Baymule’s Journal

[Baymule]

And then you will flip it up on a fence brace so she can practice

Got a saddle stand for that.

 

[Bruce]

Not nearly as fun as riding a fence rail!

 

[Baymule]

I’m sure glad I made that cow panel shelter for the ewes and lambs. It’s been raining all day, but they have cover. Between that and the hut, dogs and sheep are good.

 

[Baymule]

I unpacked 8 boxes today and put stuff away, mostly kitchen pantry stuff. Did 4 loads of laundry, stuffed trash bags of blankets at top of the closet AND got Direct TV today. I have TV! Still have piles of boxes, now I got to arrange the living room, that means pushing boxes around.

 

[Mini Horses]

Stack, lay plywood on top...new kitchen island!

 

[Baymule]

I have a couple of end tables in there that I could drag out and actually use. And there is another recliner and a swivel rocker. This room is just shaped weird, long and narrow.

I have to finish unloading the truck today and clean up the inside. It is a mess. I guess I'll go with keeping the camper top on it, can't get it off by myself anyway. LOL

I need to add 2 more horse panels and a partial one (for a gate) to Trip and Carson's pen. It's cold and wet outside, but the lake in front of the house has soaked into the ground. My goal today is to at least drag the panels to the pen.

 

[Ridgetop]

uh -oh. I know you just wanted to clean off all the old vegetation so the grass will come up real nice and green ....right???

Tat would work, except that is the neighbor's property! We invited them to the wienie roast but they were not appreciative! However, Baymule has a matching burned area in her new sheep paddock. And by now probably gray sheep as well. Luckily it happened before the sheep and dogs arrived.

There were 4 trucks of volunteer firemen, from 3 surrounding towns. You know those boys like nothing better than a grass fire to break up their day! They could hardly keep the grins off their faces as they sprayed water on the flames and beat it out. Bay's DS was on the tractor smothering the flames.
Nice-next-door-neighbor Kenny kept hollering to his BIL fireman that he didn't do it! He was very friendly and told me that he had served time for arson and been fired from the fire department for setting " a couple fires". Baymule is now living between a mean-nasty-neighbor with scorched pasture, and nice-neighbor Kenny, the neighborhood arsonist.

 

[Ridgetop]

Computer has been taking a dump past 3 days since setting it up. I did a reboot but it didn't help. DS1 checked it for viruses, then did reboot which worked for about an hour. He checked it again and discovered that on our last trip something must have either been dumped on it, it was dropped, or something. Screen is cracked at top edge. It has a touch screen mode which I never use so DS1 turned that off and it is working for now. Just have to get it past tax season since all our business stuff is stored on it. Suggested using duct tape but DS1 sneered and reminded me I wouldn't be able to see through it. Gosh, where is his sense of humor?

Oh right, 3 weeks of peace and quiet and now the old folks are back with computer problems. At least I am cooking dinners again. LOL

 

[Baymule]

Tiny, Miranda’s triplet daughter, lambed last night, a single ewe lamb. It was dead. Sentry was guarding the dead baby, not allowing the other ewes and lambs to come close, only Tiny. She tried vainly to rouse her baby, making those low rumbling Baa baas reserved for mother’s to lambs. No response. I petted her and tried to comfort her. I left the lamb for quite awhile, giving her time with her baby. Then I buried her.

This makes 3 lambs lost this time. I’m sure me being gone, the upset of my absence and just everything in general, has contributed. After losing Miranda, I really wanted these lambs. Oh well. It happens. I don’t like it, but I deal with it.

I need to find my farm. I need to get settled and be able to better care for my sheep. This is not fair to either sheep or dogs. But I durn sure will not get rid of them. We’ll just have to tough it out together.

 

[Baymule]

The neighbor lady and a passer by slapping flames. My son on tractor with bush hog to put out flames. Neighbors already didn’t like him.

Son’s pasture. Bar-B-Que for the sheep!

Neighbor’s toasted pasture.

Trailers. All wiring is melted, all lights are melted and burned. Firemen saved the trailers from total destruction. Tires haven’t been checked yet. Son has a lot of work ahead that he doesn’t have time for.

His wrecked truck

Only trailer not burned was not his, belongs to a cousin.