Baymule’s Journal

[Baymule]

Little Ringo is going up for sale. Gorgeous ram, perfect conformation, but a little too edgy for me. My girls are pets, I walk among them, pet them and enjoy them. I want rams that don’t consider that a ramming offense.

I think Rocky will be ok, he didn’t like the chainsaw noise and protected his girls from it. He is back to being his normal self. I DO keep an eye on him, just dropped my guard to cut that board. I gave myself 10 points for clocking him with that framing hammer!

 

[SageHill]

I gave myself 10 points for clocking him with that framing hammer!

Only ten points?!! That was a good one.

 

[Baymule]

Prairie Day in Yantis yesterday right around the corner from @Ridgetop !! It was for the general public and a lot of people turned out. There were representatives from Texas Parks and Wildlife, NRCS, and I don’t know who else, giving presentations, pasture walks, a group showed up to give a raptor presentation, @Ridgetop went to that and gave the enthusiastic lady over black head vultures, her opinion on those nasty things. Poor lady sure didn’t see THAT coming! I went on a pasture walk at that same time, her husband manned the table for us. We both had sheep brochures and promoted our breeds. There was a children’s area complete with 2 mini horses for kids to pet. One couple brought birdhouse kits and helped children build them. Lots of vendors for prairie related things, master gardener, native plant sale, pasture management, native grasses, and a food truck. We had a good time.

We went back to @Ridgetop’s house and I got to see their new tractor, pet the dogs, admire the new electric fencing, and the completed guest room with the Murphy bed.

I was up yesterday morning at 3:30 AM, got home yesterday evening, fed dogs, sheep and watered, in the house at 7:30 PM.

Church this morning, teaching my last class of the quarter, then preacher’s wife teaches for 3 months, then my turn again. She’s all serious and businesslike, I’m relaxed and we get noisy, enough that we can be heard out in the auditorium.

I’m tired.

 

[fuzzi]

Ron and I taught Sunday School for a year, 4th graders. We had a blast.

 

[Mini Horses]

Sounds like Prairie Day was a well planned & attended day. Bet it was fun! I love those things.

Many years ago Ferrum college -- western VA -- would have a fall Heritage Day. All manner of the "old ways" -- like some really old, pioneer type, life before electric & phones. Was always fun!

 

[SageHill]

@Ridgetop went to that and gave the enthusiastic lady over black head vultures, her opinion on those nasty things. Poor lady sure didn’t see THAT coming!

OH MY GOODNESS !!! I would've paid to see that! WTG @Ridgetop

 

[drstratton]

Prairie Day in Yantis yesterday right around the corner from @Ridgetop !! It was for the general public and a lot of people turned out. There were representatives from Texas Parks and Wildlife, NRCS, and I don’t know who else, giving presentations, pasture walks, a group showed up to give a raptor presentation, @Ridgetop went to that and gave the enthusiastic lady over black head vultures, her opinion on those nasty things. Poor lady sure didn’t see THAT coming! I went on a pasture walk at that same time, her husband manned the table for us. We both had sheep brochures and promoted our breeds. There was a children’s area complete with 2 mini horses for kids to pet. One couple brought birdhouse kits and helped children build them. Lots of vendors for prairie related things, master gardener, native plant sale, pasture management, native grasses, and a food truck. We had a good time.

We went back to @Ridgetop’s house and I got to see their new tractor, pet the dogs, admire the new electric fencing, and the completed guest room with the Murphy bed.

I was up yesterday morning at 3:30 AM, got home yesterday evening, fed dogs, sheep and watered, in the house at 7:30 PM.

Church this morning, teaching my last class of the quarter, then preacher’s wife teaches for 3 months, then my turn again. She’s all serious and businesslike, I’m relaxed and we get noisy, enough that we can be heard out in the auditorium.

I’m tired.

Sounds like so much fun!

Kids are supposed to be a little noisy! They're going to miss you for the next 3 months.

 

[drstratton]

OH MY GOODNESS !!! I would've paid to see that! WTG @Ridgetop

My son went on a school trip. They went to an ecology education "propaganda" center. They started talking about the salmon and how bad the dams and farming are for the fish. That lady was not prepared for my son (son of a dam worker) and his best friend (son of a farmer). They let her know some truths about the lies she was spreading. She got an education, but she was not happy having someone refute their (propaganda) narrative. Those boys were very well educated and she didn't stand a chance.

My son had just written a report about the dams and salmon. His teacher had to call me, he was laughing so hard at the title. "Damming the Columbia, by Dale Stratton, Son of a Dam Worker".

 

[SageHill]

My son went on a school trip. They went to an ecology education "propaganda" center. They started talking about the salmon and how bad the dams and farming are for the fish. That lady was not prepared for my son (son of a dam worker) and his best friend (son of a farmer). They let her know some truths about the lies she was spreading. She got an education, but she was not happy having someone refute their (propaganda) narrative. Those boys were very well educated and she didn't stand a chance.

My son had just written a report about the dams and salmon. His teacher had to call me, he was laughing so hard at the title. "Damming the Columbia, by Dale Stratton, Son of a Dam Worker".

I want to and and that!!!
Eons ago (40 yrs or so) a friend's husband designed/worked on the "ladders" for the salmon in the PNW.

 

[drstratton]

I want to and and that!!!
Eons ago (40 yrs or so) a friend's husband designed/worked on the "ladders" for the salmon in the PNW.

Those boys (40 year old men now) are highly intelligent and very impressive.

I worked one season as a fish counter at Priest Rapids dam. Those ladders have definitely improved the runs. I hate how they vilify the dams and farmers, to fit their narrative.