B&B Happy Goats....journal

[frustratedearthmother]

Mine is crunchy...lots of bare spots where the rye burned up but nothing coming in behind it...weird. We went from being sloppy wet for six months and dry as a bone right now. Rain in the forecast today so. Hate to hope for it lest it become a deluge, lol. But, a gentle shower would be quite alright with me.

 

[greybeard]

Is your grass crunching and burnt like it is here ? We need rain for sure ....but no tornadoes please!

No, not that crunchy kind of dry. It's coming tho, probably July/August.
It rained early this am so we're good for another few weeks.
Texas is never more than 2 weeks away from drought no matter what..

 

[Bruce]

Perhaps you should sign up for a summer course - remedial arithmetic

 

[Bruce]

Lucky you, the little ones have already marked you as part of the group!

 

[greybeard]

I participated in that project years ago for several summers and it wasn't a easy task at all. I would imagine having rolled bales may be a little easier, but back when i did it , it was all bales and picked up and loaded by hand....

I hauled many thousands of sq bales in my youth, picked up in the field, loaded on rickety old stake bed trucks, driven to, unloaded and stacked in some of the dustiest falling down barns ever, for pennies/bale. Most i ever got was on a weekend where rain was threatening every minute and a big ol field with 2000 bales being spit out by an old McCormick baler. The unheard of price of 7ȼ a bale, which that day was split between my brother and I. I made $70 cash money that weekend, which was a princely sum for a 15 yr old. Most people paid only 4-5ȼ per bale, but this field had to be picked up in a hurry.
Didn't hurt that the drivers of the baler, rake and truck were girls from a local family I knew well (not THAT well!) . The youngest (1 1/2 yrs younger than me) later became the focus of a real life murder for hire made-for-TV movie. Her name was Verna Brown at the time I knew her but was Verna Heath after she married. She was the proposed victim..as was her daughter.
https://www.texasmonthly.com/articles/the-cheerleader-murder-plot/

I was never so glad as the day everyone started baling big round bales. Don't miss those little heavy sq bales one bit.

 

[Bruce]

Her name was Verna Brown at the time I knew her but was Verna Heath after she married. She was the proposed victim..as was her daughter.
https://www.texasmonthly.com/articles/the-cheerleader-murder-plot/

That Holloway woman was one sick puppy!

 

[greybeard]

I did the woodstove bit one winter and come early spring, my wife returned from town one day and told me she just rented us an apt..."We aren't spending another day or night in that house".
She's the love of a 1000 lifetimes.

 

[CntryBoy777]

Hang in there!!....rainy season begins in 2wks....and hurricane starts saturday....once it starts raining, it may not stop for quite awhile.....

 

[Bruce]

old Glenwood wood cook stove

HEY! I really like my old (1931) Glenwood Insulated DeLuxe cook stove

 

[Bruce]

OK, I can see that. Cooking with a wood fire stove, as millions of women did for a long time, has to be quite an art.