Coffee anyone ?

[CLSranch]

Good day all. Debating on what to do today. So many options.

We got one picking of the small red wild plums. I’m afraid the hard rains knocked off ripe ones last night. I’ll be busy all day, but maybe tomorrow we can go see if any are ready to pick. A late frost last year resulted in no wild plums. I make jam and it’s so good.

I'm hoping my wild plums come in this year. Didn't have as many blooms (that i noticed) this year but, they are due for a good year. I thinned them and cleaned them up 3 yrs ago expecting a good crop the next year. Still hasn't happened.

move on up lands only 18k + an acre for grass land

I put the two calves on a little over an acre and it it rains nice will last them all summer

I was looking as some of the prices around here. Much cheaper but it JUMPED up 50% from last Nov to March.
Ohh. Inflation?

 

[Baymule]

You would probably need something other than your beach sand soil.

I can only dream........ LOL

 

[Baymule]

Good morning y’all. I got a pot of beef bones simmering on the stove and 2 pots of chicken breast bones (from skinless boneless breast meat). Going to make and can broth today. I need the freezer room. I pick the meat off the chicken bones, it adds up and makes good soup.

Got a call from Neighbor Carol last night at 9:45. Her husband, Neighbor Ron was going to town and hit a tree, would we go check on him? She can’t drive at night. We took off. Wasn’t hard to find. A tree fell across the road, a truck coming the other way had driven around it, on the grass. The truck’s lights were on high beam as Ron approached and it blinded him, he didn’t see the tree. Fortunately he hit the leafy tops, not the big heavy trunk or branches. A couple of cars coming the other way, people had already piled out, using Ron’s chainsaw to cut and clear away the tree. Ambulance and State Trooper was on the way. Ron’s shoulder was hurt, but he was ok. Trooper took a report, EMTs checked him out, Ron didn’t go to the hospital. His truck was freed, turned around, he drove home, BJ rode with him. Ron was very lucky on that one.

 

[farmerjan]

Wow, that was a close call for neighbor Ron. Tell him to not be too macho on the shoulder as if it is anything that can cause him trouble down the road, it needs to be addressed as part of the accident.... I know that from experience. I hate "being hurt" and don't like having to go to drs.... but an injury like that can just continue on & may as well get insurance to pay for that sort of stuff... that is why we pay for all this vehicle insurance and house insurance and all that stuff.
I don't like to drive at night as much, partly because of the newer type headlights being so intense and they are blinding so much more than the older type.

Got .6 inch rain in the last 24 hours. Supposed to get some more this afternoon. Temps dropped 20 degrees here, 52 this morning. Cloudy & light breeze feels COLD !!!!

 

[Mini Horses]

Wow..could have seen SO MUCH worse!

My plum tree has plums this year -- first time in three yrs, with weather. Today I find the rains last night were short but hard. Lotta plums on ground. Chickens happily eating. Plenty green still there and I can only hope I get a handful for me! Saw several smaller limbs on roads as I went to town and back.

Plus turtles crossing roads...several...most large. Also had about a 6'+ black rat snake in the back yard as I got out of truck to unload feed yesterday. There he was all stretched out with head up! Showed up real well in the brown grass. Four kids were there to help me and one decided to check out Mr snake. I swear he walked over, got nose to nose with it, then walked off. Mr snake left as l said where's a stick? Hate to know he's up near the barns, coops, etc! 7 cats were watching, unimpressed with goat kids bravado.

Few sprinkles here and there.....walked garden and only wish seeds would respond as well as grass to this water. Zucs, squash & cukes up and tiny 2nd leaves. Beans & eggplant...Still deciding to come to the party. Two hens were walking out there about 6 this morning, near the new plants. Thankfully didn't scratch them up.

 

[River Buffaloes]

Okay, so it's 11:12 PM, but here I cannot sleep because a young neighbor committed suicide. We took him to a doctor who said he is gone. Someone said "he is still breathing!!!" We took him to another doctor, he tried to revive him, but failed. We loaded the corpse on a tuktuk and took him to the lonely banks of river Gandak near the national park, made a makeshift pyre. We lighted the pyre and quickly returned.

 

[messybun]

Okay, so it's 11:12 PM, but here I cannot sleep because a young neighbor committed suicide. We took him to a doctor who said he is gone. Someone said "he is still breathing!!!" We took him to another doctor, he tried to revive him, but failed. We loaded the corpse on a tuktuk and took him to the lonely banks of river Gandak near the national park, made a makeshift pyre. We lighted the pyre and quickly returned.

I am so sorry for you.

 

[River Buffaloes]

I am so sorry for you.

I am utterly shocked, it's like something is going inside. It's like restlessness, my legs spontaneously start shaking. I keep returning to my window and see what's going on in his courtyard. His widow and the two toddlers have stopped crying. Neighborhood women are sitting around her including my grandmother.

I was not particularly close to him, we had a workable relationship. We just had a fine workable relationship, like exchanging chewing tobacco, but nothing more than that. I am close to his parents and his two beautiful children though.

 

[messybun]

I am utterly shocked, it's like something is going inside. It's like restlessness, my legs spontaneously start shaking. I keep returning to my window and see what's going on in his courtyard. His widow and the two toddlers have stopped crying. Neighborhood women are sitting around her including my grandmother.

I was not particularly close to him, we had a workable relationship. We just had a fine workable relationship, like exchanging chewing tobacco, but nothing more than that. I am close to his parents and his two beautiful children though.

You’re in shock still. And that’s prefectly normal and acceptable. You wouldn’t be okay if you were completely unaffected. I believe it is always sad when someone commits suicide, especially disturbing when it’s someone you knew. It is beauty in the ashes to have people surrounding his family, at least that is a little light for you. God bless.

 

[Baymule]

Oh my friend @River Buffaloes i am so sorry about your friend. That is very difficult to understand and hurts the family and friends so badly. You will wrestle with this and there are no answers. You might not have been close friends, but you stepped up when needed and shouldered responsibility like a true friend would do.