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And don't cross your feet. Have them firmly planted flat on the floor.
Farmerjan's journal - Weather
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Woah - didn't know that one!!
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On the rare occasion that I'm forced to go see a Dr. I always use that 20mins or so that they leave you sitting in the room waiting to slow my pulse & lower my blood pressure.
Otherwise they'd probably have my admitted for stroke watch or something.
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Saturday afternoon. It has been hot and is going to get hotter in the next few days.
63 to start... 90 in the shade and it hit 95 on the recording thermometer in the sun before 10 this morning. Then it dropped to mid 80's when the leaves shaded it... back up to 90 an no sun on it now... Just air temp.
Thursday I got up and got the samples packed from both the owner sampler and the farm I had tested Wed eve... had to go get my meters from the farm that had borrowed them. They texted me at 11 or so that they had them ready on the porch where I leave . I was on my way there already to get them. I mean really... wait to the last minute..??? Like the time they borrowed them and had them a week and never "got around to using them" and I had to go get them, then they borrowed them again a few days later.... sometimes this is just getting too OLD to deal with....
I dropped off the samples for UPS on the way to the farm I was going to Thurs aft. I did not get the laundry off the line before I went though... Ran out of time...
Got set up and we started testing, sky got black... and got a fast HARD storm... then it rained a couple more showers during milking. Luckily did not lose power or have to fire up the generator so not too bad. They are back up at about 201 going through the barn...
By the time I got the computer work done, the meters off the milk lines, and loaded into the car, it was near 7 p.m.. Then went to the owner sampler farm and dropped off his reports, then went to the farm I had tested Wed and dropped off their reports since I did not get there before like I had planned. Oh well, all is done.
Clothes got a good "rain water rinse" but not much wind so not blown off the line... That was fine.
Friday morning met with DS and GF came and we got the neighbors cows and calves in the lot, sorted off the cows and fly sprayed them on their way out of the barnyard... got the calves loaded and took to our barn 2 miles away. It was muddy and we had to take a couple of gates to make a chute out to the trailer since we could not back up as close as usual... I had stopped DS when he was going to go back further... and said if you get the back wheels of the truck back anymore, you will never get out... he came back and looked and said , you're right mom... it's going to be "iffy" where it is no way I can go back further.
But we got lucky, got them to load and he used 4wd LOW range and crept it out without spinning the wheels...
Took them to the barn, ran them through the chute... there was one BIG bull calf from last fall... probably weighed in the 700's... to band... and DS said it had been a long time since we had banded one with a pair of nuts that big. The best thing, it was just going past the last quarter to the new moon... so signs going from the thighs down into the feet... Lowest, slowest blood flow... very best time to do things like castrations/ "cutting" etc on the animals...
We got his animals all blacklegged, flytags, banded bull calves, tetanus some, and then DS took them back to Fred's... GF had to go with him for the 2 miles... they came back to the barn and we got in the 5 little baby calves and cows that calved in the last 2 weeks... banded the 3 bulls, black legged all, even though it is a little young for the calves since they are under 8 weeks... but they are going out to pasture so better to do than not to do. DS is also taking the one heifer and her bigger steer down there to that pasture, she will get one more chance to get bred back... there will be some bigger steers to sell in the future so he shouldn't be an odd one...
Then weaned the 6 bigger heifer calves off the cows that are 5+ months pregnant...we had kept them all in when we kept the ones with their momma's that we sold a week ago... we are keeping these heifers for now... and they needed to be weaned off. They were on the cows that were not bred when they had been exposed to the bull when we bought them...so are older... Should get bangs vacc really... but don't know if they will since we do not have any vet appts anytime soon. All the preg checks are done .....we'll see. DS needs to take them to the pasture at the neighbors... we have 5 in his front pasture and 5 in the back... he said the grass is getting ahead of them... yeah, no joke with the rain.... so wants a couple more... can split them 3 and 3 more so will have 8 and 8... might be too many if it turns dry.... but not going to make an issue. Give them a week to get over being weaned.. 2 are problems, the momma's don't like to give up the calves and the one calf is almost as nutty as the one of mine we sold a week ago.
Moved all the cows across the driveway, up through the fields and out in the back field that is actually behind DS's house... far enough away that the 2 cows and calves can't hear each other and the cows should give it up... They have both gone across the fences when we separated them out 2 weeks ago. Good momma's but ridiculous when weaning time comes.. and the heifers aren't even nursing, the cows udders are totally dried up....
So, we went to Wendy's, had some lunch... then I finally came home and got the samples packed from Thursday's herd. DS came and was mowing across the road in the wheat/rye/grass.... it is going to get planted back in sorghum-sudan as soon as we get it off...
I went down with the samples and saw where the drive in was playing How to train a dragon and The Last Ride... which I wanted to see that... so came home, called some friends that we kept saying we ought to get together to go to the movies... and it worked out that it was a good night to go last minute... so got a shower and arranged to meet them to go.
DS took my explorer when he was done mowing since I was not going to be there to give him a ride, and went to the farm, loaded the 6 cows/calves and took them to the pasture down near him on his way home to her house.
Movies were good... dragon one kinda funny , it was not the animated version that I understand had come out years ago... but a "real people sized" one... and The Last Ride was good.... BUT... being how it was the drive in.. movie started after 9.... with intermission, 2nd feature started like 11:45... it was after 2 when I got home... and I slept like a log..
This morning, DS came and got the tractor and discbine, went and mowed the field in the subdivision, above where I had raked a week ago... then came here, mowed at my house... hopefully the last time to mow here as the fence SHOULD be up this year with the posts mostly in now...then went and mowed all 5 fields at Deb's farm, and one little field next to his house. He needed to get a ride, because he was going to go to a truck pull this aft/eve with her. So left the mower at his house, I gave him a ride down to the farm, and since he was getting tight for time and had to go to his house and feed his chickens, I said I would feed my 12 heifers, and the other 2 calves still there... and he left to go to his house. I fed the heifers 2 buckets of feed, they have a roll of hay, and then fed and watered the 2 other steers there that are in the "alley" so they can eat grass... the 12 heifers are in "the steers' field"... for now.
Then came home and just ate a sandwich... It is hot out there, and I am not going to try to push it out there right now... I have got to get out and get on my lawn mowing.. it is grown so much with the rain and then the temps getting hotter... going to be brutal with 90's and low 100's the next few days... quite a huge jump from mostly 80's.... humidity supposed to be high so that will make it tough.
The turkeys have been all over where he mowed... they are growing so fast.
I will finally get the clothes off the line later, they are blowing a little with the breeze so ought to smell really good... Got a gallon of tea out to steep in the heat...
There are a few clouds passing through... but it is hotter than we have had in the last few weeks, and muggier, so not very comfortable.
Got my new walk behind BATTERY powered trimmer... I liked the other one, and it did a good job, but my shoulder cannot take the pull to get it started... so I will probably sell it... but wanted something bigger and more substantial, than the small hand held one I have; to do some of the extra thick and high weeds I have not gotten done. Really STINKS that the shoulder is restricting things so much...
Now I can get around the garden on the side near the pine trees and not tear up the mower... and all along places my little hand one does not get done very well... that one is light weight and nice but not up to some of these rougher places. The new battery one is the same "Greenworks" as my mower... same batteries, all 60v...so I can use any of the 8amp, 6 amp, 5 amp, 4 amp ones I have with different things like the riding mower and the push mower...... so all interchangeable... wonderful.... I got the handle and all put together on it... hope to try it out this evening, once it cools down a bit. I am a wimp, but cannot take this much heat coming on so fast... Will post how it does if I can get some stuff done this evening...
Going in to get a big glass of ice cold something...maybe work on some junk mail and stuff to sort through, in the house for a little while yet...
Hope to get out there in about an hour, to try mowing some of the lawn. The breeze has picked up a little so might not be too bad. Then try the trimmer as it gets a little cooler.
63 to start... 90 in the shade and it hit 95 on the recording thermometer in the sun before 10 this morning. Then it dropped to mid 80's when the leaves shaded it... back up to 90 an no sun on it now... Just air temp.
Thursday I got up and got the samples packed from both the owner sampler and the farm I had tested Wed eve... had to go get my meters from the farm that had borrowed them. They texted me at 11 or so that they had them ready on the porch where I leave . I was on my way there already to get them. I mean really... wait to the last minute..??? Like the time they borrowed them and had them a week and never "got around to using them" and I had to go get them, then they borrowed them again a few days later.... sometimes this is just getting too OLD to deal with....
I dropped off the samples for UPS on the way to the farm I was going to Thurs aft. I did not get the laundry off the line before I went though... Ran out of time...
Got set up and we started testing, sky got black... and got a fast HARD storm... then it rained a couple more showers during milking. Luckily did not lose power or have to fire up the generator so not too bad. They are back up at about 201 going through the barn...
By the time I got the computer work done, the meters off the milk lines, and loaded into the car, it was near 7 p.m.. Then went to the owner sampler farm and dropped off his reports, then went to the farm I had tested Wed and dropped off their reports since I did not get there before like I had planned. Oh well, all is done.
Clothes got a good "rain water rinse" but not much wind so not blown off the line... That was fine.
Friday morning met with DS and GF came and we got the neighbors cows and calves in the lot, sorted off the cows and fly sprayed them on their way out of the barnyard... got the calves loaded and took to our barn 2 miles away. It was muddy and we had to take a couple of gates to make a chute out to the trailer since we could not back up as close as usual... I had stopped DS when he was going to go back further... and said if you get the back wheels of the truck back anymore, you will never get out... he came back and looked and said , you're right mom... it's going to be "iffy" where it is no way I can go back further.
But we got lucky, got them to load and he used 4wd LOW range and crept it out without spinning the wheels...
Took them to the barn, ran them through the chute... there was one BIG bull calf from last fall... probably weighed in the 700's... to band... and DS said it had been a long time since we had banded one with a pair of nuts that big. The best thing, it was just going past the last quarter to the new moon... so signs going from the thighs down into the feet... Lowest, slowest blood flow... very best time to do things like castrations/ "cutting" etc on the animals...
We got his animals all blacklegged, flytags, banded bull calves, tetanus some, and then DS took them back to Fred's... GF had to go with him for the 2 miles... they came back to the barn and we got in the 5 little baby calves and cows that calved in the last 2 weeks... banded the 3 bulls, black legged all, even though it is a little young for the calves since they are under 8 weeks... but they are going out to pasture so better to do than not to do. DS is also taking the one heifer and her bigger steer down there to that pasture, she will get one more chance to get bred back... there will be some bigger steers to sell in the future so he shouldn't be an odd one...
Then weaned the 6 bigger heifer calves off the cows that are 5+ months pregnant...we had kept them all in when we kept the ones with their momma's that we sold a week ago... we are keeping these heifers for now... and they needed to be weaned off. They were on the cows that were not bred when they had been exposed to the bull when we bought them...so are older... Should get bangs vacc really... but don't know if they will since we do not have any vet appts anytime soon. All the preg checks are done .....we'll see. DS needs to take them to the pasture at the neighbors... we have 5 in his front pasture and 5 in the back... he said the grass is getting ahead of them... yeah, no joke with the rain.... so wants a couple more... can split them 3 and 3 more so will have 8 and 8... might be too many if it turns dry.... but not going to make an issue. Give them a week to get over being weaned.. 2 are problems, the momma's don't like to give up the calves and the one calf is almost as nutty as the one of mine we sold a week ago.
Moved all the cows across the driveway, up through the fields and out in the back field that is actually behind DS's house... far enough away that the 2 cows and calves can't hear each other and the cows should give it up... They have both gone across the fences when we separated them out 2 weeks ago. Good momma's but ridiculous when weaning time comes.. and the heifers aren't even nursing, the cows udders are totally dried up....
So, we went to Wendy's, had some lunch... then I finally came home and got the samples packed from Thursday's herd. DS came and was mowing across the road in the wheat/rye/grass.... it is going to get planted back in sorghum-sudan as soon as we get it off...
I went down with the samples and saw where the drive in was playing How to train a dragon and The Last Ride... which I wanted to see that... so came home, called some friends that we kept saying we ought to get together to go to the movies... and it worked out that it was a good night to go last minute... so got a shower and arranged to meet them to go.
DS took my explorer when he was done mowing since I was not going to be there to give him a ride, and went to the farm, loaded the 6 cows/calves and took them to the pasture down near him on his way home to her house.
Movies were good... dragon one kinda funny , it was not the animated version that I understand had come out years ago... but a "real people sized" one... and The Last Ride was good.... BUT... being how it was the drive in.. movie started after 9.... with intermission, 2nd feature started like 11:45... it was after 2 when I got home... and I slept like a log..
This morning, DS came and got the tractor and discbine, went and mowed the field in the subdivision, above where I had raked a week ago... then came here, mowed at my house... hopefully the last time to mow here as the fence SHOULD be up this year with the posts mostly in now...then went and mowed all 5 fields at Deb's farm, and one little field next to his house. He needed to get a ride, because he was going to go to a truck pull this aft/eve with her. So left the mower at his house, I gave him a ride down to the farm, and since he was getting tight for time and had to go to his house and feed his chickens, I said I would feed my 12 heifers, and the other 2 calves still there... and he left to go to his house. I fed the heifers 2 buckets of feed, they have a roll of hay, and then fed and watered the 2 other steers there that are in the "alley" so they can eat grass... the 12 heifers are in "the steers' field"... for now.
Then came home and just ate a sandwich... It is hot out there, and I am not going to try to push it out there right now... I have got to get out and get on my lawn mowing.. it is grown so much with the rain and then the temps getting hotter... going to be brutal with 90's and low 100's the next few days... quite a huge jump from mostly 80's.... humidity supposed to be high so that will make it tough.
The turkeys have been all over where he mowed... they are growing so fast.
I will finally get the clothes off the line later, they are blowing a little with the breeze so ought to smell really good... Got a gallon of tea out to steep in the heat...
There are a few clouds passing through... but it is hotter than we have had in the last few weeks, and muggier, so not very comfortable.
Got my new walk behind BATTERY powered trimmer... I liked the other one, and it did a good job, but my shoulder cannot take the pull to get it started... so I will probably sell it... but wanted something bigger and more substantial, than the small hand held one I have; to do some of the extra thick and high weeds I have not gotten done. Really STINKS that the shoulder is restricting things so much...
Now I can get around the garden on the side near the pine trees and not tear up the mower... and all along places my little hand one does not get done very well... that one is light weight and nice but not up to some of these rougher places. The new battery one is the same "Greenworks" as my mower... same batteries, all 60v...so I can use any of the 8amp, 6 amp, 5 amp, 4 amp ones I have with different things like the riding mower and the push mower...... so all interchangeable... wonderful.... I got the handle and all put together on it... hope to try it out this evening, once it cools down a bit. I am a wimp, but cannot take this much heat coming on so fast... Will post how it does if I can get some stuff done this evening...
Going in to get a big glass of ice cold something...maybe work on some junk mail and stuff to sort through, in the house for a little while yet...
Hope to get out there in about an hour, to try mowing some of the lawn. The breeze has picked up a little so might not be too bad. Then try the trimmer as it gets a little cooler.
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