Rural Living

Living the rural life
Where to start, lets start with our house we live in a turn of the century farmhouse that is HUGE
6-maybe 7 bedrooms 2 baths, and It runs us ragged keeping up with it. The place was a Land grant to my wifes Great Great Grandpa, we have the original document signed by the Secretary of war Edwin M. Stanton for service to the Union Army. Her Family has been on the property since 1858. I have always lived Rural...I don't think I could live in a town, I enjoy the sound of the creek running through the yard and the Coyotes howling, the Great horned Owls and the short eared owls talking at night. My water comes off the hill from a spring. 88 feet of drop to the house ( anyone who can calculate the head pressure gets a Atta boy or girl) and it tastes just fine I enjoy the fact that if I chose to I can step out my front door and Pee in the grass and ....so what. If someone comes to the house I don't know I step out on the porch to greet them, usually there is a pistol in the small of my back and my hand on it, I am not paranoid, its just that Its a long roll for the Sheriff to my casa, there is a good chance that if I know you there is still a pistol on my person somewhere, and I don't care what the caliber is as long as it starts with a 4. We have 4 dogs, Thug is the biggest and most socially unacceptable, the UPS man came the other day to deliver my nieces new lariat and Thug scared him off, Molly is the Pretty one, Harley is the crafty on and Willow is the smallest. We raise hay and have horses, we garden and hunt, I have been without power to the house for 14 days(one Hell of a Ice storm in the Willamette), I just deal with it. None of this is a rant its just a fact and I would n0t change any of it anyhow.

I want you all to have a Stellar weekend I will be getting ready for my baby Sister to come down and visit and raise hell with me

New blog role person

Hey all I just pulled my head out of my rear and figured since I have been reading the British Bird
a lot I should put her in my blogroll so if you don't read her blog pop over to her site and tell her Howdy

New station shirts

We got our new station T-shirts...If I don't say so myself I think they are world class Bad Ass
Now if I can get a Engine to go with it...........................

weekend update

Ok I had a big weekend, First was riday afternoon I got off work and we went to Coastal farm store (my Niece calls it her Mall) and purchased a Frost free hydrant (Work) and fittings and stuff, then We went to the gun smith (Ya) to get my 1911, It went in to get a beavertail installed

it went from this


to this

It doesnt look like a lot but My hand loves it, no more hammer bite (No biting Hammer) and he worked on the trigger a tiny bit its a lovely thing. Ah yes Shooty goodness

then Saturday it was on to the back hoe and digging and install the frost free hydrant so I could water the horses (they like that) then beer

then Sunday I tried to go to the Dump but we found out it was closed after loading up the pickup so I plowed up a space in the garden and then rototilled it....I hurt this morning and I am Whining a little bit.

I manged to have made two firecalls also, One burn complaint and one MVA (motorcycle went down)

and made Venison tacos on sunday, MMMMMMMM, and drank beer

Peace

How thing work

The tribal wisdom of the Dakota Indians, passed on from generation togeneration, says that, "When you discover that you are riding a dead horse,the best strategy is to dismount."
However, in Federal government, more advanced strategies are often employedin such situations, such as:

1. Buying a stronger whip.

2. Changing riders.

3. Appointing a committee to study the horse.

4. Visiting other countries to see how other cultures ride dead horses.

5. Lowering the standards so that dead horses can be included.

6. Reclassifying the dead horse as living-impaired.

7. Hiring outside contractors to ride the dead horse.

8. Harnessing several dead horses together to increase speed.

9. Providing additional funding and/or training to increase dead horse's performance.

10. Doing a productivity study to see if lighter riders would improve the dead horse's performance.

11. Declaring that as the dead horse does not have to be fed, it is less costly, carries lower overhead, and therefore contributes substantially more to the bottom line of the economy than do some other horses.

12. Rewriting the expected performance requirements for all horses.
And of course . . .

13. Promoting the dead horse to a management position.

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So I went in last Thursday to the dermatologist and she hacked off some chunks of my forearms to send of to pathology to see what the hell they were. I have a constant farmer tan going on, my forearms are one freckled mass and Mrs fyreman keeps track of every one. Sunday I made a Roast in the Brinkman...I love this device

I can grill in it or smoke in it, I have done Thanksgiving Turkey in it,It rocks. Its a Brinkman Pitmaster So I took the roast and I dry rubbed it with Mrs. Dash, dry mustard, Ginger, Paprika, black and white pepper, salt and sugar, then let it set for a couple of hours in the fridge. I lit a fire in the side pit and added briquets, with a even bed of coals in the side pit I tossed in some chunks of Hickory I cut this spring and but the roast in for two hours, at the end of the two hour I wraped it in tinfoil and shoveled some coals directly under it and finished it off to an internal temp. of 150 deg.

WOW it was yummy.

thought for Friday

DAILY THOUGHT:



SOME PEOPLE ARE LIKE SLINKIES; NOT REALLY GOOD FOR ANYTHING



BUT THEY BRING A SMILE TO YOUR FACE WHEN PUSHED DOWN THE STAIRS..