One Fine Acre - 2023 4H Steer Project Update

[OneFineAcre]

I have 4 weeks of vacation
It's good to have a week where I can't be expected to deal with an issue while I'm off

 

[Southern by choice]

Good news is I haven't been stealing

Did they tell you that?
Were you wondering?

 

[Bruce]

 

[Mike CHS]

I imagine you were ready for a break anyway.

 

[Latestarter]

...Sadly Bella and Rosevelt got their first taste of electricity today

Ahhhh - hope they remember and don't repeat their mistake!

I doubt they would get the chance! Who is going to hire a convicted embezzler to do a job that even remotely involves handling money? One applied for a Clerk job at the PO, "surprisingly" they did not even get to the interview stage.

I believe FEM's comment was regarding OFA's comment about his two goats finding/touching the electric fence rather than the embezzler getting another job

 

[Goat Whisperer]

I believe FEM's comment was regarding OFA's comment about his two goats finding/touching the electric fence rather than the embezzler getting another job

Close… those are 2 of his pups

 

[Latestarter]

Oh gosh... I knew that... Have goats on my mind of late... sorry I referred to your pups as goats OFA.

 

[OneFineAcre]

Oh gosh... I knew that... Have goats on my mind of late... sorry I referred to your pups as goats OFA.

I won't tell them
They have learned the fence real
quick

 

[Bruce]

I believe FEM's comment was regarding OFA's comment about his two goats finding/touching the electric fence rather than the embezzler getting another job

Um Yeah I can see that. Glad to hear that OFA's NOT goats learned the first time.

 

[OneFineAcre]

Wow
That week plus Veterans Day went by fast
Back at the grind tomorrow
I didn't get as much done as I wanted
But I did get a lot done
I let all of the pasture seed out and mowed all of it
I had fallen down on keeping my fence lines sprayed with round up and I have a lot of fence line so that was a half day of constant weed eating
I had let my strand of hot wire fall into disrepair and spent a half day on that
I spent 2 days cleaning my garage
It was really more than just cleaning my garage
When we moved here 2 years ago I just put everything in there
And then in May when we had our linear appraisal and it was raining all the time I cleared out a lot of stuff in our garage by putting it on the gazebo and a lot of stuff that could get wet in a spot in the yard
It was all still there
Place was like Sanford and Son ( you young folks may not get that reference )
So the garage cleaning involved 2 trips to the dump
And we can sit on the Gazebo again
Which came in handy today
We hosted the NC Dairy Goat Breeders Association meeting
Had the place looking good
@Goat Whisperer came to the meeting which was nice

It got into the 20s here last night and we had our first frozen water buckets

And this was a bonus this week
The power company had a tree crew trimming limbs on our road this week
We have a yard light that we pay for every month but there were so many limbs around it that we weren't getting much light
Well we were in the house and the guy knocked on our door and asked if it was ok to come in our yard to clean up the service line
Well yes
I got him to clean up a little extra too

Another update
We have an owl that is hanging out under the shelter we keep our hay under
Our milk stand is under there so there is usually some grain on the ground which I assume attracts field mice which our owl has found an easy meal
I think having a resident owl to control mice is so much cooler than a cat
But I promise you if you walk up out there and spook him you will pee your pants when he goes a foot over your head