Monday eve. Long day and tomorrow will be longer.... Wed even longer. Oh well.
Packed the samples early, dropped them off on the way to PT. Worked on my ankle some as it has seemed stiff.... they say that it really has almost the same range of motion in 3 directions and only a little less with the pushing the toes/ankle down forward.... that it is partly that I don't feel it that I think it isn't moving that much. That I cannot expect it to move as far or be as flexible as the other because it is a "simple" joint replacement and that the actual ankle is much more complicated and that there is no way to replicate it exactly and still have strength and stability....
Came back, changed into "work clothes", did the cow w /calves. Got all my needed stuff loaded in the truck, and left and went by the pasture but none of the cows/calves were out in the front grazing. They mostly come down there to graze in the afternoon/evenings. So didn't see what was there/not there. Went on to the farm as it was getting later than I had thought. Managed to get there in the pouring rain, but waited about 5 minutes and it let up and I got everything into the barn and set up and then it showered again. Then we got started milking about 2:10, and was done by 4:30.... she milks fast. Knees were getting to me because there was next to no sit down for a minute break. Then had to wait for the wash cycles to completely finish and I pulled the meters off the brackets and got things loaded into the truck. Farmer came by just as I was almost done, carried the tote with the last bunch of meters and then picked some sweet corn and a cantaloupe.... really nice of him. I had already had some other stuff out for supper, but am going to cut into that cantaloupe in a few minutes..... I didn't have the energy to do the corn tonight, but plan on some for lunch tomorrow.
Had 1 inch of rain in gauge tonight. It rained a little at the farm, then we got a downpour, then some more showers. It rained harder in some areas as I saw some washed out areas along the sides of the roads. I came home back by that pasture, and there was a cow/calf pair out in the road....it was a neighbors, and I put her into a pasture he has there. There were a couple more in a hayfield right near there, and they were probably his, and then when I came by our pasture, there were at least 2 and maybe 4 ( 1 pair or 2 pairs) more animals in our field. So I assume ours were still in.... and then a couple extra, that supposedly were put in there last night when they thought they were ours. I couldn't see everywhere so can't be sure, but I am pretty sure there were 7 pair in there and there should be 5 pair. Always something.
Don't know if I am going to pack the samples tonight or tomorrow morning. I do have to get the rest of the meters on the truck, and the hoses, to take to the Wed eve farm, tomorrow (tues) so they have them for set up on wed. I will be 10 or later getting home Tues night and have to be at the dr at 9:30 and have to do my cow before I go Wed morning. So I might just wimp out tonight and not pack this afternoons samples... I will see after I get a shower.
I tested 6 farms in all of July, I will do 5 this week....
.Feast or Famine
