Teresa & Mike CHS - Our journal

[Mike CHS]

We stayed busy today but the most notable thing I saw today is that I REALLY do not like Daylight Saving Time.

 

[Baymule]

My internal time clock is set to real time. I sleep better on real time.

 

[farmerjan]

I DESPISE daylight savings time. I much prefer to have the daylight in the morning than in the evening. My body also works better on Standard time. People that work at day time jobs like the savings time better because they have more uninterrupted time in the evening to do stuff. I mean it is hard to start a project in the morning for an hour then go to work, then try to pick up again after work....instead of them just getting home and having 3-4 hours of time to do something start to finish. But I would be glad if they never set the clocks ahead again. And funny thing is nearly 9 out of every 10 people I have ever talked to prefer the standard time. I always feel like I am running behind on daylight savings time.

 

[Finnie]

I am one that prefers the daylight in the evening. But with or without daylight savings time, which is only a one hour shift, I just don’t like how short the days are in the winter. I could never live in Alaska.

 

[Mike CHS]

I am one that prefers the daylight in the evening. But with or without daylight savings time, which is only a one hour shift, I just don’t like how short the days are in the winter. I could never live in Alaska.

I spent a little over a year in Alaska and won't repeat that.

 

[Bruce]

We replaced all of the assorted items with a few things and a couple of plants so we both like it better.

Looks great but who waters the plants way up there? We have an OLD house, ceilings downstairs and upstairs in the original house are 7'4".

 

[Mike CHS]

Looks great but who waters the plants way up there? We have an OLD house, ceilings downstairs and upstairs in the original house are 7'4".

We have a step ladder and Teresa uses it to step up on the lower cabinets. This room and loft was what the original house consisted of. It was a two room cabin.

 

[Mike CHS]

The chicken coops got cleaned again today and we are trying to find new homes for the young roosters we have. Of the 16 chicks that we hatched, 8 were males and they are all intent on tearing up one of the Game hens. We called a couple of people so that should happen soon. We won't use the usual media ad sites since there are so many people around here that want fighting roosters. We give our roosters away and don't care whether or not they butcher them but we won't send them to a death in a fighting ring.

We spent some time today making sure the paddocks are lamb proofed since we will start lambing in 10-12 days. We had some erosion in several places where the water coming down the hills turns into a river so we changed things a bit to keep lambs safer. I had a couple of gaps that I filled up with big pieces of slab rock that isn't going to move. We have a couple areas that can be really dangerous for lambs so we closed those off.

We added some chicken wire to the panels on the outside of our handling area. There was two times last lambing season where we went down to feed and found lambs on the wrong side of the fence because of the opening size on the cattle panels. Most of our lambs are big enough that they can't go through but the triplets slide through like butter since they are usually around 5 pounds or so.

 

[Baymule]

It’s the little things that needed attention. Making everything safe for the lambs, when are the ewes due?

We butcher young roosters and old laying hens. Before BJ had his hip replacement, I had a neighbor come over to help me butcher 8 old layers. He learned how to butcher chickens and went home with the meat. Win-win.

 

[Mike CHS]

Assuming Maxwell started promptly, we could have lambs starting on the 17th.

We used to butcher the excess chickens but we got to the point that if we can buy a whole chicken for $4, we won't go to the effort of butchering.