Bruce's Journal

[Bruce]

Yep. Today's YouTube video would have been super exciting:

• Get the fire in the wood stove going again, add water to the pot on top
• Feed the cats, clean the litter box, feed the aquarium fish
• Make breakfast for DD2 and myself (omelettes today)
• Feed and water the barn animals, including forking out alpaca poop Collect eggs (5 today, one hen in the nest when I left)
• Brush snow off the solar panels
• Shovel a path down to the parking area and around the car, brush snow off in the car in the process
• Shovel a path from the house down to the gate to the barns
• Carry 1 bag of chicken feed from the car to barn and dump it into the 10 gallon can; take the plastic sled up to the car to bring the other bag down to the barn
• Bring 2 carriers of firewood from the porch landing into the house
• Read and post here
• This afternoon I'm going to get a couple of things from TSC and the big grocery store
• Probably fire up the tractor (with PTO lever ALL the way back!) and push some snow around.
• Snack the barn animals around 3
• Go out about 4:30 and move wayward chickens into the coop.
• Make lasagna for dinner
• Read and post on forums
• Watch followed YouTube channels
• Go to bed

The first four are daily of course (well DD only gets breakfast made on Tue and Fri, her days off work) as are the last 3. Yep, I can see people lining up around the world to watch that!

 

[thistlebloom]

You got my attention at make omelettes for breakfast and lasagna for dinner.
Hey, maybe you could do a combo farm and cooking YouTube?
Curious, why do you carry one bag of feed and slide the other?
See how interesting your day is?

My excitement today will be going to the grocery and making dinner. Kid#2 comes over on Tuesdays to hang out and get a free meal, lol. Nothing going on outside for me because of the wretched rain.

 

[Bruce]

Because I was up at the car and too lazy to go down to the barn to get the sled and return for the first bag! But since I had to go up for the second bag, might as well take the sled and make bag 2 a bit easier. Probably shouldn't do that, carrying 50 pound bags of feed should help me keep fit I suppose.

 

[thistlebloom]

Yes, you should lift something heavy every day supposedly. My heavy lifting yesterday was a bag of traction sand I added to the other two in the bed of the little truck. Since it was wet it weighed more than the 60 lbs. it had printed on the bag. It wasn't a smart thing to do, but once I picked it up I was comitted and wobbled my way over to dump it.
Dh had removed it because it was in his way. He'll thank me later. That truck is just 2wd and hopeless in snow without a couple hundred pounds in the back.

 

[Duckfarmerpa1]

I don’t plan to move stuff...but it seems like I always do...oh, and climbing! I’m always climbing up my ladders in the barn and the shelves in the feed room! I always did want to rock cllimb!

 

[Senile_Texas_Aggie]

Hey, maybe you could do a combo farm and cooking YouTube?

That's a great idea, Miss @thistlebloom! Mr. @Bruce, sir, the list of items you made above sounded interesting to me. I would watch it every time!

 

[Bruce]

Boy do YOU need a life STA!!! Wait, you have one, you get to do outside work all year long.
Did go to TSC. Stopped first at the farm and garden store to pay for the bag of cat food I brought home yesterday but they forgot to charge me for. She was a bit surprised and said "Boy are you honest". Um, yeah.

Got TSC, picked up a couple of hair clip pins since I pins since I managed to lose BOTH of the ones holding the lower links on the 3pt while "logging" last week. Amazingly I happened to see one of them sticking out of the mud quite some time after I noticed they were missing. Didn't know that is where I lost them, just noticed they weren't there when hitching up a log to the draw bar. Got a 1/2" hitch pin to use when pulling. I was going to get a shackle but I don't think there would be enough sticking out the back to hook the logging chain to. I figure I can hook the chain around the hitch pin lifted up a bit. Also got a bag of PDZ, MAYBE if I spread that stuff where the stupid alpacas poop inside they will decide to go out? Long shot I know. Went to pay, flung the PDZ on the counter, she scanned it and asked for my Neighborhood number (phone), then told me how much I owed. I asked about the hitch pin and hairpins. Oops she hadn't noticed those, said I was honest. Um, yeah.

On the way home witnessed a car pull out of a side street and hit a pickup in the side. Truly amazing, it isn't like there were cars parked that would block their view. Got home and decided I better get the tractor running to move snow when I figured out I'd have better luck backing in the way I came out rather than going in the other entrance as I usually do. Lots of snow in that path. Got it cleared out in time for a predicted 1.5" tomorrow. Of course last night was supposed to be a trace and it was 4".

 

[Baymule]

That is the way it here now that we are more into maintenance mode. There is a lot of days that I don't post at all but I still like to read a lot of threads. There is still a lot of things to do but it is about identical from one day to the next.

I would like to hit maintenance mode, but we aren't there yet. We have done some pretty intense maintenance in the sheep barn and garden lately. Poor BJ is worn out, his knee is swollen, his fingers hurt and he needs a day off. I wanted to dig out bedding hay from the two pens that have a small space in the barn, but he would want to come help, so I told him that I'll work the sheep today. It's supposed to be rainy Friday and Saturday, so I'll run my samples then. It takes longer for me to do it by myself, but that's ok. He can rest today and rainy days make us both take a rest. LOL He took most of the day off yesterday too. I have to stop beating him up with shovels, rakes, pitchforks and other instruments of torture.

 

[Senile_Texas_Aggie]

picked up a couple of hair clip pins since I pins since I managed to lose BOTH of the ones holding the lower links on the 3pt while "logging" last week. Amazingly I happened to see one of them sticking out of the mud quite some time after I noticed they were missing.

I seem to lose the pins regularly, so I recently bought a bag of the hairpins and a bag of the linch pins that keep the lower arms on the 3-pt hitch attached to implements. The bag of linch pins came in handy recently when I went to pick up the tractor at the shop. I had bent a linch pin (the circular part) for my trailer that keeps one of the ramps in its carrying slot while offloading the tractor for the power steering repair. I decided to use it any way, as it seemed to work OK. On the trip to pick up the tractor after the repair was completed, as I rounded a curve to the right, I heard the ramp come sliding out of the carrying slot and go flying across the road into the ditch on the other side! Thank goodness there was no oncoming traffic or it could have been ugly! When I got to the shop and loaded up the tractor, I got out a new pin from the bag on the tractor and secured the ramp in the carrying slot.

Got home and decided I better get the tractor running to move snow when I figured out I'd have better luck backing in the way I came out rather than going in the other entrance as I usually do.

You could make a video out of that! GP Outdoors, Lumnah Acres, and others have snow clearing videos and I bet yours would be more interesting.

Senile Texas Aggie

 

[Bruce]

Especially when I backed into DD2's car with the flail! Yep, I can see it now, camera set up to the side to fill and everyone yelling at their computer Stop! STOP!!!! I TOLD you to stop!