HAPPY NEW YEAR TO ALL !!!!! It sure has to be an improvement over this past year.
Had a bout 3 tenths inch rain Sunday/Monday morning. Then had some temps in the 70's and it sure was nice. Sun out and all.
Had the neurologist appt. Talked to me, asked all sort of questions, I think to see if I was "coherent". Had me do touch my nose then his finger and stuff.... did some of those "tap the knee" to get the response (kick involuntarily) and all that stuff. All that and then said that in his opinion I didn't have a seizure, it could have been the spine being out of alignment but that normally the nerves from the spine don't affect the eyesight because they don't affect things that far up into the brain.... HELLO, the spinal cord and nerves DO go up into the brain or you couldn't function..... said he didn't have any problems with chiropractors, and so if I had any other problems to call the office or go through my PCP.......
I have no idea what it cost.... BUT, I have dotted all the i's and crossed all the t's. Done with it. Have a follow up with the PCP in mid- Jan. I haven't had the mammogram because when I had a window of time, they said they hadn't received the "order" from the doctors' office.... and I haven't taken the time to call back. I would be interested in seeing where my "bone density" levels are. So if I can remember to call on Thursday, I will. I do have my annual eye exam on Thursday. Luckily it is supposed to be rainy so no bright sun to really get to me as I am sure they will do the dilate thing. I was originally scheduled for the end of the month, I make the appt year to year. When I realized it might conflict with the ankle surgery, not being sure when it was going to be, I called and they had this opening on Jan 2nd so I said I would take it. One more thing out of the way.
Tested the 500+ cow herd this morning. Kinda last minute decision, but glad it got fit in. Will get them in again at the very end of Jan before I go to Duke. Monday after I got out of the neurologist appt., went to another farm that I had to do an "install" on their system as they are putting in a heat watch system and will "tie it into" the PC DART system I use for milk testing. This means that they will be entering in all the breedings and info on the cows, less work for me.... but that they will also be able to create/print reports and keep a better check on the cows heat cycles and such. They have been having trouble getting cows bred. Of course the install did not go smoothly and had to spend some time on the "team viewer" with our computer support so they could get it all in. But all is good and I will be going up there to test them on Friday afternoon. They want to get in another test just before I have the ankle done. Then will go 6 or more weeks and we will figure out getting them caught up after. They said that they can do the milk samples in the parlor, if I can come and do the computer work.... we'll see how I get along. By then Michael will be back to work and all, and this farm will test on the weekends, so might get him to go help. Cross that bridge when we come to it.
Cloudy and chilly this morning after a couple of days of real nice and unseasonable warm weather. Still, mostly sun this afternoon. Going to be cooler and sunny then clouds on Thursday and Friday? Some rain/showers in the forecast....low 30's at night. But that's still okay. Glad we are not in line for any of the snow. We still have Jan, Feb and Mar to get through.... but we are getting closer to spring everyday.
I 'm heading to the shower and bed here very soon. The ball can fall and the new year can come in without me. Guess if I wake up in the morning it will be 2020..... If the world ends then I guess I don't have to worry about it. Spent too many years waitressing and LONG nights on New Years Eve, to worry about it anymore.
The farm where my one cow is, will probably be selling out in late spring. He and his wife got into the "donut making" business, and it has really picked up and he can make half of what they were making in the milk check, just on 2 days a week with the donuts. I can't blame him. The boys don't want to milk cows. They will transition to beef, probably feeders getting them at 400+/- and feeding them to 700 or so; and sell them either to a feedlot, or if he gets heifers, for breeding. Can't blame him.
Hoping he gets her bred back soon, she had a dead bull calf, had to pull it, over 120 lbs, but she is doing good. She will come home to me. Hope I will be getting around so that I can milk her... or if she is not making alot of milk I can dry her off. Hate that I will not be able to stop and get milk when I need it.... but that's life. But she is 1/2 guernsey and 1/2 holstein, so I don't want to sell her. She has never been hand milked at the "home setting", though. Don't know how the transition will be. Maybe I can get her to take calves. If he can get her bred back fairly soon, then she will be due to calve in Oct.... that would be okay to get calves on her before I do anything with the knee(s) in winter. We'll see what happens.
Had another hol/jer cross heifer that was supposed to be bred to calve in the spring. Well, they were wrong about her and she calved at the farm with the other beef cows. Not anywhere I can get her in, and 2 fields away from easy access to the barn, so I was just hoping that she wouldn't ruin her udder with too much milk. I have seen a calf on her several times. Today I saw 2 calves on her. I am thinking maybe she had twins.... I had suspected maybe but then figured that I was wrong as I only ever saw one calf at a time.... If nothing else, it will really be good for her udder to get nursed out good. One was on one side, the other on the other side so I was really happy about that. If things were different I would have had my son get her up through the fields to the barn so I could get her in and probably moved to where I keep the nurse cows. But, not in a position to do that right now. Regardless if they are both hers, or another calf is on her, she is getting milked out pretty good. They were really going to town so I am relieved at that. Hope it is her twins. The vet had originally called her open and I was going to sell her. She didn't bring $.50 / lb at the sale so we "no saled" her... bought her back, put her out with a group of young cows with a bull. She must have been short bred, as she is way ahead of where she should be compared to the others and when the bull got put in with them.
Don't drink too much egg nog
@Baymule ..... or don't go too far so that you can stagger your way to bed if you do over imbibe!!!!!!
My house!! At MY house!! No deposit as I had to buy my bottles. LOL Yep, I have the flatish 1/2 gal with the pinched in sides for hand hold. Mostly, my milk is stored in the sanitized bottle it goes into at milking...1/2 gal canner. ones.
