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windypines
True Blue Farmgirl
4186 Posts
Michele
Bruce
Wisconsin
USA
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 Posted - Sep 03 2007 : 5:48:43 PM
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Did anyone else labor today? We did getting a section of barn yard fenced in with gates. The other 3 sides have been done for 2 or 3 years now! We are finally able to spend some time working on our own place. My list is long, but getting one thing done is sure nice.
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Libbie
Farmgirl Connection Cultivator
3579 Posts
Anne E.
Elsinore
Utah
USA
3579 Posts |
Posted - Sep 03 2007 : 10:33:51 PM
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My basement flooded last night - or yesterday, really. My husband and our two little ones were on a hike in Capitol Reef National Park - and earlier that morning a friend had come by to take our dog and groom her (aka. finding the burrs and cutting them out ) and I told her to just put the dog in our mudroom when she was done. WELL. This she did, and then I guess there was some thunder in our valley and the dog went nuts - jumping up onto the mudroom sink and turning on the cold water full blast. Darn dog!!! I know she didnt' do it on purpose. But it left, and I am not exaggerating FOUR INCHES of water in the basement. FOUR INCHES!!!... Okay, I'm taking a deep breath here. So today was spent working on de-sog-ifying (as my four-year-old called it) the stuff from the basement.
Michele - congrats on the fenceline completion! Isn't it great when larger projects like then get finished. It does feel good to mark stuff off the "list," I agree!
XOXO, Libbie
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windypines
True Blue Farmgirl
4186 Posts
Michele
Bruce
Wisconsin
USA
4186 Posts |
Posted - Sep 04 2007 : 03:44:42 AM
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what a thing to discover.....more work. Hope everything is okay, and you are drying up.
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lisamarie508
True Blue Farmgirl
2648 Posts
Lisa
Idaho City
ID
USA
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Posted - Sep 04 2007 : 05:01:31 AM
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Well, flooding stinks anyway. Hope you get it all dry without too much damage.
My dh and I painted the lower parts of the house where the snow removes the paint, mowed and weedwhacked the yard, brought home a new woodstove and several very large old windows for the greenhouse we're going to build (probably next year). I got the dirt into my new raised flower bed out in the front yard and moved some not-so-happy plants into it where they will get more sun next year. Planted peas and lettuces, picked green beans, corn, tomatoes, cukes and strawberries, canned a bushel of apples and prepared the veggie beds for cold weather.
We were busy but it felt good to get so much done.
my blog: http://lisamariesbasketry.blogspot.com/
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Annab
True Blue Farmgirl
2900 Posts
Anna
Seagrove
NC
USA
2900 Posts |
Posted - Sep 04 2007 : 06:29:37 AM
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I went shopping for a friend and hubby rode his bike with his buddies for 100 miles.....yes that's as in Lance Armstrong cycling.
We celebrated with my folks and had dinner at Carrabba's. MMM MMM good! |
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KYgurlsrbest
True Blue Farmgirl
4853 Posts
Jonni
Elsmere
Kentucky
USA
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Posted - Sep 04 2007 : 06:37:15 AM
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Over the labor day holiday weekend, I:
* canned salsa
* cleaned off the vintage (i.e. really dirty and stained) leather settee with a paste made from lemon juice and cream of tartar, followed up by saddle soap (still dirty, but MUCH better)
* cleaned and dusted living room
* gave the 4 dogs baths
* cleaned the bathroom after the baths
* went to an art opening for a friend
* fixed the fenceline that the dogs have broken down
* did about 3 tubs of dishes
* did all the laundry, both summer and winter
and last but not least, observed my dh playing a WWII video game while I worked circles around him.
No joke.
"She was built like a watch, a study in balance ... with a neck and head so refined, like a drawing by DaVinci"...
NY Newsday sportswriter Bill Nack describing filly, Ruffian. |
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mima
True Blue Farmgirl
1573 Posts
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Posted - Sep 04 2007 : 07:29:45 AM
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| Sorry guys...I laid on the beach! It was 80 degrees at Avila Beach in San Luis Opisbo yesterday!!! Lovely! |
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windypines
True Blue Farmgirl
4186 Posts
Michele
Bruce
Wisconsin
USA
4186 Posts |
Posted - Sep 05 2007 : 04:11:18 AM
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It is fun to read the different things we did on Labor day weekend. Though truthfully I wish I had been with you Mima!!
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