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Well, I finally broke down and made a fire in the wood stove. Damn! it feels good to be warm. I'm always a bit leery of starting that first fire of the year. No one has ever inspected the pipe that goes through the attic. I clean the chimney when it needs it, but I don't know what to look for if the pipe is rotten or still good. Anyway...all is good. House is warm. No smoke coming out of the vents from the attic!
Last time I went grocery shopping I was looking for something I used to buy when I was a lot younger - Bridgeford frozen bread dough. My store doesn't have it, but I found frozen dough for dinner rolls. And man are they good! It takes a long time for them to thaw then start to rise, but they cook up in only 15 minutes. I'm going to experiment flattening the dough and making pizza.
Last time I went grocery shopping I was looking for something I used to buy when I was a lot younger - Bridgeford frozen bread dough. My store doesn't have it, but I found frozen dough for dinner rolls. And man are they good! It takes a long time for them to thaw then start to rise, but they cook up in only 15 minutes. I'm going to experiment flattening the dough and making pizza.
My wife said it was 36F in San Jose last night.
I don't know how cold it was here but when I took Misty out this a.m. for her morning ablutions, there was a light dusting of frost on the roof. It didn't make it all the way down to the ground though.
Something like 752 posts ago, David you had asked if you where missing something in regard to my asking Tom if he'd pay for me to have more water. Well, here's the explanation for you. Some time between 500 & 750 years ago during the "Killer Earth Quake on the West Coast" the piece of land I live on broke loose from the parent section, giving us a beautiful chunk of land with no regular under-ground water table. Drill a new well? One more to go with the other nine capped holes on the place? We've got a water holding tank in the garage. Each year, the wells suck air and not water and usually this happen in September or so. No so this, "the 4th year of drought"! Wells were sucking air sometime in June. When this happens a none lotto winner comes with his truck, and for $190.00 fills the tank for us. Typically this give the TWO wells I'm plumbed into a chance to recover. As it stands now, we refill about every two weeks. All of that said hopefully explained the water request to you. Our main well is 600-700' deep. Sea level here is 500'. Coolness, right?
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Wow that's cold. It's still hot here, and sticky. I wouldn't mind a little cold front.
I'm looking for a good farmers market, the one I went to last week sucked. Bleh!
I'm looking for a good farmers market, the one I went to last week sucked. Bleh!
It's 28 here this am
Good morning all!
How is the trip going?
Brrr, it cold this morning! I'm guessing in the 30's! I ran out before the sun came up to snap a pic of my hatchling desert tort enclosure! I'm obsessed with checking the seeds I planted because they never really grow for me! We had a rain last week so I planted some and the baby had to stay inside for a few days and now it's growing!!
I put her out yesterday and she was in heaven! Even pumpkin is sprouting!
I put her out yesterday and she was in heaven! Even pumpkin is sprouting!
Not only tortoise appealing, but humans too. Very nice.
Kathy, is it in full Sun or dappled?
Officially cold this morning here. I went out to the truck to get cat food and plug in my phone. I decided to grab a handful of candy corn/pumpkins (clearanced at .69 so I stocked up). I went to eat a corn and realized it was hard aka frozen.
As I went out to put feed in the various cat stations, I notice the cat water dish was covered with a layer of ice. Water hyacinths in the turtle pools wilted to nothing. 
Do you heat your house with a wood stove?
I love that little pipe elbow hiding place!!
Good morning all. I've got another wood stove fire going. Even Misty is hanging out next to it. Feels so good to be warm!!!
Today is my errand-running day, then this afternoon the bird rescue lady is bringing me my new bird. She's coming equipped with free-standing cage and I have some bird pellets and seed left over (in the freezer) from when I used to have a bird. I'm going to have fun teaching the cat that birdy is a no no.
I have to stop by Tractor Supply and buy a couple more 250 watt brooder lights for my sheds. The ones I bought last year only lasted the winter. But they warmed up the sheds nicely. In this cool but not really cold type weather we're having now (low 40's) the pig blankets are keeping the whole shed warm enough. 41F outside and about 70F inside. But when it gets down in the low 30's I'll need the extra heat from the brooder light.
So far the RF, YF and leopards are the only ones that don't retreat into their sheds in the evening. I have to go on a tortoise search every night for those guys. And speaking of leopards...The last batch of leopard babies that Will took home with him to sell hatched the last week of September and the first week of October. There was one egg left that didn't hatch. Well, surprise, surprise...it's hatching! But its the smallest baby I've ever seen!
I'll be keeping this one here for a while as it's not cost effective for Will to make the trip for one baby, so I think I'll call this baby Spot.
Spot is cute!
I only wished I had a wood stove.
I only wished I had a wood stove.
Cold enough this morning to trade my t-shirt in for a sweatshirt.
Was neat walking the dogs this morning with leaves falling like a leafed out snow storm. Then too, is that lovely leaf crackle under foot.
I've been wondering when the leaves are ever going to fall here. I use leaves as insulators for my desert and texas tortoise hibernaculums and as yet there aren't any leaves on the ground.
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