Saturday/Sunday Notes.

Another sunny weekend, Yesterday (Sat) it was in the60’s and sunny, just a nice spring day, today (Sun) it is still sunny but we will be lucky to get to 35 degrees and for the next week the highs will be in the 30’s and lows in the single digits. Wish that jet stream would head north again.

Anybody know if those Alberta Clippers are 4 engine jobs, thought I heard one fly over the ranch last night, almost sounded like a 4 engine turbo prop Orion. That was when the temperature dropped 30 degrees in an hour.

Donna has the day shift today at Walgreens, My Son and I have to replace the cable on the dog run the one end broke the clip off. It’s tough to find the heavy duty ones for dogs over 100 pounds, not only that, but they are not cheap, about $30. I usually get about a year or more before the cable inside the plastic starts rusting, but this one the snap broke off of the end piece.

Rigg’s is happy now he is outside on his new cable on the run, the run goes from the back of the house above the door  about 200 feet back in the yard to a large tree, I had to put large eyelets into the house and the tree to hold the force of our 100 lb dogs pulling on it. Rigg’s especially when he see’s the feral neighborhood cat. or the woodchucks.

               Sadie dancing in her tutu.

That’s about it for today, I hope all our friends down south are having warm days. Be safe out there. Sa, & Donna………

T.G.I.F.

Along with the mild temps we had yesterday and today it brought with it high winds yesterday afternoon and night. up to 60 mph, you could her it inside like a rumbling noise, This morning when I let Rigg’s out I noticed that back screen door must have been blown open and when it blew shut it bent and broke the edge piece between the two doors,(it’s a double door). So this morning I took it apart and managed to peen the edge back into shape and then make new holes and screw it back together, works better than new.It is in the 50’s today and sunny and is supposed to be the same tomorrow. Then the highs will drop into the 20’s and 30’s again for the week. My Son Sam (the oldest) who lives in New York City will be in St Louis on Thursday for a business meeting so Donna and I will meet him after his meetings for dinner. Wish he could stay longer but he is scheduled to go somewhere else right away. Maybe he can get some vacation soon.

We are still up in the air on a trip for us, I don’t want to go anywhere until it is warm enough for us to sit in a war, pool or ocean. Donna isn’t much for oceans so we may pick a nice resort type campground with suana and pool, and stay there. Memphis  is nice after May 1st weather wise and there is a lot we didn’t see or do the last time we were there.

Plus we have to see what the money situation is like since we are going to the Escapade in May and those are expensive.

Tonight is pizza night, and I think I will order one in, since I didn’t thaw any dough.

That’s about it for today. Be safe out there. Sam & Donna…..

Thursday Happenings.

Well it is 02:00PM and 70 degrees here at the ranch, sunny and nice for the last couple of hours, we woke up to a warm rain. Supposed to be a storm front coming in the next hour with rain and it will lower the temp to the middle 50’s . even so a lot better that snow and freezing temps.

Rigg’s is snoring away on his bed, he is happy as a lark and dreaming with his tail and feet going.

Donna I napping too, she has the night shift at the restaurant tonight.

I am just sitting around here in the kitchen, have no plans to leave the house ,so the truck will stay in the garage, just a lazy day here at the ranch.

All the snow is gone and I hope we have seen the last of it for this year, Last year we had one snowfall in March and it was a doozy, sixteen inches, All I can hope is we miss it this year.

That’s about it for today hope all is well with all our friend out there. Be safe out there. Sam & Donna……

Tuesday Thoughts.

What a great day been sunny all day, woke up to 29 degrees, but it has climbed since then,it is now 62 degrees here at the Ranch, a lot of the snow has melted and most of the driveway ice is gone too. Just a wet sloppy mess. hope fully it is supposed to stay above freezing tonight so we won’t have the water that is laying turn to a sheet of ice like it did before. We couldn’t get the truck in the garage as it was a sheet of 2 inch think smooth ice all the way out from the door to the drive. The low is supposed to be 31 tonight and then the next two days in the high 50’s that should dry up some of this stuff.

It was so nice I made a trip to the store and even with just a light flight jacket I was still hot in the sun. Today is Donna’s only day off this week so she is enjoying just laying around like Rigg’s the lop does.Although with the warm weather Rigg’s keeps pestering to go out and then in about 30 minutes he wants in.

Hoping all our friends are having warm weather and sunny skies.

My New Jersey Grand girls got some awards at the annual horse riding banquet. Katie also got her Yellow Belt in martial arts

            Katie with her Yellow Belt.

Katie with her horse riding ribbon.

Meghen with her horse riding ribbon.

           Meghen the youngest is still our wild child.

Well that’s about it for now. Please be safe out there. Sam & Donna………

Saturday/Sunday Notes.

Saturday was a cloudy and cold day with a high in the twenties. Donna had the nigh restaurant shift so she left about 03:30PM. Our driveway is still a sheet of ice, but she did okay. getting in and out, walking to the house is another matter and you have to be careful you don’t fall.

Today(Sunday) still cloudy all day but the temp got up into the 30’s and you can see a little more melting. Tuesday it is supposed to be in the 60’s. I took the trash down to the dumper this morning it was still slick as in ice. Hoe in a day or so the drive will be melted.

Today Donna has the day shift at Walgreens, didn’t have much to do here. Rigg’s and Sadie both had a nap on my bed while I watched a train movie.

My Son got the little things corrected on his car and went and got his new license stickers , so he is legal to drive it again. Now my truck might get a rest for awhile again.

Hopefully this week may start a change for warmer weather, especially in the areas south of us that are getting colder than normal weather. Our friends, Steveio & Karen Pfundtler didn’t run out of snow cover until south of Lexington KY, since leaving their Wisconsin home on Friday for their run to Florida.

I hope they find some swimming pool weather wherever they are headed in Florida.

I don’t have a clue no whether we will be making a spring Florida trip or not, with Donna working two jobs now it will not be easy to plan, I am till planning on the Escapade in Indiana in May and the maybe a week or so with our Nephew and Niece in Fort Wayne.

Other than that it looks like the fiver will be doing a lot of sitting here.

That’s about it for today from the Ranch. Hope all is well with all our friends. Be safe out there. Sam & Donna…..

Thursday Happenings.

For the first time we are having a warmer day, and it is above freezing, started out this morning at 25 degrees. Now at 02:00PM it is 46 degrees and we are starting a little melting outside. I even got into the spirit of things with a short sleeve shirt.
Helped my Son with his car, it failed the safety inspection, one brake pad had oil in it from a leaking axle seal.It needed new wiper blades, and had a burned out bulb he missed.I changed the wipers for new ones and put a new bulb it, Andy will put the pads on this afternoon and tomorrow he can get it passed, and get his sticker for his license plates that have been expired a couple days.
First he had to wait a week while the machine they use to measure emissions was fixed, it passed that but he was already late on the sticker.
Once that’s renewed we have two years on all the cars, but my truck has to be renewed every year in December because it has an 180000 lb plate.
Other than that nothing much going on, Donna has the night watch at the restaurant tonight, and me and Rigg’s have the home guard.
Hope all is well with everyone in blogland. Be safe out there. Sam & Donna……..

Tuesday Thoughts.

The sun has been out all day and it looks gorgeous out, but the high for today so far is only 20 degrees so we are still in the freezer here at the Ranch.

Yesterday was the same, Donna had the day shift at Walgreens, then was home at 5.

Today she is off all day so we are doing nothing but sitting around in our jammies, and Donna is working her way through a pot of coffee, I am on a water kick, so I have been drinking about 4 glasses of ice water a day, Hopefully it will keep your kidneys flushed out.

The fur babies are both laying around like lops, except Rigg’s will go out and run for a little while, Sadie goes out and in a minute is ready to come back in to cold for her little body.

How about a couple sunset pictures, everybody likes those, best I can do is dig into my archives. Maybe their sunrise pictures.

Must be waiting for the Iranian Navy’s two ships to show up off our coast.

That’s about it for today, hope all is well for all our friends, Be safe out there. Sam & Donna…….