Coffee anyone ?

[Weldman]

Coffee is ready! Exciting day yesterday, my son got one of the 40' shipping containers moved and blocks under each corner. It took half a day, you just can't scoot one of those things sideways. Drag it out in the field, turn tractor steering wheel, move it over a little, back it up, go forward, turn tractor wheels, move it over a little, rinse repeat. He had a friend on the tractor and my son directed what to do. He did a lot of putting concrete blocks under it, moving the tractor. picking the end up again, taking blocks out until he finally had it where he (i) wanted it and he blocked the corners. That was enough for one day. I watched and stayed out of the way. Today he plans on leveling it, he went to town and bought a string level. Then he's going to measure where to place the second one.

I have tools and stuff in trash cans and tubs and whatever, that have been in those same cans and tubs since I left Lindale in February 2022. I am excited about finally unpacking and getting stuff organized.

50' garden hose lay it out the entire length of the shipping container and hold each end up 5' measure with tape measure of exactness, fill it up with water til about 3 inches from top and see which end is higher than other end. I present to you, a water level.
I did something similar with another line I had for this pole barn before I bought a grade laser.

Going to be 64°F today.
Meeting with the leaser on the fence line today to straighten them out after I discovered they were going to put the fence back up on my property. Another thing is, they had 3 gates up, 2 of them accessed my property in which they just cut across as they wanted.
Welp I'm closing them off unless we can come to an agreement that I can cut across their pasture to exit to the main road with my dump truck and equipment bypassing the crazy woman on my road.
All of this happened before I bought the property as in decades ago, I'm here to right the wrongs.

 

[fuzzi]

Going to be 64°F today.
Meeting with the leaser on the fence line today to straighten them out after I discovered they were going to put the fence back up on my property. Another thing is, they had 3 gates up, 2 of them accessed my property in which they just cut across as they wanted.
Welp I'm closing them off unless we can come to an agreement that I can cut across their pasture to exit to the main road with my dump truck and equipment bypassing the crazy woman on my road.
All of this happened before I bought the property as in decades ago, I'm here to right the wrongs.

An access road? That would be great!

 

[Weldman]

An access road? That would be great!

Seasonal access, but yes. Just for the dump truck, and my 5 ton, those are the ones they target when it moves past their house.

 

[fuzzi]

For your goat enjoyment, copied from X:

Keith the Apocalypse Bringer is a three-year-old Anglo-Nubian goat in a field in Devon.

Keith should not be underestimated.

Keith has been systematically dismantling the ecosystem since approximately 7am, when he ate a bramble. This is significant because bramble is an invasive scrub species that outcompetes wildflowers, reduces biodiversity, and creates dense monoculture thicket that nothing else can use.

Keith ate it. Keith does this every day. Keith does not charge for this service.

8:15am - Keith ate a thistle. Thistles are also considered invasive scrub in managed pasture. Goldfinches eat thistle seeds, but Keith's grazing will ensure the pasture remains open enough for the ground-nesting birds that can't use dense scrub. Keith has not attended a conservation workshop. Keith arrived at this conclusion by being a goat.

9:00am - Keith dismantled a section of hedge. This was less helpful. Keith does not have a perfect record.

10:30am - Keith escaped the field. He was in the road for eleven minutes. He ate a neighbour's rose. This is not being counted in Keith's environmental impact assessment.

11:00am - Keith was returned to the field. Keith regarded the farmer with the specific expression of an animal that does not recognise the concept of property.

12:00pm - Keith ate more bramble. His digestive system: four stomachs, a rumen full of specialised microorganisms, the ability to extract nutrition from lignified plant matter that would defeat any other animal on this field, is converting scrub vegetation into milk with a fat content of approximately 4.5%. The milk will become cheese. The cheese will be sold at the farm shop. The farm shop is four miles away. The cheese food miles are: four.

3:00pm - Keith produced manure. The manure will grow the grass. The grass will grow the bramble. The bramble will be eaten by Keith.

This system has no inputs.

It has been running since goats were domesticated approximately ten thousand years ago.

Keith is not aware he is saving the planet.

Keith is thinking about whether the fence on the north side has a weak point.

It does. Keith found it at 4:45pm.

Keith got out again.

 

[Poka_Doodle]

Hi guys, I've had a sip of Red Bull, run more miles then hours I slept, and am sitting here enjoying reading your posts.
It is 19 and icy out.
Heart is full from seeing family this weekend, and celebrating a big achievement with my kids (not actually my kids but I swear they are mine) last night.
Going to go try and get stuff done at work. Going to be fighting being tired all day, with kids who might've slept less than I did. But it'll happen.
Y'all have a lovely one.

 

[drstratton]

For your goat enjoyment, copied from X:

I want to hear how it went when they tried to milk Keith.

 

[SageHill]

Coffee and breakfast done, brush pile moved to trailer, weed whacked around access gate, sheep out and fed, cleaned up and about to head out for sit with Kit today (to be followed with bank stop and grocery and ???). A busy one. Got to get things done before the dang clocks change.

 

[drstratton]

Coffee and breakfast done, brush pile moved to trailer, weed whacked around access gate, sheep out and fed, cleaned up and about to head out for sit with Kit today (to be followed with bank stop and grocery and ???). A busy one. Got to get things done before the dang clocks change.

Enjoy that sweet boy. We get to see our kiddos the first part of April!