Coffee anyone ?

promiseacres said:

Thanks for the coffee.. going to need it as baseball is an hour drive away, doesnt start untul 7:45.... it's the boy's tournament... Mom is staying with my girls. Probably be about 11 before we get home.

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I feel your "pain"....when I coached....the last games started at 9:30....get in bed by midnight.....got up at 3am and punched the clock at work @ 4am, thankfully it was only 2 nites per week....and usually the kids didn't have many of those games, but when they did it was tough....hope ya Win to make it as good as it can be.....

I was on earlier, reading only. But after coffee and chores, it's almost 90 out there, so back inside for a while. It's a lovely day, huge sun, easy breeze that helps you not feel the humidity that is out there.

Found neighbor baling the AWESOME alfalfa across the street. Stopped everything to go get lined up for some. I mean young, foot high, lush, a little orchard grass mixed in, 55-55# bales that I am thrilled to get! A pile of 15 awaits me. I swear the neighbor who owns that property is such a hunk!! Dang we are tooooo many yrs apart. He's close to my kids ages. He was out helping, made the trip very pleasant!

OK, off track there. And I will be able to get some in winter, after all "regulars" have spoken for what they want. It's enough for me and my herd. They will cut this again in late August. My girls will be so happy. Oh, yeah, he isn't charging me for the "occasional" escape and graze of goats -- and I won't charge him for the free fertilizer! $9.50 a bale and here, that's the price of smaller bales of mixed grass. So, I'm good!! Came home & got the $$ before he changed his mind. Will get some great orchard from him in winter, also. This is second cutting this yr for the alf.

It's what I need since I have to start milking regular this week. Milk stand goodies!!
This has been a "working" day after all.

WOW -- DS came home about 2:30. Shortly after he got trailer and went across roadd, got hay, brought back and unloaded for me. This is like 4: I had been cutting grass and we both saw DARK clouds about 5 miles out, moving our way. Well about 20 minutes after unload, the rain started...sprinkles & I rushed mower under equipment shed -- where hay was. Back side is a goat barn....into which the does & kids an RUN, rain ya know!

I turned off mower, prepared to run to house and suddenly (!!!) it was like a firehose was turned on, wind whipped to about 60 mph, and it was thundering. 17 goats & kids were huddled tight as they could get into a corner, like "WTH??" . Then big banging sounds! HAIL! Half inch plus, hitting ground so hard it was bouncing 2 foot back up -- in grass! This went on for 15 minutes....then died down some and steady rain. Ran to house but soaked in just the 200' I had to go. After another 5-10 minutes.... it went away. 1/2 hr of unreal storm. Glad farmer got his 500 bales in and I got mine under roof! Lucky that all happened before this surprise storm.

Weird.

Oh wow - that's crazy! Glad you were able to get the hay in! And glad YOU were able to get in too!

Someone's guardian angel was on the job!

Mini Horses said:

I swear the neighbor who owns that property is such a hunk!! Dang we are tooooo many yrs apart. He's close to my kids ages.

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May September romance??

Mini Horses said:

$9.50 a bale and here, that's the price of smaller bales of mixed grass.

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OUCH! Orchard grass hay here is $4 for 40# squares.

One of the horses kicked Belle and busted her jaw. Wit will have to be wired back and her pups are only 2 weeks. Here is the link to the fundraiser if anyone is interested in helping or if you can share and pass the link around to help get her back to her babies. They have been bottle fed today but they miss and need their momma. My poor baby girl misses her pups.
https://www.facebook.com/1676683069295575/posts/2119310428366168/

MatthewsHomestead said:

One of the horses kicked Belle and busted her jaw. Wit will have to be wired back and her pups are only 2 weeks. Here is the link to the fundraiser if anyone is interested in helping or if you can share and pass the link around to help get her back to her babies. They have been bottle fed today but they miss and need their momma. My poor baby girl misses her pups.
https://www.facebook.com/1676683069295575/posts/2119310428366168/

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The hits just keep on coming. I don't know why, but it seems when one thing goes all wrong, everything else just piles on. Go break a big mirror, the old superstition about 7 years bad luck wouldn't apply, you already have bad luck. You'd have 7 years of good luck.

Baymule said:

The hits just keep on coming. I don't know why, but it seems when one thing goes all wrong, everything else just piles on. Go break a big mirror, the old superstition about 7 years bad luck wouldn't apply, you already have bad luck. You'd have 7 years of good luck.

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I need to. Something HAS to give. BRIGHT SIDE, The fundraiser has already reached $250 so we are halfway there. Something told me this would be a rough year on us. Thank you for your friendship and moral support.

Pulled two HUGE zucchini today. Garden is doing something at least

I never have understood how these FB and gofundme things work......are these funds paid back to the donors (loans) or are they a charity type thing?

If the latter, wouldn't it be easier, faster and more 'for sure' to just go to the bank and borrow the funds?

Its to a 501c3 organization that provides aide to families with emergency vet bills. Normally for us is not an issue but we just had two horses lost and a bunch of other expenses and didn't have it.