Mike CHS
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Is Tyler anywhere near you? I watch this show called "Day Tripper" and Tyler was the town featured in this show yesterday. It looked like a nice town.
Ridgetop - our place and how we muddle along
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Baymule
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We lived 9 miles from Lindale, Lindale city limits butted up against Tyler city limits. But anything we had to do in Tyler was at least 25 miles. Tyler is a nice town.
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Ridgetop
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Tyler is about 1 1/2 hours away depending on which side of it we want to get to. Our niece's daughter and husband live in Tyler. They are the ones that just got married in March and we went to the wedding with most of our family flying out. We haven't spent much time in Tyler but will probably make all day shopping journeys there to the stores occasionally.
Got the trucks and trailers loaded today. All that is left to load are the boxed paintings. DS1 wants to load them in the back seat of his truck so they will stay cooler. Tomorrow we have a funeral to attend. On the way home we will pick up some ice for the trip. I will put the last load of laundry in tomorrow and pack my computer. We will have everything loaded in the trucks tomorrow night and ready to pull out by 6am to beat the storm and the heat. DH has agreed that he will stop at dark. Although he keeps saying he can drive a little past dusk and I keep saying - well never mind what I say.
The funeral is at 9:00am. The mother of DS1's best friend from high school has had Alzheimers for the past 15 years and passed away while we were on the way home from Texas. Debra and I worked together teaching preschool years ago. Both our sons were on the football team, and we used to sit in the stands durig practices. When they got tackled, we amused ourselves by loudly calling out to them "Are you hurt son? Mommy is here." Neither one thought this was funny. We were cracking up in the stands. They finally told their friends that we were 2 crazy ladies and they didn't know us. LOL Another member of our bridge club passed away last week. When you start going to this many funerals in a short time it is depressing.
Saturday another trip to Texas with the dining room furniture, lots more boxes of belongings, "Baby 'Bota", the utility trailer, and squeeze. Should arrive Monday, unload Tuesday, I will unpack the boxes so DS1 can take them back to CA to be repacked. They DH will use "Baby 'Bota" to clean the years of dry cow manure out of the barn and dump it in the future garden area. DS1 will help him with a couple of things, and I will paint another room. We don't plan to stay more than 2 weeks. Then we won't be back until around November, after DH's partial knee replacement. In November we will bring back most of the furniture, clothes, and livestock panels and equipment. In January DH and DS1 will decide how they will bring back the livestock, dogs, and the rest of the corral panels. Almost there.
Today was very hot and we were loading in the heat. DH was grumpy and DS1 and DS2 got grumpy with him. I apologized to all of them and said that the fighting was my fault. I told them that I should never have decided to move DH at his age
(myself being in my PRIME LOL).
I wonder if I have done the right thing moving away from our family, especially now that the youngest babies are getting so cute. Robert is talking a bit and calls me "WaWa" since he can't pronounce "Lola" which is Tagalog for Grandma. I picked u DD2'skids and brought them to our house because they had a Back-to-School night. Annabel got out of the car and said "Gampa" and ran right to DH. Nicholas is crawling and pulling himself up and laughing all the time. It didn't help that both daughters came by later and started crying about the empty look of the walls and the furniture being gone. I had to promise them that I would move us back in a couple of years when we get old.
Better go take my Prozac.
Got the trucks and trailers loaded today. All that is left to load are the boxed paintings. DS1 wants to load them in the back seat of his truck so they will stay cooler. Tomorrow we have a funeral to attend. On the way home we will pick up some ice for the trip. I will put the last load of laundry in tomorrow and pack my computer. We will have everything loaded in the trucks tomorrow night and ready to pull out by 6am to beat the storm and the heat. DH has agreed that he will stop at dark. Although he keeps saying he can drive a little past dusk and I keep saying - well never mind what I say.
The funeral is at 9:00am. The mother of DS1's best friend from high school has had Alzheimers for the past 15 years and passed away while we were on the way home from Texas. Debra and I worked together teaching preschool years ago. Both our sons were on the football team, and we used to sit in the stands durig practices. When they got tackled, we amused ourselves by loudly calling out to them "Are you hurt son? Mommy is here." Neither one thought this was funny. We were cracking up in the stands. They finally told their friends that we were 2 crazy ladies and they didn't know us. LOL Another member of our bridge club passed away last week. When you start going to this many funerals in a short time it is depressing.
Saturday another trip to Texas with the dining room furniture, lots more boxes of belongings, "Baby 'Bota", the utility trailer, and squeeze. Should arrive Monday, unload Tuesday, I will unpack the boxes so DS1 can take them back to CA to be repacked. They DH will use "Baby 'Bota" to clean the years of dry cow manure out of the barn and dump it in the future garden area. DS1 will help him with a couple of things, and I will paint another room. We don't plan to stay more than 2 weeks. Then we won't be back until around November, after DH's partial knee replacement. In November we will bring back most of the furniture, clothes, and livestock panels and equipment. In January DH and DS1 will decide how they will bring back the livestock, dogs, and the rest of the corral panels. Almost there.
Today was very hot and we were loading in the heat. DH was grumpy and DS1 and DS2 got grumpy with him. I apologized to all of them and said that the fighting was my fault. I told them that I should never have decided to move DH at his age
(myself being in my PRIME LOL). I wonder if I have done the right thing moving away from our family, especially now that the youngest babies are getting so cute. Robert is talking a bit and calls me "WaWa" since he can't pronounce "Lola" which is Tagalog for Grandma. I picked u DD2'skids and brought them to our house because they had a Back-to-School night. Annabel got out of the car and said "Gampa" and ran right to DH. Nicholas is crawling and pulling himself up and laughing all the time. It didn't help that both daughters came by later and started crying about the empty look of the walls and the furniture being gone. I had to promise them that I would move us back in a couple of years when we get old.
Better go take my Prozac.
Baymule
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I’m hoping for a break in the heat so I can come see y’all on this trip. Sheep and dogs are claiming all my time right now. If I can’t make it back by noon, I don’t go. 
That limits me to quick trips to the grocery store, feed store and that’s about it. I left at 5:30 am yesterday to go get that chicken coop on the trailer, was back at 11:20. Dogs were begging to come out of the field. This heat is driving me insane. Ok, maybe MORE insane!
That limits me to quick trips to the grocery store, feed store and that’s about it. I left at 5:30 am yesterday to go get that chicken coop on the trailer, was back at 11:20. Dogs were begging to come out of the field. This heat is driving me insane. Ok, maybe MORE insane!- Thread starter
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Ridgetop
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No rush in this heat. Hunker down. We will be back in November with more stuff. And permanently in January with sheep and horses. I didn't get much sleep. I never sleep well before a trip. Always start to doze off then remember things I forgot to load or do. Turned out lights at 11pm, back up at 11:30, did another load of laundry and on computer. 
Back to bed at 12:30am, toss and turn, normal pee break every hour, and finally dropped off just in time for the alarm! 
I think we will bring horses back first since they can be left to graze in field with pond for water without us there. Then back for the sheep. Probably take 2 trips with rams and bred ewes. Ewes will be due beginning of March.
Plan to sort into 3 groups and put a ram with each. I have lost an entire lambing with this move so need to make up time. Then I can breed again for November lambing.
Last load of laundry is in washer, load in dryer, and 3rd on bed waiting to be packed/put away. Not taking too many clothes since we have a fair amount of work clothes and church clothes now in Texas.
This will be a fast trip. About 2 weeks there and back, with cleaning the barn manure and painting one room in the middle. LOL
Off to the funeral.
Back to bed at 12:30am, toss and turn, normal pee break every hour, and finally dropped off just in time for the alarm! I think we will bring horses back first since they can be left to graze in field with pond for water without us there. Then back for the sheep. Probably take 2 trips with rams and bred ewes. Ewes will be due beginning of March.
Plan to sort into 3 groups and put a ram with each. I have lost an entire lambing with this move so need to make up time. Then I can breed again for November lambing. Last load of laundry is in washer, load in dryer, and 3rd on bed waiting to be packed/put away. Not taking too many clothes since we have a fair amount of work clothes and church clothes now in Texas.
This will be a fast trip. About 2 weeks there and back, with cleaning the barn manure and painting one room in the middle. LOL
Off to the funeral.
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SageHill
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Have a safe trip -- you're almost to the finish line on this. 
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Ridgetop
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Another stumble on the Texas Trail 
A neighbor from behind us came over today to talk about his problems with another neighbor blocking his access and allowing strangers to park on his land without his permission. This neighbor, Bobby, has Pygoras and llamas. His wife, Coleen, spins. DH gave him the phone numbers for our 2 hay guys since he had bought alfalfa and alfalfa-grass hay and paid $33.00 bale at the feed store! While catting he showed me a picture of a couple dogs and asked if ai knew who they belonged to.
SHOCK! HORROR! The video was of Angel and Ozel strolling on his property! The video was taken at 7am last Sunday. Rika had been outside the gate one early morning, and we decided she had somehow slipped through the gate when we were coming in or going out. Now these two had been outside the fence on the far side f the property that backs up to the 100 acres of open land!
Time to walk the fence line and hopefully find the hole they must have used. DGSs1 and 2 were on their way over with their mother to pick up DGD1. We sent the youngsters to walk the fence line into the gully. 5 minutes was all it took. On the other side of the bottom of the gully the rains had washed out the dirt from under the fence. One fence post had about 10" of concrete above the ground! DS1 went to take a look and came up very unhappy. He has now gone to Lowes to get a roll of 5' chain link with which to repair the huge gap under the fence. When I asked if he could see any digging marks from coyotes on the outside or only on the inside from the dogs, he looked at me like I was crazy. "No digging marks just about 12" of open space under the fence where the water flowing down the gully have washed it away." The sheep have eten all the brush from the bottom of the fence which was catching the dirt and runoff. Without the brush the ground under the fence washed away. The area that washed out is about 30' long and 12" high. The dogs don't have to dig out, they can just stroll through the fence.
OK. Not leaving at dawn tomorrow. I have already loaded everything except the computer and was just loading the coolers with the frozen food when DS1 saw the size of the giant hole and reaized that he did not have anything with which to repair a hole that large. We did have a roll of chain link fencing, but it went to Texas on the last trip. The hole was discovered around 6:30 pm. It is now dark and DS1 is at Lowes getting the fencing and wire to attach it to the fence. Tomorrow morning early, he will go down into the gully and repair the fence before we leave. DS2 can't help hm or do it for him because he is working tomorrow. DH suggested we leave it until we get back, but I nixed that stupid idea. The dogs would get out again while we were gone. DS1 said we should go on ahead while he fixed the fence. I was about to load the coolers in the truck but will load them in the morning now.
I am really glad the neighbor had a picture of the dogs, or we would not have known about the fencing problem! We are supposed to get a tremendous amount of rain over the next 3 days, and it might have washed out even more. It puts a crimp in our plans to leave and beat the storm, but the trailer DS1 is driving is the one with the furniture in it, so us leaving before DS1 won't help.
I wonder if all these problems are being sent by God to warn us not to go. Or is he testing our commitment? Who knows? I just need to increase my tranquilizer dose.
A neighbor from behind us came over today to talk about his problems with another neighbor blocking his access and allowing strangers to park on his land without his permission. This neighbor, Bobby, has Pygoras and llamas. His wife, Coleen, spins. DH gave him the phone numbers for our 2 hay guys since he had bought alfalfa and alfalfa-grass hay and paid $33.00 bale at the feed store! While catting he showed me a picture of a couple dogs and asked if ai knew who they belonged to.
SHOCK! HORROR! The video was of Angel and Ozel strolling on his property! The video was taken at 7am last Sunday. Rika had been outside the gate one early morning, and we decided she had somehow slipped through the gate when we were coming in or going out. Now these two had been outside the fence on the far side f the property that backs up to the 100 acres of open land!
Time to walk the fence line and hopefully find the hole they must have used. DGSs1 and 2 were on their way over with their mother to pick up DGD1. We sent the youngsters to walk the fence line into the gully. 5 minutes was all it took. On the other side of the bottom of the gully the rains had washed out the dirt from under the fence. One fence post had about 10" of concrete above the ground! DS1 went to take a look and came up very unhappy. He has now gone to Lowes to get a roll of 5' chain link with which to repair the huge gap under the fence. When I asked if he could see any digging marks from coyotes on the outside or only on the inside from the dogs, he looked at me like I was crazy. "No digging marks just about 12" of open space under the fence where the water flowing down the gully have washed it away." The sheep have eten all the brush from the bottom of the fence which was catching the dirt and runoff. Without the brush the ground under the fence washed away. The area that washed out is about 30' long and 12" high. The dogs don't have to dig out, they can just stroll through the fence.
OK. Not leaving at dawn tomorrow. I have already loaded everything except the computer and was just loading the coolers with the frozen food when DS1 saw the size of the giant hole and reaized that he did not have anything with which to repair a hole that large. We did have a roll of chain link fencing, but it went to Texas on the last trip. The hole was discovered around 6:30 pm. It is now dark and DS1 is at Lowes getting the fencing and wire to attach it to the fence. Tomorrow morning early, he will go down into the gully and repair the fence before we leave. DS2 can't help hm or do it for him because he is working tomorrow. DH suggested we leave it until we get back, but I nixed that stupid idea. The dogs would get out again while we were gone. DS1 said we should go on ahead while he fixed the fence. I was about to load the coolers in the truck but will load them in the morning now.
I am really glad the neighbor had a picture of the dogs, or we would not have known about the fencing problem! We are supposed to get a tremendous amount of rain over the next 3 days, and it might have washed out even more. It puts a crimp in our plans to leave and beat the storm, but the trailer DS1 is driving is the one with the furniture in it, so us leaving before DS1 won't help.
I wonder if all these problems are being sent by God to warn us not to go. Or is he testing our commitment? Who knows? I just need to increase my tranquilizer dose.
Mike CHS
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I couldn't decide whether to do a love meme or as laugh for that post but I have a good idea you will get it done no matter what.
Baymule
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You absolutely must fix the fence before y’all leave! Horrors! Is right! You could have lost your dogs.
