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dpack
Joined: 02 Jul 2005 Posts: 45471 Location: yes
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Mistress Rose
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Jam Lady
Joined: 28 Dec 2006 Posts: 2507 Location: New Jersey, USA
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sean Downsizer Moderator
Joined: 28 Oct 2004 Posts: 42207 Location: North Devon
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Mistress Rose
Joined: 21 Jul 2011 Posts: 15579
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gregotyn
Joined: 24 Jun 2010 Posts: 2201 Location: Llanfyllin area
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Posted: Fri May 10, 19 2:14 pm Post subject: |
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Tally Ho guys and gals-thank you all! Thank you Sean and Mistress Rose. I got it going first time, something of a miracle for me and "pooting". The new improved password has been given to a trusted friend-the Librarian here-so that in theory it can't happen again. Basically I shouldn't forget this password as "I am an 'umble woodcutter sir", from a Benny Hill sketch of many years ago. The book that I kept the number in was a book I had for those things I needed to know and I think a school child took it when I went to ask for more time on the computer. By now' if I had the book, it would have turned up all sheepishly if you know what I mean! I am able to use the computers here in the library any way as I have email and that was not affected, only the password for downsizer was a problem as I made it out of letters and numbers mixed up I know them now but not the right order
I have been catching up as far as possible, but I have been not long in the library as I have been unable to get in touch in order to make any comments and my typing is rather like a chicken looking for grain in the ground and it is in short supply-I'm slow!
Here in mid Wales it has started to rain this afternoon following a lovely sunny morning; this will slow the weekenders down a bit on the roads I expect, but hope it clears up for them.
I am not too worried as my weekend will be cutting wood. This week I, with an old friend, have been felling some trees by my house which have been dwarfing my home for a few years now and are about 3 times the height of the house. It has been a bit touch and go, at times but so far-about a third of the way through-all clear, with planned felling onto the garage roof to start and the completion of the felling in the opposite direction. They can't go towards the buildings in one go, so we knocked off the tops to the garage and the heavy bits towards the buildings and as they are now 20feet shorter they miss the buildings. Anyway I have finished work for the week and will be on the saw tomorrow afternoon. If the friend doesn't come I will be logging what we have cut so far and splitting if I can get through the logging.
Again thanks for your help. |
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dpack
Joined: 02 Jul 2005 Posts: 45471 Location: yes
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Jam Lady
Joined: 28 Dec 2006 Posts: 2507 Location: New Jersey, USA
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Mistress Rose
Joined: 21 Jul 2011 Posts: 15579
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gregotyn
Joined: 24 Jun 2010 Posts: 2201 Location: Llanfyllin area
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Posted: Sat May 11, 19 9:20 am Post subject: |
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Thank you all for your welcome back comments.
I have been to collect timber this morning for my firewood enterprise, and will be processing that wood this afternoon after calling on a farmer friend, as I normally do on Saturday mornings after library. We put the whole world to rights, but he is always right in his eyes, but sometimes when I know he is wrong, I have to go get the evidence. He is an interesting man who left school at 15, with no intake of education, except maths., and started his own lime spreading business, progressing to general contracting later-some of which he still does.
After he married he moved to a caravan, they had 3 children there until one day his father announced he was retiring and he was to take over the farm and house, once the bank overdraft was transferred. Sheer determination got him to where he is today from 150acres to over 350 now, just beef and sheep and no overdraft. What I like about him is that he, at 75, is still working the tractors, but his son is doing the 600 sheep, with him doing most of the cattle work and the feeding. He has around 9 tractors and 4 loaders-I've pointed out that he can only use one at a time-but the reply is horses for courses!
Once the weekly "lesson" is over I shall go back to logging and kindling production. It appears that I will have to start a log selling enterprise or the timber will have rotted or I will die before it is rotten!
Thank you all again for your support. |
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Mistress Rose
Joined: 21 Jul 2011 Posts: 15579
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gregotyn
Joined: 24 Jun 2010 Posts: 2201 Location: Llanfyllin area
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dpack
Joined: 02 Jul 2005 Posts: 45471 Location: yes
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Mistress Rose
Joined: 21 Jul 2011 Posts: 15579
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Jam Lady
Joined: 28 Dec 2006 Posts: 2507 Location: New Jersey, USA
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Posted: Wed May 15, 19 1:29 pm Post subject: |
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Soggy wet weather, several inches of rain over the last several days. Last Saturday was an outlier with gorgeous sunny weather - blue skies, trees incredibly green, light breezes. Today looks like it will be a repeat. Very welcome after gray soggy days with daytime temperatures in the low 50s Fahrenheit, nights in the upper 40s.
Hummingbirds are back so I hurried to mix the sugar water and get the feeder out.
Hard at work mixing potting soil and hauling cannas out of garage where yes indeed they had started into growth even though packed away in peat moss or wood shavings in a large black garbage bag in a heavy cardboard box. How do they know?
While we were in Arizona my granddaughter made a very tasty chicken verde. She sharded the recipe and I made it a couple of days ago. Sauce is tomatillo, poblano peppers, cubanelle pepper, cilantro. Very nice. I also made a verde with one tomatillo, onion, a little bit of jalapeno pepper on the side to add as preferred. Left over sauce so a couple of days later we had black beans and corn topped with an egg over easy - and some salsa verde. Also very good.
This morning is the Wednesday morning knitting group but rest assured I will be out and dirty this afternoon. |
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