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Like Carl our generator was bought for medical reasons. It is a Generac (did not know there was any other kind) and it is services once a year. It is hooked up to the gas line. I would never be without one again.

Baby goats…maybe you can bring them inside…lol

Iris…the tornado number was for the whole state.

Need a new coffeemaker. All advice welcome.

Yes, but I didn't believe it. I didn't believe a crew of men had dug an 8-foot hole for a nickel either. The pig story was more credible, considering the pig farmer's careless approach to personal hygiene. For one thing, when he spit tobacco juice, he spit it on the dashboard of his truck and let it drip rather than turn his head to spit out the window.

good evening,

COLD!!! Good bit of rain last night, spitting snow off/on today with nothing sticking. The wind is bitter.

Lorita, just call me the Goat Whisperer!, lol. It was indeed one Mama, three babies. The other pregnant nanny flew the coop being in there with Goldie and her babies! She climbed on just enough hay and plywood and jumped over the TOP of the stable to get to the hallway of the barn and out to the pasture. It's amazing. The babies are doing well. Up, toddling and nursing. All girls. That's a good thing. The littlest one is so tiny but she is scrappy! I'm going to call her Sassy. The darker brown one will be Ginger and I haven't decided on the other one yet. She has not revealed her nature. Except, when born she was cuddled down in the shavings, sleeping away. So maybe Constance. I'll have to see.

We've been lazy today. To Tullahoma to get DH his allergy shot, stopped by the store for dog food and more shavings, to the barn, the chicken coop and then inside the rest of the day. I took a nap. DH has informed me it is time to build a new hen house. I'm happy about that. We both want one that you can walk into. Easier to clean. Bigger. Easier to cover with chicken wire to protect from the hawks. Maybe even a small porch with itty bitty chicken swings. And planters for herbs. A springtime project for sure.

Well, one of the grands is headed here in a bit so I will close for today. Stay warm, dry and safe.

This means in the spring our porch will not only have our rocking chairs but also itty bitty chicken swings!! I love that mental picture.

And on that note, good night.

Good morning

HB understand your concern for your mom. We are always watching and looking for what’s happening. I still do that even though she’s in a AL. That’s why I’m so thankful for AL because there are many eyes are there to help me.

Jehjeh Always nice to get a good nights sleep. Since we are used to winter storms here, we are well prepared to deal with them in a lot of ways. The main issue is the loss of electricity. We probably got between three and 4 inches of snow right now. I was able to keep it pushed off. I did not have to use my two stage snowblower either.

if you Google the blizzard of 1978, I lived through that. You will probably see the story of the semi driver who got buried by snow for several days and survived. I worked 3 to 1130 then and that’s when it started. We were not able to leave work that night and ended up working several days. It was three or four days I forget which. As you know, evening shift is not got a big staff. A lot of us were pretty young. The school of nursing at that time was attached to the hospital, so some of the floors were being ran by student nurses. The physicians could not get in and at that time we did not have hospitalists. The physicians were able to call in though, so we were able to receive orders. Good Lord took care of us. I don’t remember us having any codes and everything went pretty well. It was an interesting time. It was even interesting for quite a little while afterwards felt like you lived in a tunnel of snow. Can’t remember, but I’m wondering if the only physicians available were the emergency room physicians. That’s probably how it was which was probably OK because no one was coming to ER they couldn’t get there.

JeriLynn You will have to send pictures of your chicken coop when it gets done. Wish I wasn’t afraid of chickens, but things that happened to me in my childhood make me afraid of them.

Lorita you take care of yourself

Ron how dud you do down there in Louisiana?

if you pray we all need to pray for those poor people in western North Carolina who still really do not have housing. They are trying to get by in RVs, tents etc. and I really feel for them. Know you don’t see much of anything nationally about this now. But the situation has not gone away. Also Feel for those that are trying to help them. It’s a very over whelming task. As in any situation, there are also people that are trying to take advantage of those poor people. Many kind people in our world but some are not. I have found a place though called Precision Grading in Saluda, North Carolina. If you Google them, you will find their website. Make sure it’s the one in Saluda, North Carolina. You probably also will see some YouTube videos pop up too that you can look at. He seems to have a very heavy heart for his neighbors and he’s doing his very best to help his neighbors with very high-quality work. It’s a very overwhelming and slow process for them. If you pray, they need our prayers for the strength, means and encouragement they need to help others. I almost feel like I know these people and I wonder if someday maybe when they are less busy if I could take a trip there and meet them, I would like to but I’m not a very good traveler. They surely have been through something. I know during recent rains some people who had bridges for access lost it again. I don’t know if the bridges they had were temporary bridges or if they were supposed to have been permanent bridges, I’m not sure. But I know Jake who owns the company went back and checked on all his bridges and they were fine. High quality bridges are really what they need because anything less probably isn’t really going to help them and sort of a waste of funds if you understand what I’m saying. There are many other helping Jake also by supplying materials, some are helping him maintain his equipment as you can imagine this is very hard on his equipment. He is not charging anyone unless their insurance will cover. But if you’ve been following the situation, you know very few if any will have insurance coverage. Flood insurance was not even available to a lot of these people as they were not considered to be in a flood zone.

Take care everyone

Good morning.

Jerilynn— Your chickens deserve swings. One of my nieces has the Taj Mahal of coops for her flock. It's huge and multistoried with all manner of amusements for the residents. It's big enough for she and her husband to invite friends in. She decorates it for holidays as well.

Jehjeh— That's interesting about snow in Seattle. I have friends who are recent transplants— she's from the Hudson Valley and he's from Boston. They love Seattle but shake their heads at the lack of snow preparedness.

Mint— The aftermath of flooding can take years to fix. I really feel for those people. When my old neighborhood was destroyed, most folks who elected to rebuild moved into travel trailers for at least a year or two. At least the community and local infrastructure wasn't impacted. Having stores, banks, doctors, etc untouched made a huge difference. They were fortunate that funds were available to raise their homes above recent flood levels, but it took a while for the funding to be released and for the work to be done. We opted to allow the county to buy our property out to be annexed onto the local park instead. DH was over dealing with the flooding; I considered rebuilding but given my knees, it's best we didn't.

It's cold here this morning and windy. I'm going to take mom grocery shopping later, but she'd not coming to Costco with me. I need a couple things there and gas before I go to the regular store. She doesn't breathe well in cold or wind, but she's been home alone most of the last week which makes her a little goofy.

Thursday, she has a hair appointment, and we take the cat back to the vet. She was supposed to Uber to the salon last Friday, but her Uber never showed. The joke was on her, the stylist had to call out and mom hadn't answered the phone when they called to reschedule her. I hope the vet is pleased with the cat's lungs because I am over torturing the poor thing. She yowls, pants and eliminates in her carrier which is no picnic for any of us.

HB

Yes Lorita, Wagon Train is on right now, it's on for 2 hours, then Gunsmoke for 2 more hours. My mind is going crazy right now. I'm trying to not think about Emmy then I feel guilty for not thinking about her. H

LOrita…Walmart has waterproof thermal work gloves. That pitchfork idea sounds good too.

Quick post

Zetta, so good to see you back and so sorry about your Emmy. Please grant yourself some grace. You loved her.

Ron, sorry to hear about your results but maybe catching early is good. Fingers crossed and prayers.

We just had another baby. Don't even know if it's a boy or girl. The Mama is Flopsy's Sister who escaped the stable yesterday. But she came in the hall of the barn to kid. DH got her up in the stable again. Too busy to get pictures. Maybe tomorrow.

Rest well, stay warm, dry and safe in the weather. Lorita, are you wearing your Alert when you go outside??? Big warm hugs to everyone.

Lorita, I'm not near the fires but they are out of control! Several homes have burned in the Pacific Palisades area, think Beverly Hills by the sea, a high end area. Ten thousand homes are threatened and thirty thousand people are under mandatory evacuation. Some people in this area have horses, so there is a large animal shelter for them to be brought to if they can get out in time. Those areas have winding roads, not at all safe under smoke. The fire is burning down lifeguard towers--that means it's reached the beach. Santa Monica is under mandatory evacuation order. The wind is so strong that flames are blowing horizontally.

I went to the market but forgot to get cornbread. I'm thinking about cornbread after all this cornbread talk.

Zetta, I'm so sorry to learn about Emma!

Ron, I'm sorry about your PSA, I hope the oncologist will be able to help you.

JeriLynn, I'm glad mama goat came back inside to give birth.

David, you're on a roll with those bongo wins!

Iris