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Gosh, such high temps then frost! Will your hay dry well ?

My headache is a bit better, as is my tonsils. But it is still far from over.

Hope you're better soon Junie.

We've had a day or two in the 80's. It's been nice.

Thanks, Sheri. I think I am slowly getting there

It has been in the mid 80's here for a few days as well. I hope the trend continues.

I am going to try to go to sleep. Goodnight everyone. Sweet Dreams.

Sweet dreams all.

We avoided the frost...by two degrees.

The hay will dry well Junie, we are getting an extreme heat wave for the next three days. The air conditioner will get a good 'going over'

Great about avoiding the frost, Sunny. And in the well timed heat-wave.

I fell much better today. Why I am even seeing how a cup of coffee (I use milk) will go down.

Enjoy your coffee, Carol.
Good morning.

I am in to grab a quick lunch...this is a busy time of year.

Does anyone have any tips of removing mildew stains on stained cedar shakes?

Morning (for a little while yet here anyway)

Got up early and boys did too which was good, they sleep a lot, teenagers!

Carrie and Jon are supposed to be here Sunday evening, depending on how early a start they get... it is a long drive..hopefully they can stay a week or so...
Just paid a bill and got laundry started , hubby had to go find lightbulbs for the fixture in kitchen , glad cause the ones there weren't very bright, now I won't have such a hard time seeing if the counters need cleaning...LOL! do need to do the floor in there , more people more mess..

Well off to get dinner in crock pot, to hot to heat up kitchen today, do need to clean oven but use cold oven cleaner on it... definitely not my favorite job...Why would anyone not buy a self cleaning oven! Will be my next purchase, a replacement for this new one they put in but self cleaning and not an elec one either, have a gas hookup so that is what I will get.

Have a good day all! Stay cool as you can too!
Nana

More family coming to visit ! Great news Nana. Enjoy !

Going to sleep soon A girl needs her rest, after all.

Nity-nite.

Sweet dreams, Carol. And wake well-er.

Bless you, Tina. Sleep well.

Good morning. It is national cowboy day. Cowboys deserve a day.

Why yes they do, Tina.!!!

Watching a Good Witch marathon while washing clothes.I

Really too beautiful to be inside. But, oh well.

Well, this cowgirl would like to be done with her hay.

It is in the high 90's here today....I keep coming in to go to the bathroom from all the water I have been drinking. I have sunblock over my sunblock.

It is over 100 here today. But at least it's dry. That makes my wet t-shirt work well.

It is 84 here right now...but it was a bit warmer in the early afternoon. I have heard that in a few days we will be having the temps you ladies have been having. I guess we need to just be glad that none of us have had snow or ice.

11:25pm

I came in to say goodnight and Sweet Dreams.I
May your beds all be soft & comfy. Nite,-Nite.

Sweet dreams all.

My baler broke down so DH is trying to fix it....hopefully in time to finish before the thunderstorms this afternoon. Farming is not for sissy's

Did you get your coolers fixed Tina?

That is a rotten thing to have happen, Sunny. I hope your DH has good luck repairing it in time to get your hay in before the storms come in.

Looks like perhaps a Wal-Mart kind of day.
I wish you all a good one.

I hope your baler is an easy fix, Sunny.

Getting my headache back, little by little. But, going to sleep soon....Nite- Nite

Sweet dreams all.

We ended up having to make a makeshift repair to finish. DH is gone at the moment to drop it off for a real repair....it is an electrical issue in a small gearbox. The bales are made...we just need to store them later today. Nothing ever goes as easy as one hopes.

We are still getting extreme temps...it is calling for thunder storms tomorrow, and the next day. Today will be a 'get'er done or else' kind of day

I hope all goes as planned, Sunny.

Good morning. Even I came in I found my post from last night waiting to greet me. Apparently after I typed it in, I did not hit send, but just left...sorry guys.

Glad you were able to finish the bay Sunny. It seems it is always something..
I wish everyone a good day.

There seems to be a hollow echo in here.....why you would think it was spring and everyone were out in their yards/gardens.

Hellooooooooo,........

Colt is with me this week so it's been busy. He's growing up and I hate it. No more babies for us.

I am sorry, and I completely agree. Children, ours or the grandchildren, grow up way, way too fast. I do not like it either.....


Edit:

I am back in to say goodnight to all of you.
Sleep well my friends.

The hay is all in the barn and the baler repair is not an easy one. The actuator motor is shot, I'm waiting on calls to see what the cost will be to replace it for next years crop. My farm is getting smaller each year...and expense is the reason. It's sad to think about how small scale farming will soon be a thing of the past around here.

We are still getting extreme heat mixed with thunderstorms. It is supposed to cool off by the weekend though.

Yay for Hay in the barn. And yes, small time farming is becoming a way of the past. If I have my stories straight, my SI L would love to farm for a living, but he needs to bring land into the family business t to do so..and land is hard to come by. Then a family member was getting out, and had no family to pass his farm to, Brian was hoping to be chosen as the person to buy the land...well he was one of 3 that were interested and he was not chosen to buy the land. Poor kid...He may have to wait years now to fsrm. His parents have a nice sized farm but are considerably younger than we are, and he will have to share with his sister........At least he and my DD have jobs for now.

You'd never make a living farming here...many have tried, all have failed.

It hit 102* here today....it sure makes me grumpier than usual

How does your a/c work, Sunny?

Sweet dreams all.

I also would like to know that.

Sweet Dreams catch you all tomorrow.

It works o.k. It is certainly not like the older models...I remember they'd freeze a house in an hour. This one needs to be on all day just to keep the house comfortable. And saying that, it only keeps the rooms it is in cooler. I am thankful to have it....but I know that if you have an older model then change to this one, you'd be disappointed.

The sad part is that the bigger the model...the more chance you have of having too much moisture put in the air. DD has a friend who bought the larger model...they had wetness on their walls when it was on for the day.

So, in the end...I am thankful for it since I had none at all before.

Why has everyone taken leave of FB? During the last election I unfriended a few people - not because of who they voted for, that's their own business, but because every post became political. I like looking a pictures of children and flowers and such. I don't want to talk politics or religion on FB.

Sunny, did you figure out how to get rid of the mold on your shingles? Is your ac a window unit? I've lived with air conditioning most of my life. My youngest sister was asthmatic and we always had air in our homes so she could breath. But we didn't always have it in our cars and I remember it being very hot going places - coming from the cool inside to the hot of the car. Not sure how that was supposed to make it easier for her. We have to units now but they're outside big things - one for upstairs and one for downstairs. I think they have a humidifier on them.

That is why I haven't tried to return to FB, Sheri. The politics is just going to get weirder over the next year.
The moisture in the houses is already there, Sunny. It just condenses on the walls when they're cooler than the air in general, like on a soda can. A dehumidifier helps. It is something we don't have to deal with in the desert much. I use swamp coolers that actually add water.