Farmerjan's journal - Weather

[farmerjan]

Went out and did the turkeys water and feed. Have to take the 5 gal bucket to get more chicken feed at the bin down at DS's green barn. They will need to have their feeder filled tomorrow.

It was down to 67 last night.. It is partly/mostly cloudy this morning... sun trying to break through. We finally got some of that forecast/predicted rain last night. About 9-10 pm... looked in the rain gauge this morning and had .2 inch... NOTHING compared to some areas that got downpours... but not going to kick about it. Been over a week of the 100 degree temps and the hay making this past week to go along with it... Supposed to get some more storms the next 2-3 days... we can use it. Those hot temps dries out the ground in a hurry.

Got to eat something so I can take the antibiotic. Back ached when I got up but is not quite so bad after getting up dressed and moving around.

The 3 kittens are doing great except they will trip you up in a minute... they wind up on the front porch in the morning and I take a pan of dry food with a can of food on top, out to the shed for them to eat... and they are right there under your feet. I have wound up kicking them as I try to avoid stepping on them or getting tripped and falling... PITA little squirts. All are super friendly from the kids on the farm playing with them so much.
Silkie, the female from the ones I got a few years ago... that her brother got killed on the road; has disappeared. She was staying out by the chickens under the flat bed trailer... would come out some and let me pick her up a couple times... but ever since these kittens got here, she wouldn't come in the house unless I carried her in, wouldn't eat but a few mouthfuls and then sat at the door wanting out. She also got infested with fleas... I did treat her with those little liquid pks that you put on their shoulder area... and I think either she or that other male that kept sneaking in were the ones that brought all the fleas in the house. But she just totally changed... when her brother was killed on the road, I couldn't do anything that she wasn't right there... needing attention.. She would sit in my lap at the desk and followed me from room to room when in the house. I never brought the kittens in the house as that was "her domain"... did not want her to feel threatened by them taking her place or taking over her "house"... I did have to stop leaving the door to the porch cracked open due to that damned sneak male cat coming in... but that should not have bothered her that much as the door was shut during the winter and they came in when called and asked to go out in the mornings. But she got more standoffish, and I have not seen her for the past 4-5 days... It hurts that she changed so much, and I guess that she felt so threatened by the kittens. SAD.

Sun is coming out, but it is hazy. SO GLAD of the cooler temperatures. I think it is supposed to get up into the low 90's maybe... better than it was.

Texted DS last night and asked if he would stop and get me this morning on his way to the farm and drop me off to get my red forester at Deb's . He texted me back and said he would let me know when he was coming through. Haven't heard a thing of course... It's been way too hot to walk the mile there to get it... Don't know if she was planning to come out this weekend... she wasn't/didn't come last weekend.... she doesn't care that it is there, but still... want it back here.

Time to get something done... might get the weed eater out and get some more stuff worked on in a little bit after it dries off some on top.

 

[farmerjan]

Sunday eve... 68 to start, 91 with 97 in the direct sun earlier.. Muggy too.
We had sun then some clouds off and on. Got real dark and heard some thunder, wind blew and then it went around us again...
Yesterday, DS wound up bringing the car to the house when she brought him to the barn... never said a word, I just heard a vehicle, and she was backing out of the driveway and the car was here. Never said anything to me... whatever...
They moved round bales, and he had trouble with the one truck, blew a brake line, blew the hydraulic hose for the bale arms in the other... didn't talk to me until later that afternoon when he wanted to know how many head were at one of the pastures... one of those days where he was not interested in communicating except where it concerns her.

He called later, had to go to one of the pastures, neighbor said there was a calf laying off by its self and had a bunch of ticks on it... the pasture where the ticks have been awful.... asked what to spray them with,,, all sorts of questions... then he called back later and said it wasn't as bad as the person had said, but he got all the cows sprayed with fly spray mix and most of the calves including the one that was laying off by its self.

Said he would be going in there every couple days to call them in for some grain and to spray them more often.

He called this morning, said he was going with his father to the D-Day Memorial in Bedford VA.... his father's father, (DS grandfather), my former father in law who I got along with fine and is now gone... they got his name put on the memorial as he was there for the D-Day invasion... I think it is very fitting that his name got added to the memorial... he was a very decent person.

It started out not too hot but the sun was out and it got hot very fast. Did the turkeys and filled chicken waterer... did a little in the house. Deb called and she was coming out... going to work remote for the week as the AC in their building is not working... had several repairs done and now the parts are on back order... and the building was basically like an oven last week... so she decided she should come out here and work for a week..,she wanted to go out to Quaker Steak for nachos for supper. so I said okay. I picked her up this eve at the house at 5 and we went there. They have entertainment on Sunday eve's... this eve it was a mostly country singer, all these are like small time single performers... he was okay... better than some... but it is always too loud to carry on a conversation without having to talk loud... and I am honestly not overly impressed with Quaker Steak anyway... but it is closeby.

It was a okay tonight... and we finally left about 7 to come home. She wants to take her truck down to the co-op and have the oil changed and it inspected and all so was going to call in the morning to see what day would be best. I'll pick her up, she can leave it, and they can get it done and we can go back and get it. She can use the explorer for a day or 2 if she needs it. Except Tues as we have to go to Blacksburg again... she can use another car if she needs it. But she will be working all day remote, and then wants to do some yard work and stuff there in the evenings when it is hopefully cooler.

I got the turkeys in just a bit ago... they are getting too big for the calf hutch ... got to move them out to the pen. Got to get the other one finished putting together ... got side tracked with all the trips to the dr and then it getting so hot and the hay. Plus feeling like I have no energy and the backache... it is a little cooler this evening... even though the rain went around us again... but maybe in the next couple evenings I can get the last couple panels together... Need to mow around the base again to make it easier to get it to sit level and put together evenly. Then the turkeys will go in one for the nights so nothing gets them... they run free range during the day.

Tomorrow will be feeding and water and turning them out early so I can go to the dr appt at 9. Have to leave here by 8:30....I want to get there, do whatever paperwork I might have to, and be able to slow the pulse and all before going in for BP... and hopefully some blood draw.

 

[Baymule]

Doctor appointments set the pace for the week. I’ve got one today in Lufkin, sister in law has one in Lufkin on Wednesday. Mine is easy, I have to drive the 20 miles to pick up sister in law, put her in my car, put her walker in my car, take her to Lufkin, see doctor. Do a grocery pick up, take her home, get her and groceries in the house and get cold stuff put away. She will be exhausted by that time. Son and I wanted to take her out to eat to all you can eat shrimp, but I don’t think she’ll be able to make it. We’ll go eat and take her a take out of shrimp.