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which_chick) wrote2010-06-25 06:58 am
which_chick) wrote2010-06-25 06:58 am
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I had a bad week for eating sensibly. (Try not to think of it as "being on the diet" -- I will never "be off the diet". This is how I eat now. This is how I will eat until I die.) Sloppy after-dinner snacking, oversize lunch on Monday, way too much food on Tuesday, beer, two helpings of dinner plus eating-while-cooking on Thursday. No. This cannot continue or I'll be right back to fourteens. And I'll have to buy them because I got rid of all of 'em when they started falling to my thighs.
People came and got the beagle dog on Monday afternoon. They left me a nice thank-you note (I wasn't home) on the door. Odds are good that it was the proper owners of the dog -- it was a beagle, after all, and I do not live anywhere that a random passer-by would see the beagle chained in the yard. I'm glad the beagle dog is gone... no desire to own a dog, here.
My dryer has totally stopped working in any way that might be described as functional. It turns on (but the timer does not work) and it rotates the clothes tumbling part (but does not blow hot air over it though it makes hot). The clothes do not get dry. So, not particularly a useful appliance at this point. I'm installing a clothesline in my yard while I sulk about the dryer not working. I need to pick up supplies for that project on the way home tonight. Clothesline will be ready to use tomorrow afternoon.
I also need to build better horse jumps this weekend. La and Trys and Cass are convinced that we need jumps with tall uprights, like you see at shows. I have treated 4x4s to use as uprights, scrap 2x4s (for the footie supports), a huge drill bit suitable for putting holes clean through the uprights. I need screws and the miter saw for the weekend, also have to order "proper" jump cups, probably we need four cups per pair of uprights. May also enlist some help (Cass) in painting poles so that we have some more. RIght now, we have like eleven (one broke -- there were twelve) and that's simply not enough. I'll have to pick through the pile beside the road to find stuff without sharp corners. Landscape timbers work nicely -- the rounded edges are very nice and they're heavy enough that the horses don't hit them apurpose.
People came and got the beagle dog on Monday afternoon. They left me a nice thank-you note (I wasn't home) on the door. Odds are good that it was the proper owners of the dog -- it was a beagle, after all, and I do not live anywhere that a random passer-by would see the beagle chained in the yard. I'm glad the beagle dog is gone... no desire to own a dog, here.
My dryer has totally stopped working in any way that might be described as functional. It turns on (but the timer does not work) and it rotates the clothes tumbling part (but does not blow hot air over it though it makes hot). The clothes do not get dry. So, not particularly a useful appliance at this point. I'm installing a clothesline in my yard while I sulk about the dryer not working. I need to pick up supplies for that project on the way home tonight. Clothesline will be ready to use tomorrow afternoon.
I also need to build better horse jumps this weekend. La and Trys and Cass are convinced that we need jumps with tall uprights, like you see at shows. I have treated 4x4s to use as uprights, scrap 2x4s (for the footie supports), a huge drill bit suitable for putting holes clean through the uprights. I need screws and the miter saw for the weekend, also have to order "proper" jump cups, probably we need four cups per pair of uprights. May also enlist some help (Cass) in painting poles so that we have some more. RIght now, we have like eleven (one broke -- there were twelve) and that's simply not enough. I'll have to pick through the pile beside the road to find stuff without sharp corners. Landscape timbers work nicely -- the rounded edges are very nice and they're heavy enough that the horses don't hit them apurpose.