rachels.haven's Journal

[Bruce]

come to think of it...no, this is not the time to learn

NOw is a great time to learn (baby not withstanding). Whatever mistakes you learn from won't be repeated when you do it at your next place

Fencing isn't all that hard (well mentally, physically it can be), you can learn from YouTube videos, reading about people's fencing here. Greybeard was most helpful when he was on the forum.

 

[Baymule]

How does anything ever get done for anybody? I’ll be glad when y’all are out of there, but not near as glad as you will be.

 

[rachels.haven]

Connections. You can only get people to do stuff for you if you know somebody who is a close friend or relative. Sucks.

 

[rachels.haven]

On a different note, our Groton house closed today. Bye, bye.

 

[Baymule]

Connections. You can only get people to do stuff for you if you know somebody who is a close friend or relative. Sucks.

In other words they despise outsiders.

 

[farmerjan]

There are times that being a "Yankee" makes me ashamed.... but I was from the real old conservative types... and we helped our neighbors if they needed it and respected their privacy too.... and our word was our bond too.....Hasn't been that way in years.... another reason why I got out....they weren't the kind of people that I wanted to be associated with anymore....Way too much concern for money....and all it can do/not do..... and the liberal idiots that had more money than common sense.... and no respect for a "working relationship" with the land.... just a "tree hugger mentality" .... with no regard to BALANCE.....
I will be so glad for you to get out... and come south .....like I did.....

 

[rachels.haven]

Lace came down with mastitis and a high fever night before last. I'd just brought the vet out to cut off her loopy scur that was growing into her eyeball too. Every time the vet comes out I wind up needing her the next day too. Sheesh.. Lace is getting 2 cc's penicillin g, 2x daily, Banaimine 1x daily, and today up the teats. I guess she just didn't want dry off. She is looking less like a zombie goat now. She deteriorated fast.

 

[Baymule]

Poor Lace. Sore boobies.

 

[rachels.haven]

Day 3 of school the 6 and 7 year old came off the bus with sky high fevers, headaches, sore throats, mild occasional coughing, and are deathly tired. We took them to an urgent care last night and got them strep tested and covid tested. Strep is negative. The only place the kids have been is school and a brief trip to an empty grocery store before close.

I'm so glad our school is following state guidance in word only. Masks for all, just as the state said...except for in the ventilated lunchroom where they pack in all the kids elbow to elbow to eat daily. No physical distancing or calls for ventilation anywhere. Because eating outside or in the classroom or putting kids at least three feet apart or ventilating would "threaten their educational model". We'll just throw those students under 12 under the bus. Northerners are so much more resilient than southerners who are already having kids get exposed and sick in schools in droves. So glad we started late so we could learn from others' examples.

Farm work is in maintenance mode until this gets through. Hopefully this is just a severe cold.

 

[Baymule]

I'm so sorry that your boys are sick. I pray that they recover quickly with no after effects. I think if I was a parent through this, I would home school. Our children are our most precious to us and it hurts to see them sick-anybody's children.