Random Thoughts

 We've all been busy this week!

The guys swapped out our 6' "man gate"

for a 12' drive-thru gate in the back of

the property - the gate goes into the neighbor's

property - we put it in years ago to have

access to the trail for the horses.

But in order for Kyle to work with his

Cat over there, he has to drive down the 

road and they have to open 3 gates.

So they ponied up for a new 12' gate.

He was able to easily go over there and

do a bunch more clearing for them.

(Under brush mowing NOT clearing...)

Opened up a bunch more land for them!

This was a before.

My battery died before I could get an after.

Meanwhile...

the "boys" are getting along just fine!

Oh, HI Lady...

Rod is home for the rest of the week

and he had a LOT of things on his To-Do list.

Starting with fixing the lights in the barn.

I have bright new LED lights both in the

barn alley and also in the feed room!

Never had that before and BOY is it awesome!!!

Feeding after dark is EASY now!

(Which is good, cuz the sun goes down so

darn early these days!!!)

Then we broke for Thanksgiving dinner.

Each person took a menu item.

Kyle made the sweet potato casserole.

Jim was in charge of the green bean casserole,

the "snack items" and turning the turkey

in the air fryer every 15 minutes.

Not as fancy as Nancy's famous charcuterie boards...

but yummy and pretty good for us yokels.

(grin)

(We ate every bit... there were also bowls of

olive and pickles, but they aren't picture worthy...)

That was the ONLY picture I took!

Sheesh.

Anyhow...

Sabrina made the stuffing, 

I made the rolls (Rhodes),

and she and I worked on the fruit salad,

turkey breast,

and the mashed potatoes together.

(Rod was still putting up the barn lights...)

Dinner was delicious and all the better

because everybody "owned" something.

Friday, Rod put the 6' gate in the hole in the duck/chicken yard.

He had to do a bunch of modifying since it was an 

8' hole, but a 6' gate, but when it was done

it was a thing of beauty!

Meanwhile, Kyle planted a bunch more beans 

in the garden while I... did something.

And then I taught a class from 5:30 to 10.

(substitute for another instructor...)

This morning Rod got out there early and

after feeding all the critters he put chicken wire

all around the perimeter of the duck yard.

The chickens just fly over the fence, but the

ducks squirt under the boards and they are

IMPOSSIBLE to catch.

This way I can let them out, but they aren't "OUT".

Kyle and I bought a little pool for them

(clearance $1.50!!!)

so he filled it up for them.

Once they found it, they were in 

DUCK HEAVEN!

(Eeek, look how dirty the water is after only

about 15 minutes of them playing in there!)

We left them to play in the water,

I headed to the Zoom Room to do a 16 hour

Continuing Education on Insurance Suitability.

SSSNNNNOOOORRRE!!!

SO boring!

But I got it done and passed the exam with a 97%.

Done for another 2 years!

Yea!

Meanwhile the guys started on their next project.

And after sitting in the side yard for ... a year? Two?

The little Trooper is up and running again!

We all love that little truck!

He's going to be my "run back and forth to the town"

truck - but they really fixed it up for hurricane stuff.

Since it's 4 wheel drive and pretty indestructible.

(It's been through plenty of hurricane floods...)

And it's just FUN to drive!

And speaking of fun, I remembered my

electric thingie...

Grilled cheese is one of our favorite weekend meals.

And it's SO much easier / faster to do them all

at one time!

(As well as our Sunday morning pancakes...)

So...

That's what we've been up to these days!