Teresa & Mike CHS - Our journal

[Bruce]

Good for her then!

 

[Baymule]

It is hot here too and rain is nonexistent. Dry, dusty, hot , humid, we sweat, the wind blows dust on us and that is the only mud around here.

 

[Mike CHS]

This is the worst drought that we have seen since we have been here. We are taking a half dozen sheep to the sale in a couple of weeks and we will then be down to the numbers we are prepared to go into winter with. It will be 30 ewes and the ram that will be going back with the steers. Princess (the bottle lamb) will have the wether for company until she goes in with the rest of the ewes. We don't want to breed her this much later than the rest so she can wait until next season when she will be over a year old. Three of the ewe lambs have such a bad parasite resistance that they are all going to the sale once we worm them tomorrow to make sure they are as clean as we can make them.

 

[Baymule]

I have winter rye grass and crimson clover seed sitting on the porch, waiting on rain. Should have been sowed already, we won't even go work on the newly cleared, mulched land because of the dust it would kick up. Sheep are mostly dry lotted, what little grass we had is cooked. If I let them out in the yard, they run out, wander around looking for weeds, give up and go back to the barn to eat hay. Ringo is with 2 ewes, I let them out, the ewes run a bit, then settle down. Ringo has discovered American persimmons. There are several trees in that pasture and Ewenique loves them. Ringo has learned from her to run to the front to gobble them up. When those are gone, they go back to the round bale.

 

[Mike CHS]

We drove over to Fayetteville to get our new Drives Licenses to conform to the Real ID Act. You are going to need it to fly although I'll be surprised if I ever fly again but Teresa does to see the kids. There is a local diner right next door so we stopped in for lunch. We were impressed. They only have buffet type service on Monday but that had plenty of choices. One of the hot bars had fried chicken, chicken fried steak and polish sausage along with the usual veggies. Another had all baked entrees that was actually pretty good and their salad and dessert bar was really impressive. The tab along with our tea came to a few cents over $15 plus we left a decent tip.

 

[CntryBoy777]

Always nice to find a "pleasent place" ya can choose to "visit" from time to time....they are getting really hard to find these days.....

 

[Baymule]

Did you take proper documentation to prove that you are who you say you are? I got mine, took a wad of papers, and they didn't even ask for them. But I got that little gold star on my DL. BJ will renew in February.

 

[Bruce]

And that makes the entire "Real ID" thing a joke. At least when I got mine they took the documentation and asked a lot of questions.

 

[Mike CHS]

They had a two page list of things you need (which we took) and the only thing they used was our Birth Certificates, marriage license and Social Security cards plus Drivers License. They passed mine around for everyone to see since I got mine for my first job when I was eleven and it's different than what they have now. It says "not for identification"

Teresa said you guys had discussed Mama going to Texas. It works for me as long as we wait till the weather is cooler. She is so fat I wouldn't want to travel in hot weather and she will likely be pregnant when we do it. She looks 4 months pregnant three months after lambing. She was one of our first ones and we got her because she was an escape artist but she has come a long way since then.

 

[Baymule]

You just say when! I want what is easiest on her.