Teresa & Mike CHS - Our journal

[CntryBoy777]

I burned the midnight oil...dug thru the trash...found the chip and retrived the 1,351 pics........I used the adapter and plugged it into the computer. Thanks Joe, but no internet on the computer.

 

[frustratedearthmother]

Wow! Glad you were able to save them! Lotsa memories there.

 

[dejavoodoo114]

We are comfortable with our fences so in most cases we are also comfortable with our dogs safety also

Your fences should certainly be able to keep him in. Ours our high tensile electric so we chose a different breed to be on the safe side. I do like the Akbash from all that I read and heard about when we were considering getting one. I just wasn't sure if anyone mentioned that part to you.

 

[Mike CHS]

Your fences should certainly be able to keep him in. Ours our high tensile electric so we chose a different breed to be on the safe side. I do like the Akbash from all that I read and heard about when we were considering getting one. I just wasn't sure if anyone mentioned that part to you.

Thanks - we had already spent a lot of time with his home farm and we were actually looking for a more aggressive breed.

I'm curious to see how he turns out since right now he is just mimicking everything Our Pyr Maisy does so we shall see how he gets when he starts developing his own. He spends more and more time now with the sheep and less with Maisy watching and patrolling around the sheep. We don't allow any interaction with our working dogs but we do make sure they are allowed in proximity of each other.

 

[dejavoodoo114]

The higher aggression in the Akbash is what drew us to them in the first place. We have a lot of strays and wondering lose dogs in this area. I look forward to seeing how he grows and how he does.

BTW, how did you find the Amish in your area? I would love to find a source for veggies that cheap! That way, when I have a down spell during growing season it doesn't affect our food supply as much. I wish I were as good at networking as you are. I have been in TN and on our property longer than you and only know one neighbor, sort of.

 

[greybeard]

BTW, how did you find the Amish in your area?

Just follow the road apples?

 

[Mike CHS]

The people in East TN must not be as friendly as Middle TN. When we first started renovating our place by the time we had made 4 monthly trips here we had met everyone within a few miles of our place since they all made a stop to say hi and introduce themselves. One of the neighbors said we gave them to put on a cookout one weekend and there must have been 100 people there.

For the Amish I just did a search for Amish Markets and got a ton of hits. We went to a Consignment Auction there today that I think is the Amish equivalent to Black Friday. There was so many things that they had 6 auctioneers going at the same time and when we left about 1:00 this afternoon they weren't half way through. The produce market (in Ethrige) sells in bulk to a lot of area restaurants and the Amish farmers are under contract to the local grocery chains for a lot of things. That's where we bought the bulk of our produce for canning this year.

 

[CntryBoy777]

You mean ya went to such a big sale and didn't bring anything Home with ya?.....ya ain't ailing are ya?....

 

[Mike CHS]

Teresa bought a nice antique oak table and a small wall cabinet. We weren't big spenders since they were $20 each.

There must have been 1500 people there.

 

[Bruce]

I had never heard of Dr. Temple Grandin until a few weeks ago. She came to UT to speak this week, Wed night I think. We, in the animal science department, were encouraged to go but with kids and animals and living an hour from campus I didn't. Now I wish I had. My understanding is that she has a great understanding of animal behavior.

Oh I do wish you had known! I'd drop pretty much anything I had scheduled to go hear her. I've seen some videos though. Yep, she seems to have an innate understanding of how animals think and I say "that concept is so obvious ... once someone points it out."