Baymule’s Journal

[Baymule]

Not going to Groveton house this weekend. Supposed to be raining, drop into the 20’s Saturday and Sunday night. Here it will be a hard freeze and wintery mix.

A friend gave me moving boxes today. I have enough for me , the family buying the farm and some left over.

I canned 20 pounds of chicken leg quarters with rice today, for the dogs. Got 14 quarts. Got 3 more 20# bags in the freezer. Guess I’ll get it canned this weekend.

Got a few more boxes packed today and stuff dragged out in the floor-so I could load it up for the trip to Groveton that I’m not going to make now.

 

[Baymule]

My daughter bought the little girls inflatable things they can crawl into and roll around in. Guess what they pretend to be?

DUNG BEETLES!

Hahaha! That’s Mamaw’s girls! LOL

 

[Cecilia's-herd]

My daughter bought the little girls inflatable things they can crawl into and roll around in. Guess what they pretend to be?

DUNG BEETLES!

Hahaha! That’s Mamaw’s girls! LOL

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Ahh they are so cute

 

[farmerjan]

My daughter bought the little girls inflatable things they can crawl into and roll around in. Guess what they pretend to be?

DUNG BEETLES!

Hahaha! That’s Mamaw’s girls! LOL

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Did your DD say EWWWWW....????? Yep, chip off the Mamaw block!!!!

 

[Baymule]

I could start a box store! With the expected cold, rainy miserable weather, I’ll be packing more stuff this weekend.

 

[Cecilia's-herd]

I could start a box store! With the expected cold, rainy miserable weather, I’ll be packing more stuff this weekend.

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The Catholic guilt when you throw away a good box…

 

[Bruce]

@Bruce With my Ioniq, electric only mode is based on torque not speed.So on long slight downhill grade it will stay in electric only while I'm doing 70mph. As soon as I start up next hill, it will switch to hybrid mode.

Oh yeah. The algorithms are likely pretty complex. The car "chooses" if it will go into or stay in EV mode based on lots of things. One is the battery state of charge, another is load, another is temperature. I've gone a couple of miles on the interstate in my older Prii with the EV light on. Basically the car "decided" it needed a very slight amount of power to stay at speed on a downhill. If you've got the cruise on and the hill is steep enough to increase speed, the electric motor will "retard" speed through the transmission by acting as a generator, adding that power to the battery.

The Ioniq has a 6 speed auto transmission, therefore it shifts. The Prius is a planetary gear transmission. No shifting, ever. Well unless you shift from Drive to Reverse or the like.

 

[Baymule]

Robert brought his trailer and my tractor over this morning. We dug out maybe a fourth of the sheep barn and piled the trailer up. He scooped what he could with the FEL bucket, we pitch forked more and piled it up. He dumped in trailer, rinse, repeat. Then we pitch forked, raked and shoveled it out in his garden. My knees are screaming at me. 1:00 time to quit.

Feet up, empty glass of eggnog. Life is good.

 

[Baymule]

Pinto is a lot bigger than the two sets of twins. Ewenique is a good mom with lots of milk and always raises nice twins. And they are almost always boys. I sure wanted a ewe lamb from her and she gifted me with a single, Pinto.

Here she is, showing her Pinto spots that inspired her name. She is standing next to one of the twins born just hours before her. Pinto towers over the twins. @Mike CHS i don’t have much experience with singles, will she finish out bigger than the twin ewes or will they catch up to her somewhere along the way?

 

[Mini Horses]

Is that an old church pew on your front porch? . Nice.

Oh, pinto is a keeper! Nice she gave you a daughter, finally.