Farmerjan's journal - Weather

[farmerjan]

I would be just be "paying his bills" over and above what the disability payments cover... can't stop me from putting money in his account , or paying his bills..... and he is only helping me on the farm... no compensation and neither of us take a salary/paycheck from any of the farm work... his tax guy does all the farm taxes and all that... there is no actual salary taken from the income from the cows... it gets "written off", in whatever way he does it against mortgages, operating expenses, all that stuff.

It's all a racket. How many people do we know that are collecting disability payments and then see them out mowing lawns and cutting firewood and all sorts of things... "real disabled"..... several are just too lazy to get a real job... the one that is the real joke is he hurt his back... but cuts firewood... and sells it.. and I mean A LOT of truck loads of wood....

The long term disability for now might get him through as they have sent him to yet "another doctor"... to try something else, different PT....also determining if the vertebrae damage is going to have to be operated on... which he is very much NOT in favor of doing... He is scared of the possible outcome of paralysis... which I have to be optimistic about instead of being negative; if it could stop the pain by stabilizing the spot and maybe supporting the damaged area with fusing the 2... which is now being talked about as a possibility.... which should take the compression off the nerves in theory... maybe that would "fix things".... I just don't know... time to try some other stuff they want to do now, at least through the winter...

 

[farmerjan]

Friday morning... The sun is coming over the tree line... we were supposed to have some spotty showers and got a sprinkle yesterday that barely got the road wet.
Got up at 3 a.m. picked up DS and went to test the 500+ cow herd... it went okay but there are over 550 cows now... had trouble with uploading so have to swing by there when they get some things straightened out.. to do the final closeout... this is getting to be a bigger PITA than it is worth some days. Oh well... Got home and DS had to get on the phone with some more of the disability stuff... I came to my house... got the samples in.
Had to do things here, then leave to go pick up samples from the guy with the couple cows, then went to test the other herd in the afternoon.
Testing there went fine... have to set up there... had to fix a few small things in her computer that we set up last week.... then after it was all done... had to pull all the meters and come home. Have to call computer support to get them to fix a few things to get her straightened out...

I was plumb tired out last night.

Heading up to the cow and calves to put her in and feed the bottle... then will have to come back and get the samples packed and take all with me when I leave to go test this afternoon. Plus have to swing by that big herd to get that uploaded and all that... GRRRRRR

Sun is out... maybe some passing showers on Sunday... Never can I remember going so long with no measurable rainfall....