Coffee anyone ?

[farmerjan]

Just an observation..... canning lids are still non-existent here. I have found some packages of lids with bands at walmart... some canning jars... but the supplies are spotty. None at the dollar stores... I have enough with the ones I got earlier... but am looking for the next years.... I won't be doing much canning this year with the moving and getting put together here... and the knees.....and no garden really... BUT.... am thinking ahead... and try to notice what is available when I do go out shopping. None to be found in the grocery stores either. Thought by now things might have gotten caught up and more back to normal...

Glad you got a decent rain @Mini Horses ... wish we had gotten more. Oh well....take every drop. Having to watch the spring in the nurse cow pasture, it is been slowing down. I might haul a load of water with the one truck that I can put 2 - 275 gal totes on, and fill the water troughs up at the barn area to stretch out the strain on the spring. Was thinking about that last evening.... Have to talk to DS about it.

Need to go check the peach trees down at DS property. They ought to be getting ripe soon.

 

[Mini Horses]

Same here with lids. A few seen now and then. Luckily I have enough for a full season. Unfortunately, no garden happened this year.

 

[Mini Horses]

On a roll this morning!! Groundhog number 2 was just delivered to new home site....big rascal. At least 25# big ole boy. He was not happy. But hadn't had all night in cage with a shower added, like first one.

Both cages there, set, baited.....

Looks like two entries were having some digging this morning, since I had reset traps. More of them??? We shall see. Just used last of cantaloupe....will buy more! 2B continued...

 

[promiseacres]

If anyone needs me to buy and ship you some canning lids let me know, last I saw there were plenty on the shelves here in Indiana, not 100% on the brands available though. I shouldn't have to buy any myself as I still have the stash from Grandpa H.
Am going to can green beans this week, they're ready! And no excuses this week!

 

[Baymule]

Neighbor Robert came over yesterday and worked on dead freezer. RATS! RATS chewed through the backing and chewed up wiring. They made a nasty mess. It is on the screened porch because it wouldn’t fit through the door. He worked on it for a couple of hours and got it running again. So now I have 3 freezers! I unplugged it so I could wipe it down and clean the inside, which I did today. I have it propped open to finish drying and air out. I need to order a new door gasket and a drain line and it will be back in business. I don’t regret buying the new freezer. It fit through the door, it’s a tight squeeze in the dining area, but there was no where else to put it.

 

[Mini Horses]

My morning....wow. pull into drive from #2 groundhog dump, neighbor calls to say a young goat stuck in fence at back. Get in truck, he calls again, dead horse. What?!

Drive back, goat gets self out, yep an old mare is gone. There at nose count yesterday morning. Back up and switch out attachments on tractor....go bury and have funeral. On way back up, see groundhog #3 in trap. Take that one to new homesite, reset trap!


Hope I'm done for a while, chores start in about an HR. Sitting in AC...waiting for more rain they predict and thinking "it's 5 o'clock somewhere". I need a beverage!

 

[farmerjan]

Why are you "relocating" the ground hogs? Sorry, but that is just not ever going to happen in my lifetime.... they breed like rabbits, and they will live in colonies/families. A quick .22 shot takes care of it in the trap.

Sorry about the old mare, but I am pretty sure you have been providing them a retirement... so they have had a good life and dying on your property is better than many alternatives. Always sad to lose one that you have had .....

Goats in the fence... well, that goes with the territory of goats in general..........

We will gladly take any rain you want to divert back west .....

 

[Mini Horses]

My handgun is currently jammed! The clip of bullets. Need to take to a neighbor to fix. He's out of town this week. If I use a rifle I'd blow it all over me....the mess...

I need to sort guns.

Thanks. You are correct about horse ... 29 y/o, long retired. And goat, usual crap...

 

[Baymule]

Sorry about your mare @Mini Horses Even when you know it’s coming, it’s still sad.

 

[Simpleterrier]

Yep canning lids are back in full swing and ammo is starting to stay on the shelves too