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You already have the magic broom that keeps the Cow Monsters away!The way power goes off around here, maybe a wood burning fire pit and a cauldron too! I need a witch hat…..
You already have the magic broom that keeps the Cow Monsters away!The way power goes off around here, maybe a wood burning fire pit and a cauldron too! I need a witch hat…..
I’m armed and dangerous!You already have the magic broom that keeps the Cow Monsters away!
When we were square dancing some year ago (pre hearing, knee, and ankle problems) there a was a older man who came ion oxygen and with a whee chair. He would unplug to join a set, then barely make it back to his oxygen and collapse into his wheelchair! He could only get in about 2-3 dances a night, but he was not going to give up dancing! Some of our other friends, DH, and I compared notes one night and found out that we all cavorted around the dance floor all evening, got in our cars (most parked in the handicapped slots LOL, drove home and had to use canes to get into our houses! Apparently even people in their primes stiffened up on the drive home from the dances!My step counter on my cell phone has started telling me how many calories I burn daily.
“Active energy includes walking slowly, pushing my wheelchair, and household chores , as well as dancing and biking.
PUSHING MY WHEELCHAIR??
WALKING SLOWLY??
DANCING? BIKING?
I guess I get out of my wheelchair to go dancing and biking.
I read about that trick for use in swimming pools on the east coast and northern states. You use several large beach balls. The idea is that the water freezes around the air filled balls and they flex as the ice expands. It keeps the ice from freezing and expanding to crack the gunnite/concrete pool walls. Not sure if that would keep the buckets from freezing. You could try it in large water troughs. I would replace the individual 5 gallon water buckets with a large 80-gallon trough and break out the ice. Use a deep trough and build a platform around one side so the sheep can reach inside to drink. A shallow trough will freeze. Trough heaters will probably be better although I am always afraid they will electrocute the animals as they drink. Probably because my goats used to play with and dismantle the auto waterer floats. I tried building cages around them but the goats figured out how to destroy those too. After finding water running merrily down the hill several ties, we finally stopped using them. Here in California we don't have the freezing problem. It will be a large learning curve in NE Texas.I'm sure ya'll have tried it - but I remember somewhere about floating things in water troughs to prevent them from icing over - like a basket ball, or there was something about milk jugs filled with salt water that still float.
Frimplepamts - what a name!Still have crud my 15 year old granddaughter gave me at Christmas. Coughing and blowing nose, the OTC stuff just ain’t getting it gone. I think it’s doctor time.
90% rain today, supposed to start in 30 minutes, about when it gets light enough to go feed and do chores. Of course.
Goal this week is to get working equipment set up so I can start taking fecal samples, trimming feet and all that fun stuff. Got to buy some hog panels and a cow panel to build the chutes and put up the gates. Going to put up the sorting gate and use hog panels to make a temporary holding pen. Got to get young ewes worked and put with Cooper. Knee replacement surgery kinda interfered with getting that done, but I had to stop long enough to get that done.
Going to rain today and tomorrow, sunshine for 3 days, then 3 more days of rain. The sheep lot will be soup, manure soup. Sloppy mud mess. At least it won’t be freezing.
Got 2 heavy bred ewes, Ewenique, a 9 year old, the last of my original 4 that we bought. She is BIG! And Frimplepants, Ewenique’s granddaughter, she also is about to pop. They are at the point of becoming Jamaica Sheep. As in Ja’ Make-uh-me-CRAZY!