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Baymule

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Look at those happy goats out on pasture!!! That looks so wonderful, your fence looks good and the goats are enjoying themselves. Mel is acting like he knows he is top dog around there. we won't tell Mel he is the only dog......LOL

I am happy for you that you got some hens. Let the chicken math begin....... :thumbsup
 

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I like the pics! I find it neat how different each of your LM are in color overall. Can’t wait to see what we get around here!

Congrats on adding chickens!! You’ll have eggs before you know it. Better get some pigs so you’ll have bacon, ham, and sausage to eat with all those eggs!
 

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So the 2018 NFL draft starts in about 1/2 hour.
The Browns did good. Ward (CB) should do good in the NFL and Mayfield even better.
Poor Houston..paid a steep price to get rid of Oswieller and still won't have a qb unless their guy regains health.

(Hauled lots of chickens home in tied up tow sacks with a hole cut in the sack for them to stick their heads out of.)
 

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Thanks everyone. :) The goats are so much happier now and today I only put a lead on Moose cause he's just so damned flighty. I've been attaching him to RJ, but Moose is such a fricken idiot and just freaks himself out and sprints off getting the two of them tangled in any vertical structure that's available. RJ knows I'm the big buck so wants to hang around with me and follows me like a puppy when Moose isn't towing him off into the next tangle. So... that being said, When I got home this afternoon I went ahead and just let the whole batch of them loose. Opened the cattle panel gate and propped it open with a hay fork. There's a T post in the center so it holds it virtually closed. I bent it open then stuck the fork in to hold it there. Was pretty cool having 17 animals plus Mel out roaming in the pasture. Was NOT cool trying to get them all rounded back up into the pen for dinner. :barnie Mel was inside the pen and didn't want to come out.:rant The goats were all out of the pen and didn't want to go in. :rantThe adults weren't that big an issue, it was the 10 kids all going in different directions at warp speed... And they don't quite understand gate openings as opposed to holes in the cattle panel that they can stick their heads through... so as the adults moved deeper inside, the kids moved further away from the gate on the outside... So I'd try to circle and move the kids back toward the gate and that would cause the adults to move back towards the gate and want to come back out. :he

Those little kids sounded like a herd of bison running here and there. :love I have a folding camp chair set up about 1/2 way down the pasture in the shade of that big old oak tree (near my compost pile). I sit there in the shade and just watch them play for a while. They were bouncing off the adults and running when the adults would try to chase them away. Teasing Mel to the point that Mel actually took off running after the group at one point. Had to yell at him for that. It's OK for them to run but NOT OK for Mel to run chasing them. I now need to really get him a big playmate/workmate/partner. A dog big enough for him to get (and give) a good workout. Been looking a little on CL to see what's available.

As for the crate, I figured it would be handy to have one available "just in case" for future things. It was only 50 bucks and should last a long time. Can put a couple of piglets in it to bring home ;) That way I shouldn't lose any. :tongue The hens did well in it. I had them inside the truck on the back seat. They were very quiet and calm the whole trip. They are still calm and I've already gotten my first 2 eggs today. I figure that's a good sign since I just got them yesterday.

So Devonviolet and her DH were planning to join me for late lunch/dinner today but she's been down with a nasty cold, so they had to ask for a rain check. I told them absolutely not! Just kidding... :smack They were going to bring me the kidding box and disbudding iron for my last kid and a case of 6, 1/2 gallon mason jars for milk. I was going to make them grilled chicken breasts with salad and give them 4 gallons of goat milk to bring home. Since they couldn't make it, she offered her DH to meet me 1/2 way to do an exchange, but it didn't make sense for both of us to drive so I just went over there and we swapped the stuff at their place. I have all my empty quart jars and the new 1/2 gallon jars in the dishwasher getting ready to be used starting tomorrow. :) Those larger jars will take up much less space as they are tall.

I'm pretty impressed overall with what the Browns have accomplished this draft so far. Now... they have built a solid framework for winning on O and D... BUT... I'm not "sold" on Hue Jackson's ability to mold it successfully. Time will tell. I'd sure like to see them have a winning season at the least this fall. A bunch of teams have really beefed up and the historically power elite teams are going to have some real challenges maintaining their lofty status... Slowly but steadily, the NFL is achieving parity among the teams, which is what they've been striving for for years. I'm thinking that the Jets and Bills might be close to being able to challenge my Pats. Not so much the Dolphins as I don't think they are really locked in on what type team they want to be.

I feel that Deshaun Watson will be back and better than before. If he's only "as good" as he started last season, Houston will be a pretty decent team. They should be back to full strength on D as well with Watt (getting older, lots of past injuries, and slowing down, but still powerful) & Merciless back. The 4 teams that really needed franchise QBs got theirs and I think all of them got the right QB for their squads. Should be a good NFL season this year.

I've decided to NOT renew my NFL Sunday ticket on DirecTV this year... Just too expensive at almost $400. Might be eliminating DirecTV as well as it's running almost $140/month to get all the channels I like to watch. :hitGuess I can go hang out in the sports bar(s) at game time. There are TV providers now that are offering limited channel selection where you pick and choose but they don't offer a lot of the channels that the big providers do, and to get the channels I would want, would work out to almost as much as what I'm paying now. So what's the difference? I'm paying for 200+ channels including regular as well as HD and out of them all I think there's maybe a dozen that I routinely watch. But of that dozen, they are broken down into 4 or 5 different "tiers" that must be purchased in order to watch them all. :rant:somad I'm forced to pay for the crap in order to watch the stuff I want to watch. <sigh>

You know, it's almost like subsidized TV programming... I'm paying (forced to pay) to support all these sh*t channels and keep them on the air so "others" can watch them. When I have no interest in them whatsoever. If I could simply delete them from my TV lineup and not pay for them, I'd be a VERY happy TV viewer! I'd have no problem paying a fair price for ONLY the channels that I want to watch. Would also save a lot of wasted channel surfing time.
 

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We put up an antenna mast when we moved here and have found we don't miss cable or the $ spent. We don't have the variety of things but we spend so much time inside now that we haven't missed it. GB has a good point though, as we have several Spanish speaking stations that I can't watch. :)
 
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