Blaze & Daze

DMChiz said:
Last day of March/Spring break for kiddos. In honour, blaring this for them as they wake up. A special brand of Dad torture. They hate it :P

Happy Friday!!!
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Everyone should hate that "song". It was written in the last 5 minutes of study hall.

I like your style, I too used to blast shitty music to get my gremlins out of bed. If they lost their phone for the weekend and they asked for it back, I'd sing the mama's and the papa's "Monday monday" and my wife would go waaaa waaaa waaaaa wa wa waaaa, Monday mondaaayyy
 
happy friday, all. we had bad storms last night and woke up to the chickens squawking their little hearts out, and not in a good way. i went up there, worried that the coop had been damaged in the storm. instead i saw a massive red-tail hawk, sitting on the light pole next door. he (yes, birds are "he" haha!) flapped his wings a couple of times and i'm pretty sure i saw him lick his beak too. he flew off after a bit. we do have hawk netting but you just never know...i've watched enough nature shows to know that a hungry animal is pretty relentless once they've spotted a potential meal.
also learned that dad had blood in his urine yesterday, and choked on his lunch so the hospital is now refusing to give him anything other than pureed food. and he is refusing to eat pureed food soooooooo yeah. not sure how this is all gonna play out since they won't release him in his current condition.
i plopped the 2 chernobyls in their 4" pots this morning. everything looks good on that front.
 
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wakeNbaker46 said:
happy friday, all. we had bad storms last night and woke up to the chickens squawking their little hearts out, and not in a good way. i went up there, worried that the coop had been damaged in the storm. instead i saw a massive red-tail hawk, sitting on the light pole next door. he (yes, birds are "he" haha!) flapped his wings a couple of times and i'm pretty sure i saw him lick his beak too. he flew off after a bit. we do have hawk netting but you just never know...i've watched enough nature shows to know that a hungry animal is pretty relentless once they've spotted a potential meal.
also learned that dad had blood in his urine yesterday, and choked on his lunch so the hospital is now refusing to give him anything other than pureed food. and he is refusing to eat pureed food soooooooo yeah. not sure how this is all gonna play out since they won't release him in his current condition.
i plopped the 2 chernobyls in their 4" pots this morning. everything looks good on that front.
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Those hawks are relentless, he'll be back for sure. Sorry to hear about pops. I pissed blood for months, and needed a few transfusions. I started refusing my gout medication, and that's what was causing it. Uloric choltrazine or allopurinol. I know everyone is different, but maybe he's on one of these
 
cannabiscrusader said:
Those hawks are relentless, he'll be back for sure. Sorry to hear about pops. I pissed blood for months, and needed a few transfusions. I started refusing my gout medication, and that's what was causing it. Uloric choltrazine or allopurinol. I know everyone is different, but maybe he's on one of these
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he had a drop in blood pressure over the weekend, extremely low. the docs said that due to that his kidneys weren't able to expel correctly. pair that with taking out his liquid hydration and it was a bad combo. tomorrow will be the two week mark since he was admitted. seems like it's one step forward, two steps back.
 
Wednesday AM and Friday AM.... Withthe incredibly wet stature of this snow...I'm gonna say this is the largest snowfall we've seen in the 10 years we've owned this property. We've had some 18" snows in January...the pow-pow CO is famous for...but this certainly wasn't that. This is Sierra Cement/Midworst kinda snow like we used to see back in Misery as a kid...

Just cleared it all out again. 4-6" more. Barely snowing now...supposed to stop for the day then start back up tonight and give us a few more inches.

Fuckin' WHOOPED.

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shnkrmn said:
Pretty creek.
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We love it. It's the reason we bought this place. There aren't that many properties like it. We have 7 acres. Treed. The creek splits in in half and runs the full length of the property. The house was another story...LOL. I swore I wouldn't do another fixer-upper or build another house...but the creek sold me and as a result...I got shanghai'd into yet another "down to the studs" remodel...and so much more. I've worked harder here than at any job I've ever had and all I did was bust ass at work every day. So much for retirement. More like "Re-TIRED".

Laughing Grass said:
Looks like a postcard.
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It's a beautiful place. We are spoiled. I've gotten super bad about not wanting to go anywhere. The wife has to force me to go to town and we don't go camping/etc anymore because there's just no need to.
 
shnkrmn said:
Kind of how I feel about my place. No creek tho! Does that ever dry up from the drought?
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Nope. What you're seeing in the first pic is our "low flow". By Mid-May it will start to come up for runoff...and it'll rage well (depending on the snowfall we receive) into July. Then it slowly comes back down...only rising if we get monsoon storms/etc in Summer. The geology above us is fascinating and it's the reason the creek flows year-round...even with scant moisture/back to back drought years. It's noisy all year other than in the deepest part of Winter when it freezes on top and gets covered in snow. In runoff it can sound like a jet plane. The pic below is the another bridge just above this one....with about the same space under it This was from June 2015. I was sandbagging shit like mad and hoping that nothing washed away.
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