Teresa & Mike CHS - Our journal

[farmerjan]

@Mike CHS , I apologize for the controversy on your thread. I did not mean to cause a hullabaloo and respectfully will not make anymore comments in that train of thought.

 

[farmerjan]

Hey.... are you guys doing okay with the effects of Hurricane Ida????? It looks to have pretty much covered all of Tenn, so was worried that you might be having problems.....

 

[Baymule]

Yeah, y’all are definitely getting rain!

 

[Mike CHS]

We got almost 5" of rain but have had very little wind which is a good thing since the ground is so saturated there would be trees coming down. The has been a lot of flooding north of us but if we ever get flooded at our elevation, the whole state would be under water. We have a drainage ditch that turns into a river but it's the reason I made all of the paddocks with multiple ways in.

 

[Ridgetop]

Citation please? This from the Red Cross says you can donate if you have been vaccinated

Actually, Red Cross wants all blood donations but are asking if you have been vaccinated.

I would like to point out that at the start of Covid, and BEFORE ANY VACCINE WAS DEVELOPED, requests were being made for blood donations from people that had recovered from Covid. They were researching their blood to see what antibodies had enabled these people to survive the earliest cases which were usually deadly.

Very ittle information has been released about research that was done on the virus. I don't think it is anti vax to request more information on the vaccines and the virus which has already mutated.
I have been vaccinated but no longer trust the government about the virus. When the government still supports Faucci who was complicit in devloping this virus, and the CDC puts out mask rules based on the teachers' unions' demands, and the government allows hundreds of thousands of untested and unvaccinated persons to pour into our country, then busses and flies them into other states unvaccinated, the government no longer deserves our belief in their so called medical truth. Or that they honestly want to protect us from Covid or its variants. This leads many citizens to believe it has become a control issue.

The decision to vaccinate or not vaccinate is subjective. If unvaccinated persons get Covid and die, that is their choice. If vaccinations are forced on people, and vaccinated persons continue to get Covid or its variants, or spread it, then what has changed? In addition, it becomes the governments responsibility when persons (whose doctors forbid them from getting the vaccine due to underlying conditions) die from vaccine side effects which has also happened.

Turning this into a nasty political argument is pointless. People in America were always allowed their own opinions and choices, it seems that is no longer the case. Which is a real shame.

 

[rachels.haven]

I think the logic is that it stops being a personal choice and starts being a public health issue when someone has a high chance of making somebody else gravely ill or dead contrary to that somebody's else's choice. Contagiousness starts even before symptoms of varying intensity so even if everyone was responsible and stayed home when sick (lol) that would still be the case. Children, people who can't get vaccinated, and people who would have breakthrough cases can be better protected from infection and have a lower chance of getting it and have more of the resources for treatment if they do get it. Employers requiring vaccination, on the other hand, is probably just selfish corporate greed, just like the way they do health insurance. If they take "good care" of you you don't get sick they don't have to get a sub or replacement for you and all the people you had contact with and you all keep working. Gotta protect those human resources. Although just like with health insurance, sometimes corporate and our interests can overlap because dead or gravely ill people aren't very happy OR good workers. Although it could additionally partially be a public relations issue.
But that's just one cynical person's view.

 

[Mike CHS]

I think all that rain we had was 50% nitrogen since the grass I cut three days ago looked like it had not been cut in a week or more. We are going to bring the ewes in tomorrow to pull a few fecals and do a check on one that had a high parasite load. We did not worm her since she came from a ewe line that had not needed worming ever. This line historically would pick up a fairly large parasite load after lambing but they had always seemed to fight it off so we shall see. If she proves to be good tomorrow that will be the 4th generation with a great immune system. We have several of our breeders now that have Maxwell's genes but the majority are still Ringo's.

I spend time trying to tame the kittens a couple of times a day and if nothing else I get a lot of time to smile. Two of the kittens are still real skittish and the other two really show that they want to be companions. If I sit in a chair down where I feed them, they will all come up and do the rolling on their back thing and leaning up against my hand as long as I don't move it much it at all. The little tabby is still the bravest and also the most friendly and loves to be petted. He keeps laying on his back at my feet with his paws up in the air (inviting a belly scratch) but I am not falling for that one.

Three of them will come up to take a treat out of my hand but that only started in the last couple of weeks. I still think that the momma cat was tame at some point in her life since she no longer runs when I walk down and will even move closer to where she knows I will go. When I put the food out in the morning she will come up to about 5 feet from my chair and lay down to watch what I do with her kittens. Small things make me smile and have a lot of small things to show me.

The tabby in the third picture I named Mystie and is the bravest and tamest of the bunch and the MommaCat is the last picture. The rest haven't given me a name yet.

 

[Finnie]

You have a nice bunch there. I love reading your kitten stories. Reminds me of when we used to have mama cats with litters.

2 from our last litter made it to 10 and 11 years old. My husband does not want them replaced, so I keep hoping we will have a mouse problem without them and he will change his mind. It’s been a year, and the mouse population has not increased like I prophesied it would. So I’m thinking that the elderly cats must not have really been making much of a difference anyway.

 

[Baymule]

Cute kitties!

 

[Bruce]

Cute kitties! Mystie is especially lovely.

laying on his back at my feet with his paws up in the air (inviting a belly scratch) but I am not falling for that one.

Some cats actually do like that!