Farmerjan's journal - Weather

[farmerjan]

Cloudy, COOL, 50's . Got a total of .6 inch rain so far with possibility of more this afternoon.
Went down to house and got some stuff in the car. Took the boxes out and vacuum and all to leave there. DS said he could maybe help carry stuff up the stairs here into the storage after 11 so am back, but haven't heard anything. I am going to go back down with the truck and load more trash and stuff. AMAZING the stuff you collect over 10 years... and I am a pack rat.
DS said he will be here in about 20 minutes. So will get the stuff up the stairs into the storage attic out of the way. Then I will go back down the hill with the truck.

Power company will not let me put the electric back in the owners name because he has to "sign" the agreement. They will let me turn mine off but not transfer it to him... So I will talk to him and tell him that, so he can call them. I will offer to have him do it June 7th so I can finish up cleaning next week. He can cancel mine and transfer it to him, but I cannot cancel mine and transfer it to him....I get it even though he was the original one the account was in. I was able to just transfer the service to my name way back... because then I was going to be responsible for the bill... but I can not assign the electric to him since he will be the one responsible to pay it.

Going to move the freezers tomorrow and then I can work on the rest of the little stuff.

 

[Mini Horses]

The end of the stone house is in sight!!

 

[Larsen Poultry Ranch]

Yay! You are almost out! The electric should be able to at least stop charging you as of the date you are out, they will go after the owner to get payment after that even if he's late signing that he's responsible for it. I think they use the tax records to see who owns the property.

 

[Baymule]

As usual you are one busy woman. Moving freezers! Not much left now. Clean up and hand in the key. Totally done with that place. On to the new!

 

[farmerjan]

I will not turn off the electric until I talk to landlord because of the cattle needing the water supplied by the well. He has no idea how much he aggravates me and I am leaving there as a nearly "perfect tenant"....
I will not have all the clean up done by Monday, and the fish tanks are still in the building there and it is unlikely they will get moved by the 1st. It has sprinkled/rained all day so a couple of trips to the dumpsters were wet ones.
The other thing, a power pole got hit and broken down just a mile from the stone house, and there was no power all day. There were 4 big bucket trucks and 5 smaller ones there. It was a major pole, and it was a nightmare. Power was out for at least 10 hours while they had to do all that, so I did nothing in the house... sorted and worked on the back closed in porch. Plus, DS didn't get here for an hour after he called, not a half hour, and he did carry all I wanted him to, up the stairs, then he wanted to talk a little.
Then to just add to things, I left to go and swung by Wendy's, got a quick lunch and am 2/3 way down the hill and DS called and asked where I was, and said could I please go to the pasture right across the dirt road from my house, a friend was going up the road and there was a big hole where someone had taken out the corner of the fence and there were cows out in the dirt road. He said could I please go up there, he was getting some posts and wire to take with him, and go see what needed fixing.
Some idiot went up the dirt road , we think it was a tractor trailer that should not have been on that road. and making that tight turn, the dual wheels of the trailer went up on the bank and took out the whole corner of the fence,knocked down the corner wood post, broke off the next post and of course there was a big gap and you know there are always some cows that have to go see what is going on... Luckily, there were only 2 calves and 1 cow and they were gladly eating the grass along the road right there. I got one calf in and then walked down the road around the corner a little bit, and he came back up and then DS came and he helped get the cow back in since I was still below her. Then he had to take the hydrobed and we attached a chain to it and pulled the corner post over and up and he pounded a few T-posts in at an angle to hopefully keep the corner post upright. It is all going to have to be taken apart and a new post put in next to the one that got broken, and the corner post reset.... He didn't have the skid loaded near so couldn't go get it and push a new post in.... We were going to move those cows out on Monday since Caleb is going to come preg check them on Tuesday.

Seems like there may be a connection with the light pole getting broken; and thoughts are that the truck driver may have come up the dirt road..... instead of up the other one because it has 3 hairpin turns and you cannot take a 53 ft trailer up it, and definitely not anything wide.... and tore this up. There were tire marks from a dual wheeled trailer and drag marks on the road.... and a piece of siding like on a mobile home.... no one stopped for the power pole and of course no one stopped for the fence.... sheriffs' office and state police were called because of the danger with the lines down and all. Also the stop sign at the corner is knocked halfway over and it had to be done coming from the dirt road onto the paved road from the way it is bent. All speculation that it might have been a mobile home someone was moving early. And no, since the light pole got broken somewhere about 5, and this happened today , if it was the same person, they probably came up the road shortly after that....and I was sleeping....
They probably won't find the person, but you never know.

So needless to say, I got back down the hill alot later than I planned and my knees were already aching from the crappy weather, and standing and walking to get the cows in and helping DS....

So I got 2/3 of the closed in porch stuff, sorted and 2 trips to the dumpsters, then dropped a few more things and came up with a couple of plastic totes for here. I had alot of stuff from my grandmothers and some was salvagable, but some was not. Then stuff from a couple of moves I've made that you don't throw out because you never know when you might need such and such......

It was 7 or so and I was maybe going to make another trip down with the car to get a few things out of the inside, but my knees said NOPE.... so I am in and took some stuff and reheated the chili I had gotten for lunch, and just ate it for supper.
I unloaded most of the stuff out of the car, and might finish it when I have had a little sit down time so that I can go down in the morning and get more stuff in the car to bring up. There is not alot more in there....

It has been chilly all day... Might have hit 64 or 65 but the rain made it feel cooler. The temp out there right now is 48.... what a drop. I had to close all the windows as it was just too damp and chilly. In fact, I just started the heaters back up to take the dampness out of the house. I will set them on 60 for the evening, once I get it a little bit warmed up I should be fine.

Got 2 drawers left to empty and clean and get back in the desk. Then to "refill" them. Think I am going to try to get them cleaned and back in the desk.... as I can sit to do it.... and maybe start getting stuff in them again.

It is nearly 9 p.m. already.... might not do a whole lot; I am tired.

 

[Mini Horses]

Like I tell people at work, you never know what will happen in a farm day!!! Glad it wasn't a field with 25 or so head. Geesh....

 

[farmerjan]

@Mini Horses , there are 19 cows, 1 bull and 19 calves in this field!!!!!.....so glad that they all hadn't found the hole..... and that the friend called DS and he called me and I was not that far away to be able to get up there before any more got out. There were at least 10 or more right near there.... they hadn't realized the first couple were out .... Whew.....

 

[Mini Horses]

How LUCKY you were!!!!!! Thought just a few new calvers.....wow! Oh, a bull too. Nice. Could have been a real rodeo. I have come home to 20 goats sampling the neighbors hay field. Magic bucket time. But sheer size of cattle make a real difference. And my girls rush to feed!!! Cattle tend to wander along with caution.

Glad they were seen before others went out!

 

[farmerjan]

It's already 9:30 pm. Long chilly cloudy day. It was down to 44 and barely hit 60 today. Clouds and some sprinkles early, then clouds and a few peeks at some blue then clouds and a few more sprinkles. I dumped rain gauge this morning with a little over .2 inch from yesterdays light afternoon rain, and whatever small little bit we had last night.

Quite a change in temps the last 2 days. I had shut all the windows and even turned the heat in the BR and the LR up a bit. Left it set at 60 overnight and it was on in the BR this morning, I have a little infared type room heater in BR and the fan was running so I know it was on.

State police did come and talk to DS yesterday after the fence being torn down, and so, who knows if they have any leads.... Turns out that whatever dual wheeled vehicle/trailer.... assuming it was a tractor trailer, possibly a mobile home carrier.... from the marks in the road and the ditches and all where the "power pole" was, it looked like they got there and realized they were in the wrong place.... tried to back up, took out part of the fence of another neighbors, caught the guide wire to the pole and drug it and SNAPPED the pole off about 1/2-2/3 the way up.... naturally all the electric lines and all. It happened at 5 a.m. as the one neighbor said that is when the power went off.... I think she still has a non-digital clock.... So it was out for nearly 12 hours. I went by and they put a 2nd pole next to it and between the 2, all the services have been restored. It is still the thoughts, that this driver.... either a total incompetent or else wanting to get out of there as fast as possible, came back up the road, and turned up the dirt road that goes by the stone house, then made the turn up the hill and then when they got near the top, on the sharp curve, the back end of the trailer went up on the bank, took out the corner wood post and broke off the next wood post and busted the wires and all.... then hit the stop sign at the end of the road. It is going to be hard to find the person who did it, unless they had a problem, like flat tires or something... as there is a Pilot TS and a TA truck stop right there.... and there is a HUGE number of trucks coming and going off the interstate everyday. But it is reported for the principle of it.... and they took the piece of siding too....

So, I went down to the house this morning. Got a bunch of stuff cleaned out, and then loaded some stuff in the car. Came back up to the new house and took out what needed to come inside and piled a bunch to go out in the building. But didn't want to put anything more out there until he got the freezers in there. Then ate a little lunch and went back down. Loaded some junk and went to the dumpster... came back and was sorting some more.... lots of canning jars and stuff....
Landlord came by and asked how things were going, and how I was feeling as I had told him that I had had a bad bladder and UTI infection. I said that I was working at it and that most of the stuff was gone but was having trouble getting enough help to get the other freezers moved. Then I had the outside building to get some stuff out, and then clean it. I also told him about the electric and he said that was fine, that we would talk and then he would call them. He said that he understood things have been going slow and that he hadn't been feeling too good either, and that it would be okay to take a little extra time to finish things. Then we talked about his cows and haying and all sorts of trivial stuff....then he left.

So I was loading some more stuff on the truck to bring up... a set of metal shelves and more odds and ends stuff.... and DS texts me and says he will be down in about a half hour, they were getting the skid loader on the trailer and then would be down. SO...... DRUM ROLL..... the 2 freezers are now in my storage shed.... and the other one that quit about 2 years ago, is out of the house too... loaded to go to the dump. And he was really nice about it all. He got Jim to help him.... and I am thankful that he did help. That chest freezer is an old sears coldspot.... it works good but it is one HEAVY sucker.... The upright is like a feather in comparison.
The turkeys are in the cooler chests, and I am going to clean out the chest freezer in the morning, there was some frost build up on one side... not bad, but may as well get it out now since it was off. I am sooo happy to have that done. They also loaded 2 trash cans of junk that I had there forever that were too heavy for me to get out of there, and dumped them at the dumpster too.

So..... one step closer.... I will do the freezer in the morning, then get it plugged in and then put the turkeys back in it. Then..... I will see about getting the chickens out of the freezer at the fairgrounds.... moved to my freezer, so they are all set and empty for the fireman's fair/carnival.....

Next is to finish up the stuff at the stone house; get the few things left in the kitchen and get the cupboards out of the kitchen now that there is plenty of room to just come from the kitchen out the back porch way.... and then the fish tanks out of his building and moved here.... general clean up outside... and cleaning the inside... But at least I am not pushed to do it by him. Got a couple of cattle panels and some T-posts to get too.

Wore a long sleeved T-shirt AND a flannel shirt all day today....it's been chilly.

Knees are really hurting, time for a hot shower and get them up. Got a load of clothes in the washer to do in the morning, supposed to be REAL nice for Memorial Day.... upper 70's and sun.... I won't push so hard in the morning but will make at least one trip down there to get some more done. See how the knees feel in the morning. I have really worked the last couple of days and they are sore....

 

[farmerjan]

To all that served in our military, and to those families who lost someone in that service

THANK YOU for your service and those that sacrificed and GOD BLESS YOU.