So if you didn't do anything airgun related what did you do today?

[maraudinglizard]

Ernie, I've had a few bad spills here at the house and luckily I have not broken anything, the last fall should have broken some ribs and a hip. I am more aware of where I walk, step on and off of things, climbing on and off equipment, and even when I am fishing, being crab bait is not appealing to me. I have already have mended broken body parts to last a lifetime and don't want to add any more if I can help it. I did my fair share of being wonder woman when I was young and didn't think much about it then but now it stays on my radar 24/7.

[bReTt]

Bought more stuff for the bathroom project.  Plywood, tile and a window.  Ripped the plywood down into 8” wide planks.  That is what I’ll use to make the walls look like ship lap. 

[Madd Hatter]

I can pretty much do what I want. I just pay dearly for it the next day. And I'm a heck of alot slower doing it.

Stepping off the roof of the Red Shed onto the ladder the other day was a life flashing before my eyes experience.   

The transition from roof to ladder can be sketchy.


I have never had a fear or gave any thought about falling but will say the thoughts come now. I have a big tree in my backyard that I would climb all over to trim if I was younger. The problem is I can see myself falling from that tree now, when I was younger that kind of imagination was lacking.


I still don't fear falling so much, but fear that my landing won't be as good! LOL

The one that gets me is the roof to the ladder.  Going from the ladder to the roof doesn't bother me.

[avator]

Yeah, I didn't have a problem getting from ladder to roof or cleaning the roof off when I got up there. Footing was a little sketchy making sure I was stepping on cross braces under the tin. But getting back onto the 10' step ladder, even with Betty Lou keeping it steady. I was smart enough to set the ladder next to a tree for some kind of hand hold.
In my younger days I probably would have just jumped down.

[anti-squirrel]

We woke up this morning at 3:30-ish to dogs pacing.  That's alright, they're old and sometimes gotta go outside for the bathroom.  Except we found Naki, our newly-adopted cat, had ventured forth to the next plane of existence.  He had a seizure resultant from kidney failure and slipped away late last night.  He was always drinking a lot, and when we talked about it later this morning, it all made sense.

I tell ya what- I'm tired of burying my four-legged friends.  He was adopting well to life indoors; his 3 cat-siblings got along with him very well, and the 2 dogs enjoyed his presence.  He was getting more and more outgoing, but his feral past and malnutrition before us adopting him took a toll.


Other than that, a workday for me, while Sonja stayed busy focusing on things other than losing another pet.  I'm still dealing with my father bouncing back and forth between the hospital and physical rehabilitation thanks to a bout of C. Difficile he contracted while at rehab last week.  My mother is stressed, but the assisted living facility they reside in has been helpful.  Getting old is fun thanks to the wisdom, but most other aspects not so good.  Losing pets, dealing with illness, seeing your family age and fade...

Anyway, enough rumination.  Life keeps us in check.

[Blowpipe Sam]

We're short handed at work to start with and one of our best guys is out taking care of his wife who has just delivered twins prematurely.  I'm driving four boat tours a day, five days a week.  I'm in a complete rut and don't even know what day of the week it is.  Today was the first clear, warm day in weeks.  The critters were out in abundance and I didn't have to hunt for gators or manatee.  Easily fifty or more manatee in the spring.  I ran right over a big one in the jungle channel.  The water was only about six feet deep.  I think it was a big female about eighteen hundred pounds or so.  She didn't like it.  So she picked up a forty foot pontoon boat with 120 horse power and thirty five people on board and just shoved it out of the way. Then she placidly went back to eating eel grass.  What an awesome animal!

[buellm2]

Ernie, I've had a few bad spills here at the house and luckily I have not broken anything, the last fall should have broken some ribs and a hip. I am more aware of where I walk, step on and off of things, climbing on and off equipment, and even when I am fishing, being crab bait is not appealing to me. I have already have mended broken body parts to last a lifetime and don't want to add any more if I can help it. I did my fair share of being wonder woman when I was young and didn't think much about it then but now it stays on my radar 24/7.

Yes the awareness and caution is all ways present.  It still feels odd not having the sure footed agility of youth.   But at least we're still doing stuff, just slower.   And still shooting, although I find it humbling competing with the youngsters who might only be 50.

[Rabbit\Squirrel Killer]

Ernie, I've had a few bad spills here at the house and luckily I have not broken anything, the last fall should have broken some ribs and a hip. I am more aware of where I walk, step on and off of things, climbing on and off equipment, and even when I am fishing, being crab bait is not appealing to me. I have already have mended broken body parts to last a lifetime and don't want to add any more if I can help it. I did my fair share of being wonder woman when I was young and didn't think much about it then but now it stays on my radar 24/7.

Yes the awareness and caution is all ways present.  It still feels odd not having the sure footed agility of youth.   But at least we're still doing stuff, just slower.   And still shooting, although I find it humbling competing with the youngsters who might only be 50.

I am very glad to be able to do stuff no matter how much pain I am in doing or not doing. I am amazed that I survived what I chose to do when I was young. Caution? As they say "better late than never."

[Rabbit\Squirrel Killer]

I didn't get around to posting about it yesterday. The Heaters at the Church building got repaired, Yes both, we have two units and didn't realize one had stopped working until the other did too. I didn't fix them this time but had a local company do it. My part was unlocking the building and waiting around for them to get done.

[Insanity]

Thats good its no fun being cold.

[avator]

Having been born and raised on the shoreline of Lake Erie and living the remainder of my years (besides the 10 we have lived here) in the northern most part of the country, 60 degrees is quite comfortable for me. I have all the doors/window of the Red Shed open and Betty Lou has opened the windows in the house. The fresh air coming through is awesome.

[Rabbit\Squirrel Killer]

 With the forecast high tomorrow being just 54°F the Heat will be needed in the Church building. A cold congregation is a bad thing.
 Last Sunday it was 62°F in the Church building, I was fine but like it to be nearer to 70°F in there.

[Madd Hatter]

It was 23f this morning when I got up and it's not going to be warming up very much either. Time for long johns.lol🥶🥶🥶🥶

[Blowpipe Sam]

Temps in the high sixties here.  I was wearing shorts (and Wellingtons!) when I walked the pups this a.m.  Trousers now that I’m headed to town (still got the wellies on though!).  Man it’s wet!  We must have had at least two maybe three inches of rain last night. Work on the studio for the rest of the day is the plan.

[Rabbit\Squirrel Killer]

Temps in the high sixties here.  I was wearing shorts (and Wellingtons!) when I walked the pups this a.m.  Trousers now that I’m headed to town (still got the wellies on though!).  Man it’s wet!  We must have had at least two maybe three inches of rain last night. Work on the studio for the rest of the day is the plan.

It currently 46°F here and supposed to get up to 63°F today, not as warm tomorrow! At 2PM it is supposed to be 53° with a 16mph NW wind. BURR

[airgunaut]

Daytime temps have been in the 30s the last two days, but the “honeymoon” already ended. Shoveled snow in blustering wind Thursday and Friday, and nighttime temps are predicted to drop to zero after this weekend, with more snow coming.

[avator]

I was tasked with dog pile removal. 
It's been cold and rainy the past few days and we got behind on it. I cleaned up 8 or so piles and tossed them over the fence.
I don't get it... these dogs have a acre+ of woods and choose to do their business near the house in the foot traffic lanes and never in the same spot. It's either snakes or dogcrap but one thing is for certain, you had better be watching where you step around here. Especially now that the leaves are on the ground.

[Blowpipe Sam]

I was tasked with dog pile removal. 
It's been cold and rainy the past few days and we got behind on it. I cleaned up 8 or so piles and tossed them over the fence.
I don't get it... these dogs have a acre+ of woods and choose to do their business near the house in the foot traffic lanes and never in the same spot. It's either snakes or dogcrap but one thing is for certain, you had better be watching where you step around here. Especially now that the leaves are on the ground.

Yeah we’ve got three big dogs so it’s a daily chore around here.  I had Flash trained to do his business next door because it makes my mom’s current husband furious.  Flash doesn’t like him either so it was easy. 

Mom asked me to stop it so I did.

Flash isn’t real happy about it.

I should have named Flytrap “Abdiel” after the HMS Abdiel class fast mine layers.

[Xraycer]

We woke up this morning at 3:30-ish to dogs pacing.  That's alright, they're old and sometimes gotta go outside for the bathroom.  Except we found Naki, our newly-adopted cat, had ventured forth to the next plane of existence.  He had a seizure resultant from kidney failure and slipped away late last night.  He was always drinking a lot, and when we talked about it later this morning, it all made sense.

I tell ya what- I'm tired of burying my four-legged friends.  He was adopting well to life indoors; his 3 cat-siblings got along with him very well, and the 2 dogs enjoyed his presence.  He was getting more and more outgoing, but his feral past and malnutrition before us adopting him took a toll.


Other than that, a workday for me, while Sonja stayed busy focusing on things other than losing another pet.  I'm still dealing with my father bouncing back and forth between the hospital and physical rehabilitation thanks to a bout of C. Difficile he contracted while at rehab last week.  My mother is stressed, but the assisted living facility they reside in has been helpful.  Getting old is fun thanks to the wisdom, but most other aspects not so good.  Losing pets, dealing with illness, seeing your family age and fade...

Anyway, enough rumination.  Life keeps us in check.

Sorry to hear, Peter.

[bReTt]

Off work at 0700 this morning.  Came home and had coffee with Mrs. P.  Took a nap.  Up now and having coffee and surfing.  Back to work @1500.  Come on weekend!