Ridgetop
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Finally caught up with Farmerjan's activities. On to the next. 
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Thursday morning. Yesterday I spent 3-4 hours tedding out the hay that DS finished cutting at Deb's, and the several 2-3 acre pieces down the road, plus did 2 rounds around the orchard grass field at his barn to get a start on the drying out along the tree lines and where it doesn't get as much sun with the seasons going into fall.
DS picked me up at the field at his barn (orchard grass field) on his way back with 4 more big blocks for the concrete pad/silage pit. I waited for him to unload them and then he took me back to deb's where the car was. It was decided I would go up tomorrow (today now) and tedd out the rest of the field at his barn, then go to deb's and see about raking the hay there.
So this morning we got a little light shower and it is wet out there. Not soaking, but wet on top. Radar is showing it will pass over... it was dark and all clouds, now I am seeing some sun coming through. Won't go do anything before noon. I will have everything in the car as I have to go test late this afternoon at the "new farm" I took over a couple months ago. They are going to test pretty much every month.... Will have to get someone to take me from the tractor at Deb's or if I get to the next place, to my car to go to work.
Well, the sun is trying to come out now...
When this front goes through the temps are supposed to drop 20+ degrees. Night time is supposed to be in the 40's Friday night.
Fall is coming..... FAST...
DS picked me up at the field at his barn (orchard grass field) on his way back with 4 more big blocks for the concrete pad/silage pit. I waited for him to unload them and then he took me back to deb's where the car was. It was decided I would go up tomorrow (today now) and tedd out the rest of the field at his barn, then go to deb's and see about raking the hay there.
So this morning we got a little light shower and it is wet out there. Not soaking, but wet on top. Radar is showing it will pass over... it was dark and all clouds, now I am seeing some sun coming through. Won't go do anything before noon. I will have everything in the car as I have to go test late this afternoon at the "new farm" I took over a couple months ago. They are going to test pretty much every month.... Will have to get someone to take me from the tractor at Deb's or if I get to the next place, to my car to go to work.
Well, the sun is trying to come out now...
When this front goes through the temps are supposed to drop 20+ degrees. Night time is supposed to be in the 40's Friday night.
Fall is coming..... FAST...
Baymule
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Still in the 70's at night here and 98 in the day. Fall would be welcomed here, but I won't be able to do much. I did go get my hang up clothes yesterday from son's hose, they are still in the car. Incentive to finish my closet. LOL
Ridgetop
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Make sure to have loose stuff to wear after your surgery since your leg will be swollen and your jeans won't fit. I had family here so I wore loose lounging PJs for a week in bed doing my exercises. My surgery knee is still much more swollen than the other one so I have to wear loose pants. Otherwise the swollen knee feels constricted. If you have shorts, wear them in the house until the swelling goes down. If you have to go out to the sheep hopefully you can just put on your boots. Make sure you use sunscreen on your scar for at least a year. 
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Home at 11:45 p.m. testing went fine... they didn't start milking til 6:30....
Didn't tedd any hay... got the little light sprinkles, then some sun then clouds again. I put the can of fuel in the tractor but I texted DS and said that with it so breezy I thought it would probably not need to be tedded, and that I would go and rake tomorrow... It got real sunny and quite a breeze was blowing when I went to work.
CHILLY this evening.... gotta put a light weight sweat shirt in the car.... this short sleeved shirt does not cut it in the cooler temps !!!! Low 50's when I left up there.
Going in to get a nice hot shower... and hit the sack.
Didn't tedd any hay... got the little light sprinkles, then some sun then clouds again. I put the can of fuel in the tractor but I texted DS and said that with it so breezy I thought it would probably not need to be tedded, and that I would go and rake tomorrow... It got real sunny and quite a breeze was blowing when I went to work.
CHILLY this evening.... gotta put a light weight sweat shirt in the car.... this short sleeved shirt does not cut it in the cooler temps !!!! Low 50's when I left up there.
Going in to get a nice hot shower... and hit the sack.
Baymule
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My style is tight jeans. LOL So I’ve bought 6 pair of sweat pants, 2 pair of loose “soft pants” and even bought a couple pair of loose gauzy nice go-to-town pants with nice shirts to match. Those overalls we bought at the farm Co-op in Tennessee are loose too. Goodbye blue jeans, hello alternative clothing.Make sure to have loose stuff to wear after your surgery since your leg will be swollen and your jeans won't fit. I had family here so I wore loose lounging PJs for a week in bed doing my exercises. My surgery knee is still much more swollen than the other one so I have to wear loose pants. Otherwise the swollen knee feels constricted. If you have shorts, wear them in the house until the swelling goes down. If you have to go out to the sheep hopefully you can just put on your boots. Make sure you use sunscreen on your scar for at least a year.
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I was back in my jeans within a month.... had one pair that was a bit looser and as soon as the bandages came off the knees and after I found that "Burt's Bees Calming Serum" that killed the pain and redness and irritation and all in the first application... as long as I kept using it for about 3-4 days.. THAT stuff was a MIRACLE for me.... I was back into my jeans. The overalls will be fine. After the bandages come off and whatever way they close it, staples, butterflies, stitches, "zip tie things", you can do whatever as long as it doesn't irritate it.
Whatever are you doing posting at 3:45 in the morning????
Whatever are you doing posting at 3:45 in the morning????
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Friday morning... WOO WEE... CHILLIN' ... it was down to 45 last night and I guess pretty breezy since the breeze was pretty strong when I got home at 11:45 last night.
Sun is out and there is still a breeze but temps are up about 56 in the shade of the porch. I will be going up to the hayfields here shortly... see what if anything DS did yesterday after I left for work.
I stopped and put the can of fuel in the tractor, and then stopped at Lowes to return a package of little shelf bracket holder things since I finally found the can with the ones I knew "I had somewhere".....also wanted to see about a ridgecap for the metal but it is almost $40 which is what I paid for the 4 sheets of roofing and it is only 10 ft which seems like more than I want to pay... I can extend one side higher than the other so it doesn't run directly down the crack of the 2 pieces meeting at the top... at least with the 4 sheets of the 14 ft., I can cut to length...seen rooftops done like that. I also was lucky as i found the wood pieces to go under the metal, so you can nail into them and not mess up the metal... another score... they are 6.99 for 72" length... I got 5 that were broken.. all 48 to 52 inches .. and they gave me a discount of 50% off so got them for around 3.50.... I took the 5 that were broken for that price. there will be more needs for them I am sure...
Good thing that I left a little early to do a few errands... Stopped and got a hot dog and all at the "Sam's Hot Dog " stand... I usually go there once a month when in that direction on my way to test somewhere... and was back on the interstate heading north. Figured if I was real early I could stop at the nursery right off their exit and poke around...
NOPE, got tied up in a traffic backup and called the farm to say I might be late and they said not a probelm....
Took about 30 minutes to go 2 miles... here are 4 cars that obviously had rear ended... chain reaction type of mess... one smaller car was up under a pickup truck with one of those utility tool box bodies... they were trying to get stuff there to get the truck raised up enough to get the car out from under it. Couldn't figure out what caused all this until I finally got past it about 1 tenth mile... there is a tractor trailer down the left side into the median... steep bank... laid completely on it's side almost tipped over onto the roof.... I figure he went off the side, flipped it and traffic slowed/stopped whatever... and the ones coming up didn't see it soon enough that the traffic was slowing and they had the rear end chain reaction...
Let me tell you, the traffic had been doing 70 and up... I was in the 70-73 range and there were cars going by me at 80 at least... I am not surprised that they couldn't stop fast enough with traffic in front of them... and so many do not pay attention anyway.
So that took up the cushion of time I had allowed myself... got to the farm at 5:15... they had said they would start milking between 5:30 and 6:00... I got set up and then they got there and then it was nearly 6:30 when they actually got started.... typical of them I have discovered and no sense in getting upset over it....
Finished milking, did the computer work, meters were in the final rinse and after it had run a minute or 2, started turning valves so they could drain and pulled hoses and by the time we had 4 off the cycle finished and got the other 4. The final rinse is with an acid to counter the effects of the chlorine wash cycle... so as long as they get a thorough run through, I don't always wait for the end of the cycle... done and on the road about quarter to 10....
So that was my exciting day.
Sun is out good, still quite a breeze. Going to pack samples, won't take long and go rake...
Sun is out and there is still a breeze but temps are up about 56 in the shade of the porch. I will be going up to the hayfields here shortly... see what if anything DS did yesterday after I left for work.
I stopped and put the can of fuel in the tractor, and then stopped at Lowes to return a package of little shelf bracket holder things since I finally found the can with the ones I knew "I had somewhere".....also wanted to see about a ridgecap for the metal but it is almost $40 which is what I paid for the 4 sheets of roofing and it is only 10 ft which seems like more than I want to pay... I can extend one side higher than the other so it doesn't run directly down the crack of the 2 pieces meeting at the top... at least with the 4 sheets of the 14 ft., I can cut to length...seen rooftops done like that. I also was lucky as i found the wood pieces to go under the metal, so you can nail into them and not mess up the metal... another score... they are 6.99 for 72" length... I got 5 that were broken.. all 48 to 52 inches .. and they gave me a discount of 50% off so got them for around 3.50.... I took the 5 that were broken for that price. there will be more needs for them I am sure...
Good thing that I left a little early to do a few errands... Stopped and got a hot dog and all at the "Sam's Hot Dog " stand... I usually go there once a month when in that direction on my way to test somewhere... and was back on the interstate heading north. Figured if I was real early I could stop at the nursery right off their exit and poke around...
NOPE, got tied up in a traffic backup and called the farm to say I might be late and they said not a probelm....
Took about 30 minutes to go 2 miles... here are 4 cars that obviously had rear ended... chain reaction type of mess... one smaller car was up under a pickup truck with one of those utility tool box bodies... they were trying to get stuff there to get the truck raised up enough to get the car out from under it. Couldn't figure out what caused all this until I finally got past it about 1 tenth mile... there is a tractor trailer down the left side into the median... steep bank... laid completely on it's side almost tipped over onto the roof.... I figure he went off the side, flipped it and traffic slowed/stopped whatever... and the ones coming up didn't see it soon enough that the traffic was slowing and they had the rear end chain reaction...
Let me tell you, the traffic had been doing 70 and up... I was in the 70-73 range and there were cars going by me at 80 at least... I am not surprised that they couldn't stop fast enough with traffic in front of them... and so many do not pay attention anyway.
So that took up the cushion of time I had allowed myself... got to the farm at 5:15... they had said they would start milking between 5:30 and 6:00... I got set up and then they got there and then it was nearly 6:30 when they actually got started.... typical of them I have discovered and no sense in getting upset over it....
Finished milking, did the computer work, meters were in the final rinse and after it had run a minute or 2, started turning valves so they could drain and pulled hoses and by the time we had 4 off the cycle finished and got the other 4. The final rinse is with an acid to counter the effects of the chlorine wash cycle... so as long as they get a thorough run through, I don't always wait for the end of the cycle... done and on the road about quarter to 10....
So that was my exciting day.
Sun is out good, still quite a breeze. Going to pack samples, won't take long and go rake...
Bruce
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Old phone is 3G??
I suspect it is what you are used to. They do the same things, they don't do them the same way.
It was 41°F this morning, might make 50°F for a high, down near freezing tonight
Muumuu!!
Worse than that, server 03:45 is 02:45 at Bay's house!
Baymule
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I woke up a little past midnight, couldn't go back to sleep. Got a book, cup of camomile tea, wide awake. Got on the phone, yes it was 2:45 here. Gave up, turned off lights, last time I looked at the clock it was 3:11. Slept until 7:30
