Baymule’s Journal

[SageHill]

I’ve had a rough couple of days, sleepless, painful nights. I’ve been miserable. I feel better today and used my outside walker to go see Sentry and Sheba. I sat on the seat and petted both through the fence. I decided to walk to the mailbox. Driveway is about 1/8 of a mile. I was chugging along and realized I had an escort!

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I love me some cow TV, even better when they are my own personal escort! Aren’t they so darn pretty?

Now that’s what I call moo vin along nicely!

 

[Ridgetop]

Glad you are doing well. Keep icing that knee.

 

[Baymule]

Got ice on the knee now. I walked a mile today. Have a step counter on my phone and day before surgery I walked 2 miles. Finally made a mile today.

 

[farmerjan]

You may want to walk less and concentrate on making yourself lift the knee more like marching to get the bending going better... it is so easy to do more "shuffle walking" because it is more stable on the ground... but then it takes away from the necessary bending. I still tell myself to bend the knees more when I walk....

 

[Baymule]

You may want to walk less and concentrate on making yourself lift the knee more like marching to get the bending going better... it is so easy to do more "shuffle walking" because it is more stable on the ground... but then it takes away from the necessary bending. I still tell myself to bend the knees more when I walk....

I’m gonna have to agree with you on that. Ewes are in the yard. I spent most of the morning outside with them. Absolutely gorgeous day, just couldn’t stay inside. Aren’t they sweet??

Got tired, went in. Fried some catfish, ate, heard CRUNCH CRUNCH CRUNCH. Went outside. Ewes are rubbing on underskirting of mobile home.

First we eat these nice weeds, then we scratch our numbskulls on this nice scratchy stuff Mom has!

I had to push their butts with the walker! Go back in, ice pack on knee. CRUNCH CRUNCH CRUNCH. Back outside push lazy butts away from house. Hey! Whatever happened to y’all being AFRAID of this walker?

Every 10 minutes, rinse repeat. Then I started squinting them with the water hose. They ran from that! Hahaha! I WIN! I’d no sooner get back in recliner, foot up, ice pack on, then one would look around, “Pssstt! Y’all !!! She’s GONE!!” And they’d be right back. That side of the house is in shade. It’s cooler there. Fine but do they have to cave in the underskirting?

I finally put them up. Feet up, knee iced. I need a nap.

Step counter says 1.3 miles. To heck with that!

 

[Ridgetop]

At least they are mowing the yard. Of course, now you will have to let the grass grow high again to hide the crunched underskirting! You will have to run a hot wire around the bottom of the house!

I did a "marching step" at first too. Then after several weeks the therapist told me to try walking "normally". After so many years of lurching around I wasn't sure what that felt like anymore. I still limp a lot but maybe that is because of my hips and back. After so many years of walking on a leg that shot out at a 30 degree angle from the knee, it did a real number on the muscles and ligaments in my hips and back. I have to try now not to walk with any limp at all. Feels really funny. LOL

 

[Baymule]

Yes they ate a lot of grass. Mowed down those high weeds at the underskirting. Ringo and #1 got to go graze pasture. Cooper drove himself nuts with the ewes being right next to him. I think they could spend a week or two just in the yard.

I took a picture of one month old Uno and sent to Domingo the tree guy. He sent back, Yes I want him. How much?

I’ll wean Uno at 3 months in a pen next to his mommy, socialize him with animal crackers, the Universal Tame Sheep Treat, give him a fecal test and Domingo can pick him up at 4 months.

Uno. I priced him at $250

 

[Baymule]

Oh, I took that nap and got a bowl of Vanilla Bluebell ice cream with chocolate syrup.

 

[Mike CHS]

Looks like Uno is going to be a nice ram.

 

[Baymule]

Looks like Uno is going to be a nice ram.

Thank you! Ringo and his momma, Lucy make some beautiful lambs. Uno just gets better looking every day. I kept her ewe from last year, Rainbow. Rainbow will meet up with Cooper in the spring.