Mindless Chatter Weekend.

I'm up too.  Not terribly happy about it either. I just so want the weekend to be over so that we can hear something about the job.......

Great day out! I got my mtn bike out to clean it up. In order to find my tire pump though I had to clean and then organize the garage. It was a mess! Now I might take a nap before heading to my bros then to the trails.

 I left my bike out all winter.  Tyler's too.  They're a mess.  I think both of them will need new chains, but maybe mine won't.  Tyler's was right beside the steps so it got salted all winter long.  I haven't gone to look at mine yet.  I really need a shed.

Kelci is eating solid food now.  finally.  She'll even let me feed her!  I'm so happy about that.  It makes for much less of a mess than her doing it herself.  Right now I have some homemade chicken soup cooling for her.  And last night I gave her fish.  I don't think I'm supposed to yet, but she loved it and there were no adverse reactions to it.  We're a big fish family, so the chances of her getting it by accident are pretty high, I figured it was better to knowingly give it to her and watch for problems than to have her react and wonder what the heck was going on.  

sl2crmeg

 I'm going to the beach!

Can I go too?

I was up around 7:00 a.m.  A tad early for a weekend, but since it's supposed to reach the 90s today I guess it was better to get Max out for a walk early.  Does anybody know of something that will get rust off?  I put the fireplace log grate out in the rain a couple of weeks ago so it would wash the gunk off and it rusted.  I didn't think anything would rust overnight.

Joyce

Finally managed to wake up out of the medication induced sleep I was in.  This shingles thing SUCKS!  It hurts!  But, it is nice out and at the moment I'm not feeling too awful so going to run some quick errands and take Willow out. 

 I heard coca-cola will take rust off things...

 I've been up since 6am.  Not unusual, Ari's a morning dog :)  I've been cleaning, and prepping for the grandparents and my dad who will be over in about an hour.  I have NO idea when I should start cooking the chickens.  I hate eating early, but I know the grandparents are pretty regimented when it comes to meal times.  I'm cooking two birds at once, and I have no idea how much longer in the oven they will take.  Yeesh.  Maybe I'll put them in half hour before they are due to arrive, I think they'll take about 2-2 1/2 hours to cook.  

the_gopher

 I heard coca-cola will take rust off things...

 Thanks!  I'll pick up some coke this afternoon.

   I'm cooking two birds at once, and I have no idea how much longer in the oven they will take.  

It shouldn't matter how many birds you're cooking.  Just use the cooking time for the heaviest one. It's not like doing one huge bird.

Joyce

 OOOH thanks Joyce!  I'm not much of a cook (self taught lol) and I've never done two chickens at once.

I literally just woke up a couple of hours ago.  Got stuck at the SFO airport for 6 hours last night.  My flight was supposed to depart to IAH at 6pmPT, didn't take off until MidnightPT.  Rolled into IAH a bit before 6am.  Got home about 7am or so, ate some scrambled eggs that DH made for me then went to bed.  What a night!  So glad to be home.

Saw quite the lightning show out the jets window too.  Awsome sight although a bit frightening. 

Oh, Lori, I'm so sorry!  I've got shingles too and I wouldn't wish them on my worst enemy.  Well, ok, maybe the ex.

Shingles tends to be brought on by stress.  Sometimes trying to come down with another virus, say a cold, will trigger an outbreak.  You SHOULD get some warning signs....like a funny aches someplace on the same side of the body as the "patches", or a feeling of ants crawling UNDER your skin.  If you start on Valtrax as soon as you feel the first signs, you'll really minimize the severity and duration of the outbreak.  My doc always orders an extra day for me, and then is sure to put a refill or two on that.  That extra day gives me a chance to get a refill called in and filled.

So, I'm now officially insane.  I brought home a baby duckling today.  She's got a neurological problem of some sort, or maybe some damage to a wing or foot, She probably won't ever be able to be an all outside duck, but she could be outside in warm weather when she's older, and I can always get her her own little wading pool.  I have no idea what I'm going to do with a duck.....I'm just nuts, that's all there is to it.

 A duck?  Oh Glenda....you're such a softy.

I'd likely just use sand paper and sand the rust off...forget the Coke....it tends to corrode not just the rust.  It will dissolve a whole penny if left too long, but stainless nails come put sparkling after a few hours.  We used to clean tarnish off of copper bracelets and stuff we found up in Kingcome with Coke.  (btw, Pepsi does not work nearly as well)  What is the grate made of?