Teresa & Mike CHS - Our journal

[Mike CHS]

Happy anniversary!

Thank you. Every one is better than the one before.

 

[farmerjan]

Happy Anniversary from Va too. I was testing cows and when doing the computer stuff, as I punched in the date, I said to my farmer, isn't today Pearl Harbor day? In another 20 years, with what they DON'T teach in schools, kids won't know about any of the wars or why any were fought. There will be no appreciation for all the sacrifices that have been made in the past. And if the far left nut jobs get their way, we will be a socialist country and any of us OLD PEOPLE left, will simply wonder why we fought and sacrificed for the young ungrateful and too stupid to realize what they are throwing away, ones coming along. It is a scary thing to see what is happening now.

 

[Mike CHS]

Our house seems empty with the pup and family gone back home. They did pose for a couple of pictures just before heading out the door.

 

[Baymule]

Y’all did a good thing. The pup has a great home and the boys have a great dog. Win-Win.

 

[Mike CHS]

I took advantage of the nice weather and worked on the fence line trees some while Teresa finished organizing the storage on our porch. The chest freezer in the picture was next to the refrigerator where it became a catch all for things that didn't have a storage area. Since we did this a little at a time over a two week period, I didn't take any before pictures but suffice it to say that we had very little storage. There was two shelves on the outside wall that had all of my outdoor cooking things and I used part of them in the starting seeds for the garden.

We added two tall/deep cabinets to the outside wall, two shorter cabinets over the sink and shelves on both sides of the room. I still have to build a table that will go on the left side and have a drawer to store all the items we used to de fecal testing. Other than hang the cabinets I didn't help much since Teresa wasn't sure how she was going to finish it. I just cut the boards to the size she wanted and other than that, stayed out of her way.

 

[Beekissed]

LOVE all the different types of storage, both closed and open, as well as the multifunctional room space. Most of my time here is spent on organizing or trying to organize all the things we use to work and live around here....to have a room dedicated to so much of that work would be wonderful!

 

[Mike CHS]

We keep our second refrigerator and one of our three freezers in the porch. We still want to build a small insulated sout building dedicated to meat storage in one of our other freezers so we can legally sell meat from the farm. The only USDA requirement is that it is a sole purpose room dedicated to meat storage and no household pet access.

 

[Baymule]

That looks great. Mike, you are a wise man, STAYED OUT OF HER WAY

 

[Mike CHS]

I made a big pot of Gumbo for dinner tonight. The okra I used is the last batch from 2018 but it was vacuum sealed for freezing and you couldn't tell any difference in the current year okra that I added to the pot.

The plan has changed about us taking the female German Shepherd but we are helping to make sure she is more socialized before finding her a home. She is staying at our friends kennel and she lets her stay in the house. Teresa and I talked it over and decided the couple of months the other pup was here had him all stressed out. He never did adjust to the pup and you could tell by watching him that he felt completely left out. She also had something happen that has her keeping her head cocked to one side. We thought at first that she might have an ear infection but she didn't. We had an animal chiropractor come out to see if an adjustment might help but no dice.

 

[Baymule]

By "him" you must mean Mel of course.

Teresa is got something going on....that doesn't sound good. I know you are worried, I sure hope y'all can find out what is causing that.