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My youngest DD has a mental block with cardinal directions. I often give those to her sister to translate.

Serious rain this week! I decided to keep ponies in their dry but high and needing to be stripped stalls for another day. Ran the rake along the fronts of their stalls, which are made out of round pen panels and deposited 3 wheelbarrow's full on the south side of the cistern. I hope to...

My whole gardening is a constant experiment. I make plans, vacillate, then what I do is a "go." For instance, I Will be doing deep digging Heugulculture in my beds, but I won't even start on that until this Fall, when I clean up after the warm weather and Fall gardening. I have SO MUCH cleanup...

Buried cardboard takes about 6 weeks to decompose. On top of the surface it will sit for months. I KNOW this bc I staged a cardboard pizza box by my side door steps to make it into a burial. Never got there, still intact. I left it there bc I like to throw out my kitchen garbage bags there...

I get this a LOT!

If you shop at ALDI they sell a really tasty Guacamole.

Last night I went to bed with the forecast for snow mixed with ice. I opted to put ponies back in their stalls. No snow at 10PM, but I salted the steps and part of the house sidewalk Anyway. Good thing--when I took Tegan out at 2AM there was a sheet of ice on both, but some melting, enough so...

I, too vote for permanent DST. I experienced an experiment when I was ~10yo, with no time change. Yes, I waited for the schoolbus in the dark, but it was cold and nasty anyway--who Cared that it was also dark. If you had an after school activities WITH DST you got home in the dark. Spring...

🙏 🙏 🙏 for a full and safe recovery!! :hugs

High of 65 today here.

Speaking OF...I have started the GREAT CLEANUP, specifically, the house. New shower is Great, but I won't really do anything else to the bathroom this year besides cleaning it and repainting the walls, AND a new window. Bathroom has an inset cabinet. It's missing 2/4 glass shelves, but they...

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Vases are VERY DANGEROUS!! Be careful from now on!!

You are ahead of us!!