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Change of plans for the day. And, I didn't realize it but the sun had hit the recording thermometer... so it turns out that was the high as the leaves from the maple shaded it shortly thereafter. I had been out, then back in and didn't realize the sun had come up over the trees already.

So, I went out to take the meters out, and there is DS stopped on the road... he was looking at the peach tree and then drove off towards the barn... I called and said why didn't you let me know you were here... he said, I have been there nearly an hour putting posts up along the side and I have things I need to be doing at the barn... I said okay, whatever... then he proceeded to tell me that he had to cut some limbs off the pines that are sticking out off the big pine trees... and then I told him that they couldn't go in there and pound posts because of the 2 holly trees... and he said well they have to be moved and I said they were not getting moved now... that they can just skip that section and it can get a couple T-posts when the time comes... that they can go around the pines and do the couple corner and brace posts near the fence along the road.... and he started to give me some grief, and then stopped and said, it's your fence you do what you want...
Then he said he needed to get the loader back on the JD that he had the muffler fixed, so that he could start moving bales and getting them stacked in the barn...
I said I was planning on coming down and seeing if he wanted me to start moving bales and he said, if you want to that would be a big help. So, I went down and got in the r&w automatic bale bed truck, he rode out to the field with me and got the tractor and round baler to bring back to the barn and then unhook the baler and get the arms and loader all reattached... and I started bringing bales, 2 at a time, from the field to the barn for him to stack. I got about 10-12 moved by the time he got the loader arms and all hooked back up on the JD and started moving them into the barn. I kept bringing them as fast as I could, but he got ahead of me as we both knew he would. We also were watching the temp gauge, as this is the truck that keeps overheating... and he took it and got the radiator cleaned out good and all at a farmer friends shop... blew out all the little air spaces between the fins and all... It is getting hotter than he liked, I kept a close eye on it... and when it got to a certain spot, told him that it was starting to heat up. By then it was after 1... and he said to quit for now, he was going to take a break from in the tractor as he spent all day yesterday in the tractor with the baler and was really tired out...having to turn sideways in the seat, all the time to watch the baler and the string wrapping the bale since one does not feed right and he often has to get out of the tractor.... plus dealing with his father after that...

I came home, and the guys were here working on the posts... naturally DS didn't call them about the gates being 16 ft... and they had put the posts in for another 14 ft one...... it is an access off the dirt road (not currently used but want to maintain it)....so not the end of the world... but still... so we talked about where they were, what they were doing... and I had them do something different where they were putting the jog in the fence due to trees and rock ledge... they said they were only going to the end of that stretch because DS said he had to cut some limbs. And they would be back to finish the posts next week when they come to do the fence across the road at grant's pasture ... the 45 degree "corner" and down the hill.....

So he and I will discuss this over the weekend... and if they cannot work around the holly trees ... which will NOT be getting moved in the heat of the summer... then that stretch along the big pines will not get posts pounded in...

I got the meters out of the car, put away in the carport in the storage box, and am heading out to go test... Going to stop on the way through and do 2 short errands on the way.

He did say thank you twice for helping get that many bales moved for him this morning... I said all he has to do is let me know things he wants done, instead of me having to chase after him and offer all the time... since I never know what he has planned for her to "help with" at the farm... I feel like I am the outsider there most of the time again... really frosts me.....

Time to head out for work.
 

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Saturday afternoon... was 64 and up to 87... partly sun and humid so quite sticky out earlier... Clouds have moved in more.. showers on the radar are skirting this area but mostly staying more north ....

I got home around 11:30 last night, which is normal... farmer is going to have a hernia operation so not as bad as a recurrence of the prostate situation so far... that is why they had to get it done this week.

I was tired and have had little "umph" today. Several of the turkeys had flown over the top of the window pane so I opened it up for them to go out and explore. I did not put the heat lamp on them last night...Put their food in the calf hutch so hope they all come back in...

Got the bottles in racks for tomorrow... going to take laundry and do it in the big machines so I do not have to do so many loads.... hit and miss showers for tomorrow and then Monday supposed to be decent...
Tues farm has been backed up to Monday... DS has to have a driver for the appt on Tuesday... seems she is not available... He has one on Monday morning, but we will be back in time and I will have everything in car ready to go. Have to be there around 3... and since I just used all 24 meters the other day, and 10 again last night, they will not have to do a sanitize so I can be a little later to set up and not cause any problems. We should be back from that appt Monday by 1... so should be okay... cramming stuff in...

No mowing until after Wed at least.. showers off and on the next couple of days... We only got about .25 inch here in rain gauges yesterday... they got a couple inches in the downpours 10 miles north...
It's cooling off so I am going to go outside and do a little weed eating out at the garden area...

Testing tomorrow morning...... Have to leave at 4 to be there by 5, no set up...

Hearing some thunder but it looks to be north of here... Put the car windows up in case. It is cooling a little so will go out in a little bit if it doesn't rain and see about the weed eating...
 

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@Baymule ..... mine stay down during the day unless rain is in the possible forecast... anything with the rain guards stay down that little bit... Don't leave them down at night on purpose, since I never know what stray cats might come around....but I have forgotten them a few times.

Went to work at 4 a.m., rain on the way up... the roads were wet here when I left... pretty much quit then POURED down for about 10 minutes around 6-6:30.... sprinkly stuff when I left and drove into another downpour for about 10-15 miles... Got home and it wasn't raining so got chickens done, turkeys fed and watered and let out...
Dumped .5 out of the rain gauge when I got home... The sun tried to peek out for a little but it is cloudy again now... more sporadic showers this afternoon.

Somewhere, I must've gotten bit by a deer tick... have had the classic "bullseye" on my stomach. I have had 2 ticks that were attached, but they were on my ear and one just barely attached on my arm a couple weeks ago...the typical "dog tick" type...... but never saw or felt the one that bit me here and it did not stay attached. Supposedly this is the classic sign of the tick that you get Lyme Disease from...
ANY INSIGHTS from anyone?????? I never even thought about a tick bite when I first saw the red circle... it was right after we had worked some cattle and I figured it was just a bruise... get lots of bruises that I have no idea where they come from...part of working cattle and such.... but it developed into a more red ring, lighter interior of circle pink skin color, and a spot in the middle of that... Lyme can be very debilitating... my mom and DS have had it... So, I guess I need to talk to a dr... I think if you catch it early, antibiotic treatment will kill it before it gets "a hold" in your system....not a fan of alot of antibiotics, but DS has had relapses several years... he never knew he had gotten it until they found it in some blood work... explained some of the headaches, body aches, lethargy, etc.... he had been suffering through....

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Sun is trying to come out again... Radar showing some serious rain by 4 pm...
Going to go out and do a few things outside while it is not raining...
 

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I'd head to a clinic for meds. Get it fast! They say fast treatment usually leaves no problems from Lyme. You don't want this stuff with all those new knees & ankle!!!

Most cases of Lyme disease can be treated with 10-14 days of antibiotics. People treated with appropriate antibiotics in the early stages of Lyme disease usually recover rapidly and completely.Aug 16, 2024
 

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Somewhere, I must've gotten bit by a deer tick... have had the classic "bullseye" on my stomach. I have had 2 ticks that were attached, but they were on my ear and one just barely attached on my arm a couple weeks ago...the typical "dog tick" type...... but never saw or felt the one that bit me here and it did not stay attached. Supposedly this is the classic sign of the tick that you get Lyme Disease from...
ANY INSIGHTS from anyone?????? I never even thought about a tick bite when I first saw the red circle... it was right after we had worked some cattle and I figured it was just a bruise... get lots of bruises that I have no idea where they come from...part of working cattle and such.... but it developed into a more red ring, lighter interior of circle pink skin color, and a spot in the middle of that... Lyme can be very debilitating... my mom and DS have had it... So, I guess I need to talk to a dr... I think if you catch it early, antibiotic treatment will kill it before it gets "a hold" in your system....not a fan of alot of antibiotics, but DS has had relapses several years... he never knew he had gotten it until they found it in some blood work... explained some of the headaches, body aches, lethargy, etc.... he had been suffering through....
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