Coffee anyone ?

[Alaskan]

You ever get up in the morning, look at yourself in the mirror and think... "that can't be accurate."

Every. Single. Time.

 

[RR Homestead]

I shout the benefits of arnica far and wide. I even keep the pills, called remedies, on hand. I give the pills to the dogs for copperhead bite for the pain. I take the pills too along with the cream rub. The rub will dissolve bruises, plus give pain relief. Great for arthritis. I used the Arnicare rub and pills when I had knee replacement surgery. It lasts 4 hours.

We have copperheads at our new place. I'm very interested in this. I love using homeopathic's for the animals. I can't thank you enough for this recommendation. It dramatically reduced the pain in my knees for sure. I'm going to try the pills and the rub tonight. Might help my shoulder more.

 

[canesisters]

Good evening everyone!
Had a fairly productive night last night. Got the walk in cooler set up so I can take pictures of it and get it listed on CL. As we were putting it up we decided to let this one go. If we decide we still want a walk in we will buy a used one there. It's not worth hauling this one across the country.
DH worked on a few of our rigs. I finished packaging the meat. That's all done and everything is in the freezer. Then I went to the dairy to pickup up bull calf number 2. While there dairy things happened as they always seem to do. In the chaos I end up taken down by one of the dogs landing on my knees on the concrete sliding down the incline headed out of the parlor. Covered in manure. Pretty bruised up and sore today. Shoulder, back and knees are hurting pretty good. Knees are swollen and bruised. Both calves are fed and doing well so far.
Taking it easy this afternoon so far. Need to set up a pen to get the calf ready to load for the sale yard. No way I'm getting the truck and trailer in right now. Way too muddy right now. Still a lot of water in the fields.
Hope y'all are having a great weekend!

How are you feeling today??

 

[Mini Horses]

Wow. Prepped everything I could for fast feed chores so I can leave @ 6:45 to be at work at 7:30 don't mind the work but, that's unusually early for these jobs. Oh well -- wrote a list of things to start/do first, so my half asleep self can do it all. Coffee ready to turn on. Thermos ready to fill & carry. Breakfast ready to MW clothes laid out. Ya know how we wake at 3, 4, 5 for no reason? Never when you need to . Set 2 alarms, in case.

Wouldn't be so bad if I hadn't been "off" for 8 weeks!

I did work outside today. Set some fence panels to close in a 24x24 side of a shed for the 3 new moms & babes....wanted to acclimate them & not crowd with all the others at night but, move out of smaller jugs. Gave everyone more room. Set up feed troughs, water tubs, rebed, etc. one doe already there. Had to catch other 2 does & kids, move thru some gates, etc.....the kids are chunky. Moms are feeding them well!

Soooo...maybe I'll sleep well after that outside work!

 

[Blue Sky]

Hazel left us for Greener Pastures. She also left a daughter and two granddaughters. Her great (x3?) grandmother was one of my very first sheep. Grandma jumped through a window, pestered the LGDs endlessly and gave birth to three sets of triplets and raised all but one. She would tolerate a Christmas antler get up and I would use a photo to advertise rare North Texas Reindeer. Hazel was a lot like her although recently she’d taken to walloping me on the butt if I didn’t have a treat. She was not stuck as long as we thought but long enough evidently.
I caught Moses stalking a lamb. Punishment was swift. Things will be changed around til lambs and dog are older.

 

[drstratton]

It was a 12 hour trip today. I'm finally sitting in my living room and trying to relax. I wasn't happy with any of the floor tile we looked at, but we narrowed it down and picked one out. The wall tile is stunning, IMO and I didn't want to detract from that, but the floor tile doesn't add anything to the overall esthetic, it just doesn't detract. The other tile we had originally picked out was much easier to find a floor tile that added to the design. Maybe I'll feel better about it once we set some pieces out in the bathroom. I feel like I shouldn't complain, I'm truly thankful that we can do this, but it's going to be a lot of hard work to install all of it and I want to like it when it's finished.

Hope you all had a good day and also have a good night!

 

[drstratton]

Hazel left us for Greener Pastures. She also left a daughter and two granddaughters. Her great (x3?) grandmother was one of my very first sheep. Grandma jumped through a window, pestered the LGDs endlessly and gave birth to three sets of triplets and raised all but one. She would tolerate a Christmas antler get up and I would use a photo to advertise rare North Texas Reindeer. Hazel was a lot like her although recently she’d taken to walloping me on the butt if I didn’t have a treat. She was not stuck as long as we thought but long enough evidently.
I caught Moses stalking a lamb. Punishment was swift. Things will be changed around til lambs and dog are older.

I'm sorry. So glad you will have future generations from her.

I hope you can break Moses from harming your lambs. Glad you caught him.

 

[RR Homestead]

How are you feeling today??

A lot better than expected since using the arnica gel. I'm thinking I should buy stock in the manufacturer. I wonder if they sell it by the barrel? Still sore but major improvements from yesterday. Got lovely bruises on my knees though. Finger I cut close to the bone the day before the wipe out is healing well. Colloidal silver gel to the rescue there. Fat lips I gave myself are no longer swollen and the bruising is clearing up. Holy smokes when I write it all down I sound like a mess.

 

[drstratton]

A lot better than expected since using the arnica gel. I'm thinking I should buy stock in the manufacturer. I wonder if they sell it by the barrel? Still sore but major improvements from yesterday. Got lovely bruises on my knees though. Finger I cut close to the bone the day before the wipe out is healing well. Colloidal silver gel to the rescue there. Fat lips I gave myself are no longer swollen and the bruising is clearing up. Holy smokes when I write it all down I sound like a mess.

Glad you're feeling better! Kind of a walking disaster?

 

[RR Homestead]

Spent a portion of the afternoon on the phone with health care yet again for the trust we're in charge of. I have never in my life dealt with such incompetence before. Going on 7 months and one department now confirms she's dead. The other still doesn't. They issued a refund check to her old address that's been sold for almost 6 months now. The bills come here to us but they can't send the refund check to us. Only to her prior address without another form that needs to be printed out, filled out, notarized and then sent back to them. Even thought they are already sending her bills here. Checked with the PO postmaster today and they checked to see if the check was in the mailbox at her previous address but it's empty and they have it marked "vacant" in their system. According to health care it hasn't been cashed yet. He wanted to argue that no one can cash it unless it's us for the trust. Apparently he thinks check fraud doesn't happen every day. The check was issued a month ago now and the PO can't explain why it wasn't forwarded to us here. Post master wants us to wait another week or so and see if it comes. This is a very long saga I will be very glad to have come to a close. We're hoping to close the trust at the end of the month but this may continue to delay it yet again.
Got both graft calves worked today. One was easy to get done. The other let's just say he's not well off down below. One was way up and one was sideways. Both tiny. Had to get creative to count to two but got it done. New tags installed. Next trip through the chute will be for de-horning. Forgot that needs to be done with holsteins. Will get to that on a weekend.
Moved vehicles and trailers around this evening. Old stock trailer is set up for loading the holstein/jersey graft steer were shipping tomorrow. That's one I will be very happy to see go. Other trailer is getting ready to get re-loaded. Not sure i'll be able to get another load in before the milk heifer calves. I'm debating my options at this point. I really need to train her to be milked. But the timing is really bad to continue moving. I can put graft calves on her to keep up with production but that would mean no milking training. Not sure what to do about all that yet. I thought I had a little longer but realized tonight our system is set to beef cattle and she's actually due before I had down because of that. Not sure what the best move is in this situation yet. DH is thinking he's going to take some time off work and take a load out then fly home and leave one rig there. If he can do that while I'm dealing with his precious heifer that may still keep us moving going while I'm stuck here.
Need to go finish feeding cows and the cats. Will probably be back later. If not y'all have a fantastic night!