I may need to build an ark soon. I've been looking at Noah's blueprint, but I'm stuck on the dimensions. :-)
It starting raining here yesterday afternoon, storming actually, and we've gotten three inches of rain so far. There is a lot of water in my basement and the electric fence is shorted out. I guess that means a broom for me and walking the fence for my husband.
We are supposed to get some more strong storms today with more heavy rain. I'm thanking my lucky stars that they actually graveled my road after I made some noise with my state representative last fall.
The rain is sort of a blessing in disguise because it is delaying my husband and his father from cutting hay. Last year they started too early and the grass hay did not have enough nutrients to make the cattle produce rich enough milk for the calves in the winter. My husband had to supplement with grain and that was expensive. This first cutting will surely be more lush and nutritional this year. Nothing I say can stop them, but God does listen and a prayer was answered. :-)
There are a few limbs down in the yard, but nothing too serious. I'll keep my weather radio on today just in case storms pop up again as they are supposed to.
Now, if I can just figure out what a cubit is, I can get busy on my ark.
CW
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CreativeWoman posted on Jun 02, 2009
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Hegemone said on Jun 02, 2009....
Huh, well we've got storms headed our way too apparently, so if you figure out the cubit thing, pass it on, okay? Lol. Well glad to hear that you're holding up through the storms anyway. It's nice how the timing of things works out isn't it. I know my husband and his father were glad of last weekend's (or was it the weekend before? lol, can't remember) storms because that meant they didn't have to go cut hay for the guy who has his idiot horses in the pasture with mine. It's too early, nobody is ready, the equipment wasn't ready and there were not enough other guys to help. This guy is NOT good at planning, he just pulls it out of his ass and goes 'OK, let's do it!' Not effective or amusing. Stay safe and dry CW! -
beyondtheveil said on Jun 02, 2009....
CW- A cubit is the approximate distance from the tip of your finger to the elbow. Better to use a yardstick and think of it as two cubits. I'd like to see your ark plans. That should be interesting. Or you could send us your rain and forget the ark. -
queenparanoia said on Jun 02, 2009....
it's raining a lot there. i think another storm is coming... well say safe cw... ;-) -
CreativeWoman said on Jun 02, 2009....
You know Hege, I really hate hearing "I've got to beat the rain." in the summer. I sometimes call myself a hay widow.
Do you help putting up hay?
CW
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CreativeWoman said on Jun 02, 2009....
beyond,
Thanks for cluing me in. I would gladly send you some rain if I could. :-)
queen,
I will stay safe. You do the same.
CW
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uniquely-ironic said on Jun 02, 2009....
I'm sure it's not fun having the storms, but in a way I wish I could be there for a day to see them. We rarely get a serious storm here. I've been "lucky" enough to have seen a few when traveling and I've always found them darkly beautiful.Keep safe and dry. -
CreativeWoman said on Jun 02, 2009....
uni,
I do like the lightning and the crack of thunder. The wind is a different story. A severe thunderstorm has winds upwards of 60 mph. Sometimes straight line winds do a lot of damage here. You would swear a tornado had been through. It is exciting to say the least. :-)
CW
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Hegemone said on Jun 02, 2009....
CW - Sometimes I do, sometimes I don't. I have sworn off driving the tractors as of two years ago (a confusing incident with me driving for the first time, my husband and BIL arguing over where I should go all while NOT telling me where to go and not paying attention to me when I was asking for help), so if they are actually doing hay I don't help because it's too heavy for me to throw up on the trailer anyway. If it's straw from the winter wheat, I'll help because I can stack those bales with the best of 'em on the trailer. -
CreativeWoman said on Jun 02, 2009....
Hege,
I tried to rake hay once. That was a disaster. I've driven the truck so they could stack the bales. I've even unloaded them and stacked them in the barn. I don't do it anymore though. My allergic reaction to the hay has gotten so bad that I can't even wash my husband's clothes without getting sick or breaking out.
The nephews on the in-law side of the family are old enough now that they help in the hay field. I've retired. lol
CW
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Hegemone said on Jun 02, 2009....
Lol, I'm sort of hoping that they don't do straw again this year, as they chose not to last year. To be honest, I've got hideous allergies with it too, I spend a week afterwards all congested, full of crap in my lungs, itchy and miserable ... but be damned if I'll let my scrawny friend go out in the field and get all of the attention, which she would, and make me look like a piece of crap because I didn't go out. I suffer through the straw to ward off an attention whore, lol. Before the last couple of years when she's been around I'd go just for the hell of it, now I'm on a mission, ya know? She's one of those little skinny girls who can't get enough attention, pouts when she doesn't have it and makes herself look bad ... unless you're a guy, then she's golden. This would be OFHG, who I've mentioned in my past posts, who I'm speaking of. She's the little pretty thing and I'm not little and dainty like her so I get completely overlooked and it pisses me off to no end. Gotta do what ya gotta do though, right? Heh, and this is partially why we maybe only hang out with them once or twice a week now. -
CreativeWoman said on Jun 02, 2009....
Hege,
I don't get into the competition thing much. I blaze my own trail. I suppose that is why my in-laws think of me as lazy. I don't babysit at their daycare and I don't slave in their garden for them anymore....and I stay off the tractors. I have a sister-in-law who will tell you what a hard worker she is and her husband will brag about his work ethic yet their children run around with dirty, greasy hair. (Which pisses me off to no end. I would have had clean and well cared for kids. Sigh...) They get no points with me and I really don't care if I get any with them.
Try not to let the skinny girl get to you. I know that is easier said than done.
CW
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Hegemone said on Jun 02, 2009....
CW, ha, I'm right there with you an all accounts for pleasing the family, could give a crap less. All I aim for is too keep my husband's eyes in the right direction if you know what I mean, the rest can ogle her all they please. I am not afraid to knock a skinny girl off the top of a trailer load of straw, lmao. That would piss me off watching a bunch of dirty kids running around while their parents did other things instead. Kids first, then the rest. That's why it'll be a while before my husband and I get around to having kids because I refuse to let them go to the wayside for stupid things that aren't really that important in the end. -
CreativeWoman said on Jun 02, 2009....
Hege,
More power to you, hon. :-D
CW
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fragglesrock said on Jun 02, 2009....
i'm feeling your pain with the water in the basement, been there done that a few times :( it's NOT what i call a party...i hope you can get it dried out alright!
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wishyouwerehere said on Jun 02, 2009....
Stay safe, CW - and (possibly) enjoy the rain?? Sometimes, it's a good excuse to stay in and read or do something you enjoy (besides getting water out of the basement which doesn't sound like too much fun!) -
CreativeWoman said on Jun 02, 2009....
Wishy,
I plan to do some knitting on my loom this afternoon. MissMimi sent me a link to more patterns. :-) My creative juices are flowing.
The basement has already been swept and we have a break in the rain for the moment.
CW
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CreativeWoman said on Jun 02, 2009....
fraggles,
It's not my idea of party either. The fan is drying out the floor right now.
CW
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cuppajava said on Jun 02, 2009....
Hi CW - i agree with beyond on the definition,he is quite correct - i would be happy to help you out with some plans if you like - but i dont do cubits though! -
CreativeWoman said on Jun 02, 2009....
CJ,
Thanks for the offer. I'll let you know if the rain reaches those epic proportions. :-) It's raining again as I type this.
CW
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RollingC said on Jun 02, 2009....
I always thought cubits was like a yard or a meter but then what do I know?I've read somewhere that a WW2 ship was built (American Navy) along the same measurements of the Ark and it was done so for the stability of the ship in high seas. That's about all I know about the Ark and it's building code......and as far as floods of Biblical proportions are concerned, we'll have to wait for the next Ice Age to see another flood from the Great Lakes scour the midwest. -
travelr712 said on Jun 02, 2009....
a cubit is the distance between the crook of your arm and the tip of your nose when held at a 45 degree angle 15 degrees from your waste on a thursday with a full moon.or not... :-) -
MsStar39 said on Jun 03, 2009....
The rain is a good thing then, men can be so stubborn. -
hotaka said on Jun 03, 2009....
Sorry, CW. You're without my help. I use metric. I am from the generation that went to school just when Canada switched and so to be sure we all learned we had metric from grade four to grade ten.
Hmm... something back then in Noah's day was the length of a Pharoah's forearm. Was that a cubit?
No wait! I got it. How do you make a line into a box? Cubit!
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scipio said on Jun 03, 2009....
Distance from the tips of the fingers to the bend of the elbow.
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