Coffee anyone ?

[Simpleterrier]

Yes a wise old man taught me that. And if I. Called him old hed pick me.up and shake me.

So about 15yrs ago I signed up at church to go work on some houses for retired missionaries in Missouri. The pastor came to me and said this man is going and he is driving his truck and wants someone to ride with him. I said who I don't know him he said you'll met him the morning u leave. I showed up with a bag of clothes and a box of tools and climbed in his truck and we spent 12 he's driving to Silva Missouri. We roomed and worked together all week and have been good friends sense. Even went and saw him in the hospital one time when he got kicked in the ribs by a horse then a month later he got bucked off and a spur from a broken rib punctured his lung. Kinda felt bad I was with him both accidents. He's helped me alot with our property over the years.

Any ways he told me about it. Him and a older.lady from church usually pick our elderberries but both of them aren't well so me and the wife will do them this year and see if they want some juice.

I'm just surprised no one else has heard that trick.

Don't worry @Baymule I'm not greedy. By the time everyone herepays me 500 I'll be rich enough

 

[Mini Horses]

Sounds great! I'll be testing it out tomorrow!! Checked the stand today and will be cutting another huge container of pods tomorrow afternoon. Will be ready to do this!

Actually, until a couple yrs ago, never involved with elders. Guess they're not a big deal in WV where grands were and my mom never wanted anything to do with "farming" once she left home. So it was "my" discovery, not a pass down.

Dad and I were always vetoed when we brought such things up. Dad was Navy and on a ship somewhere a lot. We managed to grow a couple things behind the garage, sort of out of sight a few times. LOL. She grumbled. Strange. As she lived here with Big A, the things she remembered and voiced about her home life were slanted to feel she was made to do way more than her siblings -- obviously she deeply resented the garden, canning, chores, etc. Explained a lot to me of her aversions.

Let's see, oh Wise @Simpleterrier, I may need $500....better find that Monopoly box!

Geesh, so simple!!!

 

[Baymule]

Have some coffee! I'm going for my second cup. Been dredging the internet looking for a place for @Jesusfreak101 and her family to move to. She said top price of $100K, I found some fixer upper bargains. Heck if I was looking, I'd be jumping on some of them.

OK. @Jesusfreak101 you have no excuse now. I have found you a bunch of deals, BUY ONE and MOVE out of that drama. Get AWAY, far far far AWAY!

 

[Baymule]

We picked a few elderberries, I think more will be ready Friday. I walked past the lawn chairs to go cut a piece of hardware cloth, turned around and went back. I have metal lawn chairs with the diamond type holes, like expanded metal. A chair worked just fine for elderberries. Thank you @Simpleterrier OH WISE ONE! PM your address and I will send your $500 posthaste!

 

[Bruce]

By the time everyone here pays me 500 I'll be rich enough

I won't pay, I have no idea where to find elderberries around here

OK. @Jesusfreak101 you have no excuse now.

I hope one or more of them are a good fit! She and the family definitely need to get out from under the big thumb.

 

[promiseacres]

Coffee is on.
Hay is all down, going to rake after I get a part for the baler, extra sheer bolts as I broke our last extra one on Monday. Have two wagons to unload also. DH made me some diagrams to help me rake...hopefully I will get it this time. At least I get to use the newest tractor that I prefer for it. I'm imitated by the two older ones...afraid they won't stop...though I am ok on the one. One 1/2 acre that produced 5 bales first cut produced 25... fertilizer helped. We do have help for baling. Thankfully rain was pushed up and need to have it all baled by tomorrow night....of course it's all evenings as dh has work. Should can more beans...bunnies need tattooed... it's always something.

 

[Baymule]

Thanks for the coffee PA. We only work outside until 11or 12. It gets too hot and we come in drenched in sweat.
This morning we are taking Sheba in to be spayed. I don’t want to raise puppies and don’t want to cage her twice a year for several weeks. I put her in the trailer, but it’s too hot for that now. So she goes to the vet this morning and we’ll pick her up this afternoon. Then she gets some house time until stitches come out.

 

[farmerjan]

@promiseacres ; Hope you get the hay up... I am all too familiar with trying to beat the weather. Hey, I have an idea... send your possible rain down this way and you will have all sorts of time to make the hay.....
I too have tractors I prefer not to drive....have one that is a real workhorse, but it is big enough that I feel that sometimes I might not get it stopped... and there is always this little quirk and that little quirk on each one...
and raking is a learned art.... any help I can give just ask. I will be raking the sorghum-sudan grass today so it can dry more and because I will be tied up tomorrow... he plans to bale it Friday... it is a thicker stem so takes a little longer to dry. We try to make it as a dry hay instead of wrapping it... money saved by not having to wrap, and the cows seem to prefer it as dry hay... at least last years wrapped was not as well liked as it has been in the past. But it is expensive to wrap it, so why do it if you don't have to.
We buy shear bolts by the box now... they don't go bad and there is nothing worse than not having one when you get down to the last few rows to want to get done!!!! You might not break one for several days/weeks.... then it seems like you can't get through a row without one breaking....

 

[farmerjan]

@Baymule love the improvise with the chair seat with the elderberries...

 

[Baymule]

@Baymule love the improvise with the chair seat with the elderberries...

I was thinking about making a wood framed screen so I didn’t get scratched on the edges of the hardware cloth and there was my lawn chairs! Brain fart! Haha!