Teresa & Mike CHS - Our journal

[frustratedearthmother]

Your dogs have really turned out great! I remember when you first brought Maisy home and weren't 100% convinced she would be good at her job. And look at her now!! She's come a long way and I'm sure she brings a smile to your face.

 

[Bruce]

Good dogs!! They sure know their job.

 

[Mike CHS]

Your dogs have really turned out great! I remember when you first brought Maisy home and weren't 100% convinced she would be good at her job. And look at her now!! She's come a long way and I'm sure she brings a smile to your face.

Even if she hadn't made it as an LGD she had a forever home no matter what.

 

[frustratedearthmother]

Absolutely!!

 

[Baymule]

Some friends came over awhile ago to pick up our visiting family to take for a horse drawn wagon ride plus three of their kids were also on horse back. Maisy and Thor went nuts when they were coming down the driveway. The sheep had wandered fairly close to the fence but as the horse traffic was on their way back out both dogs ran for the sheep and pushed them toward the middle of the field and away from the fence then went and sat down between the sheep and the perceived threat. They stayed there until the 'danger' was out of sight. When the dogs went on down the fence the sheep stayed bunched up for quite a bit like they didn't know if it was safe to go back to grazing or not.

Horse monsters! Maisy and Thor know all about sheep eating Horse Monsters! Horse Monsters hitched to a wagon obviously are even more lethal as sheep can be carried off in the wagon to eat later.

 

[Bruce]

 

[Mike CHS]

Happy New Year to all. We were in bed by 11:00 but woke up around 2:00 in the morning to dogs barking and pounding on the back door. Our driveway serves as emergency access to one of our neighbor Harvey who occasionally gets blocked in by trains on a crossing in front of their house. We have a few neighbors that have parties on nights like last night and some who were raised around here drink too much and then try to use our driveway to cut the corner on the way home. The drive is usually blocked at the other end so they wind up having to turn around down by my shop which sets off an alarm when they get stuck. So on nights when I see a party coming I block the driveway by our house to keep them out.

I open the door and I see the man at the door is Chad, a friend of Harvey's. When I asked him WTH do you want (as I put my handgun away) he tells me that Harvey says the access needs to be kept open for an ambulance if needed. I asked him if he was an ambulance and I got this blank look. It turned out that another inebriated soul hit the gas hard in an over powered pickup and when out of control and turned over but we didn't find that out till this morning when the neighborhood gathered for New Years breakfast.

 

[greybeard]

Which brand Fire ant treatment did you get?
I've had mediocre luck with acephate, but about 1/2 the time, it just makes them move about 30' and build a new mound. Surrender is the brand I usually get.

 

[Mike CHS]

greybeard, I just went to check and this is the same - Surrender. I checked the fields I treated and didn't see any new sign plus the mounds have collapsed with all of the rain we had yesterday. We have tried most of what's available but direct spraying the mounds seems to be as good as anything and at least you get the visual satisfaction of seeing dead ants, even if it isn't the majority of them

 

[Mike CHS]

I have been saying for two weeks it seems like that we need to work sheep and today it finally didn't rain and the weather cooperated. We pulled fecal samples on half of them and gave CDT shots to the senior ewes that will be lambing in a few weeks.

It only took about an hour and a half with Son-in-law's help and a few minutes ago Teresa asked what were we doing for supper? I said %$#, I was planning on smoking a turkey but since I didn't get it on the grill until a few minutes ago at 2:00 we will be baking the turkey on the grill instead of smoking it.