it moved up

 

[murphysranch]

There just aren't enough tradesmen anymore.

 

[The Porch]

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Good Wednesday Morning,
It was dry yesterday up until 3pm, and we got very hard winds, red flag warnings and it rain a little around 7pm. This morning its 48 out and the rain has returned I worked outside all day getting weeds and brush cut . Got another jar of kraut going and fresh kombucha. Later after everything dries off I'll uncover the tomatoes & get some more clean up outside done for a few hours. I weeded one of the lavender beds and want to get the other one done.
I am dialing us back on our diet due to less work outside, no more bread baking, no biscuits, potatoes once a week, homemade pasta once a month or even less,
no deserts[not that we have much, still no] Fall and winter we have to keep moving and stay busy.
Have a great morning and great coffee time,
sun rise is 6:56 now, only 12 hours of daylight [but the sun peeks pot at 6:20am] Chickens have been going to bed at 7:ish 7:20

 

[Mini Horses]

Yeah, less daylight...fewer eggs and molt! 😖 but I use few eggs so I don't cut out starches for winter. Nope. More oven meals -- house heating -- so biscuits & stuff keep going on. Yeah, desserts.😁

Of course, I have more livestock to run after and still a part-time job. Plenty of activity here!

The shorter days are annoying, simply due to less light.

 

[The Porch]

cup#2, chickens are out and the sky has cleared off,, I guess I better get to doing, but I'll wait the dogs are sill sleeping and my coffee pots not empty
hahahahahha

 

[Hinotori]

The rain started around 11pm yesterday for us. Light drizzle outside. The actual rains look like they are finally returning next week.

I need to get straw down in the chicken runs still but my shoulder won't let me.

I also need to cut down a bunch of blackberries and pile them to dry out a little. October 15th is coming soon and I can start burning them.

 

[murphysranch]

Our rain starts this coming Sunday. I can't wait to turn off all the irrigation, and I'm hoping to weather (pun intended) this rainy season better than I did last one (my first one).

 

[Hinotori]

I have to pressure wash one more chicken bucket and my smoker racks. That's for tomorrow or Friday. I'll go pull the tomato cages as well. The deer ate the green tomatoes as well as the plants.