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Friday morning. Slept hard after all the driving yesterday. It was a good day though so no complaints.
DS called last night... we did not get ONE SINGLE THING at the online auction that we went to look at all that stuff yesterday... It was basically over at 7 pm... and he said stuff went from looking like a few bargains to STUPID HIGH .... things like the tires for the skid loader brought new prices, the couple of bale feeders brought twice what he thought "was enough", the big truck that he thought might be a good thing for hauling silage that started out at 1500 and was a bargain, and at about $4,000 he said was a fair price, brought over 8,000, several other things that were way overpriced in his thoughts. So we had a day out yesterday... and didn't spend anything except gas money...
Don't know how the auction here close, will wind up this evening... he said there are 2 others bidding against him on the 2 silage carts we are very interested in... and we know the value of them since we have several.... a couple other things we said would be useful around the farm... so we'll see.
Deb called and is out at the farm for 2 days but has to go back Sat eve... so we will eat supper this evening... DS cut some of the fields there as she has a friend that wants to bring out her horses for a bit... and there is alot of fencing that needs to be fixed/done that has had damage from the ice storms the last couple years, and the fencing is getting older and some of the posts are rotting and breaking off so there are some stretches of wood board fencing that needs replacing. DS cut the fields on the one side of her driveway, that need the least amount of fixing in a few spots.... he didn't want to cut much more due to the cloudier conditions the next few days although we are probably not getting any moisture from that storm... but hoping that we get some from the one coming in from the Atlantic Tues-Wed maybe. I will rake it on Sunday most likely... it is not real thick so ought to dry okay... He can bale it on Sun eve or Mon before the forecast possible moisture.
He did bale the one other field down the road I raked and will bale across the road from me today sometime he said.
I am going to go out and see about getting out my mower and getting on this grass here. It has been quite heavy dew the past couple mornings, but not as bad today... past time to get on it. Need to get some stuff cleaned up and things starting to get put away for the winter coming... Won't be too hot out here today.
Got lots of tomatoes to pick, and some other stuff to do out there... cut down the corn stalks... might just make 2 "shucks" for decoration here... or just take to the cows. Have to go do some feeding if DS isn't going to do it today. Haven't heard back from Lindsay about sat testing....
DS called last night... we did not get ONE SINGLE THING at the online auction that we went to look at all that stuff yesterday... It was basically over at 7 pm... and he said stuff went from looking like a few bargains to STUPID HIGH .... things like the tires for the skid loader brought new prices, the couple of bale feeders brought twice what he thought "was enough", the big truck that he thought might be a good thing for hauling silage that started out at 1500 and was a bargain, and at about $4,000 he said was a fair price, brought over 8,000, several other things that were way overpriced in his thoughts. So we had a day out yesterday... and didn't spend anything except gas money...
Don't know how the auction here close, will wind up this evening... he said there are 2 others bidding against him on the 2 silage carts we are very interested in... and we know the value of them since we have several.... a couple other things we said would be useful around the farm... so we'll see.
Deb called and is out at the farm for 2 days but has to go back Sat eve... so we will eat supper this evening... DS cut some of the fields there as she has a friend that wants to bring out her horses for a bit... and there is alot of fencing that needs to be fixed/done that has had damage from the ice storms the last couple years, and the fencing is getting older and some of the posts are rotting and breaking off so there are some stretches of wood board fencing that needs replacing. DS cut the fields on the one side of her driveway, that need the least amount of fixing in a few spots.... he didn't want to cut much more due to the cloudier conditions the next few days although we are probably not getting any moisture from that storm... but hoping that we get some from the one coming in from the Atlantic Tues-Wed maybe. I will rake it on Sunday most likely... it is not real thick so ought to dry okay... He can bale it on Sun eve or Mon before the forecast possible moisture.
He did bale the one other field down the road I raked and will bale across the road from me today sometime he said.
I am going to go out and see about getting out my mower and getting on this grass here. It has been quite heavy dew the past couple mornings, but not as bad today... past time to get on it. Need to get some stuff cleaned up and things starting to get put away for the winter coming... Won't be too hot out here today.
Got lots of tomatoes to pick, and some other stuff to do out there... cut down the corn stalks... might just make 2 "shucks" for decoration here... or just take to the cows. Have to go do some feeding if DS isn't going to do it today. Haven't heard back from Lindsay about sat testing....