Baymule’s Journal

[Baymule]

I did a burn pile today. Very satisfying day. Still have some huge cross sections of oak, they are smoldering now.

I found a patch of Jerusalem Cherry Nightshade and pulled them up. I took them to the burn pile.

The ewe crew enjoyed the yard, lots of grass.

The fire burned down to the huge chunks of oak. So I went to the front where a couple of oaks were down when I bought this place and picked up piles of branches and dumped them on the burn pile. I made 8 trips.

Copper and his 6 ladies were out on the field today. Sheba had a hard day. Ewenique had to check on her.

 

[Baymule]

It’s 42F this morning. I turned on the propane heater and it’s nice and toasty now. It’s raining, cold north wind blowing and I’m not motivated. Almost done with second cup of coffee. Guess I’ll break out the Carhart insulated overalls and ugly hunter orange sweat hoodie, put them over my sweat pants and shirt and trudge outside to feed. No sign of sheep or dogs. Days like this I wish I had a nice covered barn…….sigh.
Had the AC on yesterday.

 

[rachels.haven]

Sounds like a day you'd really just like a barn with a covered walkway or even a hallway to the barn attached to your house.

Cold and raining here too.

 

[Baymule]

I’m going to build a 3 sided shelter with small recessed feed room in the middle. Back door access for unloading feed, door to alley so I can feed over the fence like I do now and dump feed in the feed bunks. The alley would give the dogs a dry place, close sheep up at night. With 2 sections, I could (maybe) have a ram and ladies on each end. Or weaned lambs, ewes and ram lambs separately.

Hmmm…… lots of hot wire……

 

[HomeOnTheRange]

I’m going to build a 3 sided shelter with small recessed feed room in the middle. Back door access for unloading feed, door to alley so I can feed over the fence like I do now and dump feed in the feed bunks. The alley would give the dogs a dry place, close sheep up at night. With 2 sections, I could (maybe) have a ram and ladies on each end. Or weaned lambs, ewes and ram lambs separately.

Hmmm…… lots of hot wire……

But where will Wilbur go? He will need a place close to the barn!

 

[Simpleterrier]

42f that's t shirt weather. Just kidding we had 27 and frost this morning it is snowing now. I like 27 better than 42 it knocks the moisture out of the air and feels better

 

[Baymule]

42f that's t shirt weather. Just kidding we had 27 and frost this morning it is snowing now. I like 27 better than 42 it knocks the moisture out of the air and feels better

Didn’t you mention moving awhile back? Haven’t heard from you lately, did y’all move or did y’all stay where you were?

 

[Bruce]

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A friend told me about it. Her chiropractor put her on it. So I called the company and told them my friend told me, they looked her up, verified her name and address, and sent her a free bottle for the referral. For my first purchase, I got a 20% discount, so I bought a year’s supply. I’m VERY happy with it. NO SIDE EFFECTS.

Reading about one of the prescription drugs, one of the side effects was the jaw bone dying and teeth coming out. WTH??? It supposedly is rare, but what if you’re that rare one? With no teeth? Nope, not me!

I'm going to copy this somewhere. DW always gets the side effects that are so rare even the doctors don't read that far down the list.

 

[SageHill]

I'm going to copy this somewhere. DW always gets the side effects that are so rare even the doctors don't read that far down the list.

Good idea.
Even when you DO get a side effect, if it's not a "life threatening" one, many docs seem to poo-poo you've got a side effect. So it's like just how many side effects do you have to have before they start to think.
Standing on a soapbox here.... Pharmaceutical companies want everyone to be on their products, as many as they can pump into you.
Sooo..... remember when....
- they could not advertise on tv?
- they were called drug companies?
Switheroo to pharmaceuticals -- big word so now folks think they (themselves) are smart using the big word. Drug is a dirty word.
For what it's worth - calling them big pharma --- is sooo bad because to me big farm (yeah I know that's missing an a) is good - cows, sheep, crops, etc.
OK stepping off my little soapbox, all those things that float through one's brain at 2am when going back to sleep seems impossible.

 

[Baymule]

I’m doing a burn pile. It’s the leftovers from the gi-normous dead oak that was in the front pasture, close to the house. It took 3 men, a chainsaw, axe, wedges and a tractor to bring that tree down. Then I had a giant tree on the ground, wondering what I was going to do with it.

Last winter these 2 Yay-hoos wanted to cut it up for firewood. Great! Come take the whole thing. They came, sawed in slices, split it, loaded up-when they had some sold.

I thought they were going to haul it ALL to their house and sell it from there. Nope. They used me as a storage and came and got a load at a time. I wasn’t real happy about that.
Finally they just didn’t show back up, didn’t return or acknowledge calls or texts. I was mad, but got over it. I looked at it like most of the tree was gone, and I didn’t have to do it. They left probably a good 2 cords, cut, and laying on the ground, scattered around. A neighbor pushed it up for me, so I could mow.

So here’s this big stump and a long row of cut oak, rotting. It’s precisely where I want to put a 3 sided barn for the sheep. Neighbor came back and fixed me up a pile-on the stump-to get started.

I lit it up this morning, we’ve had 5 inches of rain lately so it’s wet. It took a bit to get it started. I trudged over to the clearcut and dragged pine tops to throw on the fire. Once I got the fire going, I piled oak, cut into firewood, in the bucket and dumped on the fire.

For a good 6 hours today, that’s what I’ve done. Push on the pile to warn any snakes that might be denned up, lower bucket, get off tractor, load bucket, get on tractor, go dump bucket, rinse, repeat. Then neighbor came over and pushed it up in a good pile for the night. He also scraped grass around the fire to the dirt. I quit feeding it, to let it burn down for the night. I’ll be back at it in the morning. Neighbor will come back in mid morning to push several very large chunks in the burn pile.

It’s been a really good day! Got gobs of wood to burn and get out of the way. That dumb yay-HOO could’ve loaded it up, taken it home, stacked, covered and had a couple cords of firewood to sell now. I’ll be tractoring and burning for days.