A couple of my friends wandered out to say hi, what with being in the area - and they'd happened earlier to find a wee-small-person rocking chair. This, they handed off on their way out to me, and I in turn handed it to the household's official wee-small-person. Said wee small person has now been glued to the chair, either sitting in, climbing on, ( Read more... )

So, a friend of mine wandered in today post work at the food bank and helped me with the one part of the barn cleansing that’s really hard for me - handling the final run of porcupine poop, hay, and dust. An hour’s worth, or two - time is liquid at the moment, for while she did almost all the shoveling, I foolishly walked through the clouds of dust ( Read more... )

Many humble thanks to the friend who wandered in after some sausage at the food bank bashed their pointy boot into the soft tissue under the ball of the ankle on the outside - yeah, I was recovering just fine thanks. Now I've swelled up worse than I did during the initial injury. Damnit ( Read more... )

Today was a day for the less explosive head. This is a good thing, since it means that I was able to aggressively track the circle of idiots who each claimed that the person to talk to regarding billing for the orthopedic work was the next person in line, and who alternatively claimed that I was uninsured, that my insurance from the contract a ( Read more... )