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Wed night. Had a good and fairly productive day.
CHILLY CHILLY temps this morning... 31 to start; recording thermometer shows it got up to 58 during the day and temps are back to 40 now at 8 pm. Mostly sunny today so it was pretty comfortable.
Got most of the leaves and grass bagged... Found 2 more feed bags and stuffed them as full as I could. Then had a "contractors" type garbage bag and filled it up as much as I could, so I could tie the tabs at the top. Got all 10 of the ones I had standing there, moved into the carport for now... not where I want them but they are under cover from the rain. What little was left is no more than a couple handfuls...
Put the mower in the back side of the carport where I keep it, and put the tarp overtop to keep it dry if it blows when raining.
Filled the 2 barrels, went up to the nurse cow and put her grain in... fed grain in the other section of the barn that I opened up for the calves. Dumped the water in 2 troughs... fed the holstein calf the bottle and then put the cow out loose for the next 24 hours... I knew it would be late when I got home. Calves can stay in the barn or go out in the lot in front of that section in the sun.
I will go up in the morning, with a bottle to feed the holstein... and let the cow in. I will let her stay in with the calves; put more hay in the bunk and she will have water even if it doesn't rain much. Let her stay in with them during the cold rain. The other calves can come in the other side if the weather gets real crummy.
Came on home and got changed to go... DS said he would be at the house a little before 11. We left, went by and dropped off the tire... and headed to Blacksburg to the Dr... Traffic was HORRIBLE.... heavy traffic and construction so just congested. We got there 10 minutes before his appt time... we had left 2 hrs ahead of the appt in case... Normally takes about 1 1/2 at most. But we usually go at 6-6:30 in the morning.
Things went about as expected... he is going back in a month.... as usual.... still said he could not return to work. His short term disability runs out 11/22... the paperwork is in the works for the long term disability... which will be paid through workman's comp.... He has another referral to a different specialist... waiting on them to get that set up... and he is now seeing an ophthalmologist dr for the eye problems.... possibility causing the headaches or making them worse...
Conflicting thoughts from a couple of the drs.... on the botox for the headaches... and for some of the other things...
He has had a rough week.... headaches, and somewhat nauseous, fuzziness/vision... the past several days. The stress of trying to get things working with the fencing and the cows and all is not helping. Plus the never ending phone calls and being put on hold, and leaving messages and all that BS stuff.... He spends an average 2 hrs a day with talking to one person, then directed to another... leaving messages, all the electronic stupid stuff of..."choose from this menu, press this number for this", getting a voice mail....all that run around crap....
We stopped at the local cattle auction... sale is on Wed... not much there... then went to Rural King... I got feed... DS was getting more stuff he needs for the fencing... most stuff cheaper than he can get here... so they can get back to work on it tomorrow... unless it rains alot... he got some chicken feed... came home with the back of the explorer pretty full. Stopped and filled it up as gas is $.15 to .30 /gal cheaper... then stopped and ate something since we were both hungry.
Got home at 7:00... he was going to put the tractor and manure spreader in the barn, feed a couple rolls of hay, and put the round baler under cover too... wanted to do the feeding so he wouldn't have to be slipping around in any mud if it rains much. It is supposed to be wet and raw and very chilly out there tomorrow.
I went out and got the jeans off the line that I didn't get to it this morning. They are in the house.
In the morning, I will have to switch meters and hoses to the forester... put the license plates on it... I will leave the feed in the explorer for a few days for now. I need to get some metal trash cans to put it in.... will check on some prices before I buy any....
Go up to the farm and do the jersey and all that....
DS called and the tire is fixed... they found 1 "hole" from that board & nail.... so I will see about getting it back tomorrow...need to get it inspected also... might see if they have time tomorrow when I go down there... have a couple of bags of trash to drop off at the dumpster while I am right near there.
Go by the mechanic's shop that is near there also, and see about setting up appt for outback...replace the wheel bearing....thinking I should do both since they are the same "age"....
I am tired... going to bed here shortly.
CHILLY CHILLY temps this morning... 31 to start; recording thermometer shows it got up to 58 during the day and temps are back to 40 now at 8 pm. Mostly sunny today so it was pretty comfortable.
Got most of the leaves and grass bagged... Found 2 more feed bags and stuffed them as full as I could. Then had a "contractors" type garbage bag and filled it up as much as I could, so I could tie the tabs at the top. Got all 10 of the ones I had standing there, moved into the carport for now... not where I want them but they are under cover from the rain. What little was left is no more than a couple handfuls...
Put the mower in the back side of the carport where I keep it, and put the tarp overtop to keep it dry if it blows when raining.
Filled the 2 barrels, went up to the nurse cow and put her grain in... fed grain in the other section of the barn that I opened up for the calves. Dumped the water in 2 troughs... fed the holstein calf the bottle and then put the cow out loose for the next 24 hours... I knew it would be late when I got home. Calves can stay in the barn or go out in the lot in front of that section in the sun.
I will go up in the morning, with a bottle to feed the holstein... and let the cow in. I will let her stay in with the calves; put more hay in the bunk and she will have water even if it doesn't rain much. Let her stay in with them during the cold rain. The other calves can come in the other side if the weather gets real crummy.
Came on home and got changed to go... DS said he would be at the house a little before 11. We left, went by and dropped off the tire... and headed to Blacksburg to the Dr... Traffic was HORRIBLE.... heavy traffic and construction so just congested. We got there 10 minutes before his appt time... we had left 2 hrs ahead of the appt in case... Normally takes about 1 1/2 at most. But we usually go at 6-6:30 in the morning.
Things went about as expected... he is going back in a month.... as usual.... still said he could not return to work. His short term disability runs out 11/22... the paperwork is in the works for the long term disability... which will be paid through workman's comp.... He has another referral to a different specialist... waiting on them to get that set up... and he is now seeing an ophthalmologist dr for the eye problems.... possibility causing the headaches or making them worse...
Conflicting thoughts from a couple of the drs.... on the botox for the headaches... and for some of the other things...
He has had a rough week.... headaches, and somewhat nauseous, fuzziness/vision... the past several days. The stress of trying to get things working with the fencing and the cows and all is not helping. Plus the never ending phone calls and being put on hold, and leaving messages and all that BS stuff.... He spends an average 2 hrs a day with talking to one person, then directed to another... leaving messages, all the electronic stupid stuff of..."choose from this menu, press this number for this", getting a voice mail....all that run around crap....
We stopped at the local cattle auction... sale is on Wed... not much there... then went to Rural King... I got feed... DS was getting more stuff he needs for the fencing... most stuff cheaper than he can get here... so they can get back to work on it tomorrow... unless it rains alot... he got some chicken feed... came home with the back of the explorer pretty full. Stopped and filled it up as gas is $.15 to .30 /gal cheaper... then stopped and ate something since we were both hungry.
Got home at 7:00... he was going to put the tractor and manure spreader in the barn, feed a couple rolls of hay, and put the round baler under cover too... wanted to do the feeding so he wouldn't have to be slipping around in any mud if it rains much. It is supposed to be wet and raw and very chilly out there tomorrow.
I went out and got the jeans off the line that I didn't get to it this morning. They are in the house.
In the morning, I will have to switch meters and hoses to the forester... put the license plates on it... I will leave the feed in the explorer for a few days for now. I need to get some metal trash cans to put it in.... will check on some prices before I buy any....
Go up to the farm and do the jersey and all that....
DS called and the tire is fixed... they found 1 "hole" from that board & nail.... so I will see about getting it back tomorrow...need to get it inspected also... might see if they have time tomorrow when I go down there... have a couple of bags of trash to drop off at the dumpster while I am right near there.
Go by the mechanic's shop that is near there also, and see about setting up appt for outback...replace the wheel bearing....thinking I should do both since they are the same "age"....
I am tired... going to bed here shortly.
