CntryBoy777 - The Lazy A** Acres Adventures

It sure was refreshing out and about today...I even think all the animals enjoyed it too....everybody had a little more pep-in-their-step and the ducks wore their selves out in the pool today and were ready to rush thru the evening routine so they could settle down for the nite. The goats stayed out browsing around most of the day and the Boys were trying to get me to play with them, but I had a few other things to tend to today, but will get out with them some tomorrow.
We ended up with .1" here of rain so that will be good for the ryegrass seed.....suppose to have another chance for some come Sunday, so we'll see how things go with that. It should be a busy week around here, getting started on some cleanup and burning. My Dad had a DR trimmer in his building, so I'm going to take it, the generator, and a lawn mower to the shop this week to get them worked on and running...the mower is a rear bagger we had, but hasn't run in a couple of yrs....it will be handy in leaf removal. The sooner I can get some things cleaned up, the sooner some of the projects can get underway....

That DR will come in handy!

I've noticed the alpacas are spending more time outside. They seem to think 40°is quite comfortable and even 70° is "hang out in the barn" weather. I can't imagine how they would do down south in the summer!

I'm sure they would acclimate, but shearing in the Spring would be a set procedure on the calendar for sure....a real shearing....not just a scissor trim....

Maybe Joyce will like the geese if she played with them as goslings. If they get aggressive, hmmmm dinner with orange sauce? She probably wouldn't agree.

So GB -- why didn't you eliminate the gator? Would have been my way, or call authorities to catch & remove. We used to have to watch for turtles in our pond. They would grab young ducks.

Yep, Bruce, alpacas like the cooler weather. Their fur is very warm fiber. Lucky them when the snow flies

It wouldn't be so bad with Joyce @Mini Horses , but her foster parents at the time had the grand notion that putting her in charge of tending to the geese and forcing her to endure the confrontation every day was a Good thing.....so, just saying the word goose or geese around her illicits an immediate negative response. Luckily she didn't stay with them for very long, but the time she did spend there is emblazened in her mind. That is why I need to make sure the geese are extremely docile and sociable....

Our animals seem to have been enjoying the cooler weather too. The dogs are enjoying chasing each other, especially around the kennel.

Yesterday, Violet was trying to play with Falina, and it appeared that Falina might be interested. She was running around kicking up her heels. But, when Violet got near, she would lower her head, like she was going to head butt her.

Next, Violet put her front paw on one of the stumps, like she was trying to play. Falina got up on the stump. Next thing we knew Violet took a swipe at Falina with her front paw, and took off running, with Falina in hot persuit. It was so much fun watching them play together.

I sure enjoy watching them too....I can just imagine it was a real Hoot seeing that. Comet is really mesmerized by the ducks....he will just stand close by and watch them running around. It is the only thing that I have ever seen that he will walk around or not step on or near....most of the time he just bulls his way thru whatever, but not the ducks...just crazy....and the goats don't rub on the fence around the bird yard....everywhere else there is a slight bow in the fence, but there, they won't rub on it....of course I'm very thankful, because it is temporary and not very sturdy....craziest thing....

CntryBoy777 said:

I'm sure they would acclimate, but shearing in the Spring would be a set procedure on the calendar for sure....a real shearing....not just a scissor trim....

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That would be the plan. And if I can't manage to get the electric shears to work for me at least I do now have a proper pair of hand shears. I got the slightly more expensive ones with the rubber "bumpers" so the only noise will be the blades passing each other, no "thud" (or whatever that sound would be) every time they close all the way.

It was a busy day today, I got started on some cleanup and getting things squared away....waiting on the weather to get it done. We are suppose to have rain all day Sunday, so I figured it was a good time to get started on it. Having the PU is a really great tool to have use of....I picked up the bent Tposts that used to hold up the garden fence and put them in the storage building....pulled the truck into the pasture and loaded all the rotten landscape timbers that were brace posts of the fence. I took them and threw them on the pile in field2....where the willow I cut last Spring was piled....had some really old tractor juice that I needed to get rid of, so poured it on the willow and lit it up.... ...it burned really well.... ...and I will be able to mow it with the field either tomorrow or Saturday, before the rain. I also ripped all the stinking freaking vines down off the side of the house that my "Airheaded" sister planted when she came to visit Dad several years ago....I told her not to do it, but she thought they were "Pretty"....it was an absolute mess...from the ground all the way up to the second floor roofline. I also took out some shrubs that Mom planted, they were horrid....another time my opinion was bypassed. Oh well, they certainly aren't there anymore....

I bet the goats would have volunteered to take those vines down, at least the first 5 or 6'. The rest would fall off after they died from lack of connection to a root system.

One day I really do need to burn the burn pile here. It just gets bigger. Of course in a sense is also gets smaller. Been there so long I bet the bottom is composting away and I just keep adding more to the top than it "loses" on the bottom. We don't need a burn permit if there is snow on the ground so I'll just wait for a calm day in a few months ... which is what I did last year ... still waiting