Recent content by Lannie

We had one come 5 weeks early. (We had taken her to a bull, so we knew the exact breeding date.) He was fully haired, but he couldn't stand, and after an hour of trying to get him up, his mom walked off and left him. We wheelbarrowed him to the house and kept him in our kitchen for a week...

When I stood out at the curb waiting for the ice cream truck, I was clutching dimes. It was a long time ago... ;) We always had plenty of notice he was coming, because we could hear the "music" coming from well down the block, so we all ran to Dad and begged him for a dime so we could get an...

Same thing happened to us. We had a nice, tidy place in Central Oregon, and we really took pride in it. We hand dug a beautiful pond (with a waterfall and a circulating pumps) in front of the large front deck and landscaped it with flat lava rocks into a multi-tiered flower/herb bed, we...

If I remember correctly, his name is Oscar. Cute kitty. :)

I grew up in the Valley (mostly Portland), and made good my escape in 1995. Back then, it was almost one big city between Portland and Eugene. I shudder to think what it's like now. I really like where I live now. Have to drive a mile and a half to get to the next door neighbor's place...

All the way to Eugene! :oops:

I just realized I said our old truck was an F-15 up in my first post. I guess I have Eagles on my mind. ;) You all know I meant F-150. I thought the same thing. They just don't want to tear it apart far enough to fix it, they'd rather replace the whole thing. No skin off THEIR nose...

Thanks, I was kinda hoping maybe we could get around $4,000 for it (because if we could, I could get my new windows). But I guess not. And this is a good friend (our hay guy), so I sure don't want him to think we're trying to gyp him. THAT has become painfully obvious, LOL! I've never had a...

My husband recently got a new (to us) truck, because the old one needs a lot of engine work, which we couldn't afford. The first place he took it (a Ford dealership) said it needed a whole new engine, to the tune of $16,000.00. Uh, no. We're not in any kind of "city," so there aren't a lot of...

That's how cold it is here this morning. -29F with a wind chill of -65F and sandblasting snow. I have no idea how I'm going to do chores in this. A little bit at a time, I guess.

I make a mouth-watering steak in a frying pan, but only in cast iron. Heat that pan up, slap the steak on, 4 minutes on one side, 2 on the other side, and it's perfectly seared outside and medium rare on the inside. I only use the cast iron for steaks now. YUM!

A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away... I used to race cars. Just bracket drag races, nothing spectacular. But my little 318 Coronet was just half a second into "C" bracket, which was "everything else," including those damnable VW bugs. I HATED running against one of them, because they...

She can, like, write? :rolleyes:

You can't eat just one! I hardly ever make them anymore. So much work, and they're all gone in less than 10 minutes...

All those drug ads on TV.... "ask your doctor if such-and-such is right for you!" And the spaghetti brained people say, "OH! That must be what I need," and they go get it. The doctors don't care, because it shuts up the complaining patient. Never a further thought from either of them. And...