Misfitmorgan's Journal - That Summer Dust

[Bruce]

Yesterday the company I work for laid off 400 people. For the moment layoffs are done and I wasnt in the first batch thankfully. Supposedly thats all for layoffs for now but we shall see.

I went through several of those starting in 1994. DW got tagged in 2006 and finally I was in the big group of 2013 when IBM was "rightsizing" so Global Foundaries would take $2B to "buy" IBM's chip manufacturing plants.

 

[misfitmorgan]

That's scary! Glad you weren't one of the chosen!

Me too!

That’s terrible for your town! That means everything will take a hard hit, all the small businesses, darn it! I’m so glad to hear you were safe...what do you do?

I work as an engineer designing repairs/modifications/etc for aircraft. It wont be to bad for the town actually, the company is around 4k people worldwide, the layoff was spread out between here(maintenance hub) and downstate(headquarters) mostly. The town here has about 3k people and we lost about 100 people locally. The others drive from other towns to here daily for work(like me).

 

[misfitmorgan]

I went through several of those starting in 1994. DW got tagged in 2006 and finally I was in the big group of 2013 when IBM was "rightsizing" so Global Foundaries would take $2B to "buy" IBM's chip manufacturing plants.

They had a layoff here in 2008, then 2012, and now 2019 so.....
If the second quarter picks up we should be clear of any other layoffs, if not......round 2.

 

[Baymule]

I hope you get to keep your job. Layoffs suck.

 

[Bruce]

If the second quarter picks up we should be clear of any other layoffs, if not......round 2.

 

[misfitmorgan]

I hope so too.

 

[Senile_Texas_Aggie]

Miss @misfitmorgan,

Haven't heard from you in a while so I thought I would see how things are with you.

Senile Texas Aggie

 

[misfitmorgan]

Things are going pretty alright here. We are still on lockdown of course but DH and I both still are working since we are essential services. Our schedules have changed, DH works 4, 10s now and has fri-sun off. I now work every other day from home mon-fri on a rotating schedule. Next week DH is on 5 10s though.

We have been busy we got a new Buck named Mr. Goat he is a moonspotted Boer. We have 3 beautiful goat kids from our girls who are all also girls.

We have 5 lambs from our sheep 4 boys 1 girl, the girl is a bottle baby. Sweetie had the girl lamb and rejected her because she was not fit enough to take care of the lamb. We lost Sweetie a week ago, we believe it was due to age as she would not gain weight despite large amounts of grain and quality hay, we even tried alfalfa, dyne, wormer, and other supplements. As near as we can figure we had her for around 4-5yrs and she was a full grown adult of unknown age when we got her.

We were also told the mutts are pretty old, our friend had them for 3-4yrs and they were 3-4yrs old when he got them. So we will be exspecting some losses from them in the coming year or two.

We bought a new ewe, she is huge like ridiculously huge. She stands up on our page wire fence and weighs so much it bows from 4ft to 2ft tall. Even standing flat her head is chest height on my 5'2" self. Really looking forward to babies from her and our big ram. The ewe is from Slack. Our 294 ewe is from slack/kimm ram but here is no comparing the two ewes.

Stubby and Sarah had piglets yesterday, it poured all day yesterday and so far all day today. So thats not really good.

We ordered poultry this year. 15 Bronze Broad Breasted Turkeys, 10 Midet White turkeys, 6 Blue Swedish ducks, 20 Cornish X, 16 Bresse, and 5 rouen ducks for our friends son.

The BBBT arrived at the post office today, so I need to pick them up. The Midget white, swedish and rouen ducks arrive tomorrow. Then the cornish X hatch date is 05/11 and the Bresse are 06/01. I wish we could have gotten the Bresse sooner but they supposedly lay at 4-4.5months old so hopefully that makes up for them coming later.

We already have 4 brooders set up minus lights being on, I have the feed for the turkeys and the ducks as well as electrolytes for the water and some gro-gel.

Tomorrow we are renting a mini excavator to clear fence lines and do some other minor work around the farm. Mostly its for fence lines and anything else is extra as we only have it for 24hrs and its almost $400 for that length of time.

We did get the line down to the 2-story plumbed in last week, so we now have water down at the 2-story which will be great for the garden and livestock. It also saves us about 150ft of hose.

We got another roll of fence for the garden since Ivy and her kids keep going in there to eat the tops off my fall garlic.

Can't really think of anything else new.

 

[farmerjan]

Glad to see your post and know that things are still going along okay. This shutdown/lockdown has been trying for all. So very glad for you that you still have work as that was a worry back awhile ago.

Things on the farm go along regardless of what happens elsewhere.

Hope you get lots done with the excavator.

 

[misfitmorgan]

Thanks much Jan. Our plans are used for cargo so we are actually super busy from all of this.

I hope we get a lot done too. This year is hopefully about expanding and setting things up more the way we want them. Getting our flock managements under control, etc.

Hope you and your family are doing well thru all of this.