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another storm today. i'm shutting down... don't need any more fry babies...

eww! lol hahaha...

washer still not working... :( still making grinding noise and stopping part-way through a load. they'll be back Monday.

once Mom settled in last night to watch her dvds i was out like a light. slept until she said good night and then i went back to sleep. looks like the rain missed us this morning but likely some on the way later by what the radar is showing - never know for sure until it gets here as it can...

it is nice when the kids can help out for those unexpected expenses. i usually go half for things here, but when we needed a new roof i sprung for that.

welcome to TEG from mid-Michigan. about what area are you at and what do you like to grow?

i was not wrong about the end of the pathway being a real booger. but first today i went out and took the loppers and a cultivator with me to see if i could get the chunk of dead tree leaning against the maple tree to finish coming down. nope. it's wedged by the stump it came from and also...

our favorite phrase here is: "I can't hear you!"

that was great that you could find someone to come do it. :)

oh this is so dumb, i'm not surprised, but it sure is sad: https://www.npr.org/2025/04/17/nx-s1-5366814/endangered-species-act-change-harm-trump-rule

a good blanket of snow really helps a lot. :) usually my years of worst losses are those where we don't have much snow cover then things get more dried out, frozen and also more frost heave.

the problems with that approach is that i am the pest at times and i will never have a gun here that Mom can operate... :)

frost again last night, warm enough today later to get out for a while and i hope i can actually do it.

i might have a chance of getting outside for some dirt therapy today.

i'm not into cruel behaviors but sometimes i would ponder rat traps baited with rotting fish or other things they'd like to stick their noses into... so perhaps mouse traps instead? not quite so extreme but perhaps they'd learn some caution? dunno... just spit-ballin' here... (i come by it...

my method is to give orders (that others laugh at me is a whole different issue :) )... yesterday i finished going through some more bulk beans so they can now be put into their storage jars. i think, that is it, that i am done, but i may also find things i thought i did which i didn't, so i...

for some of us the issue is not style butt necessity... thou must not hang over... no matter how young and skinny you may think of thyself reality demands other things of us and one is consideration for those around us including relatives and friends who may giggle as we jiggle...

as long as it isn't Arsenic and Old Lace... (we watched that fairly recently on dvd in black and white - it is a fun oldie :) )

queue Bowie/Freddie _Under Pressure_...

the butt was hanging sorta out over the end there...