Teresa & Mike CHS - Our journal

[farmerjan]

A trick to try; when they abandoned the nest, you could have put one hen with the 2 chicks, out of sight and sound and put the other hen back on the nest. If there are no temptations, usually a hen will go back to setting on the eggs. Have done it often. But if you have the incubator, that is a more surefire thing if they are close. Hope you get more. You could put the new chicks under the "other" hen, at night, if she has a pen of her own and if you put several under together, she will probably take them.

 

[Mike CHS]

My shoulder is a bit sore from driving T-posts yesterday so we're wimping out and taking it easy. We did harvest corn, peppers and watermelons from our garden bed. The sheep are loving the waste that was left after cleaning up the ears.

Teresa needs a new laptop so we thought about going up to Franklin until we remembered it's a tax free weekend prior to school so we put that idea away.

 

[CntryBoy777]

It is the same here....well, yesterday and today....avoiding going to town for any shopping.....stopped by a small grocery store to get salt to brine this picnic with...........after all that work your shoulder deserved a rest.....that corn can work ya pretty good, especially if ya was shucking as ya went.....

 

[Bruce]

No tax isn't worth a little inconvenience?

 

[Baymule]

No tax isn't worth a little inconvenience?

At 8.25% the answer is no. Ever been in the middle of a bunch of tax-free crazed women all after the same things?

 

[Baymule]

I shuck corn on the tail gate of the truck. I get a board, meat cleaver or heavy knife and a wagon. I chop both ends, rip shucks and silks in one swipe, drop shucks in the wagon and put corn in a wash pan. Quick, easy and done. Pull the wagon to either sheep, hogs, or horses.

 

[Mike CHS]

At 8.25% the answer is no. Ever been in the middle of a bunch of tax-free crazed women all after the same things?

Correct, no is the answer to that one. Franklin is the newest part of the Nashville suburbs that has become the main shopping/business hub for all of the area south of the city. It's a zoo on normal days and a super zoo on normal weekends but this weekend will be silly. We normally won't even got to Sam's or Costco unless we can get in early on a weekend but preferably during the week.

We processed our corn on the bed of the Polaris and just take it out to the sheep when we take water out to the far paddock.

 

[Baymule]

The horses got the last batch.

 

[Mike CHS]

We were driving into Lewisburg yesterday and we came to a stop light behind a stock trailer with some sheep in costume. It was 90+ degrees out so I wouldn't think it was to keep them warm but it was different.

 

[Baymule]

Maybe they were groomed and headed to a show? Sure didn't want them to get all messed up before they got there!