What Are You Doing Today?

101 predicted high here today. I better get my walk in now at 71 degrees. Overcast due to high forest fire smoke. Smoke is staying high so air quality good. Early afternoon, over to famous cowboy steak house, last mom and pop one left in the area, with long time friends. Special today, Angus/Wagyu rib eye, baked potato, garden salad, and fresh baked bread. All ingredients, including wheat for bread, from local family farms and ranches.
 
Faye Fox said:
101 predicted high here today. I better get my walk in now at 71 degrees. Overcast due to high forest fire smoke. Smoke is staying high so air quality good. Early afternoon, over to famous cowboy steak house, last mom and pop one left in the area, with long time friends. Special today, Angus/Wagyu rib eye, baked potato, garden salad, and fresh baked bread. All ingredients, including wheat for bread, from local family farms and ranches.
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I have been closely watching the wildfire maps for the PNW, and it looks like Washington, Oregon, and Idaho all have multiple fires burning right now. There are some really close to Bonners Ferry, where my oldest son lives, and people have been evacuated, but he is okay unless the fire jumps the Kootenai River, which is not looking likely.

How close are you to the fires to where you are at, @Faye Fox ? My (former) daughter-in-law lives near Bend, and it looks like she has fires around that area, too. People on facebook are reporting that some of the fires are being deliberately set, just like in other years, but it looks like lightning has started most of the fires this year.
 
It is going to be another hot day, it looks like. Even this early, it is hot and steamy outside, and the grass is soaked, so not a good time for me to be outside working in the yard.
This is how the hot part of summer is for me, so I do as much as I can in the spring and then again in the fall once it cools down a little bit. Spending an hour or so in the pool each day is what helps me to keep going , living out here in this heat. I don’t miss the winter snow and cold, but I sure miss the fresh air and nice north Idaho summers, or even living on the West Coast.

Poodle is all bathed, so today, I will clip him, it is time for that again .
 
Yvonne Smith said:
I have been closely watching the wildfire maps for the PNW, and it looks like Washington, Oregon, and Idaho all have multiple fires burning right now. There are some really close to Bonners Ferry, where my oldest son lives, and people have been evacuated, but he is okay unless the fire jumps the Kootenai River, which is not looking likely.

How close are you to the fires to where you are at, @Faye Fox ? My (former) daughter-in-law lives near Bend, and it looks like she has fires around that area, too. People on facebook are reporting that some of the fires are being deliberately set, just like in other years, but it looks like lightning has started most of the fires this year.
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Closest fire is about 40 miles as the crow flies. Several small ones closer that they put out quickly. Some on the Rez they suspect were arson. Tribal firefighters got them out quickly.

One fire, near the Snake River, down river from Farwell Bend, they know was started by a campfire. The two forest service idiots in a pumper rig, saw it start and took off chasing the guy instead of putting out the small fire. They lost the guy and went back to fight the fire, but too late. They called in the big guns that arrived just as the fire reached the Snake River.

A rancher I know in the area had posted, praising the firefighters for amazing work getting the fire out, just as it reached the Snake River. No one except me, responding to his post, caught on to his sarcasm. Some praised the guys in the pumper rig for giving chase, although they didn't get close enough to even get his license plates. They didn't call it in until they lost him. First class idiots! They had been out on fire watch and probably smoking dope which seems to be a tradition with the Forest Service.

The Snake River is very wide in that area as it is backed up by Brownlee Dam. Also sand dunes on the other side so even if it did jump the river through some miracle, nothing to burn on the other side. The river is about half mile wide there and it was just grass and sagebrush burning, so not many ambers that didn't burn out quick. Main damage was loss of several thousand acres of fall pasture.
 
After the horses get cared for, as little as possible today. This is supposed to be the last blue blazes hot day for awhile. Storms moving in supposedly around six tonight, then comes a 3-4 day cool down during which time I hope to catch up on a few barn things.

I have had a lawn service for going on three seasons. They will be here today. They cut bi-weekly and also cut my checkbook a huge break.

It’s complicated that I don’t do my own mowing anymore. My JD runs, after a couple thousand in serious repairs, so I save it for stuff I really need it for.
 
Mary Stetler said:
Roofing in this heat is worrisome.
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I think a lot of these roofers are used to the heat. They are a bunch of young bucks. It will be mid-August before the roofers can get to us. He is busy and booked until then.

When we first bought this house, oh so many years ago, my husband and I tore off and shingled our roof ourselves. I could walk around up on the roof like a mountain goat. My husband hauled the shingles up on the roof by himself. We put new roofing underlayment on; I snapped the chalked lines, pounded nails into the shingles. We worked on the roof after work and on weekends. We didn’t really notice the heat too much at that age. I think I was in my mid to late 30's at that time.
 
Krystal Shay said:
I think a lot of these roofers are used to the heat. They are a bunch of young bucks. It will be mid-August before the roofers can get to us. He is busy and booked until then.

When we first bought this house, oh so many years ago, my husband and I tore off and shingled our roof ourselves. I could walk around up on the roof like a mountain goat. My husband hauled the shingles up on the roof by himself. We put new roofing underlayment on; I snapped the chalked lines, pounded nails into the shingles. We worked on the roof after work and on weekends. We didn’t really notice the heat too much at that age. I think I was in my mid to late 30's at that time.
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In another lifetime, I could pick up 100# sack of oats, throw it on my shoulder, and get it to the grain container; probably why that shoulder needed stem cell a few years back🫣🫣. It’s only been in the last three years that I can no longer pick up 50# of horse feed and carry it up four steps to the landing.. Shoot, a 28# bag of dog feed has become problematic.

This getting old B. S. Is frustrating for all of us ladies that have been used to doing for ourselves and working alongside the men when needed.

I am not growing old gracefully in that regard 🤯🤯
 
Krystal Shay said:
I think a lot of these roofers are used to the heat. They are a bunch of young bucks. It will be mid-August before the roofers can get to us. He is busy and booked until then.

When we first bought this house, oh so many years ago, my husband and I tore off and shingled our roof ourselves. I could walk around up on the roof like a mountain goat. My husband hauled the shingles up on the roof by himself. We put new roofing underlayment on; I snapped the chalked lines, pounded nails into the shingles. We worked on the roof after work and on weekends. We didn’t really notice the heat too much at that age. I think I was in my mid to late 30's at that time.
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We have a two tiered roof here. I had my eaves cleaned ONCE and didn't ask the price first.
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After that, I was on my roof for whatever was needed except for a tear off. I wore a big brimmed pink hat when cleaning gutters so if I fell off, someone would notice.
I have some sort of gutter guard in there now so we don't clean as often.
 
Connie Bennett said:
In another lifetime, I could pick up 100# sack of oats, throw it on my shoulder, and get it to the grain container; probably why that shoulder needed stem cell a few years back🫣🫣. It’s only been in the last three years that I can no longer pick up 50# of horse feed and carry it up four steps to the landing.. Shoot, a 28# bag of dog feed has become problematic.

This getting old B. S. Is frustrating for all of us ladies that have been used to doing for ourselves and working alongside the men when needed.

I am not growing old gracefully in that regard 🤯🤯
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Today I went in for a 25# block of salt for the sheep. There weren't any. Then I saw 50#ers which I used to get. I settled for a 5lb this trip.
 
We were scheduled for a new roof beginning on July 13, but the rain has postponed all the roofing jobs. The current roof was put on by our twin sons 28 years ago when they were 18. Both had apprenticed with a roofing contractor, so he lent them all the equipment and even the dump truck to haul away the tear-off. I don't know when it will get done.

We were intending to go to Palmer to pay our property taxes today and to dump some stuff at the thrift store there, but we may have to postpone that as my wife had developed a "twinge" in her back. She has gone to her church job this morning, but isn't sure she will be able to tolerate the fairly long drive.

The rain has stopped for the moment, so I may be able to get some garden/greenhouse stuff done if we don't go in to pay taxes.
 
I'm going to the dermatologist tomorrow for a skin cancer scan. I had one melanoma removed from my nose 5-6 years ago and had a scare last year that ended up just being an infection. It took me over 6 months to get in for that to be looked at, and the dermatologist had me worried because it was "spiraled and deep," meaning "probably aggressive"...and it took 6 months to get it looked at. Everything else was clean.

So now I gotta go in once a year to maintain "current patient" status in case I have another issue and don't want to wait 6 months to get seen. I'm consuming resources merely to stake out a place in line "just in case." I feel bad, but you gotta do what you gotta do.
 
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