Good Morning!

[lolotsung]

@TomK so glad you were successful!

[WLLady]

YAY! so glad the OPB is going too! that's great news. I just got an email from work saying we are open at 100% occupancy with mask mandate but throw out the physical distancing rules. Great. just after 4000 students and their closest friends all attended frosh week festivities without masks and no social distancing. All i can say is i am really happy i just had to self isolate after a covid test prior to surgery! hopefully surgery won't be cancelled this time and i can start with the getting on with getting back into life again....in 1 piece again and not 3 or 4....as far as i can figure it's at least 3 pieces....so. let's get those put together again and get on with it! so fingers crossed on a negative test (i'll be floored if it isn't) and on to surgery and healing while covid runs through the student population and then get back into work after that wave is over LOL.

hm DH is out whistling and yelling for the dog. hm. she's discovered there are bunnies in the beans. everywhere. fun to chase! and if she waits long enough our cat will also bring them home to her, free of charge....um. yeah.....she SHOULD be in the barn mousing. although i did see 2 garter snakes in the barn doing the mousing for us this year, so that's good. and no ducklings were harmed...and those ducklings are way way too big now! they're starting to do the waddle walk. lol.

we did process the cockerels last weekend-got all that we could catch done. we'll do the rest this weekend-3 of them evaded my mobility skills. (not hard). we have about 7 more to do all told. honey is extracted though! and this weekend the bees will have all supers removed, and be reduced to their 2 brood boxes each and ready for winter. once the weather really cools off we'll move them up beside the barn and close them up for the winter. amazing to think they live in the dark inside the hive for the cold months, just hanging out.

beautiful babies @TomK! congrats!

[lolotsung]

@WLLady wishing you a speedy recovery!!!!!

[Killerbunny]

Very exciting day - Ginger Spice just laid her first blue/green egg! The Spice Girls only hatched end of APril but her comb has been red for a while. Now waiting for Posh Spice (muffs) and Fanny Faverolles.

[Bayvistafarm]

Good Luck WLLady tomorrow!! Hope your surgery is Awesomely perfect, and painless, and a quick recovery! Or really good drugs, if not painfree, lol.

Did Applesauce today. I didn't spray the apple trees again... just never seem to get around to some jobs.... but alot of them are good.... and the apple peeler corer slicer cuts worms neatly in half, LOL. I did a lot of cutting out crap.... but the result is delicious, made from Mac's and Gala's.

I got nearly a full 5 gallon pailful of peelings/cores and junk, lol. I picked a lot from the tround, they were perfect! We've had a couple windy days....

Back to the bus.... and my run is the same highschool..... with a few added kids... and then two elementary runs after... a greensville in the morning, and a Rockton one at night.

My first pick up in the morning is 6:40am. I leave here at 6:15am.... and after Greensville... get home about 8:40am.

Night run, I leave here at 2:15pm... leave the school at 2:30pm... and after the Rockton run... I get home at 5:30pm. LOOOOONG day!! But... guaranteed 4 hours..... but thats it!! I'm over 5 for sure, NOT fueling the bus.....We will have to see whats up after first paycheque.
I put on 195 KM a day. Lots of bouncing, sitting on my butt. The bus has air brakes... and I'm still not used to when it expels air occassionally, lol.

I've got potatoes I suppose I can dig.. although the ground is still soaking wet from the 1.6 inches a few days ago... and more rain coming.....the last few I dug.. the vines were mostly dead.. but when I brushed the dirt off.... I scuzzed them a little... so NOT really storing quality yet... but I don't want them to rot... and I don't want the ants to eat them all... they are starting... wireworms.... sheesh..

I made elderberry jam the other day... holy.... 8 cups of berries, and only got 7---250 ml jars. I could probably eat that much right out of the jar. Will pick and freeze MORE next year, bushes were loaded.

My daughter had two ducks, and they moved the horse hay feeder they hid under every night, so I guess they were confused and it messed up their radar... even tho it was just moved over a ways... and this is what Melissa found. One in the horse pasture, one all the way around the front of the house!! BOTH with the same wound.... exactly, and no other marks. Anyone have ideas? I asked WLLady... just curious what you all think...

I'd better get outside and just get out there, LOL. I start babysitting Maren tomorrow.... twice a week. I get her on her birthday, she will be 2 years old. A sweetie, but a real going concern. I hope I can clean the garden out somewhat, with her with me.. without her getting lost in the cornfield, right next to it. Its this tall all over!!

Hard to believe the weekend is over.... I did go North to see my parents yesterday, that kills a day, for sure.

Have a great week coming all!

These were my cooking onions this year!! Sweet spanish on the top. They were HUGE this year!!

[ross]

Weird small enough for a stout/weasel but they usually latch onto the throat then eat head & crop . Maybe couldn’t reach throat could be rat or cat . No tracks to read ?

[ross]

Shot in chest ?

[Killerbunny]

@WLLady is your surgery soon or done? Best of luck.

[WLLady]

Hi all surgery was monday. All home and trying to heal.... Dh is an absolute godsend. Went in to re-fuse one level came out with a patched 1 cm dural tear, scar tissue spinal nerve decompressions at 5 levels and bone spur removals, half an old rod removed and 3 new pieces of rod installed....it feels very stable now. I tell ya a dural tear makes the worst migraine look like a walk in the park. Holy crap i did not think i would survive that nausea. Awesome surgeons. But the care after? I had no less than 11 RNs and RPNs... In 2 days..no more than 2 of them were normal or amazing. None of them got the dural tear memo until my husband came by and said the surgeon said bedrest for at least 24hrs. Before that it was get up get moving we need your bed your nausea cant be that bad.... As soon as he said dural tear the physiotherapist I had just puked at left and came back with the on call surgeon and she stepped in huge. All of a sudden no physio, no walking, fresh water, anti nausea drugs, quiet, dark, pain drugs..i made sure we left and came home the minute i could stand up with the walker. So home now... Much nicer... Still painful but healing pain... Might get to the barn in the next few days... Might not. Off work 6 weeks for sure but havent got a followup appointment yet for 6 weeks.... We shall see. For now going up a flight of stairs is exhausting lol so i will wait to chase birds around for a while now. I do miss them and my pony.... I saw her from the window today munching away happily. Dog actually came upstairs to be part of the family tonight lol. My cat loved that i was back so much she bit me.. Good to be home lol

[labradors]

So glad that it all went well, but it sounded excrutiatingly painful . Hoping you'll feel a LOT better soon!

Linda