Baymule’s Journal

[SageHill]

@Baymule & @Mini Horses - thank you! Yup they are keepers.
I'm now at the point where I'm not keeping all the ewe lambs! YAY. I keep eye candy (but will sell if I think they are smallish - but that takes some growing up first [or at least at this point in my evaluating them), and big white ones. One of my ewes puts out lambs that mature big. Slow and steady and learning all the way.

 

[Baymule]

Spot the bottle lamb is doing just fine. He follows his mom and sister, runs to me for a bottle. I feed him 3 times a day. He is 4 weeks and 5 days old. I’ll bottle feed him until 6 weeks, then cut out the noon bottle and wean him at 8 weeks.

I met a delightful couple and invited them to the farm yesterday so she could bottle feed Spot. She was over the moon about Spot and all the sheep. Her husband was recording her on the phone. We had a fun visit.

 

[Baymule]

Today’s chore; clean up the weed mess that is my piles of wood posts and T-posts and important stuff. I’ve already dug the couple of half rolls of sheep and goat wire out of this mess and straighten up the rolls of wire. Due to 6 months of rain the first half of the year, I didn’t think too much about this. When I finally did, weeds were over my head and covered everything. I figured out pretty quick that I’d rather wait for a hard killing frost to tame the weed monsters.

So here we are. Sunny beautiful day.

First I tried my Daddy’s yo-yo. I have a brand new one, but I like using his tools with the worn handles. But these weeds were too tall, thick and heavy.

I got out 2 machetes and sharpened them.
What’s in here? A concrete block. That would really tear up a bush hog!

Another one.

I stepped on the tall grasses and weeds, bent them down and whacked on them using both hands on the machete.

Also in this tangled mess was some really heavy wire. It got scattered around when the fencing guys were here last December. That could do a number on a bush hog too.

Look close.

What is that? It’s Carson! He had to go snuffle in the weeds, probably smelling rabbits.



I made it to the fence.

Now I gotta do the rest of this mess.

I stopped for a neighbors little boy to feed Spot his bottle. Got some water and went back to work.

Got to go to the next page.

 

[Baymule]

Hidden treasures appeared. A pile of T-posts that were pulled out of the front fence, piles of wood posts, both put up on concrete blocks to keep them out of the dirt.
A big pile of still new unused T-posts and some more used ones, plus a few more wood posts.

Now a pickup truck load of this chopped mess. Thinking about tossing it in the sheep lots where it gets so muddy.

Im frying some chicken wings. Late lunch? Early supper? I’m hungry.

 

[SageHill]

WOWZERS!!! Now that's what I call a productive day!! WTG

 

[Baymule]

Thanks! At least now I can back the bush hog in there and chop it down to the dirt.

 

[Mini Horses]

You worked for that pile!! Hey, at least you found the posts you'd bought, salvaged and will need! I call that a real good day.

 

[Ridgetop]

Might as well put it in the muddy sheep yard to provide soje sid footung. It wioll eventually break down into the soil.

@SageHill I really ike the lngth on that red ewe. Hope she is one of your keepers.

 

[SageHill]

@SageHill I really ike the lngth on that red ewe. Hope she is one of your keepers.

Thanks! She is definitely a keeper, she is out of my ewe that has produced large lambs that grow up big.

 

[peteyfoozer]

Pie crust Fáil. I use half butter and half hog lard. I raised the pig, rendered the fat and canned snowy white lard. Makes fantastic pie crust. Sarah’s mom is a vegetarian, so I found a recipe that used all butter. Had to pre bake the pie crust. I checked after a few minutes and the edges folded over and slid down to the bottom of the pie pan. I pulled them out, tried to mash the sides back up, sorta kinda half way maybe, maybe not. Oh well. I kept taking the pie crusts out, vainly rearranging the sides. What the heck.

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I made the pies. They dont look like I intended but they will taste good.

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Made 2 peanut butter pies too.

I think they look amazing!! And the crust looks super flakey and tasty!!