Fernan s Shorthorn Farm Life

waste some, hord some

Cashed our incentive check, little going in pocket, most going into savings. Simply have to hang on to some. This RRR economy is hitting my household just as heavily as every one else's. Thankfully we only used about 70 gallons heating oil each the last two winters. Our primary heat is the parlor stove burning about 4 full cords ash wood this winter last. I prefer seasoned oak, but for the cussed ash-bore beetle killing so many ash trees we've got to get them cut, cutup, and split before they all fall down on our fences and hayfield borders. (gnashing of dentures here)

Next cost cutting issue may have to do with our giving up the cable service. Un-interested in the cable movie channels they'll give me a whooping $5.00 or $6.00 discount for dropping the movie channels saving my internet hook up. I drop the whole thing I can save in excess $135.00. Then go back on TV antenna, new HD converter, and dial up internet. (sob)

The need for two three foot front door installations finds me rummaging around in the out building for the doors and jambs I'll need to cut them into our walls. It's a hitch on the ass when a body can't afford the materials to simply up-grade an old house to handicap friendly.

So if I come up missing one day, be not alarmed. It'd for an electronic cost cutting measure.

Thankfully, we've got all the beef we can eat, what wont sell profitably.

So these are a few of our woes. What we can cut on what's already been cut lessens the options.

Has anyone noticed lately how many generic and/or store branded products have disappeared off the grocer’s shelves? Take a good look and take note how the primary manufactures want more of our un-influenced middle man money. It just might be I’ll have to get out the roller mill for conditioning my own morning’s full fibered breakfast oatmeal.

Fernan

PS: I save enough, I can buy my thirty days smoke free celebration’s beer. (smiles) Enough saved I may even get a whole case? (joy)

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Been a slow day here. It had been a total bore if it weren’t for the county road activity. My stone part the road’s shoulders here were mowed of the white periwinkle, a now and then belated bachelor button, the pretty blue cone flowers, the bright yellow chicory, lots of white Queen Ann’s lace, and eye catching orange tiger lily’s. It was so sad to see so many of them go. The paved part this road passing Bro’s place, they was putting down a liquid asphalt sealer covered with pea rock broadcast over the sealer’s surface for protecting passing motorists vehicles from a tarred finish.

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What’d I do today? I fought with a couple weed whackers. The Robyi refusing to run up to full speed, it had run at only a couple days ago? I even drained, made up it’s very own gasoline diet mixture and greased the low ends differential. The second weed eater was an old Green Machine (bought out some years ago by John Deere for the “Green Machine“ logo). Good compression, spark, priming bulb good, fuel hoses in good shape. Can’t figure why it wont go?

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Moved a fence; fixed another, what had let some girls into an area they didn’t belong, all because the wind had blown a hot wire to cause it to become entangled or wound with a barbed wire strand. All in all I got little constructive done all day. Bought a few groceries and filled Ugly’s belly with some near $4.00 yellow liquid gold, and purchased a spark plug. All this only because I had to do something with that stimulus check. BGKC.

Fernan