Coffee anyone ?

[Baymule]

Heck yeah, got cream and sugar out for you too, if you like! LOL

 

[promiseacres]

Sometimes the barn looks better half empty @Baymule off to the scrap yard this morning it has turned into an almost weekly thing to haul a load in

Did u make enough coffee so I can fill my thermose?

I did! I made an entire pot for you! We should be taking a load of scrap in every week, DH keeps hoping prices come up.
Got a load of hay yesterday, need to unload it this morning, clean rabbit cages too. Maybe go to the farm to do some clean up of the trim and the lathe. Still waiting on a doe to have her kits... I can feel them, day 32... they are making me wait extra days this year. At some point I need to grade kids', didn't get to it yesterday.

@Bay those decisions are hard but sometimes necessary.

 

[Mini Horses]

Here's one for ya Bay! It's always hard the first time. But you have a plan.

I have a couple doe kids I'll keep to watch grow out, then decide. Have some 1-2 yr olds who will go this year. For me, just cutting back some dairy to make room for meat type. Will always keep a couple to milk, I think...... well, for a while.

It's chilly again this morning. Not bad except I was really getting comfy with 70s each day! Dirty trick to dial back...but they say we will be back to area norms of 60-70 starting Monday. That's good news!

Did a rear end tour of the girls as they ate morning hay yesterday. Looks like a couple are getting close to kidding. Didn't "expect" these April ones.... had March and planned May...Guess I missed something out there, or marking it down. . Oh well, hay money is welcome. Fill the trailer with goats, bring home a check. Pays to feed these guilty pleasures. Part of livestock farming.

Coming week will be perfect for working a garden up!!!! Hope I can do that. And fence some. Can't do either well with the heavy winds we've been having. Maybe it will slack up.

Enjoy your day!

 

[CLSranch]

Good morning all. Bay I'm glad your pup came back and I think I'd rather have someone hit in the head that get a splinter that far under my nail.

Never.


Today our high is 30, our low is 28.

But, I just checked the weather, super big temp swing is predicted on Monday. Yep, a low of 19 then all of the way up to 31 for the max.

Yesterday 34-68. 70's coming and up to 80 next week.

Coming week will be perfect for working a garden up!!!! Hope I can do that. And fence some.

 

[Simpleterrier]

@promiseacres your waiting for scrap to go up it is triple what it was 6 months ago. I have to haul almost weekly some times two loads a week to keep up.

Thanks @Baymule I only take cream no sugar or black or how ever it is when it is in front of me it don't really matter life's to short just enjoy any coffee

 

[Baymule]

We’re back. Sale went well, I probably got enough to buy 3 quality registered ewes. LOL

 

[B&B Happy goats]

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We’re back. Sale went well, I probably got enough to buy 3 quality registered ewes. LOL

That's fantastic, now it's time for ewe shopping congratulations on a great day at the sale barn

 

[Niele da Kine]

What kind are ewe gonna get? I'd wanted some of those really cute miniature Cheviots, but Covid kept the state vet from meeting the planes to inspect critters last year so no mini-Chevs for me. (Sigh!) We did get two Clun Forest sheeps, they're really nice but not tiny. They'll be getting their first haircut soon although that's pretty low on the project list.

Coffee is good! I may put a line of it up by the back fence, it just got fenced about a week ago and there's space for some sort of hedge. I did plant beans on the fence, but that's just until whatever is gonna be a hedge there is figured out.

Stretching fence yet again. I'd thought I'd finished fencing but then an excavator came through and cleared out the driveway area and cleared the fenceline. While it's clear, it's a great time to add fence since getting rid of twelve foot tall grasses is harder than fencing so may as well fence before it grows back.

There's about fifty feet of sunny area along that fence on the right side of the picture which may be a good spot for some coffee.

That tall skinny tree in the shaded area is already a coffee tree (there had been a line of coffee trees along there before the excavator arrived), although most times they're kept pruned to less than shoulder high so it's easier to pick the coffee. There's a whole bunch of seedlings under it, so I can just relocate them along the fence and keep them pruned short. They'll be a nicer hedge if they were pruned short and easier to pick.

Or a mamaki hedge. That's a shrub that's made into a tea around here and it's a pretty tasty tea. Also it's a food source for the Kamehameha butterfly which is a local butterfly around here. Or, I could just put in tea (camellia sinensis). That makes a nicer hedge than coffee and is easier to pick and process. Processed one way, it's green tea, processed another way, it's black tea. Same plant, though.

So, that's why there's beans there now. Until some sort of decision is made as to what to plant, beans are a good choice. They're 'Good Mother Stallard' beans which is one of my favorite soup beans and as a soup bean I won't need to pick them until they're mature.

So, coffee, tea or what?

 

[Baymule]

I’m going to get registered Katahdin hair sheep.
Plant coffee or tea? I’d go for tea.

 

[Alaskan]

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What kind are ewe gonna get? I'd wanted some of those really cute miniature Cheviots, but Covid kept the state vet from meeting the planes to inspect critters last year so no mini-Chevs for me. (Sigh!) We did get two Clun Forest sheeps, they're really nice but not tiny. They'll be getting their first haircut soon although that's pretty low on the project list.

Coffee is good! I may put a line of it up by the back fence, it just got fenced about a week ago and there's space for some sort of hedge. I did plant beans on the fence, but that's just until whatever is gonna be a hedge there is figured out.

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Stretching fence yet again. I'd thought I'd finished fencing but then an excavator came through and cleared out the driveway area and cleared the fenceline. While it's clear, it's a great time to add fence since getting rid of twelve foot tall grasses is harder than fencing so may as well fence before it grows back.

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There's about fifty feet of sunny area along that fence on the right side of the picture which may be a good spot for some coffee.

That tall skinny tree in the shaded area is already a coffee tree (there had been a line of coffee trees along there before the excavator arrived), although most times they're kept pruned to less than shoulder high so it's easier to pick the coffee. There's a whole bunch of seedlings under it, so I can just relocate them along the fence and keep them pruned short. They'll be a nicer hedge if they were pruned short and easier to pick.

Or a mamaki hedge. That's a shrub that's made into a tea around here and it's a pretty tasty tea. Also it's a food source for the Kamehameha butterfly which is a local butterfly around here. Or, I could just put in tea (camellia sinensis). That makes a nicer hedge than coffee and is easier to pick and process. Processed one way, it's green tea, processed another way, it's black tea. Same plant, though.

So, that's why there's beans there now. Until some sort of decision is made as to what to plant, beans are a good choice. They're 'Good Mother Stallard' beans which is one of my favorite soup beans and as a soup bean I won't need to pick them until they're mature.

So, coffee, tea or what?

Would go with tea...the mamaki hedge,, because i love growing butterflies.