Latestarter's ramblings/musings/gripes and grumbles.

[Wehner Homestead]

Uh oh is right! Stay safe!

LS- I know you are still trying to build fences and paddocks right now but you might want to make sure you have a buck area in your plan (I don’t recall if you do ) so that they can be separated just to keep their antics from annoying the females and placing the kids in danger. Just a thought....

 

[Baymule]

GB stay safe, hope the river stays out of your shop and house. It sucks, don't blame you one bit for wanting to go back to west Texas. My sister got 7' of water in the hurricane flood and got it back together just in time for Christmas. I swear, she has her favorite contractors on speed dial. No way I'd put up with that.

 

[Bruce]

Might need to chain that feeder down to the ground Joe. Sorry the boys are causing trouble.

 

[Mini Horses]

T-post pounded in well on each end, connected to hay feeder. Boys are always a PITA.

 

[Latestarter]

So I tried that new clip tool you posted Bruce (and Mike said he liked if for T post clips). Works like a dream! Clipped all but the very bottom one on ~230' of fencing today in virtually no time at all. Tomorrow I'll go down the line doing the bottom clips then hope to get another line laid out and stretched. Hope to get a lot completed over the Easter weekend. I won't be doing anything else. Hope y'all have a very happy Easter.

Kids are bouncing all over the place. The first 2 boys of Dot's are already almost twice the size. Devonviolet and her DH are going to come for a visit on Monday and bring the kid disbudding box and disbudding iron and we're gonna have a burnt skull party! Figure to throw a few steaks on the grill afterwards to recover from the arduous labor.

Hope the water doesn't go too much higher GB.

 

[Alaskan]

I needed a drink afterwards. .. nasty business

(not saying it shouldn't be done.. and I do think it is the best method of the various choices ... still nasty though)

 

[greybeard]

It's going down, after cresting here around 3am but looks like this one is going to be with us awhile. Something has changed in the river and the way it drains, maybe because of all the hurricanes and the many many fallen trees that are in the channel now.
https://water.weather.gov/ahps2/hydrograph.php?wfo=HGX&gage=CLDT2
I know Harris County is floating a plan to clean the lower San Jac river channel out, but that's below Lake Houston after the west and east fork merge..won't help me any.
In years past, the water comes down from the upper watershed, rises within 6-8 hrs, crests, and the within 12-24 hrs, the river is back in it's banks. Not so the last couple of floods.

Brought some of the cattle back today, put my shop back together, got the welders and other portable gas powered stuff unloaded out of the loader bucket, brought the tractor and backhoe back from the hill near the back gate and brought wife's car back and pretty much back to normal except the 30+ extra mile trip to get into town which is normally 7 miles. Road is still closed in front of my place.

 

[Latestarter]

Doesn't really bother me much Al... I trim away a lot of the hair before applying the iron. The burnt hair smells worse to me than the burnt bone/flesh. I have 9 babies to do and some have substantial buds (gonna have to cut the tops off them so the iron can get to the root), while others are barely there yet. The boys, of course, are growing fastest.

So a fricken pack of coyotes just lit off down over the hill in the stream bed area below the goat pen. Mel started barking too. I went out with my .22 and fired 4-5 rounds down in their general direction. 10 minutes later they started sounding off a little, but way across the road. Hope it was those I scared off & not another group. Gotta get the fencing finished and the hot wire up and on. Then I can put the LGD in with the L.

Glad the water is going down GB. Still gonna take a while for things to dry back out enough for you to start on the drain pipe install.

 

[Alaskan]

the smell is bad... but I hate the screaming more.

GB, very glad to hear you aren't getting flooded.

 

[greybeard]

Glad the water is going down GB. Still gonna take a while for things to dry back out enough for you to start on the drain pipe install.

Yeah, but it knows what water is now anyway...on-the-job training.