Teresa & Mike CHS - Our journal

[B&B Happy goats]

We lock the chickens in at night and haven't lost any during the night but something got into the coop today and ate several eggs. Something even dragged one of the fake eggs our of the nest and you could see teeth marks all over it. I'm suspecting possum again but could be a racoon. Our pen fence is on the property line with a small bit of woods next to it but I maintain it for the neighbors since it affects the way our place looks. We can't set out the traps on our side during the day because the chickens would get in and trip them but since the critter (whatever it is) is coming from the neighbors side, I'll set two baited traps on their property. We did ask permission of course in case anyone has a problem with that.

Same battle going on here...like you don't have enough to do already during the day....now let's fight with racoons eating our eggs and chickens

 

[CntryBoy777]

It is really nice!!....and it took a lot of hard work to get there from where ya started....ya sure should be proud of what ya have "built" there....inside and out.....

 

[Baymule]

I tried to like the pictures, but instead my internet booted me off. Such are the joys of satellite internet. don't even get me started on satellite TV.

I miss having an Aussie. We dog sat DD's new pup, a 7 month old Aussie/Blue Heeler for a week. She was fun. She is very smart, minded well and I enjoyed her. Carson and her played and played and played. We took her home yesterday and he was crushed. He looked for her, how do you explain to a dog that his playmate was only visiting?

 

[Mike CHS]

We got our Aussie after reading about how much easier to train them they were over Border Collies. That book in hindsight was obviously written by an Aussie fan. We love ours and have never regretted getting her but if we had gotten the Border Collie first, we would have never gotten the Aussie. The Aussie is by far the smartest and an ideal pet dog but we never work her hard headed self anymore.

 

[Mike CHS]

The hen that hatched 11 chicks still has 9 alive and doing well. The Barred Rock only managed to hatch one out of 10 eggs and that chick was found dead the second morning. She is following the Buff around and helping her with her chicks but at least she isn't trying to steal them.

I got my grass cutting and weed eating caught up today but the grass is growing about as fast as I can cut it. I'm trying to cut back the perimeter property line a bit at a time now that I have all of the undergrowth cleared out. I've reclaimed about 5 feet toward the CSX fence and the way things are going I'llbe ready to fence that in with woven wire once the weather gets to be a bit milder.

The Navy ATC reunion that I didn't go to has resulted in a whole bunch of old friends reconnecting. I had posted a couple of times on the Facebook page that was used for the reunion and I wound up with a little over 130 contacts from old friends. These are all folks that were actually good friends but when you transfer every two years it's easy to loose contact. I guess now that we are all getting older and are settled, it might be a good time to renew contact.

 

[CntryBoy777]

Yeh, gotta get the fence up, so the "mowers" can make a few passes thru........hope the "reconnect" works out....I wonder about some of the ones we new here or there, but they were kids like us, so never know where they ended up.....our dads worked on the bases....

 

[Mike CHS]

Yeh, gotta get the fence up, so the "mowers" can make a few passes thru........hope the "reconnect" works out....I wonder about some of the ones we new here or there, but they were kids like us, so never know where they ended up.....our dads worked on the bases....

Most that I have met in the last many years are still pretty much who they were when we were together. I was in the same field with the same people for almost 50 years so there is some history there.

 

[Baymule]

You would enjoy meeting up with old friends. My brother in law got in touch with an old Air Force buddy and he and his wife come to Texas at least once a year and spend a week with BIL and my sister.

 

[Mike CHS]

There is already 5 that plan on coming in the next few months. They want to figure out how I wound up doing what we are doing.

 

[Baymule]

There is already 5 that plan on coming in the next few months. They want to figure out how I wound up doing what we are doing.

They might catch the bug from you and go start farms of their own.