CLSranch a journal to compensate my lack of memory.

[farmerjan]

Raining here too after 3 weeks of nothing... the only thing that saved us then was it being cooler than normal... we are very fortunate to be getting this rain now. We have had over 2.5 inches so far by the looks of it. A few more days of showers and such.

It is downright chilly out there already down to 56. Quite windy out there too...

 

[CLSranch]

the only thing that saved us then was it being cooler than normal...

We've had about normal temperatures with the cool and high spells. BUT it's fixing to hit the long spells of 100+
I didn't water today. Well not with the truck. I was just f ing lazy. I after walking this evening I thought,.. yea I should've. The fire barn is close and a LOT cheaper than running the hose. It's a small place so I could to it that way. Shoot the summer pasture is under 3 acres, plus mixing in the yard.

 

[CLSranch]

The good ole' farm truck & wife has pulled the new truck home,..... again. I thought it was just some air in the line from changing the fuel filter. The almost $200 dollar fuel filter. The wife picked it up and when I read the receipt later holy moly that's almost double the already outrageous price of last year. I think most things have doubled since then. LET'S GO BRANDON. I ran it after changing the filters and oil. Since then it's left me twice.
Saturday I was going to take it to town to get fuel for the farm truck, before the playdays. I got a couple of miles down the road and turned around. I almost made it back home. Ran the battery dead re'purging the fuel line. Hooked up the cables to farm truck. (which has 1 of the new truck battery's) Finally I just jumped in the car and went to get fuel/beer/etc. When I got home I hooked up the cables to the car and took the farm truck to go get water. I made 4 trips and tried to start the new truck each time coming and going. It finally cranked after the last trip. Then left me walking (and missing church) again yesterday.
@Mini Horses I may have to switch the insurance policy and oh no actually tag the farm truck.

 

[Mini Horses]

I feel your pain!!

 

[Baymule]

I hate break downs. I’ve had plenty of them, I have way too much experience in that area. One time my car was down, BJs truck was down, even the Kawasaki mule was down. The only thing we had running was the tractor.

 

[CLSranch]

I was thinking earlier that I may need to start pulling the stock trailer and a horse everywhere. Out here you could get a safe ride,... if not on a horse. Although also out here if they knew, instead of thinking you were out for a ride you could get a ride just as quickly. Maybe I'd finally get that stud colt broke.

I hate break downs. I’ve had plenty of them, I have way too much experience in that area. One time my car was down, BJs truck was down, even the Kawasaki mule was down. The only thing we had running was the tractor.

Right now, the 4 wheeler is still down, her old car needs 2 tires just to sell it, the good tractor has the clutch out, the 9n's hydraulics don't work for sh!t, the push mower or chainsaws don't run or needs a chain and one of the kids favorite thing to ride is a broke down lawn mower. And such is life, and life goes on. We've all dealt with it.
And the new truck still ain't runnin. grrr.

 

[Ridgetop]

When i used to go horse camping with my ETI group one of our friends failed to show up at the campsite. It got later and later and we got worried since she always came alone. Finally, she showed up and we all clustered around to find out the reason or her tardy arrval. She said she had suddenly noticed she was almost out of gas so with her new GPS device put in instructions to find her some gas. She followed the map until the GPS told her she was there. No gas station! Nothing around - just a lone oil pump working away in a field! LOL We asked her what she would have done if she ran out of gas. She said she would have unloaded her horse, saddled up, and ridden to find a gas station. We were all doubled over at the thought of her riding back to her car carrying the full gas can!

 

[CLSranch]

I did 2 more splits Saturday. One was the hive I split earlier this year and the other is one I was thinking about not splitting to get honey from it this year but I think I've already lost a lot of production from it swarming. I can't say for sure. 1 that was a 2nd split I put next to the feed room and it had an awful robbing or something going on. I've had free range sugar water out for a month now and it hasn't been touched. I put it in a new hive (entrance feeder) to give them a head start and EVERYBODY wants to come eat it now. I was hoping it was just a lot of them doing an orientation flight at their new residence, then I saw all the fighting on the front.

 

[Baymule]

Mother Nature is not kind. Even the same species will prey upon each other.

 

[CLSranch]

If all works out I should have 2 more hives established in a month. We usually have some type of flower, usually a weed, coming up after we lose another flower source.

Interesting thing you can do with bee's that you can't with other livestock is the split. There is not really a queen egg laid. There is male and almost all female eggs. No male eggs laid in the fall or winter. When the workers decide that it's time for a new queen, because it's time to swarm, they're not liking the production of the old queen or something just happens to her. They will build a few cells out some more and feed them only royal jelly, instead of the others which only get for a short time period.
That being said all you have to do is take 2 frames with eggs and brood on it and put it in a different box with some other frames with food and bee's and they'll make a queen who will go out mate and come back to start laying and make it a new hive. That's if a bird, dragonfly, etc doesn't eat her when she does her mating flights.