Coffee anyone ?

[Baymule]

Coffee is ready. I survived the night, not much sleep. The tiny baby ram lamb has had breakfast, now I get coffee.

 

[fuzzi]

Up, cat fed, coffee brewed. I am about to put on socks and shoes before heading outside. So much trimming needs to be done, but I'm first going to scrub out the waterers and refill with 'not hot' water from the hose. I know the flocks will enjoy fresh cooler water. Then I might do some trimming, we'll see. Before 9am I'm planning on heading out, doing my weekly farmers' market stop, and picking up chicken feed.

 

[Blue Sky]

It’s a pear shaped day as one of my former bosses used to say. Meaning things have not gone as expected. Personally I like pears. I think the Garden Temptation was a pear (Bartlett) and not an apple at all. Anyhow the hay guy hit a culvert and broke his cutter. He’s also quit the job. No indication if he’s coming back for bales. Hubbs is irritable, possibly fussing with hay guy. round bales need to be moved before a tropical system moves in and Medicare sent me an 8 page explanation of benefit changes. There is no one available to explain the explanation unless I speak French, Tagalog, Spanish or Mandarin. The forecast high is 100 degrees with 60% humidity and scattered thunderstorms. Moses is barking furiously as he has been all week. He’s been incarcerated in the yard so hay could be cut and he’s hankering for a walkabout. I’ve had no breakfast and prospects look poor. Made tea and Gatorade for Hubbs. Lunch may involve refried beans and damn the consequences.

 

[farmerjan]

We have days like that all the time, with our farming, hay making etc and so on.... the costs nearly make it impossible anymore for us to do more than break even on making hay, and that is NOT including our time... we work for free don'tcha know......
We are having 90's+ and humidity with index in the 100's... I get it all too well.
Where are you located??? State??? Just wondering if you are in the general area.

 

[Blue Sky]

We have days like that all the time, with our farming, hay making etc and so on.... the costs nearly make it impossible anymore for us to do more than break even on making hay, and that is NOT including our time... we work for free don'tcha know......
We are having 90's+ and humidity with index in the 100's... I get it all too well.
Where are you located??? State??? Just wondering if you are in the general area.

Thanks for the encouragement. I was wrong about the predicted high, only 90ish today. Humidity is still up there though. I’m in east Texas. I’ve nicknamed the ranch Weathertop, yesterday it lived up to its name (again). I had to go in the house because of lightning. I was dumping 7% chance of rain out of the feed bunks when Mr. Bolt paid a visit to a nearby tree. He had apparently missed his quota and lingered while the rest of the band moseyed along to the next county. I retired to the house with no dignity whatsoever. Today has continued to be pear shaped, found my best PDS ram dead. Nothing wrong just dead. Oh well, all livestock becomes dead stock at some point. A shame though he had great color. Well I’m just going on and on…. Things will look up.
Maybe I’ll start a thread Special Coffee Anyone?

 

[SageHill]

Our tomatoes are just getting started. We were late getting them in!

Sounds delicious!

Here you go. From America's Test Kitchen Fool Proof Preserving and Canning.
This recipe is a family favorite for years.

 

[SageHill]

Has anyone here tried the drop in carbon filters for stock tanks? Do they work? Outside I water in buckets and I'm scrubbing them out a few times a week. I saw an ad and video that looks like magic - thinking it's probably too good to be true.

 

[Mini Horses]

Hit the ground running at 6am. Chores, shower, feed run, & take 4.5 dz eggs to friend...picked up huge box of figs she picked for me -- her tree is loaded. Home & filling dehydrators at 10. 14 trays later, out of space in both units 10# more looking at me Guess I'll be canning some. Found recipe for fig newton in a layered pan ... Gonna try those. Maybe not today, it's too hot for baking, IMO. But I can cook the figs down for later bake.

My neighbors tree -- more fruits gifted to me -- will be ripening about 2 wks out. Yeah, dehydrate more. Yummy.

My 8 incubator chicks are off the back porch & in a chicken tractor for another week or two. Then intro to a coop.

 

[Blue Sky]

The cheer up crew. Except for Caddo. He just stole Vala’s dinner off the utility room counter ( I don’t know it yet).

 

[SageHill]

The cheer up crew.

Look at all those doggie smiles!