Teresa & Mike CHS - Our journal

[Mike CHS]

I know Fred and your earlier pictures really showed her off.

Maisy was the dominant one until last week. She took him down over some food and I'm not sure what happened but when they got up there was a confrontation and Maisy turned and walked away. I want to keep that boy on my side as vicious as he looked.

 

[Bruce]

And the "pecking order" is rearranging. Hopefully they are both OK with the switch. But he still has a lot to learn, hopefully he will let Maisy teach him even if he is "top dog".

Both dogs are very good looking Mike!

 

[Baymule]

Very nice dogs. Thor is one handsome boy, I know you are proud of how he is developing into a magnificent sheep guardian.

 

[Mike CHS]

I have been hauling off a small load of trash and debris out of the dump site that I mentioned not long ago but got tired of how long it was taking. We called in Jay and another neighbors son (Jackson) and they just pulled out with the 4th truck load today. We still have several loads in there but at least you can now see some progress.

 

[Baymule]

I think you win. Pretty sure you have more trash than we had. We had helpers on clean up too!

 

[Mike CHS]

I have one of those "helpers" also but Thor is pulling trash out of a dry pond that we are going to bulldoze as soon as the ditch is cleaned out. I hauled at least two pickup loads a month when we came out to work and that went on for a year and a half. At least I don't have any old vehicles laying around surprisingly.

 

[CntryBoy777]

That is one thing I'm thankful for being here, we don't have anything like that....just some places where it looks like old med bottles and such were used for target practice....cause there are shards of old glass in a few places. The place we had in Florida was a whole nother issue....it had trash scattered over the whole 3 acres.

 

[goatgurl]

first thing, thor is sure growing into a handsome fellow. 2nd just 'cause maisy walked away from him after he bowed up at her doesn't mean she has abdicated her throne. it just means she doesn't think he is worth the time and trouble to fight. he is still wet behind the ears and they both know it.
i'm glad someone else has trash piles on their place. I've got one where the people filled a deep gully with all kinds of stuff and I pilfered thru it, pulled out some cool old bottles and things and then left it alone. its so far from the house and the goats and sheep don't go over there so what the heck, its covered by leaves, branches and the like. at least there are no old cars, trucks or appliances in it.

 

[Mike CHS]

The dogs have developed a pretty decent relationship that is a joy to watch. They both hit the perimeter when something causes them to alert but at night one of them will go to the perimeter and the other will stay with the sheep. Maisy can still put him down but he isn't challenging her as much as earlier so they rarely get into it anymore. I do some training after they eat so I'm with them to avoid some of the silly fighting just to get that last piece of food.

@goatgurl if this trash heap had been in an out of the way spot I would have dozed some more dirt on it and left it alone. As it is, this spot is on a real visible part of our place and is right beside one of my most used lanes.

 

[Mike CHS]

So far we have hauled 6 pickup loads of trash to the dump. There wasn't any wind today so while we were going to be in the area I got a burn permit to do a lot of stuff like construction debris, 3 piles of carpet, two mattresses and assorted plywood and about anything else that would burn. That spot is probably toxic for 100 years but the stuff is out of the storm ditch. I don't know what that carpet was made of but it was waterlogged and covered with mud but it still caught fire after about 2 minutes on the fire.

There was a computer monitor, two old TV sets and a microwave among the many things that got hauled off beside 20 years worth of cans and household trash.

We got just about everything that was loose bagged up and hauled off but what was left was packed in so we asked the neighbor to bring his backhoe down and work the ground up for us.

The pile he is working on isn't the one I was griping about the other day. This one we thought was nothing more than an old tarp (which was covering the cans) and some old plywood (NOT). There was a lot of siding mixed in with all of the trash and having Jimmy work it a little will make it where we can get it all bagged up and gone. Hopefully we can make a dent in it tomorrow as the 1st pile is mostly gone and it was bigger than the one in the pictures.