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Another 103dg day creeping in. The heat is officially here to stay so it's about that time of the year where the hounds become nocturnal. Sleep all day, wander and howl all night. See you in October boys 😂!

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So the wife said our picnic table was looking a little haggard and that we had two options:

1) Give it to the goats.
2) Fix it.

I voted #1 since it's like 4 years old to us and was free.....so it's probably more like 10 years old.

See if you can guess who won that argument by it's current location.......hint hint, it's not in the dirt with a goat sleeping on it.

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First step was to remove all the staples from table clothes over the year. I didn't want someone to scrape a knee with a rusty staple or worse yet a kids head as they bounce and crawl around after pixie sticks and mountain dew at a birthday party lol.

So the staple removal process began. Some pliers and a flat bad easy enough....... except why on God's green earth are there 4 million staples under here?!? Who let someone without the proper staple gun permit and OSHA training use the staple gun around here!

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The organ donor. Some benches I made seven years ago. These should do just fine as they have already sat in the sun and rain for seven years so their days of shrinking, twisting, warping should be over. I'm going to **** them tight and hope for the best. If we get 2-3 years I'll call that a win and then it's sawzaw and firewood time. I've got two more outside in the back, my wife just got tired after carrying two. We are expecting so I'll give her a break this time on the help.

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Quite impressed with these actually. The finish was something my wife found online and wanted to give a try. It's coffee grounds and vinegar mixed up and applied with steel wool. Hell, lasted longer then anything I've ever bought from the store.

Here they were new seven years ago. We still have that table on our new back porch too. Seven years old and still going strong. The wife just wanted to switch to chairs instead of long benches, which allowed me to cut these up. That table is 20ft long. I made the mistake of making it one solid piece, no seams or way to break it up. When we moved my wife asked if we were bringing it......uhhhhhh sure honey yea that was the plan. Couple of friend, couple of payment beers, and the flat bed later, it's still with us.

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Kids are all asleep so I did the final lockup and water checks. Had a hen that is still a little young and doesn't know the routine and wouldn't follow the older ones away for the night so had to chase her for a minutes. I've got her number though, it's the same one every night so I know where she runs and can catch her pretty quick. She's just to little, a coyote would still carry her off if I left her out now.

The baby chic's that we have in the garage still are just about big enough to go out to the first pen. Maybe another week or so and they can go out into the smallest most secure pen.

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My wife had some client meetings out of the house today so I had the Rugrats instead of work.

After lunch, rest, connect four, hang man, hide and go seek, baby dolls, play kitchen, playing with cars, coloring, reading, all the activities that have to happen because it's hard to entertain them for longer than eight minute spans, we searched for something indoors that would be productive. Ahhhh the fridge! My son (mostly because he thinks the shop vac is funny on his hair) helped me clean the fridge guts hoping it will help it be a little more efficient during these hot months. It's gross, don't judge, we live in the desert.

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Had to drive up about 1-1/2 hours north for a job today. That was fun.

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Came home with a truck bed full of stuff, park in the shop and the garage door won't go down, wth! The cable jumped ship and is off the roller drum in a bird's nest and pretty sure the springs lost tension. Of course the garage door company can't come until tomorrow late afternoon so the shop has to stay open all night. Trying to figure out a way to get a 12x14ft fully insulated 500 lbs door down. It's the desert and of course they are calling for rain tonight, only when my door is stuck open 😭
 
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That ***** about the door, good luck on that. What’s the story on the fixer, where’s that at?
 
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That ***** about the door, good luck on that. What’s the story on the fixer, where’s that at?

Prescott, AZ. Owner passed and son was supposed to be handling things but then he passed as well so we were appointed by the court as PR for the estate as there are currently no known heirs. We will clean out/up the property, sell it, and search for heirs.

Happy to report that due to having absolutely awesome neighbors the garage door is fixed and operational. He is going to come back tomorrow in the light and maintenance my other two doors. They need spring adjustments. He checked/fixed/adjusted the three shop doors tonight and tomorrow will do the two on the house. He is graciously lending his experience (previously worked for a big garage door company) to do a "well check" on all five of my doors!

Love having awesome neighbors. Hope to be able to repay him someday whenever he needs an hand.
 
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That’s great news on the door and your neighbor 👍

Just wondered about the house as it looked like the typical build In yavapai hills area or off rosser. Pretty good chance I’ve spent waaayyyyy too much time looking for a place up there 😆
 
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That’s great news on the door and your neighbor 👍

Just wondered about the house as it looked like the typical build In yavapai hills area or off rosser. Pretty good chance I’ve spent waaayyyyy too much time looking for a place up there 😆

This one is like 89 & Granite. South of Whiskey Row.
 
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Just got got caught up on things, shop space is looking awesome, and that is one hell of a neighbor!

Indeed it is. Real good guy. Our kids go to school together so that's nice too.

Good neighbors are a blessing

Amen!

All we have are s'''t heads except the lady right next door.

That's to bad. We have pretty good ones all around. A few real quite ones which is fine too. The lady behind us let's the kids come over and help give the horses baths which they think is fun. She said if anything happens my girls get all her horses (like 6 or 7). With the price of hay these days I'm not sure how I feel about that 🤣
 
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We had a short one last night, it had a lot of thunder in it. The dog was in hiding for a couple of hours.

We got a little rain last night but not much / enough that I would have liked. Mostly just wind. The hounds go crazy during storms. They just pace the yard barking at all the lightning and thunder. Back and forth, back and forth, I'm surprised there is not a ditch there by now in their path.
 
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Finished up all the hydraulics on the tractor. Decided to just cut off the mounting tabs on one of the rams and have them spread out. That top joint is bigger than the last tractor and I didn't really want to buy new rams.

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Then we got all the chicken pot pies moved out of the garage and into their new temporary home until they are a little bigger again.

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Apparently I needed a supervisor......

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Took the day off (after church, animal caretaking, few other little things around the house) to take the kids to a birthday party.

Doing pizza, wings and beer at our house after........looking forward to that part haha 😂

Sitting here at the birthday party wheel shopping for the truck. I have narrowed it down to a specific wheel just undecided on color at this point.

I'll post up the colors when I get to better internet and see what y'all think 🍺
 
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The truck:
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These are Innov8 forged G600's. Most likely in 20x9 +12 or +18 if they will do it on 37's.


#1 Tinted clear with a black ring
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#2 All Machined
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#3 Machined with a black ring
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#4 Tinted clear with a machined ring
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I like the all machined look the best. And after cruising the Az highways over the past three years wouldn’t do another coated rim. The black ano on my rims has gotten pretty screwed up with rock chips.
 
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👍 Going into it I already knew I didn't want all black. The black ring is pushing it but still looks ok. I've been #2 & #4 from the start.

Also thinking #2 but having the rings powdered to color match the truck???
 

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👍 Going into it I already knew I didn't want all black. The black ring is pushing it but still looks ok. I've been #2 & #4 from the start.

Also thinking #2 but having the rings powdered to color match the truck???

I like 4 too and if you did PC the rings its sure go with the theme. Personally I hate picking out rims, oh I used to enjoy it but with the endless choices and THEN having to narrow those down to ones with the proper offset just kills all the fun.
 
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Spent a couple hours working this morning and then let my dad take over and cut out early. We had our gender ultrasound (not sure what you call it) today, so I went with my wife to the appointment. A baby ******* the way!

Then......spent the second half of the day in the ER for a still undiagnosed eye issue. Have to go see an eye doctor tomorrow. I'm pretty much blind in one eye for tonight so don't beat me up on my spelling if you see anything hahaha.
 
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I've got the gift of full unobstructed sight back! Still on the mend but I can at least see and am no longer sensitive to light. Once I catch up on some work I'll be trying to knock out some chores and other items around the place.

My kids still keep asking me if I am a zombie now 😂

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