CntryBoy777 - The Lazy A** Acres Adventures

Yeh, @misfitmorgan they can do some damage, but I always make sure to put the horizontal wires on the animal side to keep them from the welds, and if I have to, I'll back them off of it with electric, or sandwich the fence with boards like my others are. I'm also going to put up a few spots inside with some fence for them to get their "Rub" on, too.
I've never been scared of needles....just the idiots trying to use them on me....

CntryBoy777 said:

Yeh, @misfitmorgan they can do some damage, but I always make sure to put the horizontal wires on the animal side to keep them from the welds, and if I have to, I'll back them off of it with electric, or sandwich the fence with boards like my others are. I'm also going to put up a few spots inside with some fence for them to get their "Rub" on, too.
I've never been scared of needles....just the idiots trying to use them on me....

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Our jerk of a buck that we sold would lean all of his weight into our fence and walk back and forth along it....which is why we put up hot wire...he was destroying the woven wire. It definitely does help. I'm thinking welded wire is probly easier to stretch as well. We just bought some more electronic netting which is by far the simplest fence to put up.

Also can i just say how jealous i am of your garden! We cant plant anything here until June 1st.

I sure feel for you guys with needing blood draws and medications... its ridiculous my DH had bloodwork a year ago. One thing the Dr was concerned about his chloesterol... said if it's high we will change diet first...well guess what it came back borderline high, they Reccommended a medication, number 1 side effect was leg pain..... we said no thank you. His leg is always painful since he broke it 3 years ago... I personally can't stand blood draws. I warn them that I will bawl.... they all look at me like I am a big baby... I don't care was poked more than a hundred times during my last pregnancy. It HURTS! But currently have zero plans to see a dr.... make sure my family gets there but so far I feel better qualified to keep myself healthy. Between Dr's being required to meet minimum quantitis of tests to keep their hospital privileges and other Dr's answer to everything is obesity and anxiety.... just don't trust drs, health insurances. Biggest scams to take hardworking people's money.....

The big problem with welded wire is the fact of it only being 14guage wire, so it doesn't take heavy pressure very well. I doubt that we will have a buck, but if we ever do the pen he'll be in will be built for it. I hadn't planned on using welded wire this time, but it is what was available and within the budget. There is $30/roll difference in the cost of welded wire and woven wire....not really that much per se...but, when it is 6-7 rolls it adds up and there are other things that have to come out of my monthly $$ too. I didn't find out far enough ahead that the guy I was talking to at the CoOp didn't know the difference between welded and woven wire until I went to place the order, so the several times that I got prices to budget with, I had woven in my mind, but they don't even handle it except in 4' height and 330' rolls. Well beyond my ability to handle by myself. I like the extra foot in height to keep poultry inside.

@promiseacres yeh, I might not ought to share this, but what the heck. All but 2 scripts that I take have the side effect of constipation...it has become a big joke twixt Joyce and me when I get new pills, because it is usually has that side-effect. I haven't had the "Runs" in many yrs now....and I laugh everytime I see the commercial on TV about OIC....

CntryBoy777 said:

The big problem with welded wire is the fact of it only being 14guage wire, so it doesn't take heavy pressure very well. I doubt that we will have a buck, but if we ever do the pen he'll be in will be built for it. I hadn't planned on using welded wire this time, but it is what was available and within the budget. There is $30/roll difference in the cost of welded wire and woven wire....not really that much per se...but, when it is 6-7 rolls it adds up and there are other things that have to come out of my monthly $$ too. I didn't find out far enough ahead that the guy I was talking to at the CoOp didn't know the difference between welded and woven wire until I went to place the order, so the several times that I got prices to budget with, I had woven in my mind, but they don't even handle it except in 4' height and 330' rolls. Well beyond my ability to handle by myself. I like the extra foot in height to keep poultry inside.

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The 330ft rolls of woven is what we buy and oh my they are hard to deal with even for two younger people, we have to lay it on the ground and roll it to get it laid out then pick up and stretch it and attach to posts. The woven we use is only $150 for 330' so it is budget friendly for us. We got electric net because it is easy to take with us when we move and easily moved around. If we do get the new place there will be a lot of fencing we need to put up.

@greybeard ugh, tech students doing blood draws, might as well give them a knife so they can hit something!
Before the baby was born I had a high glucose test, just 1 and 2 points over. It took that tech 4 times to hit the artery in my elbow, which is nice and big and close to the skin - you basically can't miss it. I left looking like a myoptic heroin junkie. Since my other arm is damaged over the artery, you can't poke that one there's a good 1/4 inch of scar tissue over it and it hurts and you can't see it, so they kept at the 1. I had to come back for another glucose test and it was the same tech, told them I didn't want him and I'd wait for someone else. These were soldiers at the post hospital in Texas - I don't let anyone E4 or below stick me anymore, they just don't have the experience.
I don't do "fishing", if they miss I make them pull it out and try again.

I had to go to the Dr yesterday. I have tonsillitis (yeah at my age, sad right) they pulled a strep test, it came back negative, they said they were going to treat it like strep anyway until the other culture came back. I'm on day 4 of some kind of nasty tonsil infection, so swollen I can barely breathe, and let's not even talk about what my breath smells like. So, I have 2 g (yes, grams not mg) of Amoxicillin to take daily, and it hasn't really kicked in yet, I wonder why they'd treat something that was negative for strep (which is gram positive and easily killed with the "cillin" family) instead of using something broad spectrum like Cephalexin, which gets gram negative bacteria. Now that it's the weekend, if the Amoxicillin doesn't kick it's ass, I have to wait until Monday to be seen again.
Their other suggestion is having my tonsils removed and gave me a referral. LOL, I feel like I"m a bit old for that, but I have a hole the size of a pencil all the way through one so maybe it's time.

misfitmorgan said:

The 330ft rolls of woven is what we buy and oh my they are hard to deal with even for two younger people, we have to lay it on the ground and roll it to get it laid out then pick up and stretch it and attach to posts. The woven we use is only $150 for 330' so it is budget friendly for us. We got electric net because it is easy to take with us when we move and easily moved around. If we do get the new place there will be a lot of fencing we need to put up.

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We just put one of those up. Rolled it off the back of the truck, stood it up on one end and DH unrolled it a couple of feet at a time while I tacked it to the existing fence. Took 3+ hours to finish I believe.
I looked it up and those rolls weigh 394 lbs. My teenaged son (he's about an inch or two taller than me, so maybe 5 ft 5) and I managed to lift it and walk it to the back of the truck, but couldn't lift it high enough to get it in, had to use 2 2x4's to make a ramp to get it in.

I bought the 330 foot roll(s) of goat & sheep fencing (also woven wire) and I WISH I could have gotten it for $150! Here it cost $269 a roll. Each roll weights ~286 pounds and 4 of those is what took out my rear window. I had to muscle them out of the truck by myself and will have to deal with rolling them out, stretching them, and attaching them myself as well. Maybe that's why I'm moving along so smartly here... I just can't wait to have to deal with that aspect...

Really that much? This was 47" high and cost $126+ tax here, 330 ft.