THURSDAY IN THE 50s!

[Nasoosie]

GOOD MORNING ALL!

I've found I can't compost near my house any more, as the pile, unless it gets buried each and every day with the tractor, attracts a myriad of potential growlers! Our coyotes here have a huge area that they patrol and hunt, as the land is both wooded and open and vast. In all my travels, I have seen no coyotes while walking, although Richard said he saw a huge one, wolf-sized, last year while walking the woods road to the pond. At night, they invariably commence a howling party in whatever area they are hunting for that day, and I love to hear them. It reminds me that I share my land with the wild creatures. However, in a more civilized, settled area, the wild creatures tend to get bold and invasive as their territories have been so minimized. I am convinced that some of our former smaller coyotes have interbred with the Canadian wolves and have now established a new breed of what the researchers call the Adirondack wolf. They are bigger, their howls are more wolf-like rather than yip-like, and they fascinate me when they have their howl parties. I hope everyone coming to the Ruckus can hear them while sitting around a campfire.

Yesterday we went to our local Vermontville RV dealer, and the lady there would very much love to see Carol's Chalet with the dormer, if she may, when she gets it set up. She sells A-Liners, and can order one with a dormer if she chooses, so would like to see how they work.

58 degrees here this morning, and my maximum/minimum thermometer recorded that it got down to 45 last night----brisk, to say the least. (Take note, those of you heading north for the Ruckus!) Also, there is a good stiff breeze out there, so the awning will stay closed for a while. I will most certainly not be swimming in my pool today!

Tonight we will go back over the mountain to another free music concert at Wilmington Beach, if the weather allows such an activity. I might finish mowing my lawn here around the campers, and do a laundry. Other than that, the day is open to anything! Happy Thursday to all.

[Redetotry]

Good morning it is a blissful 68 degrees here and I’m so loving it! I did not however love the night. Dear little Winnie missed her paper and as a result I was walking around at 2:30 with a bag of frozen peaches held to my head. Since she drinks like an elephant she, well you get the idea; the flood ran all the way into my closet & around these metal tubes where DH stores his fly rods. As I was moving them to clean under they all fell down and the heaviest one whacked me on top of my head.
Nope, definitely not a good night, but I'm expecting the day to go much better than my night.

[AlmostThere]

Morning!

Soos, I have not heard our resident coyotes for months. Very strange. Wonder if they've moved on after all these years?

BJ, ouch! Glad it didn't knock you out!

Was suppose to meet with the Coffee Club this AM at my financial advisor's office. We meet once a month and I was looking forward to what Elaine would share with the recent stock market down-slide. Alas my bum isn't up to sitting for any length and my back is sore from doing the 'one cheek' thing, so I bowed out.

I have hired a neighbor and his son to do some yard work for me tomorrow. I have a circular flowerbed in front with a Japanese coral bark maple in the middle that I want removed. It's next to the road that my neighbor uses to get back to his house and as he is drunk most of the time the bricks surrounding the bed are pushed into the dirt from him driving over them and always look a mess. Plus the bed is hard to mow around and at this point in my life I need simple. My neighbor is going to try salvaging the tree as it is beautiful and not very big yet. Perhaps 8 ft tall.

Tomorrow is my youngest GD's (9), showdeo. She has been at daytime horse camp all week and Fridays are when the family gets to go watch all their new horse riding skills. Then next week my middle GD (11), will have her turn, only this year she is old enough to sleep over and stay in one of the cabins, which she is so excited about. Also will get more responsibility in the care-taking of the horse assigned to her for the week.

The sun is actually trying to pop out already. For several weeks it's been late afternoon before we've seen ole sol.

Oh, and I did get the hornets nest knocked down. The hornet spray could reach up to 20 ft so I was able to spray the nest while standing in the patio doorway and then duck back inside. It was just a bit bigger than a softball but was heavy with larvae/pupae (?).

Wishing everyone a blessed day!

[Anniepoo]

I'm really appreciating the larger rig!
I spent about 10 minutes this morning just sitting in one of the chairs, not doing a darned thing but enjoying the fact that I had space to sit in a chair and stretch out.

A fellow's coming by later to look at my leaky exhaust manifold. The home-o-car's been having a whole spate of mechanical problems (I love my clipper, but wish I'd gotten one in better mechanical shape - such is life!)

Last night, SUPRISE!, Seattle friend Sally pops up on Skype and tells me her partner Ab is in Gilroy for a job interview. So I'm seeing Abbie later today! Yay!

Going to be a BIG weekend for the clipper (grrr.. I can tell, if I'm gonna hang out with you all I gotta name her. Now I gotta think about that. My last one was Sunshine. One before that was Ferd, short for Ferdinan Magellan).
Anyway, big weekend for the clipper - down to Gilroy this evening to meet Abbie, then up to Oakland tomorrow morning to attend a work related convention, then up to Mill Valley on monday to meet with a woman there I'm trading tutoring with, then monday evening back to SF for client dinner, and back to Menlo Park late monday.

Now I'm starting my little work day. Found a fancy box of Tazo tea here in the tech shop, an am waiting for my 'Joy' tea to brew.

Hope there's a little joy in all yer lives today as well!

[Acadianmom]

I'm not big on naming things, none of my motorhomes have had a name. Our animals usually don't get named until they have to go to the vet. The vet seems big on names. I do call my GPS Dora, most of the time Dumb Dora.

If we stay out for a while about dark we can usually hear the coyotes. There is a big area of woods not far from our house. After Hurricane Rita we kept losing barn cats. I guess all the rabbits and whatever else the coyotes eat were gone. We had to fix a stall at the barn so the cats couldn't get out and shut them up every night. I make sure the house cats are in at dark.

The cooler weather sounds good. It's 98 here with a heat index of 102. Hot but not as bad as Texas. I went to Lafayette yesterday and it was so hot trying to get around town in the heat. There was a lot of traffic for a weekday, A lot of people shopping for school. My van is 8 years old and I'm so afraid the air conditioner will go out. I don't know how we made it years ago when we didn't have air conditioning. My parents never had a vehicle with air conditioning. My dad wouldn't even get one with a radio.

Martha