other dog

Yeah, I've seen both before but neither is something you see on a regular basis, at least not around here. I was startled to say the least, and it was a good ways away out in the tall grass in the field. When I saw it had something in it's mouth the first thing I did was call for my dog, because they had been out in the yard just a few minutes before. They don't go outside the fence though. Sometimes I'll have Roman out with me but Mack doesn't go outside the fence unless he escapes, because he'll take off exploring. Then I have to rattle a potato chip bag to lure him back. 🤣

...or maybe it was a coyote. There's plenty of them around here, probably a lot more than foxes. My first thought was fox, but now I'm not sure.

97% humidity this morning. We had a thunderstorm and torrential downpours around midnight last night, and there's a chance of rain for the next 10 days, that's as far ahead as the weather app. goes. Lots of flooding in the area. Don't know when the grass might get cut, all the rain is killing the garden, the tomatoes are big but some of them have the dreaded tomato blight from too much water, but you know it could always be worse. I have nothing to complain about when I think of the flooding in Texas. I have to cut all this grass with the push mower because the riding mower won't fit through the gate. I could put a wider gate in easily but I need the exercise anyway. 🤣 I can cut that part on the other side of the fence with the riding mower. I was in the garden picking tomatoes this morning when I saw a fox trotting across the field with something in it's mouth. I threw a tomato at it and it dropped whatever it had and took off towards the woods. I went out to see what it was and it was a ground hog. It was already dead, no idea if the fox had killed it or it had been struck down in the road by an automobile. I'm thinking it probably had a litter of fox pups somewhere and it was taking it to them for breakfast. Now I wish I hadn't thrown the tomato, but I wanted to see what it had.

Ain't that something- it wasn't that long ago when they were ready to oust him as governor, because he's an incompetent ass clown, now they're talking about running him for president.

Holy mackle!

No, it's a real pain when it's wet. The mower keeps getting clogged, then a big clump of grass will come out at once, nearly choking the mower off, sometimes it does choke it off, then the yard looks like crap, and I'll have to rake it afterwards. I don't use a bagger, I just leave the clippings. Usually you don't even notice them, but when it gets too high or has clumps because it was too wet I rake the clippings and put them in the garden.

I was going to mow mine this afternoon, but it's pouring rain- again!

Raleigh was supposed to make 2 "NOT FOR HIRE" signs, and a "Zina" sign, but he forgot. I'm going to put her name on the door, she didn't really like my stick-on letters, and the not for hire on the side box door. That will hide some old lettering and numbers too. The ATCA decal on the hood is covering a hole where the fender mirror bracket was bolted on. Might get a smaller ATHS decal to cover the scratches where the IFTA sticker used to be. Or I could slap a "Bear Swamp Beverage" decal on it.

One issue with the new boot is that the sheet metal on the truck cab is pretty thin, but the sleeper hole has a strip of wood all the way around that's a lot thicker, so it never really fit right to start with. And I'm really glad the guy at Truck Body called me to come look at it, he could have just installed the new one like the old one and took my money. And it would have lasted a little while probably then started leaking again. But he's going to get the front off and let me know how everything looks before we go any further.

Same here, it's hot already! It's only 78 degrees I think, but the weather app. on the phone said 94% humidity. It's been 90+ every day for weeks now it seems, dew stays on the grass until after noon, then it rains every evening, and cutting the grass is a major deal anymore! I remember one year in Gladys it was so dry I cut my grass one time all summer. Now I cut it every week, but it could use cutting twice a week!

GMC update- everybody has been asking, getting tons of calls and letters, what's up with that Brigadier you had?..not really, that's a total lie, nobody has asked about it at all 🤣 But we finally got it back from Powell's Truck and Equipment in Lynchburg after 3 months, they put a pump on it, and replaced the air bags and leveling valve. Then I took it up to Truck Body Co. so they could replace the sleeper boot that had several holes in it and was obviously leaking. The bad news is that at the minimum the whole front wall of the sleeper has to be replaced. And possibly the walls on the sides, depending on the amount of water damage and possibly mold that might be in there. To replace the entire front I'm looking at about $6,000. If the damage goes a lot further I'll put a sheet metal "patch" over the big hole in the back of the cab and sell it for what I can get for it, taking a substantial loss on it I'm sure. It's a good truck, somebody could put a flat bed body on it and haul hay with it, or pull a camper, livestock trailer, etc. with it. If I get just that front wall replaced I'll already have spent as much on it as I paid for it to start with. Live and learn I guess.

I'm about to go out there now and make some more skewers on the other grill.

I got Raleigh Signs to make some decals for the doors on the CH. Not only does it look much better with something on the doors- in my opinion anyway- they cover up the old "Grand Home Furnishings" that you could still read. There's so many scratches under those signs that you'd think somebody took the old lettering off with an axe. I'm making some beef jerky today. Got the idea and recipe from Hippy, 70mackMB. Looking pretty good. It's done, as far as being cooked, I eat a piece of it every time I add wood to the fire, but I want it completely dried- I guess, I've never made jerky before. It's been smoking since 10am, at about 150 degrees. I've got black pepper strips on top, teriyaki on the bottom. Looks like that top rack was cooking much fast than the bottom, so I moved some around. When I tasted the pepper jerky that's all I could taste- black pepper. But the teriyaki was really good.

Absolutely. And I still believe that anybody with 2 brain cells to rub together knows that the capital "insurrection" was a set up from the start, whether they will ever admit it or not, just like there's no way joe biden won the presidency in a fair and honest election. Hopefully the truth will come to light some day.

The thing with her now is all the fake accounts. I've seen several reels that the ones who posted them are using her (Farmer Grayce) profile picture, but not her name, and singing some rap song, or speaking ebonics, so I'm pretty sure it's not her. And in one of "her" reels she replied to some guy that he could "go f@#k himself", so I was wondering if that was really her. It's so hard to keep up, I'm not even sure I'm really me sometimes, I might be somebody else 🤣

Sure didn't take them long to forget.

right?..

The blisters on my fingers finally got broken at some point in time. The one on my index finger just broke yesterday when I was picking green beans, the other one a few days ago. I put Neosporin on them as soon as they broke, and been putting Neosporin and a gauze bandage on them at night.

They (Iran) have no respect for human life. They've shown that repeatedly, and now they have "suitcase bombs". They've been using suicide bombers for years, so I doubt they would hesitate to strap a small nuclear weapon on themselves, a woman, or a child. They don't care.

One thing is for sure, if they (Iran) did have nuclear weapons they would not hesitate to use them. They have shown repeatedly that they have zero respect for human life- none. I'm sure they would bomb Israel immediately if they had nuclear capability and the U.S. would be next as soon as they came up with a deliverance plan to get it this far.

That Moxie is long gone, but here's the empty in the trash can. I feel smarter already because I drank it. And my fingers don't hurt. But the blisters are huge!

I'm drinking one now!

I believe it.

I need to find this place!