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Saturday: -- move sheep electronet, first thing, they really need new grass DONE -- water beans planted yesterday, also water the shrub I moved DONE -- be available to help husband w/ ceiling fan if another hand is needed (he appears to be going to put it up tomorrow, is putting the fan...

Oh wow, that takes me back... I didn't watch the A-Team much but do recall being all middle-school-swoony over him in Battlestar Galactica (was that before or after A-Team? I have no idea) :P Pat

So I'm sitting here at the computer. The bed is right behind me. All four cats are asleep on the bed. One is snoring. Suddenly, commotion. Dog trying to wedge himself under the bed. Excited dog noises. Etcetera. You know what he did? He caught a vole. In the house. Under the bed with four cats...

"Me too" on James Garner. Also Sam Elliott. Since the latter opens the movie star can of worms, I will add Sean Connery. And then when I was in college, back to tv, Pierce Brosnan :P Pat

I did look, but everything the local store had was either very foofy-looking or had the several individual sconce-style lights rather than a single dome light. (Our ceiling is too low for the sconce style to be practical) It's funny, I have looked at A LOT OF ceiling fans this morning :P and...

I wonder if there is some streamlining that could be done to ease the workload. In most (not all) situations it is possible, if you try, to set things up so that the chickens require next to no daily time investment other than letting out/ putting in... if waterers adn feeders are large enough...

I am surprisingly non-sore after yesterday's marathon painting session (my heels are getting MUCH better). But it is supposed to be sprinkly/showery all day (I wish we'd get a quarter inch of real rain, we could use it, aside from the mosquito issue) so I think my agenda is like this: -- go to...

This is purely speculation, I've never tried it -- but for those of you who dislike the smell of vinegar and have gotten accustomed to commercial cleaning products that are something-or-other scented, I wonder what would happen if you put some discarded lemon or orange peel in a jar of white...

Some of them are good for scrubbies, others not so much, it depends on the brand (well not the 'brand' of onions, but you know what I mean). They're very useful for storing garlic in, especially when you're trying to keep varieties separate and it's hardneck garlic so doesn't braid well. The...

I don't think you're going to get a lot of root growth in the next 3 months, but if you just want to do it for what-the-heck, then sure. Put it somewhere in dappled or most-of-the-day-including-afternoon shade, but a WARM spot if possible, in sandy or otherwise well-drained soil (can be just an...

What about just doing what you feel most enthusiastic about (given real-world constraints of course). If you are "enh" about gardening but canning/freezing/drying sound like they'd be right up your alley, then do that (from farmers markets or whatever's cheapest at the grocery store this week)...

Just thought I'd let y'all know, I DID IT! Yay me. I am woman, hear me paint! :P The paint store guy said that if I used the right roller sleeve and oil-based stainkilling primer it would all turn out ok, and gave me some good advice (e.g. go side to side not towards and away from yourself, to...

Honestly, if these are outdoor barncats "on the loose", I don't see that there's really anything at all you can DO about it. Either they eventually learn to get along, or they don't. As you say, there are other places that one can go for shelter if chased out of the tack shed; perhaps you could...

Have you considered getting a second pair of the winter boots and cutting them down, or at least (when the current pair "is ready for retirement" cutting THAT down)? Some types of boots are better suited to this than others, and no matter how ya slice it it's gonna look a little funny, but I've...

Aiiiieeee, the flying monkey scenes -- that always scared the pants off me as a kid. I *wish* I could have blocked out the memory of it :) I think he's meant to be a millenially-updated Charlie Brown. Unfortunately I don't think much of the creators' idea of what millenial childhood is supposed...

What they said. It seems to me there are sort of two issues to overcome. One is that while I am new to the dog world I am pretty positive it is just like the horse world, and by horse standards you are not even remotely ready to deal with the wide diversity of (often somewhat problematic)...

I'm with miss_thenorth. For routine cleaning and/or if you don't have really hard water, just soap and warm water works very well; for crusties and/or if you have water so hard it leaves a bit of a film on things, add some vinegar. For some particular cleaning purposes, rubbing alcohol is also...

Oh, wow, I do, how did you know? Thank you for reminding me! :lol: (usually I don't have to remember -- my husband comes home a couple hours early to watch the kids while I'm out in the barn, so that sort of automatically reminds me -- but with him not coming home at the moment ahem, I gotta...

Crop rotation is really important for large-scale farming.... where you have a huge monoculture stand of one thing. When you're engaged in that sort of activity, between pests and nutrients it is pretty unlikely you will avoid problems if you fail to rotate crops (at least, it becomes a much...

The dire warnings of impending disaster aren't science.... they are media, and in particular (these days) people who cherrypick whatever news items happen to fit their personal preferences/preconceptions and then flog them around the internet as The New Big Sign Of What's To Come (or in other...