Good Thursday morning! I’ve been up since 4:30 so it’s about time for me to take a nap lol. I’ve been to the barn and got the horses their breakfast. I’ve been to the dog treat jar and gave the dogs, their arthritis chews and their cookies. I don’t drink coffee, but then even in my old age I am still a high dose early morning person — coffee would send me to the moon.
my text message didn’t send to my brother because my phone was in the red zone. It has a hard time keeping charged because it’s old. I don’t consider five years to be old, but the phone company has them wired that way. I suppose there’s gonna come a day when, like it or not, I’m going to have to get a new phone.
The rest of my pastures are Bushhogging and boy do they look nice.
@WheatenLover , I was smiling at your writings about wanting to have farm animals and how you interpret them until you learn otherwise. You would’ve enjoyed the neighbor’s and my conversation before he got started Bushhogging again yesterday morning. He told me there’s 10 deer on the back of my property. I thought there was only five, one of them is an eight point buck. I forget who the hunter is on this forum but an eight point buck even though he’s young is a good size buck.
we also talked about rattlesnakes lol lol we talked about the picture of the timber rattler his son took, down at the West end of our road where there is a quick running underneath the road, so yes, there will be snakes of different varieties . I almost ran over a 6 foot rat snake down there a couple years back. A hair raising moment because I was on the four wheeler when I did that.
Catching a snake under the wheel of a four wheeler or dirt bike and having it fly up and hit you in the face, it’s not something you to happen lol lol. We talked about the Massauga swamp rattlers that I grew up with and are now on the endangered list. Annnnd we talked about diamondbacks that, while our game commission says the state of Tennessee does not have diamondbacks, my neighbor begs to differ with him because he killed a few some years back on the far east side of our county. That was in enlightening.
I also forget, who is asking about land for sale in the state of Tennessee. This was a day or so ago, but I was playing catch-up reading and I lost track of who it was.
anyway, I think the conversation centered around West Tennessee. Tennessee is technically divided into three sections: West, Tennessee Middle Tennessee East Tennessee.
West Tennessee is probably the cheapest place to live. It is also where the New Madrid fault line is that had a major bellyache in the late 1800s and caused the Mississippi river to flow backward literally backward for three days. that earthquake was also responsible for the formation of Reelfoot lake. I retired here 22 years ago and knew West Tennessee was NOT where I wanted to live. Memphis is a great place for entertainment, but sadly, they are a metropolis city that is also known for having the highest crime rate in the state. If you read the news, you’ll know that our illustrious president wants to send the military there to clean things up
I believe it is now a requirement by insurance companies to have earthquake insurance in West Tennessee because it isn’t a matter of if, it’s a matter of when the New Madrid fault will erupt again.
I live in Middle Tennessee, below Nashville. I am in an Ag county so real estate is not as expensive as some of the “bedroom communities “ further NW and NE in Middle Tennessee, but land is still $15,000 per acre at minimum. If you find real estate priced too good to be true in Middle Tennessee. it’s probably in a drug infested area.
i’m not too familiar with East Tennessee, but it is drop dead gorgeous over there because of the Appalachian Mountains.
@WheatenLover i’m sure you have your own image of what bat wings look like lol lol. This is what they look like when they are sitting on the ground behind the tractor ready to mow. when they’re not in use they get raised up and tied back thus the name, bat wings. I would give my eye teeth to own this tractor. As old as it is, it’s worth big bucks, but then you also need to have the money to replace the parts when it breaks down which on this princess is a lot of money. I am grateful for my neighbor. Yes, I am.
also, anyone looking at this photo if you look at the top of the hill on the fence row, you will see a deer standing there, looking down this way probably watching me take a picture lol probably the same deer that was waiting for me to hurry up and fill the water tub so she could get water a few days back.
