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The spiders have really put in the effort with their webs this year. If I let them go untouched they can get some pretty massive complexes strung up. I'm perfectly fine with it, obviously, as they do a

Yesterday was a far cry from a week ago heading to the chiro. The heroic doses of vitamin D with the muscle relaxers have meant my body was not feeling like one massive ball of aching muscle. I SO want

The first round of rain hit yesterday morning and it moved through pretty fast. Only a couple hours in all before it was past us to the east. Only about a tenth of an inch of rain fell. The PDC finals

Yesterday morning started with the freeze dryer finishing the batch. Everything came out perfectly dried and I got them all bagged but not mylar bagged yet. 31 hours is a pretty average run time for the

I saw the freeze dryer was done when I got up at 5am but kicked it on for another few hours to be sure the trays were done. Once it was finished I pulled the trays and defrosted the chamber. All 5 trays

I broke myself. Yesterday morning I woke up in major pain after a terrible night of sleep. I sat in my chair for a couple hours with the Theracane trying to work the knots out but it only did so much.

No squash to pick yesterday morning but I did see that my single acorn squash plant has a 6 really large squash growing. It was a leftover from last year that came up but this year the few it has will

Went out to get harvests done first thing yesterday morning and had no squash but a nice amount of tomatoes and some cucs. Then I hiked up the hill to check the traps and found nothing in them and no tracks

Yesterday morning I picked the first peppers to turn color. They are a pair of Anaheim and the others on the plants should start turning soon. The cucumbers and tomatoes needed trimming and tying in the

The remnants of the storms were around yesterday morning and dropped a bit more moisture, not much but enough to help keep the air cooler for much of the day. It looked like it wanted to DUMP but held

I had to add a bunch of time to the frees dryer to get the peas a ll fully dried yesterday. The shells did just fine but the peas themselves were being stubborn. I think it only sat a couple hours before

While it was cooler yesterday morning I got harvests done. A nice batch of summer squash ended up getting combined with the rest into a box in the cooler. The few peas left got picked and dumped into one

Yesterday was the start of #NaNoWriMo, being November 1st. NaNoWriMo is the National Novel Writing Month which the goal is to write 50,000 words in the month of November. This is my 4th year and for this

Woke to a balmy 16F yesterday morning. I found that the tank heaters weren't working in the animal waters so I had to troubleshoot it and get them working. It turned out to be the temp control block so

First task yesterday was to gather up all my wood cutting tools into one area so I could load them up in my truck later in the day. The 2 extra sharpened chains should be enough with the still fairly sharp

A bit frantic for me, in a calm focused sort of way, yesterday morning as I dug through the garden for enough cucumbers to fulfill my order the I had to deliver before 10am. While they may not be the biggest

Yesterday morning was a bit later as R needed a bit more time before he went to school. So at 9am I got him to school then once home I headed out to the garden to pick anything that was ready. The cucumbers

Mid morning yesterday I was working on the brushing again. I cut out a bunch more and then hauled it to the pen for the animals to eat on. It is such a huge difference now to be able to walk through the

It was actually done before bed but I extended the dry time until yesterday morning as I had no desire to deal with it then. So first thing I pulled the trays and got them sitting on the stove to warm

It was sprinkling first thing in the morning and it continued for much of the day. My head was swimming as I went about my tasks, the thoughts of the plane won't leave. I put on the podcast and went through