Plans for today (2025)

Did the pancakes. Made a tomato sauce for pasta. Used some left- over minced meat to stuff a couple of round, yellow squash ( in the oven as I write). Cauliflower poached and a cheese sauce to be made in a moment for cauliflower cheese.Made a load of rice ( rice is the first carb in Venezuela). The aubergine parmigiana will have to wait for tomorrow, as will the unknown curry I'm going to make with the bits and pieces in the vegetable drawer.
 
Barriehie said:
Gun range here is any deer in the back 80.
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I wish I had a back 80! I'm lucky enough, at least, that one of the nicest gun clubs in the state is 10 minutes from my house. They have rifle, handgun, and archery ranges, competition rifle and handgun ranges, indoor smallbore and handgun ranges in the clubhouse, plus a tactical range for classes and events, archery field courses, they shoot trap and sporting clays, and they own ~200 Acres, so members can also hunt and fish on the property. I'm a gun guy, so I love it! But, if they have big events, or I just want to be alone, I also belong to a little hole-in-the-wall gun club tucked back in the woods 10 minutes in the other direction. Their facilities are pretty spartan, but it's rare that anyone else is there. I try to get to one or the other once a week. Up until this year, I was competing in the High Master class of NRA/CMP High Power Matches, but this year I felt a little burned out and have been pursuing other interests.

Rifle range at the nice club (25-50-100-200 yard positions available).
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One of the handgun pits in at the nice club.
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Today's eclectic selection, lol. I shot probably 400 rounds of mixed 9mm, .38 Spl, and .357 Mag.
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The other club's rifle range. It's much smaller, there's no covered roof, and you have to pull carpet remnants out of a barrel to line the concrete shooting benches, since they don't have rubber mats like the nice club. But, when no one else is there, you can go prone forward of the firing line or walk downrange to do tactical drills.
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Anyway, my laundry room base cabinet is now mounted and plumbed. I still need to build the framework for the above washer/dryer countertop, as we have a guy coming this week to do final measurements to install quartz countertops. I also need to get on the cabinet makers website and order all of the crown molding and trim.
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Now, on to that dinner I want to make...
 
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Gone Hiking said:
I wish I had a back 80! I'm lucky enough, at least, that one of the nicest gun clubs in the state is 10 minutes from my house. They have rifle, handgun, and archery ranges, competition rifle and handgun ranges, indoor smallbore and handgun ranges in the clubhouse, plus a tactical range for classes and events, archery field courses, they shoot trap and sporting clays, and they own ~200 Acres, so members can also hunt and fish on the property. I'm a gun guy, so I love it! But, if they have big events, or I just want to be alone, I also belong to a little hole-in-the-wall gun club tucked back in the woods 10 minutes in the other direction. Their facilities are pretty spartan, but it's rare that anyone else is there. I try to get to one or the other once a week. Up until this year, I was competing in the High Master class of NRA/CMP High Power Matches, but this year I felt a little burned out and have been pursuing other interests.

Rifle range at the nice club (25-50-100-200 yard positions available).
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One of the handgun pits in at the nice club.
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Today's eclectic selection, lol. I shot probably 400 rounds of mixed 9mm, .38 Spl, and .357 Mag.
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The other club's rifle range. It's much smaller, there's no covered roof, and you have to pull carpet remnants out of a barrel to line the concrete shooting benches, since they don't have rubber mats like the nice club. But, when no one else is there, you can go prone forward of the firing line or walk downrange to do tactical drills.
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Anyway, my laundry room base cabinet is now mounted and plumbed. I still need to build the framework for the above washer/dryer countertop, as we have a guy coming this week to do final measurements to install quartz countertops. I also need to get on the cabinet makers website and order all of the crown molding and trim.
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Now, on to that dinner I want to make...
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Nice range! 'Vegas had a nice one I belonged to but when ammo prices surged I quit shooting just to shoot.

Plumbing looks good. 👍
 
Tidy up after remove 2 wheelbarrow loads of warrigal greens and 1 wheelbarrow load of oregano and perennial basil from the veg plot.

Then, bury the bokashi in the veg plot, dig and weed some more and get the remaining plants into the ground.

Sow some lettuce, carrots, beetroot seed and probably a few others, and check on the remaining veg and fruit in there. Some need some support.

Also I need to do some repairs on the netting and shade cloth over the veg plot.

The fruit trees need cutting back so they put their energy into the fruit and not new growth.

The chooks need their area de-nettling and their grass cutting back. I'll sow some chook grass in there as well.

And I need to fill in some holes mice have created to access the chook house. Polyfiller will do that, it just need to clean up the area around it first and remove the existing mice droppings so that's a P3 mask job.

And at some point the front center border needs to be de-weeded yet again. I've got a few plants and a Japanese maple tree to plant in there.

I think that's likely a today and tomorrow plan between you and I!
 
SatNavSaysStraightOn said:
Tidy up after remove 2 wheelbarrow loads of warrigal greens and 1 wheelbarrow load of oregano and perennial basil from the veg plot.

Then, bury the bokashi in the veg plot, dig and weed some more and get the remaining plants into the ground.

Sow some lettuce, carrots, beetroot seed and probably a few others, and check on the remaining veg and fruit in there. Some need some support.

Also I need to do some repairs on the netting and shade cloth over the veg plot.

The fruit trees need cutting back so they put their energy into the fruit and not new growth.

The chooks need their area de-nettling and their grass cutting back. I'll sow some chook grass in there as well.

And I need to fill in some holes mice have created to access the chook house. Polyfiller will do that, it just need to clean up the area around it first and remove the existing mice droppings so that's a P3 mask job.

And at some point the front center border needs to be de-weeded yet again. I've got a few plants and a Japanese maple tree to plant in there.

I think that's likely a today and tomorrow plan between you and I!
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Wheelbarrow loads from the garden!!! 👍
 
SatNavSaysStraightOn said:
Tidy up after remove 2 wheelbarrow loads of warrigal greens and 1 wheelbarrow load of oregano and perennial basil from the veg plot.

Then, bury the bokashi in the veg plot, dig and weed some more and get the remaining plants into the ground.

Sow some lettuce, carrots, beetroot seed and probably a few others, and check on the remaining veg and fruit in there. Some need some support.

Also I need to do some repairs on the netting and shade cloth over the veg plot.

The fruit trees need cutting back so they put their energy into the fruit and not new growth.

The chooks need their area de-nettling and their grass cutting back. I'll sow some chook grass in there as well.

And I need to fill in some holes mice have created to access the chook house. Polyfiller will do that, it just need to clean up the area around it first and remove the existing mice droppings so that's a P3 mask job.

And at some point the front center border needs to be de-weeded yet again. I've got a few plants and a Japanese maple tree to plant in there.
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Sounds like you had a day like mine.
Make tea and breakfast for son.
Check posts on CookingBites. 🥰 🥰
Make sure he;s got his lunch all sorted out.
Breakfast for the gardener, who comes from 40 miles away.
Take son to Gym, then zoom off to the supermarket to buy a new broom, floor cloths and toilet cleaner for the "maid".
Back by 9.45; conversation with a client who wants some really, really hot curries but can't decide.
Check the water tank to ensure it's full. (It was)
Pay 458 bills and send gifts to sons, whose birthdays are next week.
Pick up son from Gym, but also pick up 75 kgs of earth for the garden.
Prep for a LNAT class this evening.
Rush off frantically to the supermarket to buy ice for the missus, who's playing cards with her friends.
Review and edit an essay sent to me by tonight's student, who then, at 5pm, said she couldn't make it today.
Fry up some samosas and vadas for wife&friends.
Whip up a plate of instant noodles that I slathered in satay sauce ( home made).
And it's still only 7pm...:D:D
 
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