Kitt

Babies are fun. I swear you can see the light bulb turn on when they figure out what you are asking of them!

Had a very good afternoon with the ponies! 17 of em and only one gave us any fuss loading, and he was a 2 yr old baby!

A knitt/crochet person will never say they have too much yarn, but quilters are worse by far. My uncle walled off a 15 x15 craft room in the basement for my aunt, 3 walls of which are covered floor to ceiling with kitchen cabinets, all of which are full with her collection of quilting material.

Too many knitting needles for me!

Lol I had a move two summers ago where the lady called as I was almost home from the barn, which meant i had to drive 20 min BACK to the barn to pick up my trailer, then 20 min north again before starting the trip north. That put me on a very busy stretch of interstate @ afternoon rush. When I dropped the two horses off and told her the charge she asked "Does that include the 'owner is a jerk tax?" Insisted on a $50 dollar tip.

Lmfao! In the time it took to type all that, the kid texted apologizing, and begging me to pick up on schedule!

Had a customer call for a short notice move of 17 horses after a blow up with her current landlord. Arrangements made on Wednesday to move today. Load time today pushed out 3 times, from 8 to 10 to noon, new barn is taking more work than anticipated. Now her business partner calls wanting me to cut the price by 20%. I quoted the move @ break even because she is a former student of mine, and the stress of a short notice move like this. When I said I could not, he claimed to have someone who would do it for half what I quoted. I said great, call them.

You do know by saying "No food fights" you may as well have dared this bunch?

8* today soooo...

You saying we are a bunch of mixed fruits?

OK then. It's colder than usual around here. Our high was 18*f. The dog does NOT like cold. We let her out to our fenced back yard and she does her business in record time. Hubby opened the door to let her back in, and here comes the dog @ mach Jesus, followed closely by a tiny sparrow, whom it took 3 of us a good 10 min to chase back outside! She seemed to want to stay in the warm. No panicky flapping, no fluttering against the windows, just stayed out of reach, landing on curtain rods and the like.

It is ABSOLUTELY gorgeous out there! Ice and snow covered trees in bright sunshine!

Ok, this is a first. NJ Transit have stopped bus, train and handicap access busses tfn.

See what i mean? Bubble headed boobies! Snow started here @ 5 am. Almost to the minute of when they predicted on last night's news. Got about 7" so far. I'll be under my quilt if you need me!

Way back when I worked QA in a factory about 15 minutes from my house. At the time I drove a sporty little 2 door. Snow started about an hour after I arrived for my 2nd shift stint, 2 to 10 pm. By 4 pm the production floor shut down and everyone headed home. Called my supervisor to inform him that I would head our as soon as I finished up the paperwork. Got chewed out, informed there was plenty to do to fill the 6 hrs remaining of my shift, and if I leave I will face disciplinary action, not only for attendance violations, but for not following direct instructions as well. By quitting time snow on the road, a major highway, was so deep my tire tracks looked like a sled track where my undercarriage was dragging. 20 min ride took about 2 hrs of white knuckle driving at night. OK, I am finally home well after midnight. I crash, and when I get up around 10 am the snow is well up the door of my car. Governor has declared a state of emergency, issued a driving ban, all non essentials stay home. I call the attendance report line and leave a message saying I was complying with the travel ban and would not be in. Within 5 min boss calls and says get my ass in 2 hrs early because there are a lot of call outs and we are short handed. If I refuse he will fire me. I told him I would see him in court. Funny thing, I was still there when the company closed the facility and moved operations out of state. He was long gone by then.

I'm not so worried about the grid. We have 2 generators to keep the heat and refrigeration running. My plan for the storm is to hide under my quilt from all the bubble headed boobies on the roads! They started acting the fool two days ago and will only get worse once the storm actually starts.

No snow yet? Good!

I give up! Got all the doc's back on track after the insurance debacle. ( Never did get a reason it was cancelled). Back in December Doc ordered a wound vac, a contraption designed to collect any bleeding/seepage and improve circulation to the area, speeding healing. By the time it finally got delivered we were in the gap that the office canceled appointments because of the insurance shit. So, today he was supposed to have the vac put on, and arrangements for those LOVELY home nurses to come tend to it 3x a week be made. Doc looks at his foot today, pronounced it healing nicely and at least a month ahead of where he thought we would be, send the contraption back. OK, so I call and verify the instructions for return, and am pleasantly surprised to find that because we never even plugged the silly thing in, they are canceling the order and there will be no charge. GREAT! Five min later, I get a call asking to verify insurance info so the vac peeps can bill insurance. "Umm, Ms Jones in returns (fictitious name of course) just told me they were canceling the whole order, return it no charge." Don't these peeps talk to each other??? On a good note, *Groceries including comfort food and snacks. DONE *Generator fueled and run for a bit, ready to plug in if power dumps. DONE *Snow blowers (2) fueled and parked by each door. DONE *Horse's blanket on with a spare in case of wet or to layer if it gets super cold DONE *All obstacles to clearing snow out of the way. DONE So, since we are ready for the storm to do it's damnedest, I expect to get nothing! I still plan to pull the quilt over my head and hide from the bubble headed boobies on the roads. After dropping this contraption @ the UPS store to go back, the next time I venture out will be Monday for my chiropractic apt. Although if we actually get the foot of snow they are threatening, I expect a call to reschedule that!

Ummm...that was not the quote my comment was meant for. Not sure how i did that one! Smart little stinkers was meant to follow

Might be little stinkers, but no one said they are dumb!

So you have two little trouble makers that squeel on each other?

Not so bad, that's 32*f. Mine said 8*f as I left the house. That's -13*c for you metric peeps.

Just remember, a "wrong" 4-6" could be anything from a dusting to a foot!

Batten down the hatches US East Coast. Here comes another massive winter storm! My area is saying a MINIMUM of 4" from Saturday evening thru Monday morning. My plan for last weekend worked well, so I think I am going to stick with it! Shopping today or tomorrow to beat the rush, comfort foods and snacks, then hide from the world for the duration!

You have hit on one of my biggest problems right now. With him home and relatively immobile, one day is blending into the next. I frequently find myself asking "Wtf day is it". If it were not for the day planner with alarms on my phone I would start missing appointments.