Teresa & Mike CHS - Our journal

[Mike CHS]

They had spiral hams on sale also but we have a lot in the freezer already.

 

[Baymule]

I’d have to have a lot of help on a ham and there’s only so much I want before I don’t want anymore for a long time. LOL

 

[frustratedearthmother]

If you have a Kroger card and also download the digital coupon - it's 3.97 per lb. At least at the Kroger close to me.

I'll be picking up several myself.

 

[murphysranch]

Out west, at Fred Meyer (owned by Kroger) the digital rewards brings the beef down to $4.97 a lb.

Oh, and they stopped mailing the circular to each home. So I have to go online to see if there is anything worthwhile on sale.

 

[Mike CHS]

We had just enough rain for most of the day that the tall grass was too wet to cut for the sheep. There was more than enough re-growth in the areas that I had already cut to give the sheep plenty of grass today.

Teresa spent the last day with her son's family near Charleston and left there to head north to her brother's house in Rock Hill, SC to spend the night then head home tomorrow. That makes it only about 7 hours to get home tomorrow but most important for Teresa, is that she doesn't have to drive through Atlanta but rather comes in from east Tennessee. For the three plus years we were driving from South Carolina to our home here, we had several extremely close calls going through Atlanta and she got to the point that my lady that doesn't fear anything, began to fear going through there.

 

[Finnie]

I have only driven through Atlanta 4 times, and not even the driver for all of them, but I do not like going through there either.

 

[Baymule]

That sounds like a much better decision, to avoid going through Atlanta.

 

[Mike CHS]

We finally started having lambs this morning while I was down with the sheep but this was a first for me. We lamb out in the pastures and that normally means the ewes will go off by themselves to give birth. The lambs are usually fairly easy to catch to check them over but they are automatically skittish. The ewe giving birth this morning did so right at the stall and the other ewes all stayed at the other end of the stall while the ewe cleaned off her twin ram lambs. I guess the difference is that they are getting feed on a fairly regular schedule so when I put the feed out and opened the gate, all of the sheep (including the lambs) came running in.

I just talked to Teresa and she will be home around 6 or so this evening.

 

[Baymule]

Congratulations on the twin rams! Most of my sheep, having a choice, chose lambing in the barn in Lindale.
But here-I’m keeping them on lockdown. It’s Sentry stealing newborns or coyotes. Not much of a choice, either way, they are dead. I’ll work with Buford and Sheba, maybe I can come up with a newborn guardian, maybe not.

I know you will be glad to have your darling wife back home. Whatcha cooking her for supper? LOL

 

[SageHill]

Yay on the twins!! So far mine have all lambed in the stalls. Ton of experience here