Baymule’s Journal

[Baymule]

Last Sunday afternoon I saw new neighbors were “in” so we got on the mule and rode over to say hi. They had just bought 2 bee hives. Naturally a bee stung DGD3 on her finger. Had to take a picture to send to her Mom.

Getting hugs from Ewenique helped.

Girls named Ewenique’s lambs, Charcoal and Shadow. Shadow has a short tail.

Chase had given me 2 goose eggs and I fried them for breakfast. DGD2 loves eggs, DGD3 won’t eat them.

Breakfast! With pumpkin pie of course.

 

[Baymule]

That was a fine start on a Monday morning. We went outside to get some work done. I needed to get a pen built around the hoop shelter I built. Had 2 cow panels and roll end scraps of sheep and goat wire.

They learned the fine art of zip ties, pulling tight with pliers and cutting off the tail.

They thought driving T-posts looked easy…..

Maybe letting Mamaw drive T-posts was a better idea.
We got a roll end of wire, they cut the zip ties off.

We used 3 roll ends of wire, T-posts and lots of zip ties. Finished the pen.

Girl Power!

The next day we sorted sheep and put the big fat pregnant girls in the front field. Sheba is their guardian. To help Sheba make the move, I only put her in at night. During the day she goes back to the middle field with the boys. I feed them in the evening then Sheba “goes to work” on night shift. Once they start lambing, she will be full time, to keep the black head vultures away.

 

[Baymule]

Thursday morning DGD3 woke up with red itchy eyes. This necessitated a picture to Mom. Mom responded to go buy some eyedrops. Ok, trip to Lufkin, 25 miles away.

Got the eye drops and came back. At the first creek crossing on my road is a lot of Wisteria that has gone wild. The girls wanted to see the flowers so I pulled over and we got out. The flowers are beautiful and I picked a couple for the girls.

We looked at the vines that are wrapped around the trees.

The vines go to the top of the trees.

I explained to the girls that I would NEVER plant Wisteria on my property for this very reason. Even if carefully pruned, Wisteria will pop up in the yard, growing from the roots. It is an invasive plant.

We got back in the car. It made a noise, I had got a vine wrapped around the axle. I broke it off, car still made noise, I drove it home. I tried to get the vine unwrapped, couldn’t see what I was doing. I laid on ground, my head wouldn’t fit under car. I was muttering to myself about foolish purchase of low sling car…. Sent Chris a text, explaining what happened, needed ramps. He texted back, said he’d be over in about 30 minutes. I went inside to make a couple of pumpkin pies.

Chris showed up, I drove car up on ramps. Low slung POS barely cleared ramps. Chris crawled under the car, unwrapped the vine and even dislodged big chunks of dried mud from inside of wheels. Gee, wonder where that came from? LOL

Pies came out of oven, I wrapped them up for him and his brother. Everybody happy.

Later we walked to mailbox and came back. A honeybee flew up my nostril! I put my finger on the other nostril and started snorting, trying to dislodge the bee that was really pissed off, buzzing inside my nose. Finally blew it out and it stung me. What made my nostril look good to a bee?

Girls played with dogs, petted sheep, played in dirt and had a great time. They watched a lot of cartoons, ate in front of the TV, I need to mop the floor…..

Went to my sister’s house yesterday to give girls back to their parents. Had a short visit. Sister’s house is looking beautiful. She is doing a kitchen make over and it’s gorgeous.

Woke up this morning at 2AM. I’m done with coffee, still dark outside. Been storming for 2 1/2 hours, has stopped now. Waiting on daylight. Been pouring buckets, hard rain. County graded road Wednesday, it’s probably slush. Church this morning, don’t want to risk the car, I do enough terrible things to it. Diesel truck is not 4WD, it would just slide off in the newly dug ditches. So I’ll take the Kawasaki mule to church this morning. I’ll wear overalls, no point in even being so stupid to wear a dress or skirt. No nice clothes this morning!

 

[Baymule]

It started raining again. Sure am wishing a had a barn….. or two.

 

[Weldman]

The difference in white zip ties and black zip ties is the black ones are UV resistant.

 

[Baymule]

The difference in white zip ties and black zip ties is the black ones are UV resistant.

That’s good to know. I have black zip ties. I can send the little darlings out next time they come with black ones.

 

[SageHill]

Awe. I love the pics and the stories with the DGDs. Always makes me smile. You are blessed to have them.
Sorry about the bees though.
@Sequestered Ridge Ranch wow on the black zip ties - that's what I've got a huge bag of. They do break after a year or so. Do you know anything about the metal zip ties? Are they any good?

 

[Weldman]

Awe. I love the pics and the stories with the DGDs. Always makes me smile. You are blessed to have them.
Sorry about the bees though.
@Sequestered Ridge Ranch wow on the black zip ties - that's what I've got a huge bag of. They do break after a year or so. Do you know anything about the metal zip ties? Are they any good?

I had stainless ones, they are alright, best to squish down the clamping area with pair of pliers to hold best and bend the excess up then cut it off.

 

[Finnie]

Aw, I bet it was real nice to have your helpers around for that project!

 

[Ridgetop]

Learning to be good little farmhands! Love it!