Here It Comes

It's just right there, I can almost see it. YES, It's a cold front!!!

This weekend the temps will only be in the mid 90's. Get the jacket folks, it's going to be a cold one.
Plus, they are saying we have about a 20% chance of light scattered showers. In the big picture, that means my place will have a 0.001% chance of getting a few drops. Fingers are crossed that we are in that very small percent range.
Why do they even tease us?

Play time again this weekend. We will be cooking in Wichita Fall Texas tomorrow. It will also be the first time we will enter our beans for competition., fingers crossed on that too.
I would say to come on out and visit with us, but I don't know anyone who lives out there. It is a 2 1/2 hour drive from where I live and I wouldn't make that drive just to sit around and drink beer and eat chili unless I was cooking. Well...... I have done worse for less.
So if you are bored tomorrow grab your Coleman camp stove, your best recipe and come on out and lets see what you got. As it is right now we will be the only folks who we know, all the rest will have shifty eyes.

Be safe,
MDR

It's That Time Of The Year

It's sunny all week, the ground just gets dry enough where you can work and then it rains. I love the rain, but does it have to do it just on the weekends?

Saturday we are having a Easter BBQ over at my dad's where we are also celebrating a couple of family birthdays, one being my youngest girl Wee, she turned 17 yesterday. That makes me an old man.
Today she is at the county youth fair showing her shop project, I wish her all the luck because she has really put a lot of work into it.

 I was hoping for good weather so I could do some more roofing on the giant bird house. This project has lingered on for way too long now and needs to be completed. I am done with the nesting boxes so there isn't anything I can do in the shop to help speed it along. I don't see how I will have the time anyhow being I need to be cooking for the party. I am known for bringing the "out of the box" dishes and this time will be no different. I will be making Onion Crusted Plantains, Potato-less Potato Salad and Bacon & Cheese Pull-A-Parts. I know there is nothing wrong with the tried and true, but I am always looking to explore new tastes.  

The tomatoes have been taken out of the greenhouse everyday on the notion they were going to get planted, but I worked late every night and was not able to devote any time to getting them in the ground. Maybe if the rain stops by Sunday I will be able to do just that. They are already making small tomatoes. 

The corn got bit from the last freeze even though I tried to protect them some what. I will need to replant as soon as possible if I ever hope to harvest any. 
Other than that, the greenhouse is packed full and ready, I just have to find the time.

The rabbit tractor is in it's final design stage and ready for production as soon as I get the Aviary finished. Then a new solar dehydrator needs to be build and after that I will start on the Hydroponics system I have been wanting to do for a while now. 

That's all I got for now, Have a great weekend,
MDR   

A Little Work

Being that the weather was bad, I did not expect to get much done anyway.

Friday's preppers/homesteaders meeting turned out to be a full house. We had a couple of great speakers talking about Agenda 21 and the Texas Naturalist Organization. I always take something away from our little get togethers.

It rained all day Saturday so I had the opportunity to spend some time in the shop cleaning and building the nesting boxes for the giant bird house I am building the wife.   
I don't know if it was the weather or not but I was tired Saturday and decided to take a nap. I never sleep and I hardly ever get tired so I was kinda worried about being wore out. I almost didn't even make it to the crawfish boil because of it.

Sunday I had to make a run into town for some paint because I do not keep pink paint on hand. I found some on the clearance rack for $2.00

I spent some time making the nesting boxes look good. I really like the way it turned out. I even took the time to paint the insides of each box.


I found out the hard way last night that when your body says to slow down you should do it. I spent the night in the ER because my heart was doing some really weird stuff. I normally would not have worried about it but the pain and the way it was beating had me thinking something was wrong, turns out there was. Nothing serious at the moment, I am just low on some stuff that helps it stay in rhythm.
Turns out the meds I take and the weight I have lost do not mix anymore. So the good news is I get to cut back on the high blood pressure medication. The bad news is I need to slow down a little and get more rest. Another 20 pounds and I should be off them completely.

Who has time for rest? You should see what next weekend has to offer.

That's all I got for now.
MDR