Coffee anyone ?

[RR Homestead]

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

I tell ya! Suddenly I'm feeling like maybe I need to wrap myself in bubble wrap.

 

[drstratton]

I tell ya! Suddenly I'm feeling like maybe I need to wrap myself in bubble wrap.

You could change your handle to Bubble Girl...lol

 

[RR Homestead]

You could change your handle to Bubble Girl...lol

See below.

 

[Mini Horses]

Gosh, to bed at 9, almost immediately to sleep. All the outside air & activity sets you up for resting. Woke at 4. Tried but no back to sleep...got 7 hrs tho. Coffee great! Plus time for a little to start my day. Hope I get home before dark tonight.

Enjoy your day everyone!

 

[fuzzi]

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!

Don't get me started on the incompetence and apathy of customer disservice! I've been trying to deal with the medical entity that was my employer, a business that cannot handle simple AP and AR. It's not a recent incompetence: they sent a bill to collections about 20 years ago when it was returned as undeliverable, though dh was a current employee and our new mailing address was on file. I'm still being harassed with robocalls for Ron's December 2024 bills though the account was paid in full last May. Idiots.

 

[Baymule]

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 about Hazel. She was a special girl with a place in your heart. My Ewenique is that special one for me. We bought 4 ewes and she is the last of them at 11 years old.

Bad Moses! I'm glad you caught him and gave him the punishment he had coming.

 

[Baymule]

Coffee, finally. Lambs fed first. Take up soggy potty pads, put down new potty pads. Wash hands. Pour coffee.

 

[fuzzi]

Coffee, finally. Lambs fed first. Take up soggy potty pads, put down new potty pads. Wash hands. Pour coffee.

Routine!


Rise up, make outside cat food, start coffee, feed Debbie, go outside to feed cats, pour coffee, sip. Then get dressed and walk Caleb, water chickens, feed Caleb, make my breakfast.

Think we'll go to the park later.

 

[Baymule]

Gotta go to Lufkin to the grocery store for milk, evaporated milk and buttermilk....... Just looked at the dog crate, both lambs are squatted, peeing a puddle.....my trash bags sure are heavy these days.

And THAT'S why I put them outside to "enjoy" being lambs!

 

[fuzzi]

Gotta go to Lufkin to the grocery store for milk, evaporated milk and buttermilk....... Just looked at the dog crate, both lambs are squatted, peeing a puddle.....my trash bags sure are heavy these days.

And THAT'S why I put them outside to "enjoy" being lambs!

Kidney function normal!