Continuing the backlog! September has come and gone, fall is a faint memory for Florida of years past, it’s still warm but we are seeing some change finally!
Oct 4
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27 Sep
Randal plays catch me if you can at the park!
Another week, another post! This last week I got hit with the crud going around, so that set me back a bit. Fortunately, I’m over the worst of it now, so back at it!
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13 Sep – 19 Sep
Second week of September catch up post!
13 Sep
As usual, the day and the week started off with morning chores. The poultry and the goats were at our neighbor’s across the street.
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8 Sep – 12 Sep 2026
Life has been hitting fast and hard, so catching up on the backlog! I’m getting tires rotated on one of the trucks, so a perfect opportunity to work on a couple posts!
Shenanigans at Cub Scouts! Jarek is helping out as a den chief with the pack.
7 Sep 2026
I took advantage of a cool day to install a WiFi AP on the front of the house to provide coverage to the front yard. As I’ve been up in the attic a bunch, it was not much trouble to run the cable.
I also took some time to clean up the patch panel which had become a bit of a spaghetti mess over time. Unfortunately, there is still one cable run that had a problem, so I still need to troubleshoot that, but the rest of them were good!
Garrett and Randal being goobers in the kitchen!
Saryia and Rosalina are on clean up duty in the weed patch!
As it was a Monday, we also had all the usual fun with Music Lessons and Scouts!
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3 Sep 2026
Evan and Meagan got to practice early, and started doing some drills. Meagan made Evan a bet that if he blocked more shots than her, she would do his dishes(!). Sadly, he did not succeed.
Garret being a goober, as usual of course.
The other notable thing that happened today was our Ninja toaster oven started to go on the fritz. Which was rather disappointing and only then did we find out how much we really relied on it.
4 Sept 2026
Nothing quite like going out to the chickens and finding one randomly dead in the morning. No apparent signs of struggle or injuries.
Wildly crazy loud geese!
After animal chores, it was off to lunch with friends, then to the store. We were running low on our favorite peanut butter. Which, it turns out, was apparently also quite popular as there was none on the shelves when I got there.
Then it was time to change the oil on the truck. I was going to use my new oil extraction pump, but something wasn’t compatible with the setup – either too long of a hose or it couldn’t get down to the oil pan. I had to by a longer piece of tubing but it still didn’t reach.
Meanwhile, there was chess club. Garrett is learning to play, although he has a bit of trouble with losing.
The rest of the kids had a good time. Jarek and Evan can beat everyone there, however; so we need to find them some stiffer competiiton!
Fortunately, I had a Fumoto valve installed, which made it much less messy.
Normally, this results in a partial oil bath for me as 3 gallons of oil is liberated.
Of course, there is no time to change oil like when you are dodging rain showers!
I see a little person got a hold of my phone…
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2 Sep 2026
We tried a little experiment, well two actually. One was cutting back the feed for the chickens, and two was using the Tractor Supply delivery service.
Cutting the feed back wasn’t that great. It caused a slow down in their eggs, and I’m not sure if it is related or not, but seemed to trigger a molt. Egg production pretty much stopped (writing this a couple weeks in the future..) and took a while to recover.
Tractor Supply also took their time delivering, missing the original promise date and stretched out the delivery over a few days. That was a little annoying as well.
31 August 2026
Monday is back to the grind stone! Homeschool, music lessons, volleyball, and Scouts!
30 Aug 2026
After Garrett’s party, it was a day of recovery and clean up. Randal is here helping with the goat chores! Video below!