Teresa & Mike CHS - Our journal

[frustratedearthmother]

Woo Hoo! Go Maxwell! He really didn't want to become a "steer!"

 

[RollingAcres]

Smart ram! Lol

 

[Baymule]

At least now he knows what you went and got him for. LOL

 

[Mike CHS]

It's going to be a quiet day today. We haven't had any rain for a week and a half so no grass needs to be cut. I'm going to change the oil in the riding mower and lube the tractor to make use of the slow time.

We will can 3-4 quarts of okra every couple of day until we get around a dozen quarts then that will be it for the garden except for the tomatoes that should start putting on fruit in a couple more weeks.

 

[Mike CHS]

The buyers for Percy have him at his new home. They have a large cattle trailer but the husband thought he would have trouble on the hill by the shop so he called and said he had a dog cage big enough to accommodate the ram lamb. When they pulled up, I looked at the cage and told him you aren't squeezing a 130 pound lamb in a cage smaller than the one we use for our 50 lb Border Collie. They only live about 20 miles away so I hauled the ram in our pickup. I opened the sliding windows between the truck and the topper so Percy stuck his head inside and stayed calm. One of the catches on the topper isn't the most secure so I tied it closed to make sure we didn't have a repeat of the great pig escape.

 

[Baymule]

JUST LIKE HIS DADDY!!!!!

 

[Mike CHS]

No pictures of this one but I still had the shirt on that I was wearing when we picked Percy up to put him in the truck when I went to feed Maisy this afternoon. She sniffed me up and down knowing it was Percy's scent but she knew she had not seen him. I feed her outside the gate so she went trotting down to the shop and across to the dry lot just swinging her head from side to side looking for her missing lamb. She finally came back and did a bunch more sniffing and then in what appeared to be frustration, she sat and just looked at me like she was trying to decide what she thought of all this.

 

[Baymule]

You should have let her say goodbye!

 

[Mike CHS]

You should have let her say goodbye!

I did, she was in the handling area when we loaded him up. They are almost too smart sometimes in their care but some things can't be figured out.

 

[RollingAcres]

Oh Maisy! What a good dog she is!