Archives for November 2022

Hey Babe,
Not a bad night sleep, pretty quiet, but woke up a few times during the night, and early in the morning. Did my chores and than ran around on the tractor closing the paddock gates so they wouldn’t swing around in the wind. And actually, it wasn’t that windy, not as much as I expected. We did have some occasional bouts of rain, but not really very much, considering. The storm has just barely topped hurricane status, and is supposed to hit near Ft. Pierce, so just a tad north of us, so I don’t really expect much except more rain and maybe a little wind. I’m so protected by this big bush next to me, and the fact that I’m a little downhill from the prevailing wind, I seriously haven’t felt any wind at all! I even have my auwning out a little bit to keep my steps dry, but I may bring that it before I go to bed, just to be on the safe side. But really, my Frog Weather on my phone is indicating the worst of the wind has passed, though the brunt of the storm hasn’t really hit shore yet. In any event, I don’t feel the least bit threatened here, so I’m heading to bed nice and early to read. It was a very restful day, all I did was read, then did a marathon of the Oceans movies (Eleven, Twelve and Thirteen), watched a Hart to Hart, ate too much, just a nice lazy day, but I am feeling tired still from all the physical stuff the last two days, so I’ll probably have a lazy day tomorrow as the storm clears out. Heading off to shower and get to bed, so good night, sweetie! Love you!

Hey Darlin’,
Got up bright and early this morning, was heading out of camp at about 830, but had to turn back when I noticed m tractor was overheating again. Spent a few minutes flushing out the radiator until it got nice and low, then headed out again, just before 9:00. I managed to put 20+ posts out today. I’ve been waiting for months for it to be dry enough to get them out, and it’s only just happened, but there’s another storm brewing, really late in the year for this, so I just couldn’t afford to delay it any longer. Once this storm hits, it will be another couple of weeks or more before I can get back there, so I piled posts higher than ever on my tractor and got busy! Managed to almost finish the red trail, got a lot of the white trail done, and just about got lost on the red/white section of trail, the grass is so high it’s unrecognizable, but I finally managed after a bit. Took two trips, all day, got back to camp after 4:00, pretty exhausted! Grilled a steak, started to watch a movie but fell asleep so the last half hour will have to wait. Heading for shower and bed, so tired! There’s talk we may have to leave camp again because of this storm, so tomorrow will be voting, checking on Glenn’s house, and putting stuff away for when the storm hits, which is still a wide cone that may or may not come anywhere near us. Typical Florida, just not so typical this late in the year! Anyway, good night, babe! Love you!

Hey Babe,
Woke up with the dawn again, regardless of the clocks turning back, but stayed in bed and fell back asleep again anyway. Did my chores, a couple of loads of laundry, the tiniest bit of housework, finished a book, and really had to twist my own arm to not find other things to do, like wash my vehicles. I really needed the rest, though, my body is aching all over! There’s another tropical storm possibly heading our way, so tomorrow will be my only chance to get some more posts out before we get flooded again, so I’m going to try to get a bunch in tomorrow, so I figured I needed to my rest today. Nice day of reading and binge TV. Ready for shower and bed now, though! Good night, my sweet! Love you!

Hey Darlin’,
A good night sleep, got my chores and breakfast done, then made arrangements to move my bush hog over to the barn and out of the carport so it’s out of the way. Did some research as to how (and whether) to sharpen my bush hog blades, as well as some maintenance that should be done regularly (which I’ve never done, so I guess that’s on my list of things to do now!). It wasn’t much, but by the time I was finished, I was feeling tired for some reason. Did some reading but kept falling asleep in my chair until I finally decided to go back up into bad, where I kept nodding off for several hours. Finally got up again, but didn’t do much else for the rest of the day. Guess I finally tuckered out after all the physical labor I did this week! Already ready to finish my Spanish lesson, take my shower and go to bed, and it’s barely 8:30! May take a ride tomorrow, though it is the first general gun hunting season out here, which always make me a bit nervous, but I really need to condition Flash for the cattle drive, so I may go anyway. Need to wash my vehicles, too, but just didn’t have the energy today. As early as it is, I’m heading to shower and bed! Good night, babe! Love you!

Hey Babe,
Had a good night sleep, got up and going pretty early, and after chores and breakfast I got the Buick started. It wanted to stall out on me at idle a few time, but I kept it running. The computer will just have to re-balance everything for awhile. It sounded pretty iffy, and I was worried about the tires, afraid that one was too low to drive on, and now that I don’t have a compressor, I thought it might be a problem, but it was still in the mid-20’s psi, so I headed out, slowly. Pretty rough sounding, but it got me to the post office, where one of the gals there started wheeling out my tires even before I came inside! Considering she hadn’t ever seen me in that vehicle, that was pretty amazing! Love those gals! Got them loaded in the trunk and headed over to Western Auto, where the mechanic there said he was working on another job so it would be a while. Stepped into the famous Cracker Cafe and drank coffee and read for an hour, then when I came back, he was on the very last tire/ Such speedy service! Left there and went to brother Glenn’s to service his pool, delighted that most of the front end vibration problem seems to have been solved with the new tires, though it was still running pretty rough. Then on the way back stopped at the Shell station, filled up with their highest octane fuel (93) plus a bottle of Lucas high mileage fuel injection cleaner, and headed back toward camp. It was slowly improving as the gas started getting through the system. I bypassed the camp and drove all the way to the lake before turning around. I did some sprints along the way, and it was definitely improving as we went along, so I’m hoping that once it’s had some mileage through the system, the roughness will finally working its way out of it, and she’ll run like the Panther she is! Spent the afternoon working on the latest draft of the map James is working on, and updated the equestrian reservation database so I can get a better picture of who and when to expect the horse campers in the upcoming weeks. Not as busy as I thought so far, but I’m sure that will change. Settled down for the evening, my latest binge are old Hart to Hart episodes, I always liked that series. I remember watching that when I was young, hoping I’d have a relationship like theirs. Little did I know at the time that I would, with you! Not the wealthy part, of course, but the rest of the banter was just like us! So I’m enjoying that, even though it’s very retro. Heading off for shower and bed shortly, so glad our Black Panther is back on the road! Hope she stays reliable, gas is $2.00 a gallon cheaper than diesel right now, so I should be making my money back before long! Good night, sweetie! Love you!

Hiya Sweetie,
Well, even though I went to bed early, I ended up having to get up at 12:30 because someone was still running a generator, so I had to go out and knock on their door. I could tell the guy knew he wasn’t supposed to be doing it, but was hoping to get away with it. NOT MY JOB ANYMORE! Or at least, it’s not supposed to be, Grrr! Still managed to get up fairly early, and after chores and breakfast, I managed to get some more spraying done, at least until I ran out of mix. James sought me out to have a talk with me (not unexpected), then I moved a picnic table out of the barn so that I could have one at my site as well as make room for my tractor in the barn. Had just enough time to shower and get to my occasional euchre game in Stuart, then shopping at Walmart, then back to camp, where I ran into a woman who had been here a while back, with a friend, and they invited me back to their campfire later on. I had my dinner, then headed back there, and we had a lovely evening chatting. Now it’s bedtime, just like that! Good night, my darlin’! Love you!

Hey Darlin’,
Another busy, busy day, alone again, naturally! Started out early working on clearing the rest of the paddocks. The stretch in front of my trailer was the worst, and a few by the barn, but the ones along the road had very little in them, as there are few palm trees there. Piled them all up in two places, the firepit in front of me, and the one in front of Barn One that I used before. Then I fixed a gate on one of the paddocks out by the road, long overdue but I finally managed it. I had been waiting to get some help, but decided it wasn’t worth the hassle of asking anyone, so I figured out a way to do it on my own. Then I resumed some weed pulling and spraying, it seems my first coat did a pretty good job in some of the paddocks, mostly only new plants had grown. Burned the pile by the barn, then worked on spraying until about 4:00 when I ran out of time, because I wanted to burn the other pile near me. It started raining off and on during the afternoon, and old James came by with fuel for me as well. Took a while for my second pile to start burning well because it had gotten wet in the rain, but took that time to play with Lola while I finally sat down for a bit. Showered, had dinner and settled down for the evening. Still trying to figure out what to do tomorrow, though I want to finish the spraying. Thinking about going in for euchre and shopping and checking on Glenn’s pool (he got released from the hospital today, will be hanging out in his motorhome until he gets cleared to go home), but recreation James is also supposed to be coming over, not sure when. Heading to bed early, all this physical labor is catching up to me. Good night, babe! Love you!