Teresa & Mike CHS - Our journal

[Mike CHS]

We brought home some ram lamb meat and tried it and I could tell no difference from what we have been eating all along.

We are getting ready to go pick up our alfalfa for this season in a few minutes. Last year we were paying $12 a bale at the only place in Lewisburg that carried alfalfa. We are going to pick it up out of the field for $6.25 a bale.

The picture attached is our ram Ringo pining away trying to figure out how to get to the ewes. They are all cycling but we only want to breed 10 of them this month and the rest in October. They spend most of the day down there flirting with Ringo and backing up to the fence trying to figure out why he isn't doing his job.

This kind of rotation is why I put in so many gates.

 

[Baymule]

Wow, what beautiful pasture. I spent the morning digging and sprigging Bahia grass. It grows on the road side, so I took my wagon and a shovel and dug a wagon load of Bahia. I dug trenches, my husband dropped Bahia in, covered with dirt and stomped it down. I did this yesterday too. I got a feeling I might continue this for awhile......its free......

 

[Mike CHS]

I saw that in your thread and I always like free.

 

[Latestarter]

Who's that running the bush hog on the Deere in the background? I thought you had a Kubota... A neighbor? I ask because it appears it's inside the fence line. Poor, poor Ringo... He'll get his chance!

 

[CntryBoy777]

That's quite the savings on the alfalfa....I think Ringo looks like a Centerfielder to me....

 

[Bruce]

The ethnic market wants the males to be intact

How very convenient!

 

[Bruce]

They spend most of the day down there flirting with Ringo and backing up to the fence trying to figure out why he isn't doing his job.

Hussies!

 

[Mike CHS]

Who's that running the bush hog on the Deere in the background? I thought you had a Kubota... A neighbor? I ask because it appears it's inside the fence line. Poor, poor Ringo... He'll get his chance!

That is our neighbor Jimmy. I cut 3 acres of his yesterday so he had some time off today and cut some of the high stuff that was left when we cut hay last week. We cut much of each others depending on who has the most time and what equipment is hooked up at the time. He saw my bush hog wasn't attached because I was using the sprayer on the 3 point hitch.

 

[frustratedearthmother]

That's awesome! Nothing like a great neighbor!

 

[Mike CHS]

That's awesome! Nothing like a great neighbor!

We have 3 households in our little valley and everyone helps the others pretty much all the time. We all have some equipment that the others don't have so it works out well. I was spraying driveways (all 3 of them) so it's a good trade.