Snakes alive/dead! Killed one in the chicken coop Friday. Then yesterday I went to start my 4310 (which starts with a millisecond turn of the key), and heard commotion under the hood. I turned it off as fast as I could....Was worried the neighbor's cat got in there, but it's plenty warm here. Then I worried possibly a chicken? I raised the hood as it smelled to high heaven like buzzard puke. Saw white and yellow splattered about from the cooling fan. Finally saw a large chicken snake. I guess the yellow and white came from the fan belt squishing a half digested egg out of it. Did I say how bad it smelled? I had to take off the side covers and power wash everything. All this to turn over my compost pile.....I went ahead and decided to do some mowing with it while I had it out. I cut about 3 acres with it. Takes too long with only 25 pto hp available (johnson grass weeds were hood high in places). Put it away and got the big tractor and went to cutting. Cut another 10 acres or so. Need to cut another 10 acres. It was so relatively cool and breezy, good for shredding/slashing. There were thunderstorms to my east about 30 miles away. Some places Anyway, the chicken snake had fallen out (mangled) and dead.
We have a lot of floating duckweed in the pond this year....There is always a new "weed de l' année"...
Worship this morning, then picked up carry out from our usual Sunday Italian place.
Lady from church that is from the same county in Ohio that I’m from gave me some interesting history write ups of an old 1800s mill near her hometown. I got scanner out and made copies. Then since scanner was out, and too hot outside, I scanned more of mom and dads loose photos from 1950s- 70s. Then I stored the photos in envelopes by year. Fortunately most of these photos had year and month stamped on them. The ones I have from late 30s to early 50s don’t. And mom wrote on the back of a lot of these.
After I put scanner away, I discovered a few more pictures in bottom of the box.
I also did some organization of some of the digital photos I’ve already scanned from that era. And then did a backup of all my photos.
It is good that you are doing this. Seems a lot of my old pictures are these tiny 2x2 or so...which the details are not that great if sized up.
Drew, I had lots of crazy dreams last night. Good and weird.
Ron, love the pics. I'd have to be "en guard" at all times if those hawks were my neighbors. Beautiful birds, just need them to live another mile away. Glad the barn doors are good to go. That looks like a heavy duty structure. Glad I don't have to re-roof it. Steep and high.
Don, hope the neighbor gets better. Any idea how he got it?
Mostly, getting his miles in.
Rich, I was glad to read your young rider is doing so well. Flat track is coming back.
Welcome K5lwq. Bachelor hood has it's plusses and minuses. Hope you stay well.
We need more rain soon.
Prayers for all to have a good day.
