Cool but not as cold and probably warming up nicely later. It was even hot in the afternoon yesterday, and might be again today…. I guess we’ll see!
So I got some stuff done. I replaced the door on the dockhouse. I still need to put the threshold in, and I’ll need to change the locks at some point, but my “found on the side of the road” door fit without alteration. Well, except for hinge location, I couldn’t get lucky with that. Did some other small things too.
Played games with the family in the morning, and after dinner too. Good times. Had a campfire with s’mores. Off brand graham crackers didn’t taste quite right, but hey, s’mores!
Plan for today is more of the same, just keep knocking off tasks, and figure out what to make for dinner. Maybe a beef roast since the pork roast was so good. There is food in the freezer, and the lights are still on…
I’m not big on resolutions for the new year. I think you should do stuff when it’s time to do it… but some people give them extra significance. So in that vein, I’ll have to think a bit, but mainly I would like to do more to advance some of my “sometime later” projects. The time is now…
And just stacking isn’t enough. Time to put some of the stacks to use…
Here’s to a new year, full of promise and a clean slate. Let’s make the most of it.
nick
Not enough coffee this year.
Agreed. My year-to-date coffee consumption is certainly under 12 ounces, probably under 8. How can anyone be expected to live like this???
My year-to-date (from last year) coffee consumption was zero ounces.
@ Ray – My year-to-date (from last year) coffee consumption was zero ounces.
I thought I was the only one here who didn’t drink coffee. I haven’t had a cup since the summer of 1964 – almost sixty years.
A question for the assembled braintrust – What is the origin of the logo on the guy’s hat?
It is obvious from the other videos that the family is LDS. Is that the logo for one of their church-related businesses?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X_raB4VO9oc
Nope. I never developed a taste for coffee. I have consumed some, maybe a cup once in awhile, but that was a long time ago. I don’t think I have any coffee in the last 10 years.
While in the USAF there was always a pot in the office. I steadfastly refused to participate in the coffee fund where everyone put money in the general fund to pay for the coffee and the occasional replacement coffee maker. I was told that everyone participates and I still refused. Ticked some people off because their monthly cost went up. Tough nooggies.
The mess hall generally had two of the large pots, probably 10 gallons, that were permanently plumbed into the hot water system. Alternating pots, one full and dispensing, the other brewing (or whatever it did). Coffee was king in the service.
At all of my duty stations there was generally one or two people that would have a bottle of whiskey, scotch, bourbon, etc. stashed in their desks. The coffee cup was only filled two thirds full and supplemented with the stashed supply to bring the cup to the full indication.
Alcohol abuse was rampant in the service. There was no sales tax on booze purchased in the base package store. It made the stuff fairly cheap and there was a lot of abuse. Same with cigarettes. Now state tax is charged on all alcohol and cigarette purchases in an effort to curb the abuse.
I never developed the habit for either of them, booze or cigarettes.
And in other news. I think I have completed my taxes for the year. A couple of income items are estimated based on the year end statements. Those numbers have never matched for some reason. But they will be close.
This year I owe the IRS a grand total of $3.00. Which is a good place to be as I did not loan the IRS money at 0% interest. Due to increased returns on interest on CDs, my income jumped quite a bit.
Thankful that 25% of my income is free from any taxes, federal or state.
Of course that income was offset by significantly increased costs of living. I have effectively lost much buying power and paying more in taxes for that privilege.
I remember not so long ago a dozen Dunkin’ Doughnuts was about $6.00. Imagine my surprise when I purchased some a week ago, first time in eight years, the cost is now $14.00.
It was also possible for the wife and I to go to a fast food place for lunch and spend less than $12.00. Now it is closer to $18.00. That change only took place within the last year.
Increased prices for everything thanks to sponge brain and his policies. Increased labor costs due to the demand for $15.00 an hour wages. Did the fools think that getting a higher wage would allow them to buy more stuff. Not even close. All the increase in minimum wage was move the break even point higher on the monetary scale. What the workers gained in increased income was quickly depleted (and then some) due to the higher cost of the product.
The fools and their basic lack of understanding of economics and how the entire system works. Pay the workers more, the cost of the product rises, offsetting any increase in wages. Only now they pay more in taxes to the government to waste on more boondoggles.
Wow. I have one tax reporting item that is routinely available in the first or second week of May. Yes, I almost always extend filing. Of course, I have to pay on time.
The Colonel Bat Guano neighbors always put full recycle bins of booze and beer bottles out at the curb every week when we lived in Florida. Multiple households, hanging out and drinking together. Completely full.
Yah, that and McDonald’s and similar have hit me hard in the past couple years, on account of teens. When I’m driving a handful of kids someplace, I’ll generally get something for them to eat, whether a box of donuts or McDonalds or stopping at a grocery store for snacks, soda, and juice boxes. A few years ago it was no big deal but lately it’s bordering on painful. Sure, I could let them do without, but half of the time they’re coming off of after-school sports practice and are famished.
So, how’s that Build Back Better working for the rest of you?
“Did the fools think that getting a higher wage would allow them to buy more stuff. Not even close.”
Ask the 1200 Pizza Hut delivery drivers that lost their jobs when Cacafornia increased their wages.
Theory: Mandated wage increases will give workers more money.
Practice: Workers lost jobs and a free lunch, and now they really can’t afford to eat there.
Grewsome: I share your pain–prices are up at the French Laundry.
Illinois Dad Shoots Man Who Beat His Daughter
https://bearingarms.com/tomknighton/2023/12/31/illinois-dad-n78850
Juror Intake Question: “Do you believe in law?”
Potential Juror Answer: “The Law is the Law”
Prosecutor : “You’re in.”
Potential Juror Thought: “The law is an ass. And the guy was obviously not of right mind–he missed an easy kill shot. Not guilty.”
“So, how’s that Build Back Better working for the rest of you?”
I had two large fries from MickeyD’s last year, both from a friend that had a freebie coupon.
Get a Kegmeister, put it in the trunk, and run the tap line out under the back cushions. Throw in a couple containers of Pub Mix. They’ll rehydrate and won’t starve on the way home.
My mother-in-law called a few weeks ago to brag about getting a comp offer from Harrah’s on a room and plane flight to their New Orleans casino hotel, but the offer did not include meals.
The last time my wife joined the in-laws in New Orleans for her mother’s 80th birthday in October, she ended up responsible for a dinner at the hotel’s fancy seafood restaurant. $300 for five people.
At a *casino*.
Even our 25th anniversary dinner at Muriel’s in Jackson Square a little more than a year earlier wasn’t that expensive on a per-person basis.
Hah! 2024 coffee consumption is about to kick off… with 32 ounces.
And the sun is poking me right in the eyes.
Funny though, just when I was thinking I might go down to the pier anyway, a quick little squall blew through and got everything wet. No sign of it in the morning…
Started another one of the “Hard Luck Hank” books. They are a lot of fun as the universe keeps messing with the big guy. That did keep me up a bit longer than I wanted to be.
Realized as I went back to sleep this morning that that was the biggest luxury. Staying in bed, without various disasters large and small happening, is incredibly luxurious if you think it through. No job waiting. No hungry kids. No obligation pressing. I started 2024 at peak indulgence…
Be nice if that would continue to be possible.
n
I never developed a taste for coffee. It smells OK, but was always too bitter to drink. Both parents were coffee addicts, though.
My father was the Air Force recruiter, so I enlisted in the Navy. When I finally got to my first squadron, my Chief Petty Officer said “Mitchell, make the coffee.” I replied, “But chief, I don’t drink coffee.” He looked at me and said “Mitchell, make the coffee.” I said, But chief, I don’t know HOW to make coffee.” He fixed me with his steely glare and said, “Mitchell, make the damned coffee!”
OK. We had a big urn style percolator coffee pot, so I filled it up with water. There was a basket for the coffee grounds, so I filled THAT up, and plugged it in. Th coffee was almost like tar; the Command Master Chief, who had spent most of his 30 year career in destroyers, declared it the finest Navy coffee he’d ever tasted. Just a bit of salt, he said, to take down the bitterness…..
And they never asked me to make the coffee again.
I was never a big coffee drinker until the Army. Lieutenants get a lot of 24 hour shitty-little-details. OIC of the rifle range got me hooked on coffee with sugar. Go juice!
>> I started 2024 at peak indulgence…
Only one way to go when you start at the peak 😉
In any case, keep up the good work at the helm here and thanks to all those that provide the support and content that make this place as unique as it is.
HNY 2024!
I don’t have any of my forms. The last 1099 will not arrive until the middle of February. I can get close results by going online. I have done this every year for a while. The numbers I get from online never match what is finally reported. I also have to deal with capital gains/losses and those are difficult to figure. Buying and selling multiple times is difficult to figure out what costs are actually reported to the IRS.
I started my taxes back in August estimating what I was going to have extorted by the IRS. I get closer in November when I can purchase TurboTax.
I really despise the IRS and congress this time of the year. The extremely complicated tax laws shove on taxpayers is absurd. Some of the tax rules are ambiguous, others so complicated requiring 50% of this, unless this occurs, except when this happens, then 30% of something else except when the 30% is too low then use then use 50% but only on certain items unless that exceeds 80% on something else that is only deductible with this certain filing status’, otherwise use zero.
I also despise what is being done with tax money. Giving the money to illegal aliens, meddling in foreign wars, bailing out companie, welfare leaches. Don’t get me started on reparations.
If the “temporary emergency measure, just for the duration of the war” payroll withholding were ended, requiring every taxpayer to write a check on April 15, the federal income tax would be massively overhauled if not repealed entirely.
That’s why the temporary measure will never end, of course.
What a load. Uses weasel terms – ‘fossil carbon and fossil-free fuel’. What does that mean? It has carbon and will produce CO2. And clearly it is very low yield – ‘According to the BBC, the UK’s entire sewage supply would only be enough to meet 5% of the country’s total aviation fuel demand, but it could help. ’
How much energy is consumed in production and what is the waste stream remaining?
It’s a big pile of you know what.
Given enough catalysts, energy, and additives, I can convert anything into anything. The problem is time and the cost. I suspect that the cost of this process is $10 to $25 per gallon of fuel. Costs like that will destroy the economy of any nation using them.
Tax money? Please. Reparations will roll off the “press” in the basement of the Eccles building and into the coffers of Apple, Tesla, and the sneaker companies.
@Lynn
“Costs like that will destroy the economy of any nation using them.”
Dr. M has uncovered the true purpose of the exercise.
The editor of our little newspaper has resolved to eat more ice cream this year. His previous resolutions of losing weight and working on his memory did not pan out. His life experiences of being in his middle 80s and having a 15 year old son are somewhat incompatible with each other.
So, resolve to eat more ice cream in 2024 !
THE MORNING RANT: New Year’s Update on Electric Vehicles, the Blood Diamonds of the Climate Cult
—Buck Throckmorton
“The buried lede in this story isn’t that Ford is cutting weekly production of its electric pickup from 3,200 units per week to 1,600 units per week, rather it’s that Ford’s executives still think there is a market that will absorb 1,600 of these abominations per week.”
https://ace.mu.nu/
Includes this link:
https://www.recurrentauto.com/research/winter-ev-range-loss
as the source of the “Winter Range for Popular EV Models” graph, which is subtitled “Freezing vs. Ideal Temperatures”
I’d like to see another graph subtitled “Highs in the Teens”.
And I’m too lazy to read further, but “Once your car is warm and you’re on the road, plan to use seat warmers, a heated steering wheel, and turn down the cabin heater. These features use less energy and provide targeted heat, giving you more battery to travel. ” is not a testimony to personal comfort. Maybe insulated coveralls and battery-heated socks would be in order?
ADDED:
If you scroll down the second link you find graphs for individual cars. Range for For Lightning and Mustange-e are shown as 55% at 20F
Maybe amusing? There’s an article on Slashdot about how 2023 will go down as such a record-breakingly hot year for the US. So I posted a link to the US Climate Reference Network, wich shows that 2023 was nothing special.
The post has been a yoyo all day, bouncing from massively downvoted to highly upvoted. Amusing…
He’s my spirit animal! I, too, plan on starting another family once I’m past 65. Lest you question my sanity, my reason for doing so is to accomplish the dual goals of horrifying my daughter and any other living relatives, and ruining my own life. See? Totally not insane!
@Brad
Average daily temperature is calculated from the daily high and low. Temperature stations that are compromised by urban heat island (UHI) effects show a disproportionate warming of nighttime temperatures. If the daily lows and highs are plotted separately over time, the highs (what most people think of as “hot”) show much less of a trend than the lows–the fingerprint of UHI.
But the single most damning riposte to the “hottest ever’ propaganda is noting the absence of any extraordinary number of high temperature records.
The early-mid 1930’s were the true “hottest” years in the continental United States and left numbers of high temperature records that no other decade has approached. I commend your attention to July 1936:
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2021/07/15/the-deadly-heat-wave-of-july-1936-in-the-middle-of-arguably-the-hottest-decade-on-record-for-the-us/
14 all-time high state temperature records were set in July 1936. No other month in history even comes close.
A question for the assembled braintrust – What is the origin of the logo on the guy’s hat?
It is obvious from the other videos that the family is LDS. Is that the logo for one of their church-related businesses?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X_raB4VO9oc
I have seen that logo before. Something about King and Co. ?
So his 2017 Tesla Model X went from a range of 295 miles to a range of 203 miles with seven years of a life and 105K miles. Seems excessive to me. Did he what a new battery would cost ? Probably at least $30K installed. That is a maintenance cost of 29 cents/miles which also seem excessive to me.
I saw at least three Teslas yesterday. Two of them were brand new with paper tags. One was a Model X that the new owner (an Asian guy wearing a mask) loves. We talked outside the UPS Store.
20F? Those are rookie numbers! I’d like to see numbers for daytime highs of 0F. (I looked at the link. Temp values on the graphs bottomed out at 20F or even 30F.)
I do know that a former coworker with a Tesla had trouble on very cold days. He not-infrequently drove to customer sites during the day but they weren’t that far. Well under 100 miles for the day, and the car was on its last legs by the time he got home.
@Brad
I compiled this:
U.S. State High-Temperature Records by Decade
1910’s 6
1920’s 2
1930’s 23
1940’s 0
1950’s 3
1960’s 0
1970’s 2
1980’s 3
1990’s 5
2000’s 2
2010’s 2
2020’s 2
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._state_and_territory_temperature_extremes
I filtered out the territories and DC.
23 of 50 state high-temperature records were set in the 1930’s.
@SteveF
“20F? Those are rookie numbers! I’d like to see numbers for daytime highs of 0F.”
Range limited by the length of the extension cord. Miles per KWH negative.
The other day I had the link about using Powershell to un-install the un-installable stuff in Windows 11.
I tried it. Just open Powershell and paste in the line and voila, the PS window flashes a message too fast to read, and the program is gone.
A recent update, maybe the latest, removed the Xbox link in Start and added Game Bar. Stubborn critter to get rid of. After a bit of looking around I found the formula. Open PS as admin (right click the link in Windows Tools). Paste in
Game Bar is gone along with Xbox. Hidden, anyway. Being a dolt, I forgot to check space available in C:\ before I did anything.
Add a trailer hitch. To tote a generator on a hitch platform. Of course an electric car will be retarded like one of my beard trimmers and refuse to operate while being charged. For reasons.
Times Square New Years Eve:
https://pjmedia.com/matt-margolis/2024/01/01/bidens-brain-misfires-during-new-years-eve-times-square-appearance-n4925138
Answer to a heavily prepped softball question comes out as a word salad composted in a NJ diner dumpster for a week in July.
One-third of the U.S. electorate believes that this guy is doing fine.
That an 80 year old man is quoting shi(r)t his Dad said 60 years ago, well, the 80 year old guy is a dumbass.
Meanwhile keep the border wide open instead of doing your job.
BC: Overdoing It In The Cave Man Era
https://www.gocomics.com/bc/2024/01/01
Oh my ! And the designated driver is sauced too.
Write up I did for a meat rabbit discussion group recently. It generated a LOT of discussion which surprised me. I thought the topic, while something I knew folks would relate to (winter livestock care), was ultimately dull (I watered and fed the rabbits).
Perhaps folks here will be entertained by this bit of drivel.
—
12/29/2024
Raising backyard meat rabbits in Alaskas largest city. We live in the middle of town.
We’ve had 70” of snow this season. That’s 10” deeper than I am tall.
It’s pretty chilly today.
It warmed up to 6° Fahrenheit so I ventured forth to care for the rabbits.
I moved a 40 pound sack of rabbit pellets from the front porch, down the steps my young daughter shoveled, onto a sled. I gave it a shove and the sled carried the pellets halfway to the rabbitry. Went back in to address water needs.
I connected the 150’ of “Pocket Hose” to the laundry sink and lined it out the door. November our outdoor hose bib failed, we are fortunate the laundry room has a sink so water is still accessible.
Before the water is turned on, the pocket hose just reaches to the top of the hill. It’s an odd device. Think long skinny balloon, like what clowns make balloon animals from, encased in bunchy nylon fabric. When water enters the hose it expands. By a significant margin. Reviews warn one to not permit pressure to build in the hose, lest you court the disaster of catastrophic failure. Wouldn’t that be exciting at these temperatures? I do like to live dangerously <cackle>
I keep the end of the hose closed with a doohickey. The pressure builds up and the hose lengthens. I scrambled my way down the hill under the trees. I lost my hat once and windmilled a couple times but made it to the rabbits without too much excitement. Wedged the hose in the top of the 30 gallon barrel and let it fill. It needed about twenty gallons. The laundry sink and pocket hose are slow.
As the barrel filled I checked each rabbits condition (hand along spine for weight, glance with flashlight for condition of hocks and paws and nails, peer into ears, mood, and give a scritch). Despite the cold all were content and happy for some company and interested in treats. Filled their pellets, verified water nipples working, tightened a couple as they were dripping. Knocked icicles off from leaks then gave everyone a clean chunk of icicle to play with. Added hay for munching. Scolded myself for not rebuilding poop chutes last fall – mucking out is going to be work come spring.
Checked barrel, still a way to go.
Stomped out to where the sled stopped. Paused to admire the twinkle lights I strung along the fences, the still air, the beauty of trees enrobed in sparkling white hoar frost. Then hauled the pellets the rest of the way to the rabbitry. Stumbled and fell off the hard packed trail once. Hands and knees back then upright. Harder than it sounds with the snow this deep. The hard pack trail is from the dogs, so narrow. Snow on either side is up to my crotch.
Pellets into feed barrel, lids onto everything. Check rabbits, they’re all content and ignoring me. Check barrel, another few gallons to go.
I really didn’t want to stomp up the hill, turn off water, stomp down to retrieve hose. Didn’t want to risk hose getting overstretched by closing it off and hauling it up the hill. Didn’t want to not close the hose and spray water all over the trail hauling it up the hill in the on position. Called W, he was in his room and gladly turned off the tap at the laundry sink for me.
Hauled myself up the hill, gathering the now flaccid hose into its 5 gallon storage bucket as I went. Much lighter and easier than a conventional hose. Glad I wasn’t shedding water all over the trail,to later become ice.
Tidied away the bits and pieces. Hung up wet clothing and something warm to drink.
Start to finish? A bit over half an hour. Long enough to get chilled. I’ll wear my better boots and better gloves next time.
Husband and daughter should be home soon. They’ve contributed a LOT to rabbit care this year. Really grateful for their many hours of help.
In another month we will do our first breeding for 2024, and start replenishing the freezer around May. It’s a lot of effort. Worth it, though.
Even at 6° Fahrenheit in deep snow.
Wishing my fellow rabbit raisers a very happy New Year, with enthusiastic bucks, excellent does, fast growing healthy kits, and much success in your endeavors for self reliance.
“Why Does Socialism Always End With Eating Pets?”
https://areaocho.com/why-does-socialism-always-end-with-eating-pets/
“Canadian press says it’s time to eat the family dog, because climate change.”
NO !
“Meanwhile keep the border wide open instead of doing your job.”
Biden has no mental significant mental function or memory. He could not pass a cognitive test. It’s unlikely he could sum a column of expenses, recall at bedtime what he had for breakfast, or wake up in the morning and know what day it is with 50% accuracy.
There are dozens of people that know this directly, and are making decisions and using the power of the presidency to impose their own personal agendas.
They are traitors. [redacted]
We also had our annual chili feed the day after solstice. Some 50 folks through the house and I don’t know how many gallons of chili consumed. Night wrapped up with an hour or so of enthusiastic singing with piano, guitars, flute and violin.
Much joy.
Hope folks here are well and that 2024 nudges the pendulum back a little closer to normal. Not holding my breath but I can pray.
The solution to climate change is
“One-third of the U.S. electorate believes that this guy is doing fine.”
being converted to biodiesel.
Well done Jenny! That’s a lot of work… and really cold.
We were high 60s today, but at sunset it started to drop. 44F now, down 3F in 1 hour.
@Jenny – I have an old iPhone 5 with 32 GB storage if you still haven’t resolved the iPod Touch situation.
The big problem with the device is that iOS 10 has been unsupported for about five years. I wouldn’t run it on public WiFi, but around the house, using the device to play music, would be fine.
If you need an excuse to leave the house and eat popcorn for two hours, we saw “The Iron Claw” on Christmas night. Rated ‘R’ unfortunately.
It’s alive. It’s moving. Oh, it’s alive. It’s alive! It’s alive! It’s alive, hoo-hoo-hoo. It’s alive!
My first post or two about my chickens was mostly just goofing around, but the continuing upvotes and responding comments indicate interest. Either that or my continuing exasperation at the (lack of) intelligence of the typical chicken is amusing enough to make up for boring minutiae.
Jesus and Co.? I know very little about LDS doctrine other than what they crammed into our heads in sixth grade at the Southern Baptist school I attended, justifying the church’s position that all other religious were wrong.
Not that I encourage giving that guy more money from YouTube views, but if you watch some of the other videos, you quickly pick up on the family being extremely wealthy. Or, at least they were. The last couple of videos seem to concern selling the $7 million (according to one Internet source) “dream house”.
Saying “Asian guy” followed by “wearing a mask” is redundant around here.
I saw a Jesus Truck in Fredericksburg this week. My kids say that they saw two when they headed back to the hotel early the other night while we continued to walk off dinner.
My wife cut holes in our duvet cover while wrapping presents Sunday night so we had to hit Ikea for a replacement this afternoon.
The Swedish food section at our Ikea was really grim. They had meatballs, but not the gravy or lingonberry sauce, and the raspberry cookies which do a decent ripoff of Jammie Dodgers continued to be out of stock.
I haven’t had a sleeve of the cookies since last Spring.
I have no idea if they are good enough to fool a Dalek.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PH-P4nTkTpQ
As someone mentioned they did other day, I also use a small kerosene heater in my poorly insulated garage. It will raise the temperature about 7 degree’s an hour on “low” which isn’t bad.
I have used propane in the past, but portable propane heaters have two failure modes I am leery of … we might call them “Musk” modes:
(1) Flamethrower, in which a small leak of pressurized lp gas ignites…this happened to my neighbor.
(2) RUD, Rapid Unscheduled Disassembly (of the entire house) when leaked heavier-than-air propane pools and then suddenly ignites.
https://www.bernardgoldberg.com/p/looks-like-conservatives-were-right
“Cargo ship carrying burning lithium-ion batteries reaches Alaska, but kept offshore for safety”
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2024/01/01/cargo-ship-carrying-burning-lithium-ion-batteries-reaches-alaska-but-kept-offshore-for-safety/
“ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — A large cargo ship with a fire in its hold is being kept 2 miles (3.22 kilometers) offshore of an Alaska port as a precaution while efforts are undertaken to extinguish the flames, the U.S. Coast Guard said Saturday.”
Don’t we have one of these burning ships every month or three now ?
@nick
Thanks – feeding and daily check is usually just a couple minutes. The deep snow and cold make the simple difficult. I have great appreciation for Jack London’s stories, especially about cold and functioning in it.
@Greg
The iPod is truly lost. We are letting her suffer. She is working odd jobs to earn enough to buy another. I think this has been a very timely lesson in responsibility. Thank you so much for your gracious offer. We are holding firm to a little suffering now for long term gains.
We watched The Boys in a Boat tonight. Wow it was good! All three of us really enjoyed it and will see it again if we can. Our daughter saw the previews awhile back and prepared for the film by reading the book. She says the film was better, but only because she didn’t have context for that kind of boat or sport.
I‘ll look for Iron Claw. The Beekeeper looks good For booms and bangs. I just watched all of the Tolkien movies on Amazon. I love Tolkien but was not captivated by the films. The Hobbit was just poorly done in my opinion.
@SteveF
-intoned- It Liiiiveeeesssss
2023 never slowed down. The 70” of snow has been exhausting even with hired help. I’ve shoveled the ridge of the house roof several times, and just did most of the garage roof.
I enjoy reading about your chicken exploits and I’ve had chickens for decades. You write well and bring color to the mundane. That’s a joy.
@Greg
holes in the duvet
Im sorry, but I burst out laughing. I’ve come close to doing the same. That’s frickin hilarious.
>>… while efforts are undertaken to extinguish the flames.
Just let it burn. Have the CG keeping an eye on the northern border.
Wise parenting.