Coffee's Ready, Come and Sit on the Porch

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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 :mad::barnie:he:duc:rant:somad:hit. 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.
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Last night's dinner- prepackaged pizza and SMOKED Chicken wings!!!!
 

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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. 👍
 

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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 :love 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,:caf
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
 

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Yeah, less daylight...fewer eggs and molt! 😖 but I use few eggs so :idunno 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! :lol:

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

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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.
 
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