Coffee anyone ?

[Mini Horses]

Inside, looking out...and with great pleasure I smiled (sadistically?) as the goat trotted to the favorite escape spot, then further down, totally dumbfounded at NEW fence. Yeah, it was nice! . I feel accomplished.

A chilly 47 out. Wet cold.

 

[Ridgetop]

So good when you can foil their bad behavior. Sadistic is good - think of all the times they were sadistically watching you try to repair the fence! Enjoy hot coffee inside looking out and sneering at goats.

 

[canesisters]

Inside, looking out...and with great pleasure I smiled (sadistically?) as the goat trotted to the favorite escape spot, then further down, totally dumbfounded at NEW fence. Yeah, it was nice! . I feel accomplished.

A chilly 47 out. Wet cold.

One of my 'nightmare' calves from previous years would test the fence with the tip of his tongue, then leap between the strands and go off on an adventure.
I'm only the teeny-tinyest bit ashamed to say that I had a chair set up in the shade and a nice tall drink in my hand after getting the fence back up to nearly max-zap to watch him test it........

 

[Mini Horses]

I'm running electric on this pasture...after the rains stop.

 

[Mini Horses]

Cold, wet 42 this morning! BRRRR...after 85 early week . Heater on to cut the chilly 62 inside. Heavy overcast and more today. I'm grumpy.

Coffee fresh, hot and needed. What's up with the 4am waking?? Yesterday I went back to sleep. Today I couldn't. Leaves me really wanting to catnap a lot, what with inside and dreary weather.

This is goat auction day. Toss up as to buyers with weather. Thought to take 3 young bucklings...just weaned...but crappy weather to catch, transport and if poor $$ a downer. Flip is that others may not take many and buyers need. I don't want to take and bring back after in pens with¿? I'd have to isolate then. Geesh. Might still take these 5 roos.

This weather system is really not welcome! my week started so good...

 

[Baymule]

Decisions, decisions. Take the bucklings or wait another week? If you are happy staying home in the icky weather, then stay home.

It’s cold and wet here, but the rain is supposed to be over. It’s been miserable, we got 5” in 2 days. I put a small barn on my NOW list. It’s right up there with fencing, clearing fence row, raise and slaughter dirty birdies, put up round pen and work/ride Reina, block portable building and move stuff from son’s house ( he’ll be leaving first of this week for 4 week job in El Paso) and start making preparations for big barn. All of this NOW. Sheep have shelter from the rain, but water runs in the shelters and/or the ground gets so saturated that it’s just wet slop. But the GRASS is gorgeous! ………back to that fencing thing……

 

[Mini Horses]

@ Baymule could you RAISE the sheep shelters?? Like a perimeter, fill, reset the shelters?? Just thinking a poss solution for a short term fix....until barn can happen.

 

[Baymule]

@ Baymule could you RAISE the sheep shelters?? Like a perimeter, fill, reset the shelters?? Just thinking a poss solution for a short term fix....until barn can happen.

That may be possible. The first hard rain here, I watched with great dismay as water gushed into the sheep lots. Bennett came over with his tractor and put up an earth berm the length of both pens to block water from draining through them. It helped a lot, but so much falls so fast that it floods anyway. And if I’m going to spend money on dirt, I need to put it in a permanent spot where my money will do the most good. As awful as I feel that the pen is a slop hole, thankfully it doesn’t happen often.

Two things must happen first. Set new culvert, join it to the old culvert, at the road to give a wide swing room for trucks and long trailers. Driveway is a 90 degree sharp angle with no swing room, nor any on the road either. And cut the fence on the driveway where I want to put a small barn for the front field anyway, probably 32-40 feet wide. Again, narrow driveway and no swing room.

County will set front culvert, then I have to pay for more dirt and rock to join it to the rest of the driveway. A lot of expense before I can even start on anything else.

 

[SageHill]

Cold, wet 42 this morning! BRRRR...after 85 early week . Heater on to cut the chilly 62 inside. Heavy overcast and more today. I'm grumpy.

Coffee fresh, hot and needed. What's up with the 4am waking?? Yesterday I went back to sleep. Today I couldn't. Leaves me really wanting to catnap a lot, what with inside and dreary weather.

This is goat auction day. Toss up as to buyers with weather. Thought to take 3 young bucklings...just weaned...but crappy weather to catch, transport and if poor $$ a downer. Flip is that others may not take many and buyers need. I don't want to take and bring back after in pens with¿? I'd have to isolate then. Geesh. Might still take these 5 roos.

This weather system is really not welcome! my week started so good...

Tough call. 'Tis the day before Easter which could impact the number of buyers as well as the weather. Hmmm Hot Cocoa and floating Peeps - stay home warm and dry??

 

[Poka_Doodle]

Good afternoon, just figured I would pop in here. Slept in this morning, guess I was tired from being home for 36 hours. Just went for a run, and about to go to the barn. Making a peeps rice crispy treat this afternoon and unpacking and doing laundry. Beautiful weather here for a couple days!
Y'all have a wonderful day and a very happy Easter!