Latestarter's ramblings/musings/gripes and grumbles.

[B&B Happy goats]

You know, a barn raising is an idea......

And once they get there and find out its a goat castle it will get done faster, then ya all can party

 

[Latestarter]

Thanks all... It'll get done, just not as fast as I coulda done it a few decades ago. There's a reason why old time farmers produced a passel of kids... Nice to have them around later in life to do the heavy lifting for ya.

 

[Latestarter]

Awoke to the sound of possible rain on the roof. Wasn't the ceiling fan (always on when I try to sleep), and wasn't the sound of air coming through the vents from the furnace. Got up and as I got some clothes on I could hear it increasing so hurried as best I could to get some shoes on, a heavy flannel shirt, and headed out to let Mel in. He had been standing at the back gate and was turning around to wander off when I went out. He was pretty happy to get up on the deck, get toweled off, and come inside. All the goats are under the dance floor. Rained real hard for about 20 minutes. Now kinda sprinkles. May be more coming, we'll see.

It's too early to be up sitting here but too late to go back to bed. Guess I'll go make my morning tea and recline. Maybe I'll doze and get some more rest. Hands and wrists have tightened up and are a little stiff & sore.

 

[B&B Happy goats]

Sorry about your hands, i am drinking my tea now.....cream and sugar ? ...too bad the noise woke you up....but at least it wasn't goats on the roof tap dancing.....a rainy day is a good day to sleep in., have a great day

 

[Rammy]

I love it when it rains here. I have a metal roof and the sound of the rain falling on it makes me sleepy. Even if there are thunderstorms I sleep right thru it. Of course, when you need to get things done outside its not so nice. Take the raining as a sign you need to take some LS time and heal up before tackling the rest of the goat palace. In the meantime, the goats can practice tap dancing on thier dance floor.

 

[B&B Happy goats]

He will have them line dancing soon...after all they are in Texas goats with cowboy hat's n boots, line dancing to "God Bless Texas"

 

[greybeard]

I haven't seen anyone in Texas 'line' dance since before the turn of the century.
Thankfully, that fad mostly died with the urban cowboy crud.

 

[frustratedearthmother]

The high school and college kids I work with still line dance. The Cupid Shuffle seems to be the most popular these days...

 

[Latestarter]

Well, I didn't get to doze a whole lot. Decided I better go do a little grocery shopping before the crowds got rolling. Wallyworld at 7am is a lot better than after 10 am. Figured I'd pick up a few items and $223 later, headed back home. Bought 4, 14-16# frozen turkeys @ 0.68/lb. The one I had left in the big freezer will be for Thanksgiving on Thursday. After I got all that stuff put away I hit the recliner again and dozed a while. No more rain, but the temp has dropped since early this morning. After the rain it was 54°. It's now 46° Could feel the wind pick up and colder temps moving in after shopping.

Took a couple pictures of the dance floor. They can't dance on it right now all that well. They'd be tripping and breaking legs. As it turns out, all the girls are resting between the wall studs so I went ahead and turned one into a family portrait as well.

Family portrait

 

[farmerjan]

It may not be your favorite, but here we still do line dancing and my son still does some 2-stepping. We used to dance with a dance club that did exhibitions and had a ball. My ankle prevents that at present, but will be making some decisions once I get all this medicare stuff in line. If I can't afford to do the stem cell, and with so many farms not testing regular, I will be relying on my SS a little more than I had planned right off the bat. Wanted to put that towards the stem cell plus the money from selling calves. But with the prices being off so much, we are probably going to put off selling til after the first of the year now. It's all up in the air right at this time....

Too many upsets and things lately, and just heard another good friend and very well liked local who was the manager of the experimental station at McCormick's farm; part of Va tech ag stuff; died very unexpectantly on Friday. We have sat at many different forage and grazing meetings with him, he was a big supporter of our local fire dept.... in his early 50's. We had just gone to the memorial for the 53 yr old neighbor and friend that was killed in the freak accident during the demonstration at the Medieval re enactment. Add to it all the stuff with the workman's comp with my son, and this infernal wet weather that just won't quit for awhile...my parents difficulties....

Will be so glad for 2018 to end and maybe have a better year in 2019.....