Devonviolet Acres

[Latestarter]

Dumped another 1" from overnight. Too much water. To think I moved here because I had too little water.

 

[Bruce]

What's that saying?
February goes out like a lion?

Sorry all y'all are drowning down there.

 

[Wehner Homestead]

I can’t like any of these rain posts. My cows are almost swimming in mud!

 

[Bruce]

 

[CntryBoy777]

In all my yrs I've never have seen a good solution to that, or was applied at any point....I've seen attempts at it, but nothing that ever really seemed to matter much in the outcome of dealing with so much weight on hooves.....when the tractor doesn't go....a cow will....so, even scraping doesn't accomplish much.....concrete can, but then there is the chance of injury when wet or froze. The only thing that I have seen hold up, is having several gates between fields....and control which gate they access thru....if ya rotate gates, then ya have half a chance to avoid damaging traffic thru just 1.....

 

[Baymule]

No sunny day today. We did go dig and set two cross ties as corner posts for the pig pen. The dirt was mud and heavy, and one hole had water in the bottom and the sides were oozing.

 

[frustratedearthmother]

That's some miserable, hard work....ugh.

 

[Bruce]

Mud? What mud? You have sand!

 

[Baymule]

Mud? What mud? You have sand!

Ok, soggy beach sand. But it is still mud! Couldn't even dig a post hole without it filling up with water. Hmmmm.....maybe I could dig a well..... a neighbor has a wet weather spring on his property, right at the road and it is running a stream down the road.

 

[Devonviolet]

Goodness! We have had multiple issues with computers and internet in the past week.

First, our internet bucket got to within 1/4" of the bottom & I had to resort to turning WiFi off except for checking email, for the last 4 days of the month. By just before midnight on the last day of the month, I only had 100MB left in the pot!

Then yesterday, I had to print a return label, for something I was returning. The printer wouldn't print. I got a message that it needed service. The message said, unplug printer and take the printer & cord to service center. Uh! NNOOOOOOO! We live too far from civilization to drop everything & drive to the big city!

So, I called my techie son, who didn't have a clue & suggested calling Canon Tech Support.

An hour and a half later, we had learned there were two old print jobs in que that had to be cleared AND the spray nozzles for the ink jets were clogged & needed to be cleaned and 3 ink cartridges were empty. UGH!!! But wait! Canon has a "clean sprayer" function. So, I didn't have to take everything apart, and get my fingers dirty in order to clean the sprayers. So, now the printer works again, and I don't have to spend time & gas money to drive to the city & pay the server center to fix it! WooHoo!

THEN! This morning I tried logging onto the 'puter, to check BYH & it wouldn't connect. A check on my phone & desktop, gave the same results. SO . . . this time I had to call HughesNet (our internet provider).

After an hour of trying multiple ways to fix it, the Tech had me reset the modem (unplug, wait 10 seconds, plug back in, wait another 30 seconds, while it rebooted. And, Voilá! My internet was connected again!

Interesting thing about that. The first thing I (who know little about computers -hence the call) told him was that the System light was out, on the modem.

When I rebooted the modem (after him having me try 15 different things), the System light came on & I had an internet connection again.

So, then the Tech proceeds to chastize me, telling me that before I call tech support, I should unplug, wait 10 seconds, replug and wait for reboot, on both the modem & router. I'm sorry, but shouldn't he have told me to try that first ?????

UGH!!! I hate computers! But they are a necessary evil, in this complex world in which we live.