Baymule’s Journal

[fuzzi]

@Mini Horses you will be happy to know that I’ve contacted a friend about getting a couple of black Spanish goats. There is an old roping chute I need to tear down. It’s filled with wild blackberries, with thorny canes as big around as my thumb. It’s wood posts and 2”x4” horse wire stapled on the inside.

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Not looking forward to this chore at all.

There’s also honeysuckle, I’ll dig some up and save it. Small trees, brush and it all has to go.

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First I’ll tear down an outbuilding. There were a series of 3, all cobbled together. Hurricane Beryl blew out the middle section last year. I’ll keep the 3rd section for now, you can see the back corner of it just past the one piece I’m tearing down.

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In the picture above you can see the ends of the two 40’ shipping containers that will get put in place. The first one will be put at the back of the shed that I’m tearing down, it’s corner at the corner of the shed that I’m keeping for now. Move over 40’ from the first shipping container and set up the second one. Then I can put shelves in the containers and FINALLY get my tools organized and have a feed room. I have old chicken house trusses that span 40’ and eventually will be welded in place and a roof put over the whole thing. Then after that, 20’ lean to’s off each side. The side nearest the house will be parking for my truck, tractor, mule, son’s tractor. But it all starts with tearing down that building and old roping chute. My goal is to clear space and block up the shipping containers this winter.

Also in the back is an old round pen. Most of it is gone, torn down by a guy that wanted the lumber sides to fix his well house. Still standing are railroad cross ties. It’s dry now, ground is hard. After we get some rain to soften up the ground, I’ll use son’s big tractor to pull them out of the ground.

There’s a string of chicken coops, the worst crap I’ve ever seen. I have mined them for building materials for my equally craptastic projects around here. Hopefully I can get those torn down too.

I’ve been here 3 years looking at these eyesores. My tools are “somewhere”. I have an 8’x16’ foot portable building my son moved for me from Lindale to his house, then to here. Tools and supplies are still dumped in the tubs and trash cans that were moved from Lindale. I’ve had to go buy tools that I know I have, but can’t find. It’s. Been. Driving. Me. Slap. Dab. Crazy.

I'll help you organize when I come visit. Seriously.

We went on a missions trip 20 years ago, to a boys home. I wasn't needed in the kitchen, couldn't handle the full Montana sun to work in the gardens, but while trying to find someone a tool in their tool room I also found my calling. I reorganized the tool room, so they assigned me the huge pantry, then the huge linen closet, then the junk garage.

Organizing is like a huge jigsaw puzzle, and I enjoy it.

Addendum: organizing my house and sheds is part of my retirement plans. :rubbing hands together:

 

[Baymule]

I’m a disorganized ADHD feral wild woman with few organizational skills. I’ll gladly accept your offer @fuzzi !!
I’m adamant about my tools, they have to go back where they came from. My son will get some and I tell him to just leave them in a pile on the floor, I’ll put them away. Same as kitchen stuff. As of now, I keep the same disorganized mess going. Once I find something I put it back down hopefully I can find it again.

 

[Mini Horses]

I did some re-org Few weeks ago...kitchen & pantry. After half hr looking for a big bowl, finally remembered I moved those to the pantry

Ooohhh, goats!!! Yes, they LOVE honeysuckle & blackberry leaves! If you can contain them, you'll think a garden crew had been there. But they will only eat blackberry leaves, leaving dead prickly vines. Burn those!

 

[Baymule]

I did some re-org Few weeks ago...kitchen & pantry. After half hr looking for a big bowl, finally remembered I moved those to the pantry

Ooohhh, goats!!! Yes, they LOVE honeysuckle & blackberry leaves! If you can contain them, you'll think a garden crew had been there. But they will only eat blackberry leaves, leaving dead prickly vines. Burn those!

I went to visit Whispering Pines ( she hasn’t been on here in a great while) and she has 2 dairy goats. They cut locust branches for them. I watched as those girls ate locust thorns!

 

[frustratedearthmother]

My goats will strip all the leaves, and usually eat the softer tips of blackberry canes, but not the woody stuff. Can't say I blame them there!

 

[canesisters]

I went to visit Whispering Pines ( she hasn’t been on here in a great while) and she has 2 dairy goats. They cut locust branches for them. I watched as those girls ate locust thorns!

The lamancha trio I borrowed many years ago worked on a 30'x50' wooded area that was so thick with brambles, canes & many versions of poison this & that it was impossible to walk into. In a couple of weeks they had it so clean it looked like a park. Nothing but clean tree trunks from about 7' down.

I can't wait to follow the goat adventure & watch you reclaim that area.

@fuzzi .... you LIKE organizing????? Next Gilmanor you should come a week early. You can just pick an area - house, barn or farm - and have at it!

 

[SteepedInSheep]

It’s something my son taught me. Just using dirt would turn to mud. The lime dries out mud. He told me to fill holes in layers of lime and dirt, rake out each layer before adding the next layer. I partially filled a big deep mud hole on the driveway and it worked! It has to be dry, then layer and fill it in.

That's great to know! We have clay soil that hardens into rock, but when it's muddy, it's MUDDY.

 

[fuzzi]

The lamancha trio I borrowed many years ago worked on a 30'x50' wooded area that was so thick with brambles, canes & many versions of poison this & that it was impossible to walk into. In a couple of weeks they had it so clean it looked like a park. Nothing but clean tree trunks from about 7' down.

I can't wait to follow the goat adventure & watch you reclaim that area.

@fuzzi .... you LIKE organizing????? Next Gilmanor you should come a week early. You can just pick an area - house, barn or farm - and have at it!

I'm working on my own, first, but I'll keep it in mind.

 

[Ridgetop]

I went to visit Whispering Pines ( she hasn’t been on here in a great while) and she has 2 dairy goats. They cut locust branches for them. I watched as those girls ate locust thorns!

If they eat the thorny killer locust trees, maybe I will get a couple to put with the sheep. I'll hve to disbud the doe kids tht I keep and then sell everything else. Horns are a BIG NO NO for me!

There is an ad in Livestock Weekly for Spanish goats, just weaning 3rd set of kids. Put a Kiko buck on them, keep the doe kids, and they will be really good as meat breeders and supposedly very strong against Barber Pole.

So much fun with you at the Prairie Day. I wish you were still in Lindale!