Latestarter's ramblings/musings/gripes and grumbles.

[CntryBoy777]

Just glad it worked out....looks Great, too!!...

 

[Bruce]

Oops!!!! I intended to put that last post in MY journal. Maybe moderator @Latestarter can move it???

 

[Latestarter]

I can Bruce, but it's not bothering me here. If you still want it moved I'll move it along with the follow up comments. Let me know.

ETA: Since your journal had previous entries dealing with the above posts, I just went ahead and copied them over to your journal Bruce.

 

[Baymule]

Derailing threads is what we do! Leave it here!

 

[Latestarter]

So I started mowing early today... right about noon. Figured I'd try to get the entire back pasture finished. Stopped at gas refill time and did the CC bottle (~2:30) then back to it. Stopped right about 7pm as it was goat milking and feeding time and I was beat. Got another 1/3 done so I'll finish the final 1/3rd tomorrow. In addition I hope to get the 1 acre homestead grass mowed as well as the street swale and driveway. Having copses of trees is nice for the shade, but it inhibits the grass growing, allows the weeds to grow, they drop lots of branches that need to be moved so I can mow, and they are a PITA to mow around. I think I'll start eliminating most of them one at a time and feed the branches/leaves to the goats as I go, then burn what can't be cut/stacked/saved as fire wood.

Haven't had my shower yet... after goat duties I grilled up a rib eye for dinner, then came here. Mel already had his share and I'll give him the bone (a nice thick one) when he goes out for the night. When done here it will be shower time followed closely by some recliner operations accompanied by 1/2 a watermelon.

So while doing the back fence line, I've been trying to push the jungle back behind the fence, and I actually located 2 more of my errant fence posts (on the other side of the fence) that had floated away in the flood earlier this year. I recovered one of them (a 4" x 6' cross support) but the other (a 6-7" x 8' fence post) is laying partially submerged in the stream bed. I'm going to have to scale the barbed wire and climb down in to recover that one. A chore I'm definitely not looking forward to... Mosquitoes, chiggers, ticks, and possible poisonous snakes... <sigh> Maybe tomorrow morning after goat chores. I don't have any wading boots

@goatgurl I had asked once before but you may have missed it... April is developing an udder and looking like she's growing an internal barrel. Is there any possibility that she got bred before I got her? She's always been "solid" and "chunkier" than the other girls, but I attributed that to her meat goat side. But now she's really pushed out on both sides, as well as the udder development. After she's eaten, she's bigger on the right side than the left It really looks like a baby belly... Personally, I'm hoping for twins I'll try to get some pics tomorrow to post for y'all to peruse.

 

[goatgurl]

I forgot to say anything about april having a little starter pack udder. unless she and choco got together without my knowing it there just isn't any way she could be bred. and if you'll remember he was behind 5 foot tall 2x4 welded panels and hasn't gotten over it in 2 or 3 years. I have two yearlings that are making little preciouses udders too. that would be my guess with april. would be nice for you if she did kid so you would have winter milk. as my little mama used to say "time will tell".

 

[CntryBoy777]

Does the post really cost that much?.....personally, I'd just get another one and save the hassel....but, if ya must....get a chain wrapped around the end and use the pickup to pull it out.....use a stick and beat the bank where you'll be stepping to and if there is water there splash it along the bank....that'll move the snakes along....they don't defend territory, so they won't come back at ya.....be Careful!!

 

[Bruce]

Dang, Fred beat me to it again! Personally I don't think a single post is worth the pain and agony of going over a barb wire fence into water that potentially has a boot sucking bottom. Then there are the Mosquitoes, chiggers, ticks, and possible poisonous snakes. Nope, unless there are more posts back there, save yourself!

So I started mowing early today... right about noon.

Um, not Army, eh? Don't they figure you should get 4 hours in by 8 AM?

 

[Bruce]

I can Bruce, but it's not bothering me here. If you still want it moved I'll move it along with the follow up comments. Let me know.

ETA: Since your journal had previous entries dealing with the above posts, I just went ahead and copied them over to your journal Bruce.

Thanks Joe. Heck I don't put much over there anyway. Have to keep it "alive"!

 

[CntryBoy777]

Dang, Fred beat me to it again! Personally I don't think a single post is worth the pain and agony of going over a barb wire fence into water that potentially has a boot sucking bottom. Then there are the Mosquitoes, chiggers, ticks, and possible poisonous snakes. Nope, unless there are more posts back there, save yourself!


Um, not Army, eh? Don't they figure you should get 4 hours in by 8 AM?

We have something we refer to here in the south as Dew and this time of year it is usually pretty heavy in the mornings, otherwise being USN it would have been done by noon....it is a built in "Delay" that can't be avoided....