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Sunrise.  I'm trying to get Mrs J to paint this.

Well...The days are getting shorter and cooler and the weather, in general, has been nicer.  Had a couple of inches of rain over the last week, which has led Tony D. Hayguy to bring his equipment back in preparation for another bailing.  This time he's going for square bales. Which is good for a couple of reasons. 

One, square bales are easier to control the horse's eating.  They'll go through a round bale between the two of them in a couple of days, which is way too much hay. (Is that a Beatles song "Way too much hay"?)  With regular grazing in their corral, a square bale will last them two days.  In the winter, it's a square bale a day.  In the past few years since Tony D. Hayguy has been bailing for us, we've only got one cutting, and round bales sell better and don't need weather protected storing like squares, so we've only done that.  

The second reason for square bales, is Tony seems to be having, well, "Anger Issues"

And

I hope I don't make him mad.

On a separate note, I saw this on Powerline Saturday. Steve Hayward's Week in Pictures always gives me a chuckle.  This one took a few seconds to get, but my laughing brought Mrs J into the room.  Not being a Trekkie, I had to explain it to her.

Source

Loved it.

We're revisiting C-Stat tomorrow for an overnight.  MBD is getting close to giving birth which means SIL is getting close to changing diapers and the Grandparents spoiling our granddaughter from day one. But, as important as those are, we're going first and foremost to retrieve my iPad that I left behind on the last visit.  

Yes, Beans, the withdrawal symptoms are starting to wane...a bit, but I've forgotten the plot on several of the books I'm in the midst of reading.

We are also going to safety check the WiFi monitors we set up last visit, based on long time blog reader "BillB's" recommendation.

The last time we went, and were going through Austin, of all Places, we saw this.

"Let's Go, Brandon!"

As part of "Operation What are we doing today, juvat?", I've started going through the boxes of pictures I've accumulated or inherited over the years. In one box I ran across one taken by my Mother at Christmas 1990.

That would be Mrs J and our 6 month old daughter.  You can bet your bottom dollar, there's going to be a very similar picture taken this Christmas, only with three generations of juvat women in it.

Speaking of generations, while we were in C-Stat on our last visit, I saw this picture on the wall in the house MBD and SIL are living in.

The house they're living in actually belongs to SIL's parents.  The parents and extended family use it when they come to visit A&M, which is fairly frequently.  (SIL's whole family are Aggie Alums. Slacker that I am,  I've only got two in my family.) In ANY case, SIL's oldest brother is second from the right, SIL's nephew is the first on the right and SIL's Dad is third from the right, his Grandfather is in the middle, his Great Grandfather is second from the left and his Great-Great Grandfather is first on the left.  I think this is cool because the youngest is the 6th person/generation with the same name.  As a perspective, Little Juvat, Myself and My Dad all have the same name.  We have high hopes of that continuing into the next generation.  (The probability of that occurring improved, now that Little Juvat and DIL are in the same location and she is out of quarantine.)

So, what else are we doing today, juvat?

Well, one of my goals, is the 10,000 steps per day.  I've been fairly regular at it since May, my minimum acceptable level is 7,000, goal is 10,000 and anything above 12,000 is cause for celebration.  The methodology is Mrs J and I take the dogs for a 1 mile walk first thing in the morning.  They like that...and it's cool.

Oskar Meyer is to the left, Little Orphan Annie to his right and Cooper is far right.

Then in the evening, I go for a 2.5 2 (oops) Mile walk,.  I've got that down to 30 minutes total out and back.  Next level is to get to 3 miles, which would bring it to 4 miles a day.  I've been adding .2 miles per week, so another couple of weeks. I've been pretty religious about it, but I do call it off when lightning....

Just a quarter mile to go!

I feel better, I'm down >20 lbs and 4 pant sizes, so I think I'll keep it up.

On the home front, Mrs J has got me slaving in the garage refurbishing the table and chairs my sister and then DIL used in our, what will become, second guest house.  The floor refinishers should be coming this week, after which we'll put in the final touches.  We, being me, putting them where we, being Mrs J, says to. Then we'll add it to AirBnB and VRBO.

But, back to the Table and Chairs,  

Caning chairs is easy. (Yes, Beans, the bottom cane popped out, It only took 6 clamps to fix.)

The table is next and will be especially fun!

Sanding however. And Sanding, and sanding and........

By the end of the day, I feel like this.

Yeah, I know...They're horses, but they're still dragging.

But, also at the end of the day, there's a bit of satisfaction involved.

And maybe a medicinal glass of wine or two.

Looks like the Lord is fixin' to play Tic-Tac-Toe!

Peace out, y'all.  We're winning.

Schmedley taking a nap!

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