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justusnak
Almost Self-Reliant
24 Nov 09
Ohhh, my aching back!
Got up this morning late...like, 8 am!!!
I should have just stayed in bed...and let this day go by. But, Nooooooooooooooooo, I HAD to get up! LOL
Got my coffee...and do my "morning things" and head to the laundry room. Get a load of wash going...and start through my E mails. Then, I hear it....water backing up. NO NO NO!!! I run outside, and yep, the septic is backed up....AGAIN! UGH!!
So, I drag out the snake....and start cranking...and cranking...and cranking. About 40 minutes into it, my phone rings... (me) Hello??
(My neighbor) "Have I ever told you how great of a friend you are, and how much I appreciate it?" At this point, she is at work, and I already know where she is going with this. So, I say " When will the girls be ready?" Her 2 daughters missed the bus...AGAIN! This is the 3rd time this year. We live about 5 minutes from one school...and 15 from the other. She said they would be ready in a few minutes. So, I tell her....call them and tell them to waite by my truck...I will be out in a few. So, I come inside, get cleaned up, and head out to take them to school. I gave them an earfull the whole trip into town. Maybe they will try harder, knowing if I have to take them again, they get to listen to ME!
On my way home, I stopped at the Dollar Store, and picked up a few more loaf pans. Mine seemd to have dissapeared. Back in the truck, on my way home. I stop at the barn, and feed the sheep...and Falcor. The make a quick jaunt to the coops. All the poultry fed...watered...back to the house. I HAVE to get that pipe cleared out. I worked on it for at least 3 hours....could NOT get it cleared. So, I walked away...cussing...but I walked away.
Hubby can work on it when he gets up. Its now almost 1 pm. I have to run the water hoses to the animals. Now, my barn is almost 300 ft away from the house....so...it takes SEVERAL hoses to get water to the sheep. They have 2 water stations, both need filling.I lug 4 hoses out....get the sheep water finished..and let April out from her stall. ( she has to eat alone, so she gets enough) Now I have to drag those same hoses to the chicken coops....300 ft back to the house...change around a few hoses, then drag them about 150 ft to the coops. ( COME ON LOTTERY!!!) I really need to get water run to these animal barns.First the small coop. They have a 25 gallon barrell...easy...get it filled...clean water pans from 4 pens, fill feeders...off to the ducks. Get thier tub filled...a 50 gallon trough...then off to the chickens. They have a 55 gallon barrell. As its filling...I clean and fill 4 waterers and feed buckets...back to the house...turn off the water...and start rolling up the hoses. Now its 2:30. Hubby will be getting up soon...so I need to get his coffee made, and get him something to eat...and let him know he needs to work on the septic. After he is awake, fed and juiced up on coffee....we head back out to the septic....FINALLY get it cleared...and flowing. :/ Come inside, get cleaned up..and have to get supper going. Its now 4 pm....Hubby leaves at 6pm. Tonight was an easy meal...goulash! LOL Hubby fed....I have to go close the barn, and coops..expecting rain tonight. Back to the barn...Get it closed up...and turn around...there is Pearl. the new rescued Ewe. She is wanting loving...so I MUST oblige! 
I sit on the barn stoop, and pet her for a bit, and she is leaning into me more and more. Before I know it, I am on my back, with Falcor in my face...I can tell he is laughing at me. OK, im done here...so off to the coops. Throw some scratch...close the doors...gather eggs, and back to the house. Everyone is tucked in for the night. 5:30...I sit and chat with hubby for a few minutes, while he gets ready for work. He leaves about 6 pm...and I head to the kitchen to clean up from supper. Get the dishes done...and make a pan of fudge, no nuts. Run down and do another load of wash...and back to the kitchen. I got 4 dozen cookies baked, and 2 loaves of banana nut bread ready to come out of the oven. The kitchen is cleaned...the last of the laundry is in the dryer....and I am POOPED!
As soon as the bread is out, and on a cooling rack I will cover it with a cloth, and drop into bed! Tomorrow I need to bake pies...
Ohhh, my aching back!
Got up this morning late...like, 8 am!!!I should have just stayed in bed...and let this day go by. But, Nooooooooooooooooo, I HAD to get up! LOL
Got my coffee...and do my "morning things" and head to the laundry room. Get a load of wash going...and start through my E mails. Then, I hear it....water backing up. NO NO NO!!! I run outside, and yep, the septic is backed up....AGAIN! UGH!!
So, I drag out the snake....and start cranking...and cranking...and cranking. About 40 minutes into it, my phone rings... (me) Hello??
(My neighbor) "Have I ever told you how great of a friend you are, and how much I appreciate it?" At this point, she is at work, and I already know where she is going with this. So, I say " When will the girls be ready?" Her 2 daughters missed the bus...AGAIN! This is the 3rd time this year. We live about 5 minutes from one school...and 15 from the other. She said they would be ready in a few minutes. So, I tell her....call them and tell them to waite by my truck...I will be out in a few. So, I come inside, get cleaned up, and head out to take them to school. I gave them an earfull the whole trip into town. Maybe they will try harder, knowing if I have to take them again, they get to listen to ME!
On my way home, I stopped at the Dollar Store, and picked up a few more loaf pans. Mine seemd to have dissapeared. Back in the truck, on my way home. I stop at the barn, and feed the sheep...and Falcor. The make a quick jaunt to the coops. All the poultry fed...watered...back to the house. I HAVE to get that pipe cleared out. I worked on it for at least 3 hours....could NOT get it cleared. So, I walked away...cussing...but I walked away.
Hubby can work on it when he gets up. Its now almost 1 pm. I have to run the water hoses to the animals. Now, my barn is almost 300 ft away from the house....so...it takes SEVERAL hoses to get water to the sheep. They have 2 water stations, both need filling.I lug 4 hoses out....get the sheep water finished..and let April out from her stall. ( she has to eat alone, so she gets enough) Now I have to drag those same hoses to the chicken coops....300 ft back to the house...change around a few hoses, then drag them about 150 ft to the coops. ( COME ON LOTTERY!!!) I really need to get water run to these animal barns.First the small coop. They have a 25 gallon barrell...easy...get it filled...clean water pans from 4 pens, fill feeders...off to the ducks. Get thier tub filled...a 50 gallon trough...then off to the chickens. They have a 55 gallon barrell. As its filling...I clean and fill 4 waterers and feed buckets...back to the house...turn off the water...and start rolling up the hoses. Now its 2:30. Hubby will be getting up soon...so I need to get his coffee made, and get him something to eat...and let him know he needs to work on the septic. After he is awake, fed and juiced up on coffee....we head back out to the septic....FINALLY get it cleared...and flowing. :/ Come inside, get cleaned up..and have to get supper going. Its now 4 pm....Hubby leaves at 6pm. Tonight was an easy meal...goulash! LOL Hubby fed....I have to go close the barn, and coops..expecting rain tonight. Back to the barn...Get it closed up...and turn around...there is Pearl. the new rescued Ewe. She is wanting loving...so I MUST oblige! I sit on the barn stoop, and pet her for a bit, and she is leaning into me more and more. Before I know it, I am on my back, with Falcor in my face...I can tell he is laughing at me. OK, im done here...so off to the coops. Throw some scratch...close the doors...gather eggs, and back to the house. Everyone is tucked in for the night. 5:30...I sit and chat with hubby for a few minutes, while he gets ready for work. He leaves about 6 pm...and I head to the kitchen to clean up from supper. Get the dishes done...and make a pan of fudge, no nuts. Run down and do another load of wash...and back to the kitchen. I got 4 dozen cookies baked, and 2 loaves of banana nut bread ready to come out of the oven. The kitchen is cleaned...the last of the laundry is in the dryer....and I am POOPED! As soon as the bread is out, and on a cooling rack I will cover it with a cloth, and drop into bed! Tomorrow I need to bake pies...
Thank you GOD!! Shouldn't take long to drag ourselves out of this financial hole we are in...I hope! Funny thing was...his first day back, his boss asked if he was going to wear "street clothes" or go back to wearing the company "uniform" Well, of course hubby said uniforms...no need to ruin HIS clothes...so his boss said, " great, they are hanging in the back" They never turned them back in!! Guess they "knew" he would come back. Oh, and he regained all his seniority....just like he never was layed off. We have been blessed!!
"A face only a Mother could love".
Sorry, I had too much caffeine this evening.
