Damn, but I hate being sick. It's not even the yucky, lay-you-up-in-bed flu stuff, but just a cold that has stuffed my head full of cotton. Can't keep a thought in it, and trying to knit anything more complicated than garter stitch (like, say, socks, which actually have to fit) is a nightmare. I think I got 2 rounds done yesterday. (OK, so maybe I ( Read more... )

OK, this has stopped annoying me to the point that I start ranting, so now y'all can laugh at this.

( Crack a cold one. You'll be a while. )

I have drawn a scale model of our living room, complete with little scale cutouts of all movable furniture (that piano ain't goin' nowhere XP). I have laid out my idea for rearranging and gotten approval. Now I am attempting to get a 6 year old to help sort his toys into "Put Away", "Give Away", and "Throw Away".

I repeat, I am attempting to get a 6 ( Read more... )

Farm-to-Fork Farm Dinner Fiasco

(Having just gone through ServSafe in addition to being farm raised and (horror of horrors) growing up on farm raised sustenance, this appalled me beyond all belief.)

I will allow that I do not know how the laws in NV differ from MA. HOWEVER! This strikes me as nothing more than someone with a stick up their @$$ and ( Read more... )

( Bear with me as I scatterbrain my way through this while getting the little one ready for school. )

( The snow on the playhouse roof? Twice as deep just a few hours later. Not looking forward to the morning. )

One of the roof panels on the coop (a converted greenhouse, so, plastic roof) blew off in the massive wind gusts we're getting right now. Tried to put it back on. Blew off again. Repeated 2-3 more times while waiting for my son to come back up from the barn because the bolts are rusted, and I need him inside the coop to hold a wrench on the nut, ( Read more... )

Trying to figure out of much pipe I need to run an arc roof over the corral so I can turn it into a chicken run. I know the corral is ~40' wide, and I need it to be about 10' at its peak (maybe more, but if I can nail the original math, I can fudge it #s later), which is ~4 feet  from the top of the posts I'm using to anchor the PVC pipe. My ( ( Read more... )