I get such a kick out of this dog this is the happiest dog I have ever seen
run all day long run run run and to think when we got her she was on her way
to the dog pound and you know they would have probably put her to sleep she was
four weeks old not eight not six she was four weeks old
when we got her and we started her on some watered down very soft dog food
which was too early but you know we knew when we got her to that she may not live
she was the runt and her mother had tried to eat her dogs do that if they
have too many they'll pick the smallest one or the weakest one or the one that
doesn't look like all the others and and eat it and she still got scars on her
fur from where her mother tried to eat her actually hold on it's way to come
here to me there's one there she's got others but that's the most obvious
anyway she lived and my god what a happy dog I'm so so glad we we got her
actually with my wife my wife was the one that she said stop the car turn
around went back and she said give it to me
we'll see what we can do and now she is as much a part of our family is breezy
in and sunny all right back to work 8:00 a.m. and then humidity it's not the heat
so much here I can stand heat I actually love the desert because the heat is I
like he let's just start there I love heat I mean 100 degrees I love it but
the humidity here in Louisiana it will choke you you walk out the you know take
a shower and step out into your air-conditioned home and you're already
sweating again you know we have a hundred percent humidity here and that's
not uncommon hundred percent ninety eight ninety percent
nearly all summer long anyway I'm not complaining
what I'm doing is behind me see if I can switch this around no I can't
I'm putting a gate up I tell you the story about this gate and then I'll show
it to you friend of mine was giving a 16 foot pipe gate away and they're kind of
expensive I have a price ton but I think they're in the 250 300 dollar range
maybe not quite that much but in that vicinity so they were giving it away and
I just took it without any real plans for it because you know that's that's
the way I am I gotta be real careful thing because I bring more crap home and
I can ever use anyway I didn't have no nothing to use it for at the time so I
leaned it up against my shed there and grass grew up around it and it was in
the way and all I started complaining about not being able to weed eat around
it so I moved it somewhere else and then other place I moved it I mean there was
problems there it was in the way so I finally ended up giving it to my friend
Dwayne and he leaned it up against his shed and then he moved it cuz it was
sent away so a few days ago I had to take my fence down behind me where I'm
going to show you because the water department had to dig down and fix their
water line and my fences right just a couple feet away from the water line so
I moved it anyway where I had to take it down was where I had put some
four-by-fours with the attention of if I ever moved over there that would be my
gate my entrance my driveway so I just strung some fencing up between the four
by fours knowing that you know someday if if I didn't move on it maybe we can
convince our friend babe to move over there and we can all look after each
other because we're all getting old at the same time and we got nobody it's
just just us no family so anyway I asked Dwayne if he
had done anything with that gate and he said knowledge leaned up against the
shed where I put it I said well would you mind if I got it back because I
really I have something a place to put it now so anyway that gate has made the
rounds in the last couple of years and it's back home and I I bought the
hardware and I just mounted it and I got out here about seven o'clock because it
does get get really humid really hot here fast so anyway that's the story I'm
going to show you the gate here in a couple seconds and some repair work I
got to do to my fence at another area there was two leaks and they fixed them
both on how to take the fence boat but down in both areas all right
break times over the city has had numerous water leaks over the years and
they just fixed this one they destroyed my fence I just had to fix the fence
down over here I took my fence down so they could get in here and and this is
where I put that gate back up good wing in dirt myself because they never fill
in their holes but anyway I just I just affixed my fence to it so dogs can't get
out and nothing else can get in now now I got to come up with some sort of a
latch I think I'm just gonna use a chain and a lock on that end and now that's
all I lack is putting a latch on that end so now I can get in over here and
now maybe I can sell my pine that's way over yonder I got about four thousand
dollars worth of pine out there I'd like to sell but I don't want him to come
through my driveway they'll have to go around that property and come out this
gate cuz uh they're gonna put ruts and I don't want it in my yard you know around
my house I don't mind it out of here but and with that money I can buy all new
fence just for the last week my fence over yonder from that corner down way
down there about two and a half acres now it's more than that it's about a
thousand feet I have cleared on the outside of my fence about ten feet back
as I've cut vines and poison ivy and all kinds of crap off the fence and in
preparation for me replacing that fence and I'm gonna go with six foot and three
strands uh stay the heck off my property barbed wire so uh I got big plans anyway
this project there's nearly done I just got to go find me something to use for a
chain and a latch and I'm think I'm gonna put a cinder noticin block a
cement block underneath the edge of that because I don't want it sagging and and
warping this board here that's pretty heavy gate okay that's all all right
that projects done I'm really glad to have that there there's only been a few
times when I really needed a gate over here but uh I you know it's not
something I'm gonna use every day but I'm really glad to have it I just
realized something I'm gonna have to bring my 9/16 out here
this is not sitting sitting down on that huh I wish I'd seen that yesterday
anyway got my fence all attached to it and I have a setting on some blocks just
because I don't want the the way to this gate to hang on that pole got me a chain
bolted here and on a hook there now
where this dip is in between those two four by fours
I had chicken wire there the water when it rains runs downhill here and goes
through that fence and there's a ditch that goes down this way all the way down
to the Bayou which is at the end of the road and I can't plug it up and I have
to keep it cleaned out or else you know the water backs up in my yard
so beneath the edge of the fence to the ground is about a 16 inch gap that I
used to have chicken wire over and over time the chicken wire is rusted and you
know grass and debris have pushed it out so today I got a dig down and put some
some of this kind of fence there so my dogs don't get out the only reason
they haven't gotten out there is because they haven't realized they could yet and
then over here there's another dip with about a foot gap beneath the fence I got
a throw some dirt in there fill that up and we're there see where the bushes
stopped here and then started up again over here that woman there had a pool
and cheese to run her hose out where my beautiful gardenias were growing great
and she used to run her her pool hose out there when she would back flush and
drain her her pool chlorine right there and it killed them bushes anyway now
that she's gone I could replant some gardenias there my god it is it is so
steamy out here my glasses are fogged up just standing here and it's 8 o'clock in
the morning all right let me get to work this is what my neighbor's yard look
like
and it was like that all the way up to my fence and uh there was trees and all
kinds of crap that's how far down I have had to clear
it's got to be a thousand twelve hundred feet from end to end now they used to
have their pool filter underneath the deck here and they would run a hose
right over here and drain their pool of water over into my yard where it washed
out a whole bunch of dirt and uh Vixen get over there and fill that in yeah
what something I don't cuss often but these people that
lived here man they were shit bags just absolute filth in and out of prison
cops everyday just absolute white trash I'm glad to see them gone unfortunately
the guy who bought this house is a one of the slumlord Hood home owners so now
what I'll have is a single mother with fifteen kids living in here and she
won't take care of the order either but I don't care what they do as long as I
stay on that side of the fence oh yeah shit what I did down here you're kind of
in a dip here and the water flows down here it goes underneath this fence and
then it takes kind of a right and goes about a quarter mile down to the bayou
and if these people ever come and fill this in with dirt I'm gonna have to do
the same otherwise I'll never get rid of the water here all right oh yeah that
was chicken wire down there rust didn't rotted there it is right there so I pull
it off and put some fence there all the way from that 45
away to behind that bush there so now no animals can get in here and hurt my dogs
or I don't think my dogs have never really paid much attention to getting
out but uh you know that one day you're not watching them anyway I got to get on
the other side there and shovel that dirt around most everybody knows that
I've taken over the cooking in my house and it's to hate Brussels sprouts hate
them hate them but I have really grown to like them since I've started cooking
in different ways like right now my favorite way to eat Brussels sprouts is
sauteed and a fry pan with a whole bunch of butter and a whole bunch of garlic
and I was reading on the internet about things you can do with Brussels sprouts
so I just tried a few of them and what I did
Gordon the recipe I boiled them just long enough to make them soft not really
mushy soft but soft enough or you could eat them without breaking a tooth you
know and then you marinate them overnight in the Italian dressing now it
doesn't sound like it would taste good but I just you know had some Brussels
sprouts I thought give it a try I'm gonna try this
Wow you wouldn't think that would taste good but they marinated overnight in
Italian dressing after being cooked for Oh actually didn't I put him in the
microwave in this bowl here and I put it on 15 minutes and then I took it out
drain water off filled it up with Italian dressing and then added Oh some
apple cider vinegar to it 32 stuck it in the frigerator last
night and that's a very interesting taste I'd do that again I'm fixing a few
more of these