Share your day May 2013

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Ozarkgal said:
Just the mere mention of goats makes me want to rip my hair out, tear my clothes off and go running up the road...being chased by men in white coats. It's a been there, done that story and I still have flashbacks of my hubby trying to restrain me from going in the house to get the Colt .45..and I don't mean malt liquor!Ok, what's the Goat Story - lol lol I was once head-butted to the point I would have been rendered unable to have children, if I hadn't already been "fixed" lol lol lol My friend bought what she thought was a baby Nubian, so she rocked in the rocker in the house, all the time. One day she realized he wasn't a Nubian and put him outside permanently. His big self was not happy about that, plus he was jealous of anyone that talked to Jackie, longer than 30 seconds. I was really glad he was de-horned. And he stunk to the Heavens since, like all good male goats, he peed on his beard constantly.


TWH....Whew, yer makin' me tired and sweaty just reading about your mowing, how often do you do it? Quite an expensive proposition with the fuel costs, lucky you have Ol' Bess.Nearly every day, until I get everything cut because, I can't stay on the tractor longer than 4 hours. That really tisses me off; I used to be able to start as soon as the dew was off the grass and go until I either needed to re-fuel or it was dark.

The grass is so tall and thick, I stay in second gear and that translates to about an acre every 45 - 50 minutes. As far as what needs the bushhog taken to it, there's probably 17 acres and none of this property is flat, there's rock ledges here and there, so that all slows me down:( Mr. TWHRider goes a lot faster and it looks like it:(

Then I have to go back thru with the belly mower, trim the fences and get the little "cul-de-sac' areas that the big tractor can't turn around in. I don't use reverse on Old Bess because she has a two-stage clutch that operates the PTO, revers is a big PITA far as I'm concerned.

With having land the work is never done...when we moved here, silly, silly me thought it would be easy to take care of..after all, out of 10 acres, only about 3 are actually clear and we are sitting out on the wilderness surrounded by woods.LOL, I hear you on that. It doesn't take long for the reclaiming effort to take hold does it? It seems like ya look out the window and nothings growing, you forget for a week and suddenly the flora and fauna are looking in the window - lol lol You have to look at it from the perspective of all the great exercise you're getting, that the treadmill doesn't offer:)

Little did I imagine that the flora and fauna in the woods have one mission, and that is to reclaim every square inch of cleared land...making it a full time job keeping it at bay!

Yesterday we started dividing the chicken coop aka cat house into two spaces, one side for BBB and the other for the cats. Today we have to put the chicken wire divider up and BuckBuckBuck will officially have a home. Yesterday he kept his eye on the remodeling and clucked his approval. I don't think the cats are going to be as happy...
dang.. all that work for one little chicken:rolleyes:
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They're probably already plotting how to get of that Little Chicken. The sky could be falling on Chicken Little, if the cats have any say in the matter - lol

Duke is not shedding like he should, so I'm going to have to body clip him today:( While he does not have the typical coat, nor is it splotchy, I am really afraid he's in early Cushings stage:( He is completely shed out back to his withers. He doesn't have much of a coat left from there back but, it's not letting go - not good not good not good:( He has spent the last two days in the open end stall because it's been too hot for him to go outside.

I've doubled his Chastetree but it isn't helping like it has in the past. I have suspected for quite awhile he might be low-grade cushings but kept hoping I was wrong because he does not have the classic symptoms:(

Annnd I've got to rasp Joker's front hooves today. The Brothers trimmed last Friday (they come every four weeks), so it's time for me to take some heel off and pull his toes back from the top some more. His heels have become underrun from the founder and his front quarters want to flare, so I have to stay on top of things, in-between formal trimming visits. That way The Brothers can make progress with the reshaping.

I should be as skinny as a broom handle, shouldn't I? Not the case - not the case at all and this time of year, I barely eat because food does not sound good at the end of the day. Once I eat my breakfast bagle with peanut butter and a chicken or tuna sandwich for lunch, I'm pretty much done for the day <sigh>
 
Light rain came in overnight. Radio guy mentioned it on the radio as I was coming home but they try to forecast a wide area and don't give much detail. So, gotta check some weather sites to see what brought it . . .

Otherwise, useless radio guy said it'll be a nice weekend upcoming which is great as I'm takin' extra days off for the remembrance of my birth...
 
TWHRider said:
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Duke is not shedding like he should, so I'm going to have to body clip him today:( While he does not have the typical coat, nor is it splotchy, I am really afraid he's in early Cushings stage:( He is completely shed out back to his withers. He doesn't have much of a coat left from there back but, it's not letting go - not good not good not good:( He has spent the last two days in the open end stall because it's been too hot for him to go outside.

I've doubled his Chastetree but it isn't helping like it has in the past. I have suspected for quite awhile he might be low-grade cushings but kept hoping I was wrong because he does not have the classic symptoms:(

Annnd I've got to rasp Joker's front hooves today. The Brothers trimmed last Friday (they come every four weeks), so it's time for me to take some heel off and pull his toes back from the top some more. His heels have become underrun from the founder and his front quarters want to flare, so I have to stay on top of things, in-between formal trimming visits. That way The Brothers can make progress with the reshaping.

I should be as skinny as a broom handle, shouldn't I? Not the case - not the case at all and this time of year, I barely eat because food does not sound good at the end of the day. Once I eat my breakfast bagle with peanut butter and a chicken or tuna sandwich for lunch, I'm pretty much done for the day <sigh>
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TWHRider, sorry to hear about Duke, you're a smart lady to treat your horses with natural herbs, too bad the chasteberry isn't helping as usual. :( I admire you for all the loving care you give your horses, I know it's a lot of work for you every day. Sorry your appetite is dwindling, hope you stay healthy with your limited diet, don't want you to get sickly. :girl_hug:
 
Thanks, SeaBreeze! Used to take traditional hike along the coast each year but overpopulation slowed that down and ancient leg injury troubles keeping me close to home this time.

Was just checking weather report to find out where the little rain came from and saw that a mountain lion is trapped in an aquaduct in Santa Cruz. Poor guy. Sure hope they don't decide to shoot him. Yep, that's always the solution . . . kill, kill, kill...
 
breaking news update

mountain lion stuck in downtown santa cruz
the big cat is napping in an aqueduct and police are considering driving a cop car up branciforte creek to push it back up to the mountains.
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Whew . . . that's a much better solution. Hoping for the best all the way around. Makes getting rid of Rocky Raccoon tame in it's comparison...
 
That Guy said:
Otherwise, useless radio guy said it'll be a nice weekend upcoming which is great as I'm takin' extra days off for the remembrance of my birth...
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Happy Birthday!!!! :happybday:

I endured that remembrance last week. The sound of my age (66) sounds uglier with each passing year. I've decided, from here on out, I am going to be "46" and let everyone say "Blessss herrrr harrrrrt, she looks awful; what's she going to look like when she hits her 60's?" :turnaround:
 
SeaBreeze said:
TWHRider, sorry to hear about Duke, you're a smart lady to treat your horses with natural herbs, too bad the chasteberry isn't helping as usual. :( I admire you for all the loving care you give your horses, I know it's a lot of work for you every day. Sorry your appetite is dwindling, hope you stay healthy with your limited diet, don't want you to get sickly. :girl_hug:
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Thanks Seabreeze. Duke's been my bud for 22-1/2 years and I hate seeing these insidious metabolic diseases take control of him. He should still be going Heck Bent For Election. I took my Arab/Saddlebred from his birth on my parents farm to age 29 when I lost him to cancer. He went on his last, hard 20 mile ride when he was 27 and finished way ahead of most of the group. I had expected the same for Duke but I had to stop that kind of rough riding when he was 20.

Don't worry about me not eating - I make up for it in the winter - lol lol I never was one to eat much during the hot months. Always too much heavy work to do outside and over-eating in the heat makes me ill - literally - lol lol I focus on high protein foods and take my fair share of vitamins:kiwi-fruit:

"That Guy's" jar of honey on his fishing boat, is my jar of Peanut Butter - lol lol
 
TWHRider said:
I endured that remembrance last week. The sound of my age (66) sounds uglier with each passing year. I've decided, from here on out, I am going to be "46" and let everyone say "Blessss herrrr harrrrrt, she looks awful; what's she going to look like when she hits her 60's?" :turnaround:
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Happy Belated "46th" Birthday TWHRider! :present: :love_heart: I'm sure you still look like 30 something. ;)
 
TWH...Happy belated birthday...You snuck that one by us.:happybday::pepper::pepper:

Sorry to hear about your concerns with Duke and Cushings...maybe he's just hanging onto that extra coat because of the crazy spring weather we've had. There is a small group of donkeys that live down the road and yesterday they came up to the truck as we were passing through (they roam the road between cattle guards) and I was noticing that they all are hanging onto heavy coats, and have not really begun to shed at all.

That Guy...Happy Birthday to you, too. Hope you had a nice celebration.:happybday::present::present::present:

It's becoming more and more difficult to balance nature with urban sprawl. My friend in Texas is having trouble in her neighborhood recently with coyotes snatching small dogs. They are doing some construction work in a park near her home and stirring up the critters. They gotta go somewhere, and they have to eat. I'm glad they were able to deal with the lion without killing him.

Hubby just came in and told me we have yet another coon in the trap that wants to go for a ride to visit his buddies. The word must be out in the coon hood that we have cat food. I moved the cat food container, which has a locking top as well as a tight bungee cord around it to the shed last week. After capturing the last two coons I thought we were done and I moved it back to the cat house. This morning I find it turned over with the top and bungee cord off and about 5 lbs of cat food from a brand new sack gone.

In the past we have had the occasional coon, but nothing like these raiders, night after night. I don't want to, but I may be forced to get an outside dog to scare them off. Guess I'll be taking a ride in the morning.
 
Ozark, glad you were able to trap a raccoon, hopefully you can relocate and say bye-bye for good. You should put a dot of orange spray paint on them, to help identify them in the future. :p They do love cat and dog food, the one that used to break into our garage was after dry dog food.
 
Followed the saga of Johnny Cougar stuck in downtown Santa Cruz and elated to learn they finally tranquilized the poor guy and relocated him back into the mountains. He was an adolescent and you know how much trouble those pesky teenagers can be . . .

So, waiting, waiting, waiting on my appointed sat TV guy... It's 0803 and counting. IshehereyetIshehereyetIshehereyet??? Looking forward to wander once again into the vaste wasteland....
 
Thanks, Anne.

Well, tv guy left and I'm hooked up... Spent a couple minutes cruising the wasteland and tore myself away from the allure of total mind rotting blather. Will wait until tonight to once more dare venture through that door . . . Too nice outside to be spending time as a blob on the couch.

Got a big old pole sunk in the ground, finally, and attached the suet feeder I've been promising the woodpeckers. But, don't have the suet I thought was at the bottom of the birdseed barrel. So . . . , until the next shopping spree . . . sorry Woody. Planted some greens for Hello Kitty which is silly because there's grass for her to chew all over the place. But, it's fun to give her a very own pot of salad. Got some succulents for the rock garden and may or may not get them in the ground, today. Tomorrow or the next . . . for sure...
 
That Guy:
Too nice outside to be spending time as a blob on the couch.
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See you didn't need that TV after all...:tv:
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Me, I'm digging ditches today...sigh..I thought retirement meant you got to watch TV and be a couch potato. The last heavy rainstorm rutted our driveway, so I'm digging the drainage ditch out more and trying to fill in one side of the driveway, then have more road base poured on it...

BuckBuckBuck's new home is on hold. Hubby got a spring cold , so he's out of commission for a couple of days, and we still have to make a door. Neither of us are good carpenters, but I think I can manage a to do a door if I have to...that's after I finish the driveway.....The work around here never ends.
 
Well . . . too many channels and nothin' on. Yep. Gonna need a guide as scrolling through the myriad of useless viewing possibilites on screen takes hours. Did find a movie on "The Runaways", infamous all female band predating the Bangles and the Donnas. Joan Jett, Lita Ford and Cherie Currie all got their start as youngsters. I do love movies about musicians. Mostly, enjoy their beginnings. After drugs and fame and ego take over, it's just downhill...

Will get to enjoy The Preakness later today and Saturday Night Live. Yea!!!

But, discovered HD as ordered was not installed. Not the tech's fault. He was a great guy and just doing as instructed. Called the customer service folks which was such a much better experience than the original hell of ordering service. Customer service guy could only agree and was just shaking his head along with me. So, made appointment for revisit and corrections . . .

Meanwhile, mind rotting will continue.

Oh, and more excitement! Stoooopid batteries in my wireless mouse died and couldn't do squat with this here 'puter box thing. So, an unplanned trip into town to buy batts and am once again cruisin' the interwebs...
 
Went for a ride down an old gravel road with coon #5 this morning. I'm starting a new colony a few miles up the road in an old cemetery. They're all getting together for a reunion and to reminisce about the great cat food they used to steal at that place down on the creek.

I think I've figured out why there's suddenly such a bunch of them. The guy up the road just cleared off 80 acres for pasture, and I think they're all running for cover down the hill. This all started happening about the same time.
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Ozarkgal said:
Went for a ride down an old gravel road with coon #5 this morning. I'm starting a new colony a few miles up the road in an old cemetery. They're all getting together for a reunion and to reminisce about the great cat food they used to steal at that place down on the creek.

I think I've figured out why there's suddenly such a bunch of them. The guy up the road just cleared off 80 acres for pasture, and I think they're all running for cover down the hill. This all started happening about the same time.
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That Guy said:
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I'm going to be dreaming about these critters tonight. The thing is they have such an innocent look on their face. You can just see the wondering in their eyes about what's going to happen. But they are starting to get on my last nerve, and not so cute anymore. Even the dogs ignore them in the cage now, where they used to go ballistic when they saw them.
 
Ozarkgal said:
. . . not so cute anymore.
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My entire perception of them being "cute" ended abruptly when mama came at me with her babies behind her. Anyone who's had an experience of the not so cute kind with a raccoon will never think of them the same again. I think that "cute" act is just a ploy, anyway.
 
Thanks all for the birthday wishes!

Ozarkgal, you've been busy! The forest critters seemed to have been pretty busy last winter. I am seeing more rabbits than usual - one is even eating at the bird feeder, which drives the two indoor cats bonkers - lol

A wild turkey was headed for the barn Sunday morning; he surely had to have lost what little brains he has as the 4-wheeler riding cat was stalking him. Mr TWH had to go out and chase the turkey before the Admiral had him for breakfast.

Someone on another forum was fishing in their own pond, when they claim a big Water snake came out of the water and tried to steal their fish. We told them it wasn't a Water Moccasin because it was too long. That same person also commented they have seen a snapper in the pond area. Not a good thing to have around if your kids are running barefoot.

This spring seems to be a bigger tick season than last Spring. There's still some fence trimming left but, I finally got all the bushogging done, so hopefully that will reduce tick activity on my horses. Grass was four feet tall in bottom land. It was dry enough in the swamp area the horses can get to, that I only had to leave a 50' x 200' strip. That dark mud looked innocent enough but when it starts churling up on the tractor tires, I know I could just as easily (and quickly) sink to the axles. I am not playing chicken with the mud pit; especially at the end of the day:rolleyes:
 

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