OSUT#247 Independence Day and Summer Picnics

[Hardscrable]

Fishing done, lunch over, and wife took girls over to the beach. So I get some alone time.

Finishing packing, purchased & printed my fishing license online, etc. for the trip to Erie. Just finished buying license one of our group. Poor guy is almost blind. Severe diabetes. Bunch of toes are or were taken off. 3 years ago he had one leg amputated below the knee and missed our trip. 2 weeks ago had part of his remaining foot amputated. Says he is healed enough to go…I don’t know how he is gonna do it if lake is ruff…and it almost always is. Add insult to injury his wife left him about 1 1/2 years ago. Just about broke him.

 

[Hardscrable]

Air quality index up to 152 - Unhealthy. Just finished picking up the dog poop and getting ready to mow.

Last I looked ours was 141. Not as bad as few weeks ago…yet

 

[mom45]

I found a huge blackberry patch...all the berries are red. I have a feeling the critters are feasting. The blueberry bushes look decent but all of the berries on them are not ripe. I didn't think the blueberry bushes were even viable anymore as overgrown as that area has gotten, but surprisingly little poison ivy was to be found. Looks like the deer sleep in there under the sassafras trees that have grown up between the bushes.

 

[DoggyDaddy]

Last I looked ours was 141. Not as bad as few weeks ago…yet

Up to 156 now. Just been climbing all day.

 

[Hardscrable]

Up to 156 now. Just been climbing all day.

Ours hasn’t changed or hasn’t been updated yet on app.

Not happy about it but I need to go out yet today and mow. Girls are not back from beach yet, guess I will go get started.

 

[DoggyDaddy]

When I was mowing, I noticed that the passenger side rear view mirror had fallen off Susan's van (again). Had to epoxy it back on. Hopefully it will hold for another few years.

 

[DoggyDaddy]

Made a salad to take for lunch tomorrow.

 

[klausm]

made a chicken, bacon, caramelized onion pasta bake. need to pick up dog poop while it is baking, the kids are coming and are sure to bring their shepherd so want to give him him a clear runway.

 

[DoggyDaddy]

need to pick up dog poop while it is baking

It does make it a lot easier when the sun has dried it out.

 

[klausm]

Finishing packing, purchased & printed my fishing license online, etc. for the trip to Erie.

if you end up with too many walleye fillets let me know, I will come down to take them off your hand.

 

[OneBadV8]

Kids are moved into their apartment

 

[klausm]

Kids are moved into their apartment

great way to ruin a weekend

 

[OneBadV8]

Looking forward to work tomorrow so I can rest

 

[DoggyDaddy]

Looking forward to work tomorrow so I can rest

I am not looking forward to it. I hope it's not raining in the morning or I'll have to leave extra early so I can take the surface roads.

 

[klausm]

I am not looking forward to it. I hope it's not raining in the morning or I'll have to leave extra early so I can take the surface roads.

unless you have an air car, technically, aren't they all surface roads?
and yes , I am a smartass

 

[mom45]

I am enjoying a nice breeze on the porch. Making a ham pasta dish for supper using zucchini instead of peas. May try out the first sweet corn with it. We got a sneak trial bag...picking starts tomorrow officially. Cole didn't want to wait for me to cook it and sampled while we husked it.

 

[DoggyDaddy]

I am enjoying a nice breeze on the porch. Making a ham pasta dish for supper using zucchini instead of peas. May try out the first sweet corn with it. We got a sneak trial bag...picking starts tomorrow officially. Cole didn't want to wait for me to cook it and sampled while we husked it.

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I'm looking forward to the first local corn!

 

[Hardscrable]

OK done mowing. No trim mower, no string trimmer, just ride and fast today. Visibility is really decreasing. I can’t see house at all half mile down the shoreline. App says 153 air quality now.

 

[DoggyDaddy]

unless you have an air car, technically, aren't they all surface roads?
and yes , I am a smartass

No, really my air car handles horribly in the rain.

 

[DoggyDaddy]

OK done mowing. No trim mower, no string trimmer, just ride and fast today. Visibility is really decreasing. I can’t see house at all half mile down the shoreline. App says 153 air quality now.

I'm thinking about putting in some eyedrops. Starting to feel it a bit.