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Catching up

So I let the daily blogging thing go by the wayside. Winters – or, more accurately, waiting for spring to really get rolling – are a bit boring on the ranch. I probably should have been painting more, or working more on the neverending to-do list, but the fatigue factor really got to me. Now . . . → Read More: Catching up

A good tired

Lately I’ve been feeling pretty tired, all the time. With some B12 supplementing and some working outside in the sun once more, I’m now feeling a lot more like myself. Today I replaced three (of four) boards on various frames that needed to be repaired, fertilized some frames and worked that in to prep them . . . → Read More: A good tired

You don’t say

What’s most sad about this is that it has to be explained at all. Either people have gotten moronic over the years or it’s just more noticeable now that we’re in the Internet age.

In other news, a ton of weeding done in the back garden: five and a half rows done before my back . . . → Read More: You don’t say

What is this – Saturn?

I don’t think this wind speed is quite accurate here.

Don’t get me wrong, it is pretty windy outside. It just isn’t that windy – yours truly would have been blown three states away, were it. Instead I dug out eleven holes, backfilled them a bit with topsoil and cow poop hauled by wheelbarrow, . . . → Read More: What is this – Saturn?

Lining up the help

Since I’m partially incapacitated, thanks to whatever the hell I did to my back, I had to turn on the bat signal to get some labor for the ranch. My sister is coming over Friday to haul dirt around to the places I need it to fill in the frames I reconfigured so I can . . . → Read More: Lining up the help

Changing of the guard

Not the guard dog(s), no, even though they’re not much in the way of guarding anything. It’s typical for me to hear something outside before they do – but then again, it’s typical for me to hear something before anyone, so that isn’t terribly surprising.

The temp is changing. Fast. It was 80 here today, . . . → Read More: Changing of the guard

More enforced idleness

This weekend’s plan: nothing out in the garden that involves lifting, pulling, or otherwise working the muscles in my back. That essentially means wandering around making mental notes of all the things that still need to be done and what will be going where. And lots and lots of work on the “real” business.

The . . . → Read More: More enforced idleness

Clearance

Me and my strained back stayed inside, and my brother and his son cut down the couple remaining trees along what will be the new fenceline with redneck neighbor, and removed the posts that remained from the section of fence he had taken down. We’re ready for the fence guys to come and start walling . . . → Read More: Clearance

Window on the garden

Memories of spring

Can’t wait.