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The holes are round, the support ends for the shelves are flattened. I can use any type that has .55 mil round ends as long as all 4 are identical. I will check i the shed here in CA since I have several jars of different kinds of shelf supports ranging from plastic cabinet clips to metal clip in supports, etc. If the .55 mil dowels are strong enough to support 30" shelves full of books, I can try them.
The chicken litter was spread during the eclipse. The spreader has tires that leave 40" wide tread marks. The field looked like there were crop circles after he left! LOL It started raining that night and rained for the next two days. Lightening and thunder as well. At least the chicken litter got washed into the ground.
We went out to the barn to finish the creep - luckily, we had moved the panels into the barn the day before. It stormed really bad while we were putting up the creep panels. I used hose clamps to attach the creep panel to the fence panels since the creep panel uses pins and the fence panels use corral clamps. I still need to put water troughs and feeders in the creep, night pen, and ram pen. I found that I was able to get up off my knees more easily after a couple days assembling corral pens.
DH said he was moving better too after doing more physical work. DS1 doesn't like us to do any corral carrying, attaching, etc. I think getting more exercise moving around is good for our Prime bodies. LOL
Wednesday, we went to Bible Study and saw several acquaintances who are becoming friends. Really nice time and an interesting talk. When we came back, we had to hitch the stock trailer in the dark since we planned to leave early Thursday am. Luckily, I had packed about 5 battery operated lanterns planning to use them in the barn until we can install the lights. Thinking about it now, I wonder if we can install some lights in the barnyard as well as lights in the barn. And a switch at the house to turn them on. I found several areas where we need to put better drainage in. Needless to say, I was not wearing my rubber boots! LOL
We were up and out by 5:30 am on Thursday, drove 12 hours - 1000 miles. On Friday we finished up our trip to the CA house. Since we stayed in a motel we couldn't make as early a start on Friday since the free breakfast isn't served until 6 am. I had made sandwiches and cream cheese blueberry bagels, so we only stopped for dinner - Cobb salad at Denny's. Since we are in our Primes, we get 15% off with an AARP card.
I got my knee surgery appointment for July 8. Now I am wondering if I should cancel taking the sheep to Texas until October since I will have to do PT for several months, and DH has appointments here as well as a couple reunions this summer. BUT if I cancel the vet and shipping, I am afraid we will never get there!
Jeremy's son Jamison is 15 an interested in the sheep. They have a couple registered Jersey cows that they breed and sell the calves. They also raise and sell hogs. He asked me if you could make money with sheep and I told hm not in Southern California where I have to buy hay all year, but with pasture I hoped to do so. He is interested in working for us, feeding the sheep, dogs, etc. when we are out of town. He has no experience with sheep but knows cows and hogs which is a head start. I told him I would teach him how to catch and flip sheep and he is really interested in working and earning money. He is home schooled and says he has a motor scooter so can travel the half mile to our house easily. I also arranged for him to come work for me when Colene comes out to grade the flock. He will get to know the dogs and that will be a good thing. He works for his dad who does lawn service and garden stuff. His dad does our yard and tilled up and cleaned out our garden. Once he meets the dogs and they know him, he can feed when we aren't here. He has 3 younger brothers so maybe I will have a semi-permanent work force. LOL
We can put up a shelter in the garden. I think we can use 2 10' panels attached at right angles to the panels fencing off the garden. I have an 8x10 corral cover frame and will screw new corrugated panels on top for a shelter in the garden. That will make the garden (1/4 acre) usable for the sheep to clean off the garden residue each fall. And give us somewhere to sit in the shade when working out there! Payton is on the high school football team and Cody said he could bring some of his football buddies to help put up shelters. Those high schoolers are all hungry for spending money. LOL @Baymule said to drive fence posts into the ground at each of the corral panel ends and wire the panels to them to keep the wind from blowing over the shelters. I can also screw some wood or galvanized paneling to the sides for windbreaks. There are plenty of trees at different spots in the fields, so the shelters will mostly be for rainstorms. Wes Patton lives in northern California and gets heavy storms. He doesn't have any shelters for his Dorpers except for the lamb pastures which are closer to the house.
I checked out the tool shed in the yard and the metal walls are lined with plywood. I will be able to attach the heat barrier easily with a staple gun after I empty the shed. Once that is done the cabinets can be screwed onto the walls, the shelving and metal tool cabinets replaced. Then all the tools can go back in the shed and into the tool cabinets.
I did some clearing out in the office closet and was able to put in one of the shelving units I brought from the closets here. The closets in Yantis are 25" deep so I could fit in the 24" wide unit at the end. It will hold office supplies. The closet in the office is about 12' wide but the bifold doors in the middle are only 5' wide! That leaves about 2'3' of the closet very hard to get to. I was looking at the closet and thought about cutting through the drywall, framing around the opening, and sliding in a prefab oak pantry cabinet. The pantry cabinet doors would open behind the bedroom door giving better access to that space. I did that in 2 of the bedrooms in California with several feet of closet space that was not easily accessible. It made the inaccessible space usable and only took a day to do. So many possible projects! I love projects. I wonder if Habitat has any oak cabinets.
I measured the kitchen base cabinet door openings and found pullouts that will fit them. I will order them on Amazon and take them back in May. The second set of beige slipcovers came while we were in Texas. DS1 returned all the dark blue ones today. I will have to get some throw pillows for the other loveseat. I may have some throw pillows in the Connex that I can use. I found the lamp shades for the buffet lamps and put them on. I even hung a picture while back there! The house is starting to look lived in. I will have to bring back my beautiful Chinese screen. I don't have anywhere to put it that will look good at the ranch. DDIL2 loves Asian decor and wants it so she can have it. More decluttering and giving special things to my children that love them and want to use them. Also brought back the Asian pillows and window treatment for her. There are some other Asian furniture pieces in the Connex that she said she would like so that will work out.
It started raining here about 3:30 pm. The sky is dark, it is foggy, and raining very heavily. This is a wet season here. Naturally there will be good forage this year when I won't get any use out of it!
The chicken litter was spread during the eclipse. The spreader has tires that leave 40" wide tread marks. The field looked like there were crop circles after he left! LOL It started raining that night and rained for the next two days. Lightening and thunder as well. At least the chicken litter got washed into the ground.
We went out to the barn to finish the creep - luckily, we had moved the panels into the barn the day before. It stormed really bad while we were putting up the creep panels. I used hose clamps to attach the creep panel to the fence panels since the creep panel uses pins and the fence panels use corral clamps. I still need to put water troughs and feeders in the creep, night pen, and ram pen. I found that I was able to get up off my knees more easily after a couple days assembling corral pens.
DH said he was moving better too after doing more physical work. DS1 doesn't like us to do any corral carrying, attaching, etc. I think getting more exercise moving around is good for our Prime bodies. LOL Wednesday, we went to Bible Study and saw several acquaintances who are becoming friends. Really nice time and an interesting talk. When we came back, we had to hitch the stock trailer in the dark since we planned to leave early Thursday am. Luckily, I had packed about 5 battery operated lanterns planning to use them in the barn until we can install the lights. Thinking about it now, I wonder if we can install some lights in the barnyard as well as lights in the barn. And a switch at the house to turn them on. I found several areas where we need to put better drainage in. Needless to say, I was not wearing my rubber boots! LOL
We were up and out by 5:30 am on Thursday, drove 12 hours - 1000 miles. On Friday we finished up our trip to the CA house. Since we stayed in a motel we couldn't make as early a start on Friday since the free breakfast isn't served until 6 am. I had made sandwiches and cream cheese blueberry bagels, so we only stopped for dinner - Cobb salad at Denny's. Since we are in our Primes, we get 15% off with an AARP card.
I got my knee surgery appointment for July 8. Now I am wondering if I should cancel taking the sheep to Texas until October since I will have to do PT for several months, and DH has appointments here as well as a couple reunions this summer. BUT if I cancel the vet and shipping, I am afraid we will never get there!
Jeremy's son Jamison is 15 an interested in the sheep. They have a couple registered Jersey cows that they breed and sell the calves. They also raise and sell hogs. He asked me if you could make money with sheep and I told hm not in Southern California where I have to buy hay all year, but with pasture I hoped to do so. He is interested in working for us, feeding the sheep, dogs, etc. when we are out of town. He has no experience with sheep but knows cows and hogs which is a head start. I told him I would teach him how to catch and flip sheep and he is really interested in working and earning money. He is home schooled and says he has a motor scooter so can travel the half mile to our house easily. I also arranged for him to come work for me when Colene comes out to grade the flock. He will get to know the dogs and that will be a good thing. He works for his dad who does lawn service and garden stuff. His dad does our yard and tilled up and cleaned out our garden. Once he meets the dogs and they know him, he can feed when we aren't here. He has 3 younger brothers so maybe I will have a semi-permanent work force. LOL
We can put up a shelter in the garden. I think we can use 2 10' panels attached at right angles to the panels fencing off the garden. I have an 8x10 corral cover frame and will screw new corrugated panels on top for a shelter in the garden. That will make the garden (1/4 acre) usable for the sheep to clean off the garden residue each fall. And give us somewhere to sit in the shade when working out there! Payton is on the high school football team and Cody said he could bring some of his football buddies to help put up shelters. Those high schoolers are all hungry for spending money. LOL @Baymule said to drive fence posts into the ground at each of the corral panel ends and wire the panels to them to keep the wind from blowing over the shelters. I can also screw some wood or galvanized paneling to the sides for windbreaks. There are plenty of trees at different spots in the fields, so the shelters will mostly be for rainstorms. Wes Patton lives in northern California and gets heavy storms. He doesn't have any shelters for his Dorpers except for the lamb pastures which are closer to the house.
I checked out the tool shed in the yard and the metal walls are lined with plywood. I will be able to attach the heat barrier easily with a staple gun after I empty the shed. Once that is done the cabinets can be screwed onto the walls, the shelving and metal tool cabinets replaced. Then all the tools can go back in the shed and into the tool cabinets.
I did some clearing out in the office closet and was able to put in one of the shelving units I brought from the closets here. The closets in Yantis are 25" deep so I could fit in the 24" wide unit at the end. It will hold office supplies. The closet in the office is about 12' wide but the bifold doors in the middle are only 5' wide! That leaves about 2'3' of the closet very hard to get to. I was looking at the closet and thought about cutting through the drywall, framing around the opening, and sliding in a prefab oak pantry cabinet. The pantry cabinet doors would open behind the bedroom door giving better access to that space. I did that in 2 of the bedrooms in California with several feet of closet space that was not easily accessible. It made the inaccessible space usable and only took a day to do. So many possible projects! I love projects. I wonder if Habitat has any oak cabinets.
I measured the kitchen base cabinet door openings and found pullouts that will fit them. I will order them on Amazon and take them back in May. The second set of beige slipcovers came while we were in Texas. DS1 returned all the dark blue ones today. I will have to get some throw pillows for the other loveseat. I may have some throw pillows in the Connex that I can use. I found the lamp shades for the buffet lamps and put them on. I even hung a picture while back there! The house is starting to look lived in. I will have to bring back my beautiful Chinese screen. I don't have anywhere to put it that will look good at the ranch. DDIL2 loves Asian decor and wants it so she can have it. More decluttering and giving special things to my children that love them and want to use them. Also brought back the Asian pillows and window treatment for her. There are some other Asian furniture pieces in the Connex that she said she would like so that will work out.
It started raining here about 3:30 pm. The sky is dark, it is foggy, and raining very heavily. This is a wet season here. Naturally there will be good forage this year
when I won't get any use out of it!
LOL We will brand all the others in the catch/sorting box as we run them down the chute tomorrow. It will be much easier to do. We branded the lambs with the mama's number. We did not do the new ram who is in one of the jugs. He has not been handled and is rather wild. He will eventually calm down once he gets used to being harnessed and put with ewes regularly. The special paint was ok to use. It is very thick and is supposed to last up to 12 months but will wash out when the fleeces are processed. I washed the paint off the brands with hot soapy water and a paper towel. I think using these paint brands will work great for identification when out in the pasture. The only problem is that we tag with different color tags according to which ram we use. I wasn't thinking when we started out and just used leftover tags from past years. OOPS! Big mistake since I ordered tags with the same numbers but different colors. DS1 said it would not be a problem since we would be able to see the ear tag color even though we wouldn't be able to make out the tag number. The paint I ordered with the brands is a bright blue. At Lowes I got sample jars of paint in the ear tag colors to use. I am not sure if it is worthwhile to use the different colors, or just use the blue and maybe spray them with marking paint in the tag color. If I hadn't just ordered a lot of new tags, I would just change the tagging system. Using a different color for each ram's get means that it is easier to make sure I don't breed ewes back to their sire.
competent doctors, vets, etc, live there!! If you don't get it done, then Fall will happen and you'll "stay for the holidays", find other reasons/excuses to only "VISIT TX ea month." Pretty much like now. 
Ok -- that's where I think you're going at this whole situation in a bind. You started strong, now too many second thoughts. It's emotional and you must address this move to complete yourself. Not showing your true confidence with the decision. Your wobbling.....get moved and things will settle out. Stress will go away. You're torturing yourself.
< me. Thanks, I needed that to knock sense into me!
Never mind, I need not to think about those things - I get too upset.
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