Lairbears Volume 12 Captain's Log 20220920
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: You poor sweet baby. You need to go to your pop's house and go swimming in the cement pond. That'll make you feel better. It's too hot to move. : Of course with cream cheese and Lox. And cucumber and tomato and lettuce! Nummy Nummy! : Frolicking in the rain is the best, unless there is lightning and thunder and hail. And tornadoes. And sharks. Frolicking during a sharkanado is not the best. It's kind of like having your tooth pulled....with a chainsaw. Not fun.
going to school in my tribe
September 21 is the day our children leave home to attend Apprentice Candidacy Training at Glen Meadow Home, our version of school here in the mountains. Until then, the children are needed at home to help prepare for the Fall harvest and Winter.
After ACT, children will be chosen by a Master of a craft or trade and will live with them either in a hall or at their house for a full year to complete their apprenticeship. After that year, many new Journey-level I trades-creatures will stay on for an additional year to earn back the cost of their training and test for their Journey-level II certificates so that they can open up their own shop, start a family and move to another village.
We will be taking the seven children of my fourth litter across the Glen Meadow Valley to Glen Meadow Home in September. It's a two day journey on foot and we will camp overnight on the little rise in the middle of the vale, just as I did when I was a wee pup and Weldon accompanied me to school as my Watcher and friend. (my parents were way too old to make the journey).
It's quite an adventure, and though the path is well worn, there is some risk involved, there's always predators to be concerned about and freak storms (like the snowstorm two years ago). But we make the best of it. We tell stories, sing by the campfire and swim in the little stream that flows down the middle of the meadow. The children will remember their first adventure for the rest of their lives.
But it's difficult for us, the parents. Often, it's the last time a parent sees their offspring. Their purpose in the lives of their children has come to a close, they are sending their children off into the world to continue the cycle. Maybe that's the secret reason our children don't go back to school until the Fall Equinox.
Hail, feel like armor piercing rounds... the bruises prove it.
Mine like Sky Bite, he's the more poetic type.
Classes begin in two weeks, zo best mine get the tool boxes cleaned up before this weekend, an regain access to mine online profile. Mine believe the lecture will be through Blackboard.
Mine need to go to a dentist, been far too long...
and sometimes pickles. and ice-cream and banana juice and candy-coated popcorn, peanuts and a prize...
oh, that's a different one all together 😉
Someday I will commission CW like that with a knee length skirt. And some other ideas I have...
Good something to cover up the HAs lower leg and funny looking feet, I hope. How is your jet lag from travel?
Just jump in and say hello, 🙋 wish you all a not so hot day 🌞
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it’s a pain huh?
We had some special circumstances so we can’t just unpack everything at once. We’re literally going one box at a time out on the back porch. Lol
. I am SO glad!! Feel free to take a picture wearing it! I was crushed when we mailed it and it got sent back.
Lair Bears Dance Mix! (play it on shuffle)
Back at the ranch...
This morning mine set up to dismantle an old front suspension to remove the steering knuckles. These are different from what mine worked on during Brakes, the rotor is held by bearings that aren't pressed in. This means they can be removed for repacking with axle grease. Got something to do this weekend, though mine may have to buy some grease. As always, one side took 90 minutes, zo the other may take 45.
: How was your rain frolic?
I'm a pure white weasel-girl..an ermine to be technical. I'm supposed to drop dead if I get my fur dirty. NOPE! I love dirt! I love the soil and I have a beautiful little market garden and kitchen garden ( my contribution to cooking, since the kitchen scares me to death) and I can be found covered in dirt, mud, mulch whenever I'm not in surgery or the birthing wards (I TAKE A BATH FIRST!!!)
I also love grease! I love to help my Author when he works on his automobiles. I'm not good at it, but I can hold a nut or a bolt or fetch the wrong tool for him over and over.
So, if I ever come to your world of Texas for a visit and I'm in the land of the El Paso, may I come over to your house and watch you work on automobiles? I can hold screws and nuts and bolts and hand the wrong tool to you too.
Can you believe that summer is almost over and I HAVEN'T HAD A WATERMELON YET? WHAT IS THIS NEW DEVILRY? Weldon brought home a modest watermelon yesterday and we're going to open it today after it's been in the cold house for a few hours. I like my watermelon with sour chili salt. Can you put butter on watermelon. I heard you can dip watermelon pieces in gin...
: Where are your eyeballs sweetie? I love your mustache! Are you going to let me pluck it? I "borrowed" your tweezers last time I was at your old house. I needed them to pluck bits of sand and rock and metal chunks out of Weldon's butt after he fell down attempting to ride a skateboard down highway 53 near Dead Deer Dropoff and he hit the pavement going about 55 miles an hour (he passed a motorhome going the same direction.) He hit a pebble on the tarmac and his skateboard stopped dead, but weldon continued for another 40 feet off the road and down a ravine and came to rest half way down in a cedar tree. I'm sure your tweezers are still sharp enough to pluck mustache whiskers.
I didn't fall off a skateboard. I got a rose thorn in my paw helping you trim the hedge.
Well, that's boring. If you're going to tell a story, you have to tell a STORY. Sailing off the edge of the world at 55 miles a hour and landing in a tree 500 feet down in a ravine is much more interesting than "I took out a thorn from Weldon's paw."
So you lie...little-pure-white-Death-Before-Dishonor-weasel-ermine-girl?
No. The truth is I used tweezers to save you from infection and gangrene caused by a foreign-body intrusion. How I arrived at that truth was by a very colorful and interesting route. Not by a dull, straight and boring path.
Right.
By the way, what's for dinner tonight to go with our watermelon?
Oh, Squab, Tureens of tomato and clam chowder, Homburgs of Gelee, Pate' a'gratin, squid ink rigatoni bisque parfait and champagne mouse flambé.
Um...so we're having soup and sandwiches?
Very colorful and interesting soup and sandwiches.
Touche.
my pleasure.
flexes feathers I have removed my moustache
Lair Bears Dance Mix! (play it on shuffle)
: That's a cute HA!
getting even with weldon for his remarks in the above post
Welly can be quite a drama llama when it comes to his injuries
HAHAHAHA can you do that to my hubby? His a drama llama after any medical procedure no matter how major or minor.
Sho' if you'd like to watch this obsolete model in action, mine friend has six vehicle we do regular work on. Mine got these old hands greasy by disassembling a steering knuckle and the rotor's bearings earlier today. Washed me mitts at least six times, an still need to shower.
If things go as planned this year, mine can offer you some cactus sorbet. Oddly mine haven't had any either, mine don't see many for sale.
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Hey-o! It's been a while since I posted here. I deeply apologize. RL has been hectic and depression has been a beast lately to where I don't really feel up to conversing as much.
Figured out what's going on health wise. My heart is all good. A clean bill of health on that end. I have a borderline normal heart arrhythmia, in which occasionally my heart rate spikes high. That's where my light-headedness and dizziness is stemming from. Also learned that arrhythmia's can cause overheating, which explains my overheating issues as well.
Qualified for assistance and my $1000+ bill from all the tests and doctor's appts has been taken care of and paid in full. Sadly, despite all the good stuff happening, when it rains it pours. I now have a problem tooth wise. Pretty sure my wisdom teeth are trying to come in on the left side and having issues eating and talkin. Lots of pain. A cough or a sneeze causes pain. I have an appt on the 25th, the earliest they could get me in. Hopefully it doesn't get worse between now and then. My face is a lil swollen on the left side of my jaw. Here's to hoping we will be able to make payments on the bill from the dentist as I'm pretty sure there's not much financial help dental wise available (I could be wrong tho, won't know until then).
On a lighter, positive note, thanks to an app/site I was able to get $70 worth of Amazon cards (surveys are a beast in their own right) and I ordered some beginner resin making kits. Hoping to get the hang of resin making to hopefully make things to sell to make a little bit of money to help ease things for the Hubby. Especially considering my health has taken a beating the past year and my doctors appts and bills have made it to where we're living paycheck to paycheck.
Hope all is well with everyone! Also hoping your day and week is Blessed! ❤️[/font]
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HUGS Glad you came into update us. I hope things health wise improve, thankfully they gave you answers to heart issue. I hope the dental issue and expense work out for you.
: Sure thing, I can get Ol' Buster the Skunk to sit on your Hubby and hold him in place whilst I pull a splinter, a tooth or sew up a gash. The threat of a little spray juice is also a very good motivator. Does your Hubby get injured frequently requiring medical attention?
: Ooo sorbet! Yummy! I've never had cactus sorbet, that sounds so exotic! Mark uses Orange Go-Jo to degrease himself. It's waterless and smells good. He showers with Lava brand pumice soap, he has an old bar that is at least 20 years old and barely works up a lather, but it works good to get the Go-Jo off. A good vegetable / fingernail brush works wonders to finish the job. For me, I only use olive oil Castille soap so that my fur doesn't dry out. It's scented with lavender oil and impregnated with dried lavender blossoms. It really gets the grease out of my fur and smells so wonderfully relaxing.
: Wow, you have really been though the ringer with your health. It sounds like they've made some progress. I hope and pray that your health issues are quickly resolved and that you both get back on your feet. Congratulations on getting started with resin. has delved into resin and she has made some beautiful thingies as a result. She was doing UV resin for jewelry and D & D dice sets. Her father did the resin where you mix it and he imbedded insects. I like the jewelry better. You can't wear or eat the insects.
No he doesnt, but his a big baby over any procedure or scratch. I think your skunk could be the kill or cure for him, LOL. At least, he would be worried about smelling like skunk spray instead of procedure or scratch. LOL I envision him, trying to get the stink off. I wont mention remedies until, his sorry for being annoying.
Mine would receive such a distinguished guest such as yourself with only mine best creation. If mine had time, some vanilla custard ice cream would be included.
Mine use al manner of gritty soaps an cleansers to was off the repeated times mine work. Nowadays mine use unscented acidified body wash, followed by a cedar liquid soap.
Nest activity is repacking the bearings mine work on yesterday. Gotta read the labels, the variety of greases are specific to each job. Mine was wrong about general purpose types. Mine should look into getting a RWD differential to tinker with, not so hard to disassemble.
Full moon tonight , if the storm overhead passes mine can enjoy a similar view to mine HA.
Mine have a $50 credit on Amazon from a lengthly survey. Mine bane is not really knowing what to do with it. A previous $40 was spent on small stuff, but except for a more expensive item, mine have no real wish to use this. It just bugs mine.
glad to hear youre doing better! with resin, if you're starting out and wanna use colors, to save on some coin use some acrylic paints. Although it's tempting to use Micah powders and glitter, acrylic paints (like apple barrel) are real cheap and simple to use. something to consider owo!
Learing from mine mistakes
Zo, mine finished repacking the bearings and reassembled the rotor. But mine saw something that make mine think along the ways mine goofed. The spindle nut went into the shaft a little too far down, below the point where a cotter pin would fit. This suggests the inboard bearing may have been installed backwards.
Mine may try again, but later. Using a packing tool is a little harder than palming on the grease, but much less cleanup is needed. Oh, what fun!
