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Doing some research on Lyme and treatments... actually a local dr here that has high ratings, and will start with her... but looking into a couple other treatment options... Will start with some phone calls tomorrow...
I did take a couple of pictures of it the other day... it is starting to fade now...
Got a pretty good shower just a little bit ago... Turkeys actually were smart enough to go back in the calf hutch... so I put the window up to keep them in so they don't decide to come out again and then not go in if it rains near dark.
DS has an appt in the morning... then a trip to Rural King as he wants to get a couple complete wheels for the wheel rake... by the time you buy the extra tines to put in, you can pay about $25-30 more and get the whole wheel / tines and all. One is cracked so just a matter of time... so will replace the cracked one, and one other that is bent a little... and then have all the tines in those 2 wheels to use as replacement tines for the future. They can break if you hit rocks and sometimes it is nearly impossible to miss some of the ledge in the fields while raking... going around some tight corners will bend them the wrong way since the rake is so long, and it can cause them to snap also. Part of the expense of raking hay in the hilly, rocky areas of some fields. If it were flat and straight like some of the plains states, I would probably get bored and fall asleep raking hay.
I have been missing one of the Naragansett turkeys for 2 days... figured it was gone. But I have been hearing some peeping... and finally found it in the carport... stuck behind some boxes that I had to squeeze in and try to move... all stacked in the back and I was NOT going to take all the stacks of stuff out... and this stuff is PACKED in there.. so how it got in there I have no idea. It was a stretch, but I managed to get it out... and put it in the hutch and it went to eating... they have water too so guess he will recover. Same dumb bell that has gotten out and "lost" twice before... remember I found him out in the tall grass the day after I moved them into the calf hutch... Well, he better get his act together or he might be left out next time to be a meal for the wildlife... It was NOT fun squeezing in between the boxes and the T-111 type panels that closed in the back and the other stuff stuck in there... another day he would have died for sure. If I can keep him from doing stupid stuff like this, the rest seem very content to go out on the grass and stick around close to the calf hutch... go back in to eat, and were in when it started to rain...
Went to an 80th birthday party for a neighbor up the road... met up with some other friends... low key and nice to visit and ate a nice meal of buffet food... low key, real nice.
Had a quick downpour this afternoon before going to the party... got about .3 inch... then it cleared off and was bright sun... radar shows it moving out...
Have to leave at 5:30 to meet DS in Lexington to go to the dr appt in Blacksburg. He is at her house tonight, of course. I will take the packed samples from Fri eve and the ones from this morning and drop them at UPS on the way back from the dr appt. I will put the sample bottles in the car for tomorrow afternoon... so I can just come home and change into work clothes and go to work.
Going to bed early, I did not get much sleep last night.
I did take a couple of pictures of it the other day... it is starting to fade now...
Got a pretty good shower just a little bit ago... Turkeys actually were smart enough to go back in the calf hutch... so I put the window up to keep them in so they don't decide to come out again and then not go in if it rains near dark.
DS has an appt in the morning... then a trip to Rural King as he wants to get a couple complete wheels for the wheel rake... by the time you buy the extra tines to put in, you can pay about $25-30 more and get the whole wheel / tines and all. One is cracked so just a matter of time... so will replace the cracked one, and one other that is bent a little... and then have all the tines in those 2 wheels to use as replacement tines for the future. They can break if you hit rocks and sometimes it is nearly impossible to miss some of the ledge in the fields while raking... going around some tight corners will bend them the wrong way since the rake is so long, and it can cause them to snap also. Part of the expense of raking hay in the hilly, rocky areas of some fields. If it were flat and straight like some of the plains states, I would probably get bored and fall asleep raking hay.
I have been missing one of the Naragansett turkeys for 2 days... figured it was gone. But I have been hearing some peeping... and finally found it in the carport... stuck behind some boxes that I had to squeeze in and try to move... all stacked in the back and I was NOT going to take all the stacks of stuff out... and this stuff is PACKED in there.. so how it got in there I have no idea. It was a stretch, but I managed to get it out... and put it in the hutch and it went to eating... they have water too so guess he will recover. Same dumb bell that has gotten out and "lost" twice before... remember I found him out in the tall grass the day after I moved them into the calf hutch... Well, he better get his act together or he might be left out next time to be a meal for the wildlife... It was NOT fun squeezing in between the boxes and the T-111 type panels that closed in the back and the other stuff stuck in there... another day he would have died for sure. If I can keep him from doing stupid stuff like this, the rest seem very content to go out on the grass and stick around close to the calf hutch... go back in to eat, and were in when it started to rain...
Went to an 80th birthday party for a neighbor up the road... met up with some other friends... low key and nice to visit and ate a nice meal of buffet food... low key, real nice.
Had a quick downpour this afternoon before going to the party... got about .3 inch... then it cleared off and was bright sun... radar shows it moving out...
Have to leave at 5:30 to meet DS in Lexington to go to the dr appt in Blacksburg. He is at her house tonight, of course. I will take the packed samples from Fri eve and the ones from this morning and drop them at UPS on the way back from the dr appt. I will put the sample bottles in the car for tomorrow afternoon... so I can just come home and change into work clothes and go to work.
Going to bed early, I did not get much sleep last night.
