Today’s Notes
General: Move the ISP connection and install a desk with a network on it. There are squirrels in the attic and I just don’t have time to deal with them. I didn’t even get my To Do List posted in my page yesterday. Have to buy feed for the cows today!
Theme: Forgiveness and Grace.
Narrative: We are on our eighth day away from our home, we’ve had to spend a great deal of that time dealing with the poor condition of the furniture and the home. We’ve probably spent more than half our time dealing with the German roach infestation. I spent hours just after midnight this morning cleaning the desk where the roaches were crawling on my hands and the kitchen floor where the roach infested hutch was sitting.
I spent an hour or so configuring a Fortigate Firewall appliance to dial my home in Atlanta from inside Ricky’s LAN using her ISP modem. I need to configure something like Time to create traffic of interest to make it dial the first time. Went back to bed for a couple hours.
Woke up, had some coffee and fed the cows two bales of hay, I didn’t have a whole lot of feed for them. The grass has gotten awful thin and they have started fighting over the food when they’re being fed grain. Which is weird because I have been putting an abundance of hay. (Now I agree that the hay is not very good.) I need to get a good roll of hay out there and see if the attitude changes when I feed them. I also think it is about time to lock them into the lower pasture. We currently cannot store rolled hay with the cows able to roam the farm. I also cannot set the security alarm features of the cameras because they keep setting them off by walking under them.
Sis wanted a ton of information about the tractor and the implements, that took a good part of the morning today.
The box trailer needs a new hitch which I bought at Tractor Supply on my way to Grandpa’s. The hitch is held in place by two eye bolts which also serve as emergency chain attachment points. I was unable to mount the hitch because of other priorities. I also did not repair the tail lights as intended.
I purchased $200 in supplies to reinforce the tree next to the house to prevent it from falling onto it. I was unable to install them today because of other priorities.
Auntie didn’t install the battery backup I brought from Atlanta on the Dish “Hopper” yet. I asked her whether I should take it home and she responded she’s not had the time to install it. The receiver in her bedroom is key, if it looses power all access to Dish programming drops off including over the Internet. The “Joeys” depend on the “Hopper” and cannot operate on their own.
The lighting at Grandpa’s is abysmal as are most homes until desk lighting is installed. I am thinking that several floor mounted lamps for Nancy’s bedroom are needed. (One of them battery powered and has a remote switch.) The Home depot has holiday light switches that can provide mom with excellent control of her lights from her bed.
The new desk arrived at Grandpa’s and it’s about 30% assembled. It needs a backup power source, a laptop computer, the printer we have already purchased and some kind of lighting. One problem that may have to be addressed is the heat lamp for the chick makes the room uncomfortably warm. The phone wires for the Internet need to be moved into that room so that all the networking is outside Auntie’s bedroom.
Auntie is leaving the outside light (175W Mercury Vapor) on all the time because she forgets to turn it off. I may have to mount a separate dusk to dawn photocell on the side of the house. 8x175x30x.12= $5/Month in electricity in the Winter. (Twice that in the summer)
I really intended to have mom come over to her old home and sort out one room a day. (All she has to do is identify items she wants to keep/bring to Grandpa’s.) That didn’t happen today.
I fed the cows around 9PM tonight since I fed them around lunch today. I used the solar powered lamps that worked as intended.
“Dish Anywhere” works as advertised and we are able to watch TV over the Internet without reactivating mom’s old receivers. We actually managed to connect it to the TV in mom’s old bedroom last night. 🙂
To Do List (And it’s growing)
the starter in the PU truck is failing. (I almost didn’t get it started this morning.)
The hitch on the box trailer is broken, needs new.
The wiring on the box trailer needs a new truck connector.
Ask the sisters about Drug Insurance this week, I think Auntie has gone with Mutual of Omaha (They were the best rated in Fl.)
Transport the Blue golf cart as soon as the box trailer can be used to haul it.
Register the flatbed trailer and bring it to Grandpa’s farm.
Old generator (Move, sell or keep)
Bring horse buggy and harness to grandpa’s on box trailer.
Bring Wayne’s golf cart to Grandpa’s (Move, sell or keep)
There is a upright freezer in the house (Move, sell or keep)
there are two freezers in the Bumpkin (Move, sell or keep)
There is a fridge in the house (Move, sell or keep)
There is a microwave in the house (Move, sell or keep)
Nona’s bedroom set is in the house and has been offered to Merritt
Guns and gun safe are still in the air.
There are two computers broken printer and a number of hard drives that need to get moved to grandpa’s
Gasoline Pole trimmer needs to be moved.
Large compressor needs to be moved.
Wayne’s tools needs to be moved.
Manure spreader for golf cart needs to be moved
Dump truck trailer for golf cart needs to be moved
Several rolls of wire fence needs to be moved
Several fence poles needs to be moved.
Welder (MOVE sell or keep)
Lawnmower (Needs pull cord.) Move, sell or keep
Antique organ (Move or give away.) Move, sell or keep
Move the red golf cart.
Buy hay for the cows, the grain is about half gone.
Grandpa’s Computer desk lamp.
Grandpa’s Chair Lamp.
Grandpa’s Bed lamp.
Grandpa’s Dust under the refrigerator with boric acid.
Grandpa’s Buy shades for all lamps going to grandpa’s farm. Thinking 4 of them? (Bedroom Em light, living room Em light, two gear lamps maybe?)
Grandpa’s sanitize, clean and move the four emergency power supplies from Mom’s farm. (Maybe, it is a little risky.)
Grandpa’s Buy TV stand or end table for Mom’s bedroom TV.
Grandpa’s buy curtain for Mom’s south bedroom window
Grandpa’s repair photocell for yard light over the house
Grandpa’s repair/install fire/smoke/CO alarm
Grandpa’s repair house patio door
Grandpa’s repair house windows
Grandpa’s repair wall outlet/receptacles in Ricky’s bedroom
Grandpa’s erect fences for the dogs
Grandpa’s clean grandpa’s shed
Grandpa’s repair grandpa’s shed roof
Grandpa’s replace property gate
Grandpa’s repair Auntie’s bedroom Air Conditioner Vent
Grandpa’s move the phone and Internet from Auntie’s bedroom into the third bedroom
Grandpa’s Construct a desk from two file cabinets and a door.
Grandpa’s Install emergency (battery backed up) lighting
Grandpa’s Install battery backup on Dish receiver (Maybe move it to living room)
Grandpa’s purchase / repair printer that has died.
Grandpa’s purchase a new computer
Grandpa’s Install a firewall and wireless router.
Grandpa’s Establish a VPN between grandpa’s Fortigate and Atlanta for remote camera adjustment / repair.
Mom’s Clean pile of bugs and trash from kitchen floor
Mom’s Turn camera over the dog runs to point toward the stalls.
Mom’s Set timers for mom’s house lights
Mom’s Lengthen the timer so that the camera over the runs, runs more of the day.
Mom’s Change the Wayne’s shed timer so that it comes on earlier in the morning
Mom’s Set mouse traps or bait in the trailer.
Atlanta Card for the drama department.
Atlanta take computer desk lamps that I bought for mom’s house to Atlanta.
Tomorrow:
Injuries: Arguments: Exercise: Feeling words: Travel: Noteworthy: Accomplishments: Purchases: Engineering:
https://www.verywellfamily.com/feelings-words-from-a-to-z-2086647
From the book “Triggers” by Marshall Goldsmith
Did I DMBT set clear goals for the day? No
Did I DMBT make progress to those goals? No
Did I DMBT make my wife feel loved? Yes
Did I DMBT help my wife today? Yes
Did I DMBT fix something today? Yes
Did I DMBT improve something today? Yes
Did I DMBT be happy? Yes
Did I DMBT be fully engaged? Yes
*Did My Best To