seed catalogs, hoop houses, a NEW fence! and an old friend

the fence went in.... i think we need at least 3 more panels up at the top of the driveway.
now the ducks won't be bothered,
the house guest next door can curse at me all he wants, i don't have to see him
and i am going to see if i can grow cucumbers up the fence! or even beans....
plus make a chicken yard there with netting etc.

meanwhile seeds catalogs cometh..... i am looking at johnny's select with a small hoop house (the short one, you can't walk in it) and i am thinking......yes i better do this
at least for the peppers and some maybe for the pumpkins and squash, since i am sick of losing to squash vine borer, and that whole 'inject the stem with BT' thing was an unmitigated disaster.
(for those who don't know, the vine evidently does not like to be injected with bt and spit it back at me, BT is a virus that resembles and smells exactly like pond scumb)

now i reconnected with a friend of mine from when i was a kidlet, she moved when she was 12 and i lost track of her. i found her tonight, and the freaky thing is ..........she's here in the stroudsburg area! how amazing is that?
i spoke to her on the phone, she's smart, sweet, articulate, just amazing....(very pretty too, as i found her on facebook and her picture is her avatar)
i suppose that really since 40 years have gone by since i last saw her, i don't really know her at all, nor her me.
but it was still totally amazing to me
i caught up on her family, she's a mom, and a wife and one of her two sisters is here as well.
i am still in shock.

now as to the tell the nephew etc, yes i am and had figured i would do the right thing and let them all know about this genetic thing that could really affect thier future families. ( after that affect/effect post on facebook the other day i am STILL not sure i am using them right)
meanwhile i wait for my test results

bernie appears to be getting yet another fleet under his care, there is one happening in south jersey between edison and maryland... and one up here
ok make that two more fleets
he gets home around 8-9 at night
he leaves at 5......... he works long days
he tried to get home a bit early yesterday as i hurt my leg or something and i couldn't walk. ( it may have been my back, and it may have been from NOT falling but slipping on ice)

let's see what else, ah, falstaff. he's limping. so this weekend we are going to try and hold him so i can see his leg.... it may not be successful.
i am pretty sure that, given his age, it's arthritis, but we'll check for bumblefoot as well
it doesn't really seem to have quenched his libido however, he still is struting his studly man duck waddle in front of the ladies.
and for the record in case anyone is interested, the ladies still seem really interested.......(NO we are NOT going there until spring and until a secure 24/7 duck pen, maybe make that TWO secure duck pens)

now i am drinking my coffee, and i have some aspirin laid out waiting for me.
it's to be warm today, so the weather people say, but they've lied all week......if it is warm i have night crates to do today.
i could use one more night crate.
i know if i buy one more night crate, a duck will spend ONE night in it, poop all over it, and the 24/7 pen will be finished by elves overnight
these girls have got to learn to get along, i may turn them out in the garden and let them duke it all out amongst themselves, as long as they dont' take a wing or something off one of the others
oh man DUCKS..........

but two out of three now love their mommy