Quicksilver was awake from her nap but not eager to get out of her bed when I got home.
So, talking to Mrs ERJ I said, loudly enough to carry down the hallway, "Yep. I brought home some Dinosaur Eggs."
An excited, young voice piped back at me "Dinosaur Eggs?"
"Yep. Dinosaur Eggs. They look like they are ready to hatch."
Pitter-pat, pitter-pat, pitter-pat. "Me hold!!!!"
I growled, keeping my face expressionless. "Better hurry"
All of a sudden, she wasn't wanting to hold them.
I am sure I will have a few things to answer for when I get up to the Pearly Gates. This will probably be one of them.
Work
I fabricated a built-up column to add to the deer stand yesterday morning. That was the most complicated part of finishing up the last wall. It started as a 10' long, treated 2"-by-4" and I added various cleats and backers so I could attach it to existing structural 4-by-4s that hold the stand up.
I built it at home.
Then I drove out to the orchards and installed it. I had to do a little bit of trimming to make it fit. That burned up more than an hour of time.
I planted the peony divisions I bought from the lady in Lansing.
I planted daffodil bulbs.
I cut brush and sprayed the cut-stumps with 10:1 water:glyphosate concentrate solution.
And just-like-that, I was exhausted and probably dehydrated.
Today's Work Ticket
Today's work ticket has cleaning out the garage as the first item. We used the garage as a staging area during the bathroom remodel and Mrs ERJ would like to park inside during the winter.
The second item is to box up the heater that cannot be used in bathrooms and get it to the Amazon Return UPS store.
I am sure many other tasks will pop up to make it a full day.
We've used steel T-Posts for wind anchors on our stands. Old disassembled bed frames and foundation rebar from construction sites (trash bin) have also been used in the past.
ReplyDeleteThanks for the tip
DeleteAnd just-like-that, I was exhausted and probably dehydrated.
ReplyDeleteJoe, would you choose to take your vehicle on a hard day's work knowing it was a quart low on oil?
If you KNEW it leaked oil enough to BE a quart low in a few hours, would you bring oil to top it off? Yeah, I know you and i had cars that were like that friend. Still by habit keep a quart in my well maintained car.
Humans are mostly water. Water is more than just the "oil" in our system. During my decades of Militarty service and more decades of medical service (still ongoing) I've seen both the short term effects of dehydration and the longer term persistence of dehydration on soldiers and working men.
Does Kidney stones, stroke and such sound like fun?
PLEASE Stay Hydrated Buddy. You and I can check by the need to pee every couple of hours (pretty easy for us with trees around) and checking that the color of the urine is light straw of clear.
Not that many good people in the world, Joe. I prefer to keep you around as do little old ladies that just want someone to listen :-)
Dehydration is sneaky this time of year.
DeleteIt is cool. We are in a low-pressure cell weather-wise so sweat dries right off.
It snuck up on me because I did not have hourly alarms set to drink water/electrolyte.
I will fix that next time.
Thanks for the concern.
I'll offer this caution, as it was a lesson I had beaten into me by the internal medicine profs in veterinary school...urine color tells you nothing with regard to hydration status or urine specific gravity(which provides evidence of the kidneys' ability to concentrate urine).
ReplyDeleteFor example, the B- complex + C vitamin tab that I take daily gives me fluorescent yellow-green urine - almost the color of Prestone antifreeze.
There are exceptions to every rule.
DeleteHowever, frequency of need to urinate and knowing what the Hydrated Color of YOUR Urine isn't that hard to understand.
If for some odd reason I was drinking methylene blue turning my urine into Smurf juice I'd still try hard to keep my frequency of urination up and probably punish the idiot that put Smurf juice in my coffee.
Yeah, Medics are a prankster bunch.