Farmerjan's journal - Weather

[farmerjan]

Sunday noontime. Temps down to 43 and only 51 now and it has been sporadically raining since early. Right now it is so foggy you can't see 100 ft away. Forecast says it is going to clear off and maybe some partial sun late afternoon as the rain continues east and north.

Went out and let the chickens out and the buff hen ran out the back again.

I just ate "brunch" of scrapple and sunny side up eggs.

Going to work in the kitchen a little bit again and see about getting a few more things boxed up again. Then going to take and try washing/spraying this new odor killer/disinfect I had gotten while out shopping a week ago... and see if that helps. Then maybe painting with the Kilz and see if it helps.

I have gotten 5 total mice in a week and I have seen 2 more that were chasing each other in the LR the other night. Have used up all the sticky traps so am going to get some more. These seem to have figured out how to steal off the snap traps and not set them off.

Got a call from the jersey farm 125 miles north. They have still not sold off all the cows so want to do another test. May as well, travel pay is more than the testing pay....I really thought all the cows had finally been sold.

Everything else is just going along quiet. Got 3 farms to talk to about testing....

 

[murphysranch]

I'm glad you are feeling a tiny bit better now.

 

[Baymule]

An inside day might help your head cold.

 

[SageHill]

An inside day might help your head cold.

My thoughts exactly - but getting that to happen - well, you know how that goes

 

[farmerjan]

Partially cloudy and sun today.... 46 up to 62. I finally decided to take the steps, and went and got my explorer because it was just too much for anyone to take it to the business 10 minutes away and pick up the other person. SOOOO, I took my forester, got the explorer and then talked to the next door neighbors of DS house, and they said, sure, we'll take you back to get the car.

I get a phone call from DS as I am getting out of the explorer at the business... and DS wants to know if I had been over to J's house because her father had seen a strange car over there. "Yes, I had gone to get the explorer, and the forester was there and that Wilma was taking me back over to get it." I said I had checked and the outback wasn't done yet so I might take the explorer to the farm 125 miles away to run it a little... and he seems to think that I shouldn't do it because then it will smell like a cow barn and I won't be able to get rid of the smell... I am not taking meters, only 20 bottles in the tray... and I can put my shoes in a plastic bag and trade for other shoes...
But he also said that J and GF went to visit a cousin today, (and YET, they still could not take 5 extra minutes to drop it off on their way to go visit) ....I didn't know that they were going to go anywhere... I just went and got it. I had said I was going to go get it.....Like I was wrong to go get it ????

Well, it is there, I will make a decision tomorrow to drive it or not. I am going to get a For Sale sign to put in the window... which I thought she was going to do... and after doing a little looking, J also did NOT put it on the internet like she said... I went on facebook marketplace, looking for it, and it said it had been uploaded about 25 minutes earlier.(today)..... So all these last 5 days, I thought it was out there... it wasn't. I may not be very good at posting things, but I am not a total dummy and I can go on and look things up.
I will get all the info and get it on Craigslist tonight. Don't know if I can get a pic uploaded, but at least the info will be there....
I had not heard from DS since Friday..... then get questioned if I had been over there and then lectured on not getting it smelling bad.....
Going to lock in chickens here in a little bit, then go get a couple for sale signs and make up a sheet with info for the explorer to tape on the window....

I took most of the meters out of the truck and changed the brackets on 10 for a farm that I am going to test this week. I have to call him back later, he left a message, and after he gets done milking I can call him and set the date. Then I will talk to Geneva and see if she can do an evening at the 500 cow herd, before I ask DS.

 

[Baymule]

Them two are flakier than a box of corn flakes. You thought the sister was the better of the two, and she ain’t much different. It’s YOUR car and if you want to go get it, it’s yours and you can do that. If you want to drive it to a farm, guess what? It’s YOURS and you can drive it wherever the heck you want to.

Nice of Miss Flake to list the Explorer 25 minutes before you went looking for it.

 

[SageHill]

Partially cloudy and sun today.... 46 up to 62. I finally decided to take the steps, and went and got my explorer because it was just too much for anyone to take it to the business 10 minutes away and pick up the other person. SOOOO, I took my forester, got the explorer and then talked to the next door neighbors of DS house, and they said, sure, we'll take you back to get the car.

I get a phone call from DS as I am getting out of the explorer at the business... and DS wants to know if I had been over to J's house because her father had seen a strange car over there. "Yes, I had gone to get the explorer, and the forester was there and that Wilma was taking me back over to get it." I said I had checked and the outback wasn't done yet so I might take the explorer to the farm 125 miles away to run it a little... and he seems to think that I shouldn't do it because then it will smell like a cow barn and I won't be able to get rid of the smell... I am not taking meters, only 20 bottles in the tray... and I can put my shoes in a plastic bag and trade for other shoes...
But he also said that J and GF went to visit a cousin today, (and YET, they still could not take 5 extra minutes to drop it off on their way to go visit) ....I didn't know that they were going to go anywhere... I just went and got it. I had said I was going to go get it.....Like I was wrong to go get it ????

Well, it is there, I will make a decision tomorrow to drive it or not. I am going to get a For Sale sign to put in the window... which I thought she was going to do... and after doing a little looking, J also did NOT put it on the internet like she said... I went on facebook marketplace, looking for it, and it said it had been uploaded about 25 minutes earlier.(today)..... So all these last 5 days, I thought it was out there... it wasn't. I may not be very good at posting things, but I am not a total dummy and I can go on and look things up.
I will get all the info and get it on Craigslist tonight. Don't know if I can get a pic uploaded, but at least the info will be there....
I had not heard from DS since Friday..... then get questioned if I had been over there and then lectured on not getting it smelling bad.....
Going to lock in chickens here in a little bit, then go get a couple for sale signs and make up a sheet with info for the explorer to tape on the window....

I took most of the meters out of the truck and changed the brackets on 10 for a farm that I am going to test this week. I have to call him back later, he left a message, and after he gets done milking I can call him and set the date. Then I will talk to Geneva and see if she can do an evening at the 500 cow herd, before I ask DS.

Good gravy, they all seem to think it will sell itself by the amount of effort they’ve put in! It’s yours, you gave them more than a fair chance to sell it. The heck with them - do as you see fit!

 

[farmerjan]

Yep, I'm tired of it... Got the for sale signs to put in it tomorrow, got a sheet to tape inside with basic info listed on it... Going to take it to another ford dealership about an hour north of here to get an appraisal/offer.... might just say TS and sell it direct to a dealer at this point....
Gotta get a shower and go to bed so I can get going earlier tomorrow to make some stops on the way....

 

[farmerjan]

Well, things didn't go quite as planned so I got a later start than I wanted and did not stop at the ford dealership on my way to work.
But, DS called and said that GF and J , or whoever, had put it on several sites on the internet.... And that a friend had asked him about it since I hadn't even gotten the signs in the windows yesterday, he stopped in at Davis' there where I had parked it and he told him to call DS since he didn't know much about it. So he talked to DS and he said to call me and I talked to him on the way to the farm. His wife (or GF?) has a "bug" so can't come look at it for a day or 2... I told him about it and said I would be glad to meet him down there to look at it... told him I was asking 19,500 but it was negotiable... he is a decent neighbor, went to bat for DS on the tower and went to several of the meetings/hearings when he was going through that... and he said he would call me in a couple days as soon as she felt a little better. I said I had someone else that was interested in looking at it but I would be glad to show it to him. That was from it sitting there less than 24 hours.....

I told DS it was a good thing I had taken it to the farm today since there were cops out everywhere on the interstate... saw 4 on the north bound side (my side) going to the farm... and 3 on the southbound side... several sitting in the center crossovers on the interstate and a couple in the travel lanes also.... There was a lot of traffic going up so good that I did leave a bit early and didn't make any stops. I got there about a half hour early, and if I had stopped I would have been late.
Took an hour to test and another 1/2 hour to do the paperwork.... he is hoping that the cows will be gone within the month. He is ready to quit. Has someone coming the end of the week or early next week to look at them... I think there will be 25-30 total for sale counting the couple of dry cows and the closeup springing heifers. I hate to see it but I understand.

While testing I got a couple of texts. I checked them and one was from a "car buying group" south of me near where DS goes to the special dr at Va Tech for his neck and shoulder... They saw the explorer listed and wanted to see about making a possible offer.... So rather than text them back, I called and talked directly to a guy.... gave him the vin # and he ran it..... I explained about the mileage and that DMV said it would be corrected when the lien was lifted (paid off) and a new title issued.... He said they have an automated "program" that sends out these texts on vehicles that meet their initial parameters, and then they go from there.... They offered me 15,150 SIGHT UNSEEN.... over the phone.... they would like to see it if I was interested.... I explained that the local Ford dealership had offered me more than that and had advised me to sell it direct if I could since I could probably get more. But they said if I was interested, to give them a call...

It amazes me that it could have been sold by now if I hadn't been waiting around for J to get the "time" to get it cleaned up. I mean, I waited all those months getting the stupid DMV to get the title straightened up....
Hopefully it will get sold within a month or less. I will let the neighbor have it for less than the asking price... I want to make sure he is aware of the salt it has been in up north and all... I don't want to screw him over... I told him that the ford place had made me an offer and they said to try to sell it privately as I could get more for it.... and if he makes me any offer above what they are going to give me, I will sell it to him.

It is a shame I don't like it more as it does drive nice and has comfortable seats... but all that fancy touch screen crap and not being able to just turn a knob and punch a button for a radio station is just too much BS... I still haven't figured out how to get the "trip" odometer to work... can't get it to zero out.... I am just too used to pushing the little button and it "zero's it out" and starts over... And sitting so far down in it... not being able to reach out the window comfortably.... and it is so closed in feeling...And every time it starts down the road it locks all the doors... and I kept forgetting it and couldn't get the back open until I unlocked the button on the inside of the drivers door.... .

I stopped at the "new farm" on the way home that I just did a tank sample of a week or 2 ago... they wanted to send in another sample... He is having trouble with his scc count being way too high and they have had some stray voltage which affects the cows (they get zapped sometimes in the barn) and he thinks they got it taken care of so wanted to see if the scc dropped. Will do this sample and then another in a week... he really wants to test... I just cannot figure out how the meters will work in there with no stationary pipe to hang them on. And I really don't want to take on another farm.... but might have to.

Locked in the chickens when I got home and then just sat down. I need to find something to eat but not real hungry...

I think I posted it in the "coffee" thread; I had 2 mice together on a sticky trap this morning... this might have been the 2 that were playing tag in the LR even though they were up on the kitchen counter next to the little convection oven.... I was thrilled to get 2 more gone....

Was a pretty nice day, chilly 35 but up to 56.... part sun and high cloudiness... "bright" out there. Rain looks like we will have it by 2-3 a.m. but now it is supposed to move through and be some sun late aft and WINDY with gusts in the 30-50 MPH range.... WOW .

Going to bed in a little bit, I'm tired....

 

[Bruce]

And every time it starts down the road it locks all the doors... and I kept forgetting it and couldn't get the back open until I unlocked the button on the inside of the drivers door.... .

DW's Leaf does that when it gets to about 15 MPH and I ABSOLUTELY hate it. I see it as a safety hazard, can't open the doors unless the vehicle is turned off (maybe if it is put in Park??) or the unlock button on the door is hit. The driver can open all doors, the shotgun seat only unlocks that door. In the back seat? Tough ****, you can't get out.

What happens if you are in an accident and aren't conscious, how do the first people there render assistance without the jaws of life? And do you really want to rip the car apart to open the doors?

When we deliver eggs on the way to visit DW's parents I can let myself out but I can't open the back door to get the eggs out until DW unlocks the doors ... and she isn't real fast at remembering to do so.

All because the stupid car locks and it can't be defeated. If it auto locks when you go over 15 MPH it should auto unlock when you drop below 15 MPH.