I got 50 lbs of Lard for 32.00. I bought flowers for my gardens. Now for the rain to stop so I can finish planting them.
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It is the last week of school for my kiddos. Let the summer slave labor begin!
I don't know, Lin, but I wouldn't want to be your neighbor and get on your bad side. 
Having seen a few bad mannered neighbors in my time, I do understand the temptation, however. We rarely see any unattended dogs in our town. It is not well tolerated, I guess, so the folks just don't let their dogs run loose. When we first moved here, there was a dog that wandered lose, and one day a policeman came to our door to ask us to control our dog. I told him we don't own a dog, but apparently someone had told him it belonged to the new people on the block. I have no idea who owned the dog, but sometime thereafter it stopped wandering around unattended. In stead of a dog catcher, it's the police who follow up on reports of violations with dogs in our town. So people seem to be very good at keeping their dogs on their own property of walking their dogs on a leash only. Some aren't so good at picking up the poop, but I noticed if I stand at the window or go get the mail at the time those ones walk by, they don't let their dogs poop on our lawn. So they obviously know better and don't want to be seen doing the wrong thing. Mostly, I only see that when it's the kids in the family walking the dogs. The adults seem to be more responsible, at least in our town.
But what really irked me was when two houses sold on our block, one next door and the other across the street, the new owners who moved into both of them, developed a habit of parking on their lawns. And when they park on the street, they drive up onto the lawn of whoever's house they park in front of. Well no one else in the neighborhood does that, and I don't know why they thought this was okay to do. It's bad enough to see how they are ruining the lawns and making huge ruts of muddy dirt in the grass in front of the houses adjacent to us, but when they parked like that in front of our house, it really irritated me and my husband.
For one thing, my husband can't mow the lawn where a pick-up truck is partially parked on our grass. And for another thing, we don't want to have to re-seed grass because our neighbors are inconsiderate. Then they started having parties and all their friends started parking on our grass as well. That was more than I could take. I started asking them to move their vehicles off our grass. A few of them were quite nice about it, but a couple of teen-agers got beligerant. One even said, 'It's public property and my dad said I can park on the grass because it's between the street and the side-walk' and refused to move his pick-up truck. Then they started tossing beer cans on our lawn after that. So I called City Hall to ask if that was really true, as I wasn't sure if maybe there was an ordinance in town I didn't know about.
It wasn't true on our street because we have curbs, but apparently it is true on some streets in our town that don't have curbs. Well that was the clincher. I called the police after the belligerent teen-agers seemed to feel it was their duty to aggravate the old lady who didn't want them to ruin her grass. After being advised by the police that they were in violation, the behavior stopped although the beer cans didn't at first. They still park on the grass on the other two houses. Eventually the belligerent teens stopped tossing out the beer cans or they stopped getting invited to the parties, or maybe someone 'grew up' a little, because we don't get beer cans and fast food wrappers tossed onto our grass anymore. Some kids are just plain rude. But there is hope, they either grow up or go off to college to party elsewhere (or something.)
But I have noticed that the house next door has these huge ruts in front of there house now that they seem to have decided need to be fixed and they are now avoiding making it worse. It took them about 3 years to realize there are negative consequences when they park on the grass in front of their own property. Serves them right, but still it makes the neighborhood look tacky and I hate driving up to my house and seeing my neighbor's pool of mosquito-attracting muddy water at the edge of their property so close to my own.
Having seen a few bad mannered neighbors in my time, I do understand the temptation, however. We rarely see any unattended dogs in our town. It is not well tolerated, I guess, so the folks just don't let their dogs run loose. When we first moved here, there was a dog that wandered lose, and one day a policeman came to our door to ask us to control our dog. I told him we don't own a dog, but apparently someone had told him it belonged to the new people on the block. I have no idea who owned the dog, but sometime thereafter it stopped wandering around unattended. In stead of a dog catcher, it's the police who follow up on reports of violations with dogs in our town. So people seem to be very good at keeping their dogs on their own property of walking their dogs on a leash only. Some aren't so good at picking up the poop, but I noticed if I stand at the window or go get the mail at the time those ones walk by, they don't let their dogs poop on our lawn. So they obviously know better and don't want to be seen doing the wrong thing. Mostly, I only see that when it's the kids in the family walking the dogs. The adults seem to be more responsible, at least in our town.
But what really irked me was when two houses sold on our block, one next door and the other across the street, the new owners who moved into both of them, developed a habit of parking on their lawns. And when they park on the street, they drive up onto the lawn of whoever's house they park in front of. Well no one else in the neighborhood does that, and I don't know why they thought this was okay to do. It's bad enough to see how they are ruining the lawns and making huge ruts of muddy dirt in the grass in front of the houses adjacent to us, but when they parked like that in front of our house, it really irritated me and my husband.
For one thing, my husband can't mow the lawn where a pick-up truck is partially parked on our grass. And for another thing, we don't want to have to re-seed grass because our neighbors are inconsiderate. Then they started having parties and all their friends started parking on our grass as well. That was more than I could take. I started asking them to move their vehicles off our grass. A few of them were quite nice about it, but a couple of teen-agers got beligerant. One even said, 'It's public property and my dad said I can park on the grass because it's between the street and the side-walk' and refused to move his pick-up truck. Then they started tossing beer cans on our lawn after that. So I called City Hall to ask if that was really true, as I wasn't sure if maybe there was an ordinance in town I didn't know about.
It wasn't true on our street because we have curbs, but apparently it is true on some streets in our town that don't have curbs. Well that was the clincher. I called the police after the belligerent teen-agers seemed to feel it was their duty to aggravate the old lady who didn't want them to ruin her grass. After being advised by the police that they were in violation, the behavior stopped although the beer cans didn't at first. They still park on the grass on the other two houses. Eventually the belligerent teens stopped tossing out the beer cans or they stopped getting invited to the parties, or maybe someone 'grew up' a little, because we don't get beer cans and fast food wrappers tossed onto our grass anymore. Some kids are just plain rude. But there is hope, they either grow up or go off to college to party elsewhere (or something.)
But I have noticed that the house next door has these huge ruts in front of there house now that they seem to have decided need to be fixed and they are now avoiding making it worse. It took them about 3 years to realize there are negative consequences when they park on the grass in front of their own property. Serves them right, but still it makes the neighborhood look tacky and I hate driving up to my house and seeing my neighbor's pool of mosquito-attracting muddy water at the edge of their property so close to my own.
Lin19687
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Ha ha, you get it, I just can't understand why someone just WANTS to make everything look like crap.
I live in the "rental' district, no landlord cares but the town is starting to take notice.... that MAY be because I started to call the BOH on the trash. Assessors were out last week taking pictures of back yards with trash all in them (No I didn't call on that).
I seem to ALWAYS live next to the crappy neighbors. We are so quiet that no one knew we had kids when they were young ! I mow, slightly garden, in bed by usually 9. Le Sigh....
My HAPPY for the day is still from yesterday ...
I got security cameras (4 set up ) 2 are sticking out of my Right window so that you can NOT miss it. Other 2 are to my Left window inside but you can SEE them.
Watched sh1tty neighbor girl look at my house as she walked from the Right to the Left (I'm on a corner). The look was like Duh oh crap are those cameras , Really? She almost fell because she was not watching where she was going. She is like 10
I have had a sign at my driveway about Video Surveillance cameras. They thought I had them because I would yell out the window at them to get away or stop what they were doing. It was funny.
I am also killing the Mother with kindness this week, offered her my rain barrel, maybe even my old AC unit. Of course this was also the day I sent an email to the dog officer and the police drove by the next day.
I sound mean, I know it seems that way. Just picture crappy kids AND parents that rent, don't care and let the kids run amuck and think they are not responsible for what happens
P.S. your Squirrels are ADORABLE !!
I live in the "rental' district, no landlord cares but the town is starting to take notice.... that MAY be because I started to call the BOH on the trash. Assessors were out last week taking pictures of back yards with trash all in them (No I didn't call on that).
I seem to ALWAYS live next to the crappy neighbors. We are so quiet that no one knew we had kids when they were young ! I mow, slightly garden, in bed by usually 9. Le Sigh....
My HAPPY for the day is still from yesterday ...
I got security cameras (4 set up ) 2 are sticking out of my Right window so that you can NOT miss it. Other 2 are to my Left window inside but you can SEE them.
Watched sh1tty neighbor girl look at my house as she walked from the Right to the Left (I'm on a corner). The look was like Duh oh crap are those cameras , Really? She almost fell because she was not watching where she was going. She is like 10
I have had a sign at my driveway about Video Surveillance cameras. They thought I had them because I would yell out the window at them to get away or stop what they were doing. It was funny.
I am also killing the Mother with kindness this week, offered her my rain barrel, maybe even my old AC unit. Of course this was also the day I sent an email to the dog officer and the police drove by the next day.
I sound mean, I know it seems that way. Just picture crappy kids AND parents that rent, don't care and let the kids run amuck and think they are not responsible for what happens
P.S. your Squirrels are ADORABLE !!
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Lin19687
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Happy .
Yesterday I made a Chicken Tunnel from coop to front yard and it is only a foot tall/wide .
I can take 1/2 of it off at night or when I don't let hens out front so that I don't have to walk over it in the evening or night.
They went through it like sweethearts..... will see how well they go back to the coop
Yesterday I made a Chicken Tunnel from coop to front yard and it is only a foot tall/wide .
I can take 1/2 of it off at night or when I don't let hens out front so that I don't have to walk over it in the evening or night.
They went through it like sweethearts..... will see how well they go back to the coop
Lin19687
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it's not Hot as Hades today
SoapAddict415
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I wish that were true here lol. I'm in Madison Heights MI. At 8:45 am it's currently 77° with a high of 93° for today. The same as yesterday. I spent the day holed up in my bedroom watching DVDs with the air conditioner blasting! It was almost cold enough to hang meat in here lol and that's my plan for today [emoji4]! I love 3 day weekends!
Lin19687
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Every day is a 3 day weekend for me
until I decide to go back to working life
until I decide to go back to working life
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I'm happy because I think I got a decent ITP swirl today. The last couple of batches have been so ugly and disappointing. One got so thick on me that I did the glop and pray and it's full of stupid holes and gaps, and one broke completely in half in the middle of the loaf at the mica line AND cracked all the way down the middle of the top as well (so mad at that one I had to be alone for a while after unfolding).
Today, thankfully, my batter stayed fluid enough to do an ITP swirl - little oval one is just mica swirled on top of leftover white batter.
Today, thankfully, my batter stayed fluid enough to do an ITP swirl - little oval one is just mica swirled on top of leftover white batter.
Zany_in_CO
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Well done! I'm doin' the Happy Soapers Dance for you!
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Last night my kids and I went to get our library cards (we had moved out of the county 7 years ago and hadn't gotten around to getting new cards last summer when we moved back). Both kids had already gone to the library and come back by the time I went home for lunch today. They were both happily camped on the couch reading when I went back to work. They are 10 and 16 and decided to have their own reading competition for the summer. This bookworm mama could not be more thrilled! I'm thinking I should get some awesome prizes for them.
Lin19687
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Happy. I thought I was going to be over run with eggs this week.
DD tells me Sunday that her Cooking teacher wanted a dozen. Told her last Wed Wish she told me that Wed night so she could have taken a bunch Thursday. I could have given the ones from the Sat-wed of that week. I only like to give the freshest ones.
She took a Doz today but I had to split the days between her and my regular woman that is coming this morning.
DD tells me Sunday that her Cooking teacher wanted a dozen. Told her last Wed
Wish she told me that Wed night so she could have taken a bunch Thursday. I could have given the ones from the Sat-wed of that week. I only like to give the freshest ones.She took a Doz today but I had to split the days between her and my regular woman that is coming this morning.
SoapAddict415
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My happy is that I had a nice, quiet and relaxing weekend complete with dancing in the living room with DH. I have 2 let feet and he's got moves like Jager so it's always an adventure when we dance [emoji16].
Lin19687
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Happy, Said egg woman is taking 2 Doz !
She is also taking my Apple tree
Poor thing is 7 years old, only 1/2 day in light. Should have flowered this year but no Worms did a number on it last 2 years where it also should have flowered but didn't.
It looks GREAT this year, leaf looking, but it blocks my new security camera. The IR light lights up the tree and not beyond that and I have no where else to put it.
I rent so no biggie, just glad it will be going to another organically raised yard in my town AND she was looking to get another Apple so it is a Win WIn
She is also taking my Apple tree
Poor thing is 7 years old, only 1/2 day in light. Should have flowered this year but no
Worms did a number on it last 2 years where it also should have flowered but didn't.It looks GREAT this year, leaf looking, but it blocks my new security camera. The IR light lights up the tree and not beyond that and I have no where else to put it.
I rent so no biggie, just glad it will be going to another organically raised yard in my town
AND she was looking to get another Apple so it is a Win WIn
Lin19687
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I have a Kitty cat on my lap purring.
I found a baby bunny in my tiny garden last night.... they are safe from coyotes and dogs so i don't mind. It's mostly mint in there anyway
I found a baby bunny in my tiny garden last night.... they are safe from coyotes and dogs so i don't mind. It's mostly mint in there anyway
SoapAddict415
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[emoji1] Score! It would've been a bigger score if I'd gone back sooner but I'm happy with the one. It'll make an awesome soap drying rack! I had a panic attack last night & went walking. I saw 3-4 of these sticking out of a dumpster (I live near a strip mall). My need to walk was greater than my need to salvage so I'd planned to grab them on my way back home. Silly me forgot & took a different route home. By the time I remembered this morning, the waste management company had emptied the dumpsters. This tray was left laying on the ground near a door. I saw 3 other smaller, cleaner stacked trays several feet away but I know the employees use those as a seat for their smoke breaks so I left them. I love free equipment!
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How do you register a domain name?
I’m happy that I had a lovely birthday dinner last night.
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It was through Google Domains
Lin19687
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My Domain is through 1&1, so is my website. I got the Domain for 1 year for $1.17 I can move it if I want.
My website was like $5 for the year but goes up to like $14 a month next year......... or something like that.
I just needed to park my web/domain.
Here is the Very Unfinished-still working on web site. I couldn't sleep one night and started, should have waited for DD. My DD will be doing it for me so she can earn some money.
www.rusticlifefarm.com
They have a bunch of templates to work from.
My website was like $5 for the year but goes up to like $14 a month next year......... or something like that.
I just needed to park my web/domain.
Here is the Very Unfinished-still working on web site. I couldn't sleep one night and started, should have waited for DD. My DD will be doing it for me so she can earn some money.
www.rusticlifefarm.com
They have a bunch of templates to work from.
