I’m bein’ good, HONEST!!!

LOL,,, sorta,,, not goin’ off on adventures; takin’ care of homestead stuff this weekend.  Its not supposed to be cold (though the water is still frigid as F!, so kayakin’ is a “maybe, let me think ’bout it”)

I have wood to replace some of the rotted sections of my porch.   That rough cut stuff is great, but it doesn’t hold up for years and years: one or two and needs replaced.  Only real advantage to it being “Cheap”, as in free for the taking from the scrap piles at the lumber mill.   Now I have several treated 2×8’s 18′ in length that I can use instead, and these should hold up a few more years…

Cleanin’ house too.   Been the bachelor for to many years and my house gets a little cluttered with projects this, geegaws that,

and you would think I am a cloths whore looking in my closet.   Going to go through there and find stuff that I haven’t worn in years and take it to goodwill or something.  

I’m also testing some of my camp gear.   With the recent failure of my sleeping pad,(I have three) I am testing the remaining units with function testing.   The one failed will be cut up for patches and replacement valves: the problem was the fabric, not the seams.   Slow leaks right through the fabric itself.  I had similar issues with a cheap camp pillow.   The Manufacturer chose shoddy materials.  Gonna have to eat this one because the return date was over a year back, and the company either folded or was absorbed back into the CCP ‘for reasons’.    eyah, Chinee schlock: lesson learned.

And an update on fourfeets,,,  

Thats Lucky Bastich his-self,,,,    Little ain’t an operative term for him any longer.    Not even a year old and almost as big as Zoomy.   And other than some coloration differences, hard to tell the two apart from a distance these days.   I think Zooms is ElBees Daddy meself,,,   Where he came from is well within triapsing distance for a horny tomcat.   And I HAVE seen Zooms down that way a time or two.  (funny as heck to see him fade into the woods, but poke his head up when I call.)

As for the Voo,,,,    the poor sod is gettin’ VERY long in tooth,,, His hip displasia is getting really bad.   Moves fine after a few minutes going walkies, but that getting off the ground thing pains the hell out of him and it shows.    I have a decision to make here soon and I don’t like it.   I don’t think that needs expanded on, do it?  I don’t like the idea of needing to make that call when UNIVERSE sent him to me like it did.   Seems like I am trying to play god or something with a gift from above.   But it hurts me to see him suffer like he does, and its pretty obvious, he isn’t ‘happy’, unless we are out walking. 

Fact is, he is around 13 years old: thats PAST the life expectancy of his breed.  

n’ermind,,,, I know, I know.    “don’t farm it out” advice from Heinlein,,,,    Always at the back of my mind.

I’ll have more up later; something I saw this morning needs checked into and opinion made before I go postin’bout it.    No need to speak out of turn thing, and I don’t have enough information yet.

Life goes on, and I need to get to livin’ mine here.

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