Teresa & Mike CHS - Our journal

[Mike CHS]

That nice big open shop sure came in handy for the gathering. Sounds like it went pretty good for all involved. Congrats on a successful meeting!

We took out all we could and put it in our shed. A lot of things got stationed out of the way outside but I moved everything back inside as soon as everyone left. We had originally thought to make a smaller building but after seeing how much flexibility we have with it I'm glad we did what we did.

 

[Mike CHS]

Looks like all had a good time. What a nice thing, getting together to learn more about Katahdins. You put on quite the party!

Sheep people are good people (as are goat people as I'm finding out).

The biggest relief I had for today was to call in my girls and they went right into the chute in front of 40 experienced sheep handlers. I had visions of them fighting like heck and me having to force them in for handling (which my shoulder isn't up to) but they walked right in.

 

[Baymule]

Your sheep wanted you to look good in front of your friends!

 

[Bruce]

The herders didn't get to show off?

 

[Mike CHS]

The bucket is still king

I was just glad they walked into the chute since my shoulder still isn't up to forcing the issue.

 

[Mike CHS]

We got 3 1/2" of rain in the last 24 hours. In between showers today I broke out the Broad Fork to see if I could get some of the raised beds loosened a bit to get rid of some of the perennial weeds that have snuck into the beds. I got three out of the ten beds worked but the Broad Fork was too heavy for my puny shoulder when the wet soil would stick to the tool so I gave up. I really like that tool since you can get your soil loosened up without turning it over. I put about a 6" layer of sheep manure on the worst beds back in September and they are now full of earth worms.

I feel bad but I had to have a chat with my elderly neighbor this afternoon. I have let him use a little over a half acre to garden in so he can play with his big Ford tractor that isn't used for anything else. He plants one row of tomatoes, one row of okra and a couple rows of peas but they get covered with weeds by mid June. He has made me spend too much time trying to maintain it and he made a huge mess on my side last summer piling metal, wood and who knows what else on my property. I told him last summer that the trash pile put an end to his gardening but he worked up the garden spot and planted a row of tomatoes and purple hulls a few days ago. I caught him out again this afternoon and reminded him that I'm fencing in the area in the next week or two and his plants will be inside the paddock. I really don't like being that way but I have had to spend a lot of time making that area look like I want our place to look like and he has made it too hard. He has a garden spot on the other side of his place so I won't finish flattening out the ground until he has a chance to transplant his tomatoes.

I guess that was a vent

 

[Wehner Homestead]

Sorry that you had to have a chat with the neighbor. We have one that we seem to avoid. They have some sons I went to school with and don’t see eye to eye on several things. Those boys still lived at home when we moved in. Our house got egged with a trial of beer cans back to their house. Yards signs disappeared. A cat disappeared, presuming shot as target practice. Shots fired AT our house. Their dogs think our property is theirs. (Queenie stopped that!) A “comment” to their uncle that we were going to call the sheriff if there were any more mishaps and the boys getting married and moving on ended all of that. I’m very glad!!

 

[Mike CHS]

Mine is an elderly spoiled person that thought he could do what he wanted and I would let him do it but yours is quite a few levels above that.

 

[Wehner Homestead]

I agree. Why couldn’t we all just be neighbors so we don’t have these issues to deal with??

 

[Latestarter]

I like that idea quite a lot actually...