Remembered my purse this time, so I had the keys-- Becki has fixed up the house beautifully. The all white bedroom is very classy, and the office will be very elegant when she has it finished.
Maybe I should have included that trailer in the "rental agreement".... Naw, that would be a horrible thing to do to somebody nice....
Anyway.... The Spring Break Squirrel Shoot of Carrisa Plains is over, and the Great Squirrel Hunter (#2 son) decreased the varmit population by about 150 "squirrels". His mentor and trusty gun bearer (a friend of my father's) got about twice that many, plus a 50" rattlesnake, the skin and rattles of which he gave to the GSH. GSH also has been invited to carry on his grandfather's tradition of ridding the Ruskovich Ranch of "squirrels".... Bobby, my geriatric Border Collie puppy and fur-brother, visited his Carrisa Plains and Creston buddies, and good romps were had by all. The Ruskovich ("down the road a spell" neighbors) cats weren't all that pleased to be herded, but were fairly tolerant. Buck, Bobby's equine step-brother, is doing as well as one can expect for a 30+ year old retired cowpony. The "DTRAS" neighbor has been feeding the guineas (I counted 8 of them). The "weekend home" trailer is about as cleaned out as I can do for now-- I pulled up and tossed the carpet pieces and "curtains" that were in there, sprinkled the floor with "Carpet Fresh", waited an hour or so, then vacuumed everywhere the vacuum hose could reach. I put down rugs, but they're on bare plywood flooring. There's still a bad/wierd smell, which I'm afraid may be a propane leak-- it's strongest over by the stove, but all the knobs are turned fully off. I'm going to ask the neighbor to take a sniff, and if he thinks that it smells like propane, to turn it off at the tank. Still a lot of "scrap" metal and assorted junk to be hauled away. The fields are green with something grasslike-- not sure if it's hay or weeds, but it's only a few inches high. It's OK for now, but will need to be cut/turned under in a couple of months as a fire prevention measure. Have some old hay bales that need to be hauled out of there, too-- the people across the road who had been taking them for their horses have moved; not sure if they're still usable for anything except mulch at this point.
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