Doug, glad you are getting thawed out. We have been cold at night but then towards 60 during the day. They say, they say, rain Sat. like that is going to happen in the valley, but that is what they say. I think maybe the votex thing was keeping all the storms north of us and not letting ca. get wet. We did have ground fog this morning but I think it was from the moisture in the air from all the orchards in the area because of it being so dry. They all have their sprinklers going. A field north of us has flood irrigated. The almonds start to bloom early Feb. or if the sun keeps shining maybe end of Jan. Starting out to be a strange year. Makes me wonder what summer is going to be like. Hate to think of what kind of bills the people in the really cold are going to have trying to keep their houses warm. My gosh, Glad we have the wood stove. Nothing like warm wood heat. Only problem is it doesn't get back here to the back bedroom very fast when it is cold. We had chickens when we moved out here. Ken built a shed for them because I don't like them running all over the yard. Poop-poop. My inlaws had them running around and with the kids small they would always be stepping in it. Ick. Any way one hot summer day, you have to realize I was kind of new to the country, even though lived in it when small but I never had to think about spraying for any thing. Any way, go out to get the eggs, really hot day, was a metal roof, well here are black widow spiders hanging down. I don't like spiders, they were probably to hot to bite any way, but I got out of there, and that was it for the chickens. I guess the kids gathered the eggs before that. Should have bought stuff to kill them, but then it was kind of pay day to pay day getting started with four kids. Both of us working. Hadn't thought about the chickens for a long time. When I was a kid dad had a place for them to lay and then they were in a pen. Your rocks Doug, I think you said had sewer problems Well my daughter had that a year ago at christmas with her son and family , 4 year old and 7 year old. They are on the city sewer, the plumber came christmas day, good thing we weren't having it at her house, it would have had to move out here really fast. Any way, christmas morning it plugs up, thought they had it fixed but wasn't and it turned out it was where it goes into the sewer. The city had to dig up the side walk, the street and all. Good thing the kids were leaving the day after. Last thing the little girl said was grandpa the toilete isn't working again. As if they didn't know. We wonder how we get through these things some times. Of course they were all unpacked there so it wasn't like just them and could come out here. Only problem with country living is the outside problems there are city people don't even know about. Still prefer it to town until I have to. Trying to get things back in order even though didn't have a tree up. Still had this and that out so would look a little like christmas. I did feel bad, when the niece and nephew with their two grandchildren were here from Michigan and the boys were asking me why I didn't have a christmas tree. But we did live through it after all they were only here for a couple of hours. Well need to get busy here. Every one be careful out in the cold. don't overwork yourself Doug, there is still tomorrow. Louise

Yup, chicken poop can be a problem. Spiders don't bother me very much. A good chicken will eat all available spiders. My plumbing problems were not related to the sewer. Plumbers had to run a new water line out to the main cut off valve and uncovered a kajillion million rocks. I had raked them into piles and then it got cold. Today is sunny and warm. Too warm! The Dougster worked up a sweat and he was whining just a couple of days ago about the cold. Sheesh! Anyway, the rocks are hauled off and I'm taking a break. When rested, I'l find a few more things to do.. :-)** On Thu, Jan 9, 2014 at 12:10 PM, Louise Valine <antique1931@saber.net>wrote: > Doug, glad you are getting thawed out. We have been cold at night but > then towards 60 during the day. They say, they say, rain Sat. like that is > going to happen in the valley, but that is what they say. I think maybe the > votex thing was keeping all the storms north of us and not letting ca. get > wet. > We did have ground fog this morning but I think it was from the moisture > in the air from all the orchards in the area because of it being so dry. > They all have their sprinklers going. A field north of us has flood > irrigated. The almonds start to bloom early Feb. or if the sun keeps > shining maybe end of Jan. Starting out to be a strange year. > Makes me wonder what summer is going to be like. > Hate to think of what kind of bills the people in the really cold are > going to have trying to keep their houses warm. My gosh, Glad we have the > wood stove. Nothing like warm wood heat. Only problem is it doesn't get > back here to the back bedroom very fast when it is cold. > We had chickens when we moved out here. Ken built a shed for them because > I don't like them running all over the yard. Poop-poop. My inlaws had them > running around and with the kids small they would always be stepping in it. > Ick. Any way one hot summer day, you have to realize I was kind of new to > the country, even though lived in it when small but I never had to think > about spraying for any thing. Any way, go out to get the eggs, really hot > day, was a metal roof, well here are black widow spiders hanging down. I > don't like spiders, they were probably to hot to bite any way, but I got > out of there, and that was it for the chickens. I guess the kids gathered > the eggs before that. Should have bought stuff to kill them, but then it > was kind of pay day to pay day getting started with four kids. Both of us > working. Hadn't thought about the chickens for a long time. When I was a > kid dad had a place for them to lay and then they were in a pen. > Your rocks Doug, I think you said had sewer problems Well my daughter > had that a year ago at christmas with her son and family , 4 year old and 7 > year old. They are on the city sewer, the plumber came christmas day, good > thing we weren't having it at her house, it would have had to move out here > really fast. Any way, christmas morning it plugs up, thought they had it > fixed but wasn't and it turned out it was where it goes into the sewer. > The city had to dig up the side walk, the street and all. Good thing the > kids were leaving the day after. Last thing the little girl said was > grandpa the toilete isn't working again. As if they didn't know. We wonder > how we get through these things some times. Of course they were all > unpacked there so it wasn't like just them and could come out here. Only > problem with country living is the outside problems there are city people > don't even know about. Still prefer it to town until I have to. > Trying to get things back in order even though didn't have a tree up. > Still had this and that out so would look a little like christmas. I did > feel bad, when the niece and nephew with their two grandchildren were here > from Michigan and the boys were asking me why I didn't have a christmas > tree. > But we did live through it after all they were only here for a couple of > hours. > Well need to get busy here. Every one be careful out in the cold. don't > overwork yourself Doug, there is still tomorrow. > Louise > > > > > > http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~mbousman1/memory.htm > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > MEMORY-LANE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >