Teresa & Mike CHS - Our journal

[Baymule]

Let's just say that I'm elated that Mom didn't get her way...totally....in naming me.....it would've been an absolute Horror growing up with her "choice" during the 60s-70s.....

And what was her choice?

 

[B&B Happy goats]

I was almost named Mildred....WTF were they thinking .... mildred the goat lady yo Milly, hows it hanginmild to moderate....instead i got Barbara Jean after two of my fathers sisters who died as teenagers..., that was kinda a drag, and its a big secret how they died ! Well i made dang sure i lived enough for all three of us...and we had some crazy fun times

 

[Mike CHS]

There is no doubt in my mind that you did as you say.

 

[greybeard]

That is work. Sure makes you feel good to see it all cleaned up. The new area we cleared of green briars was sprouting back up, but I knocked them down today with the tractor, dragging the disc. I limed it yesterday, today I sowed giant Bermuda grass seed. Pasture #1 (that inspired the I Hate Greenbriars thread that brought @Senile_Texas_Aggie to join our forum) sprouted up green briars, but the sheep nipped them off, they no longer come up. I think those big wads of bulbous roots and just biding their time, waiting...…. I hate them.

Yep. Tho I hope you live to a very ripe old age, they will outlive you too.

 

[greybeard]

I was almost named Mildred....WTF were they thinking .... mildred the goat lady yo Milly, hows it hanginmild to moderate....instead i got Barbara Jean after two of my fathers sisters who died as teenagers..., that was kinda a drag, and its a big secret how they died ! Well i made dang sure i lived enough for all three of us...and we had some crazy fun times

I had an aunt named Mildred. A wonderful woman too.

(Her and her husband lived out in West Texas as dryland cottn farmers and he also raised cattle. It is hot out there of course, and they would leave the doors and windows open in the summer time. Rattlesnakes were everywhere and one day, she called Uncle Richard to come hurry. A rattler had gotten in the house, and was curled up in the window sill. Uncle was a little irritated that she called him away from his work on the windmill, and when he got in and saw the snake, he just pulled the double barrel 12 ga off the pegs on the wall, walked into the bedroom, let go with both barrels and blew snake and window right out of the old house..good thing no one or anything was walking along the outside of the house)

 

[B&B Happy goats]

@greybeard, Mildred was my grand mothers name....the story about your uncle is a riot.....wonder if he was mad when he had to replace the window ?

 

[Baymule]

That's one way to kill a snake. LOL Yes, I'll live to a ripe old age, past 100. It runs in the family. Those green briar roots will have to wait a loooooong time!

 

[Bruce]

So Mike, what did your mother call you when you were in trouble. You know, where she used your full "3 name" name?

 

[Mike CHS]

That's what has always been funny to me. Nobody ever used my first name until I moved to live with an uncle in rural Missouri when I was starting 10th grade in High School. Mrs. Crawford (teacher for most of my classes) refused to use anything other than my first name. When my mom was perturbed by some trivial thing (I never did anything major) she called me Michael. Otherwise it was always Mike.

That trivial thing mentioned above isn't true though as there was a reason I went from St. Louis to Campbell, MO.

 

[Mike CHS]

I trimmed the last of the over hanging trees on my access lane and got all of the branches pushed up in a pile and mashed down with the front end loader. I would like to burn it but it's too windy.

I cut the neighbors 2 acres next to our drive then called J.Mike to come over and finished putting our handling chute back in place. When we originally put it up we couldn't find enough gaps in the rock to fully sink more than two T-posts so we had two cattle panels to make it more rigid. We found enough gaps in the rock this time to sink a post every 5 feet to support the cattle panels leading to the squeeze chute.

I didn't do a 'before' picture of the handling area outside the chute but there was a slop that was over a foot down that I was able to build up enough to make it level now. I still need to build a short block retaining wall and build a gate on the doorway pad to keep the sorted sheep out. The two posts that are on the edge of the concrete pad will be cut down and a 2x8 board nailed horizontally to them to make a shelf to hold things when we are working sheep.

We need to have the head gate attached to the chute when the state comes out to inspect but we never use it after having had it for over 3 years. The sorting gate gets used every time though.