- Irish Woman has decided that we are going to try to give up artificial sweeteners. This means no diet Mountain Dew for her and no Coke Zero for me starting at sundown tomorrow.
- Lock away the children, old people, and breakables now while you still have a chance.
- Yep, $500 to cover the cost of materials for the new fence is looking like a pretty good estimate.
- I messed up and put my fence about 6 inches into my neighbor’s yard.
- I realized my error when Irish Woman stood on the property line and waved her arms at me.
- I already had six posts set in concrete by then.
- I have good neighbors. They said they didn’t care and thanked us for putting up the fence.
- All told, they just gave us about 50 square feet or so of their land. I’ll have to repay them in some way.
- Repeatedly moving 80 pound bags of post hole cement isn’t as much fun as it sounds.
- We went out to a friend’s farm for the annual shearing of the alpacas.
- Alpacas have toes. I did not know that.
- One alpaca took a shining to Boo and followed him around. We had to break it to him that an alpaca would not fit in the car.
- The wool is extremely soft and is supposed to be very warm. I think I’m going to get some socks.
- Baby emus have tiger stripes.
- Remember that bottle of wine that’s been whispering sweet nothings to me when I open the refrigerator? It is now a close and dear friend.
- There is enough wine in a standard bottle to fill up a pint beer glass twice with a little left over. I did not know that.
- Someday I’m going to have to post the things that come out of my keyboard when Koshka plunks her rump down on the laptop for the warmth.
- It is amazing how little traffic there is in Louisville when the Final Four game is on.
Thoughts on the Day
Posted by daddybear71 on April 6, 2013
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Bob
/ April 6, 2013Hi DB,
Reference your comment about the light traffic during the final 4? Well they all came to Atlanta and they brought their driving styles with them.
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daddybear71
/ April 7, 2013Better you than me!
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ZerCool
/ April 6, 2013Pint glasses have gotten smaller, or your wine bottles are larger.
A standard wine bottle is 750mL, or about 26oz.
(Actually, the truth is that if you fill the glass *right to the top* it’s a full pint. In usage, this is not practical and you will spill your beer… so a pint glass will perfectly hold a 12oz beer with a bit of head.)
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daddybear71
/ April 7, 2013I just find it more efficient than having to keep going back to fill a wine glass.
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MSgt B
/ April 6, 2013Not just the Final 4, I think there’s a Brave’s game this weekend as well.
I’m in Rome GA, and everyone is staying the hell away from Atlanta unless they have tickets.
Good fences make good neighbors.
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caroleh51
/ April 6, 2013You might give Stevia a try. It is a natural plant, quite sweet; I grew it in my garden a couple of years ago.
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daddybear71
/ April 7, 2013Thanks! I’ll look into it.
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Lazy Bike Commuter
/ April 6, 2013There were people selling alpaca wool socks at a gun show up here. They are VERY soft, and we would have gotten some if they had been less pricey.
Re:traffic – When I lived in Bowling Green, people I knew who worked in hospitals told me that they would tell when a UK game was on because no one would come into the ER. Injured people / those having heart attacks would wait until the game was over.
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Old NFO
/ April 7, 2013Ah yes, fences… My neighbors and I did a three way swap on the back yards, which changed the angles on the front yards (we lived on a cul-de-sac), and the damn lawyers made more than all three fences cost… grumble…
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daddybear71
/ April 7, 2013We have a gentleman’s agreement at the moment, with an understanding that if either of us want to to sell, we’ll do something in writing.
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Mdev
/ April 7, 2013Alpaca wool rocks in every way I am a big fan. However Emu’s get mean not as mean as their Ostridge cousins but still.
I hope you don’t ever get caught exposing your children to farm life and animals it may lead to them having dreams that don’t involve being parked in front of a TV set, and as we know we can’t have that.
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Frank
/ April 8, 2013DB wrote:
All told, they just gave us about 50 square feet or so of their land. I’ll have to repay them in some way.
In most states, you’d have bought them a nice fence.
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daddybear71
/ April 8, 2013True. If they had gone that route, I would have torn out what I did, repaired the holes, and redid it on my side of the line.
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