Good Morning!--Chat thread

[amysflock]

Good morning, all,

We're back from the fair (I posted our results in the Showing Our Herd room!). I don't know when I was last this sore and tired...fairs are exceptionally hard work! I had a great time, though, really got to know the other breeders from my association who were there, talked to the public, and enjoyed just about everything about the experience (except the concrete floors, although they did make cleaning out our area a breeze). The calves had been showing signs of boredom the last few days and were clearly thrilled to be home, spending a good several minutes really head butting and chasing eachother around their pasture. The visiting bull went home on Saturday - thank God, since he completely destroyed part of our garden fence Thursday night. I was not a fan of him after having my short amount of overnight sleep at home cut shorter by fence repairs. We did get excellent feedback about our cows, though, from the bull's owner, a big breeder from up north, and that made us very happy.

Now today I can finally take care of the rest of the produce that's gone wild over the past week, including the beets I should have processed a week ago but couldn't get to. Hope they're not too woody.

 

[Thewife]

Good afternoon folks!

Had one of them low blood pressure forget everything mornings!
So used to having Hubby home, I almost forgot to wake him up to go to work! Watched him drive away with my smokes(yea I know bad habit should have let him keep driving) He left them for me down at the gate. Tried to balance my checkbook, not sure where some of them numbers even came from!
It's already time to do my afternoon chores, so if I forgot to feed anybody this morning, they will be taken care of!(I think)

Hey Amy, glad you got rid of your bull! Ours was watching the boy and I with his head held high, when we were TRYING to catch Sam.
He should be leaving any day now! ( I hope)

lupinfarm, the fences on our lower ground are leaning so bad, one of my big cows has figured out she can walk into any pasture she wants too, without hurting herself or the fence!

 

[Bronco Hollow]

Well darn it!!!! - wont let me post a picture today!!! Grrrrr

Had a picture of Herman a Watusi. He was soo cool! The ranch has a new bull now - he is a small and spotty... and he is nasty [don't recall the name]. He hunts you down bellering all the way. He kept following us last time we rode the ranch, kept cutting us off, hiding in brush and popping out on us... not fun and he kept up this for a good hour... Last I heard he charged the owners sons truck while he was deer hunting - took out the headlamps and did quite a bit of damage... needless to say we don't ride this ranch anymore.


Waving hello, have a great day!

 

[WildRoseBeef]

Mornin'!

Guess what I had waking me up this morning?

A bat!!

Yeah you heard right, a Little Brown Bat somehow found its way into the house and the cats were chasing it; what woke me up was the sudden site of it flapping over my head. EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!

I was almost going to hide under the covers until Mom came up to say goodbye as she was going off to work, but since it was quarter to six in the morning, I decided to cautiously get out of bed to not disturb the little bat that was now resting on the ceiling near my bedroom, and get Mom to help me get the little bugger out.

Mom was surprised, to say the least. So the both of us, still donned in our nighties, locked the cats in the basement, crept upstairs, mom with a pair of work gloves on and a pail to try to catch it in, and opened up all the windows WIDE open and took off the screens.

By then it suddenly occured to me that that little bat actually looked kinda cute.

Anyway, as mom was slowly putting the pail up to the ceiling to catch the bat, it saw us and flew out of "harm's" way, heading for the other bedroom opposite mine. "Oh crap," I thought. I started to shut the door to let the bat find it's way out of the open window, but mom suggested we both go in and shoo the bat out of the window...."helping" it as she called it.

You gotta have nerves of steel if you have a bat flying and zooming around a little room right over your head, to be honest. A person who hates birds would be freaking out right about now. Seriously, we could feel air from the bat's wings as it zoomed and darted and flapped around the little bedroom. I grabbed a towl to sort of "herd" it towards the window, and moreso to keep it from coming over my head so much. Finally, after a dozen circuits around the room, the bat found the open window and flew out into the dawn.

I don't think we'll ever know how that little thing got in.

 

[lupinfarm]

Good.... Day everyone! ... Still no fence posts here, the guy was supposed to show today but we got a call saying that they had some problems getting the tractor on the trailer and therefore wouldn't be coming today.

 

[homesteadingcowgirl]

Well, I almost asked for a "do-over" this morning-just didn't start our rght. But, I came inside from doing chores to find that Pete and Repeat were making me breakfast . My second favorite type of breakfast ever. Pete commented "we were like a chef-with four hands"
so, went and did the other chores, thinking wow, it would be nice if the bulls were near the pen-they were!! Then thinking-wow, it would be great if they went in easy-they did Got the trailer on the truck, got home and loaded up the cow and calf. Went back-gee, wouldn't it be spectacular if the bulls just walked easily into the trailer-THEY DID!!! Everything went "slicker than snot on a doorknob" (my dad used to say that!) Glad I didn't ask for a "do-over" afterall!!!

Sorry no fence yet, lupin.
WRB- Did u get a pic of the bat?

 

[amysflock]

Good (late) morning! We had rain here overnight that just stopped, so it's cooler and hopefully the soil retains a little moisture. I think I might go out in a bit and deadhead some perennials...I hate doing that when it's hot as Mars in the front yard (which it isn't right now). DH is fishing again today, I think has trips planned all week, so that's cool. I feel more adjusted back to the house now; that fair took a lot out of me. I'd be happier if my neck would stop hurting, but I'll work on that.

OK, time to get out of my pjs and get my day really started. Have a great Wednesday, everyone!

 

[Bronco Hollow]

Good hot afternoon BYH!!!

Neighbors lamas, lined up to cool their feet, too funny

Power washed the tractor and the mule, thought about power washing hubby but he wouldn't stand still. Just realized that I have an association meeting next week and I am totally unprepared. Tomorrow will be a very busy day.

edited because I clicked preview and it sent it instead...I think gremlins are a work here...but they let post a picture today WhooHoo!

Waving hello!

 

[Thewife]

Afternoon everybody!

I admit the rain was needed, but it can stop now!
I need to do some weeding and I don't want to weed in mud!

Bronco Hollow, love the lama picture! I've been trying to get one of my australorp hen standing in the ducks swim dish, but I think she is camera shy!

 

[lupinfarm]

Good afternoon everyone! ... No fence up yet, but we called a fence company out of Roblin on the off chance that they would do fence post augering and they do so he's coming out from Roblin on August 22nd to look at the place and give us a definite date and time for the last week of August. Unfortunately it's going to cost a bit more than we had originally budgeted for but we really are desperate to get this done, rather than $6.00/hole this guy charges $12.00/hole but the upside is that he can drill through just about anything including rock for money So if we encounter some rock, we can just drill through it.

We went for a drive today to get away from the farm and ended up down a road called "Buttermilk Falls Road" near Napanee, the falls were gorgeous and next time I'm there I'm definitely going to take a photo of it for you guys.

Tetley leaves at the end of August as well, Luna is going to be very lonely when she leaves.