I had a really good time back in May, LOVED listening to you and others talking "shop" (cattle, chickens, etc.), and there were some unique items available in the craft areas.
I think a sit down lunch would be nice, too.
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I think a sit down lunch would be nice, too.
Sad I'm on the other side of the country! You girls have an amazing time!
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Similar situation here Fri, except I picked them off tree & ground. Glad they were offered & didn't want to loose the source -- not that I had other plans, just not these
. They were "over" peaches! Now I have peach butter & dehydrated slices. Thankful to have & wasn't a terrible amount of work. I was home anyway. Fine once I got to doing 
That system that gave you no rain came on thru here...cooled us back off, which is great. Left almost 1/2" of rain. Just washed the dust off.
That system came through here as well, did a Red Sea move...parted and left dry ground, NOT A DROP OF RAIN.Similar situation here Fri, except I picked them off tree & ground. Glad they were offered & didn't want to loose the source -- not that I had other plans, just not these
That system that gave you no rain came on thru here...cooled us back off, which is great. Left almost 1/2" of rain. Just washed the dust off.
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Sunday morning... 57 overnight...AAANNNDDD... we got some rain from last night/early this morning... Thursday night was a tiny shower and barely got the ground wet on top... Last night/early this morning, we actually got enough to see it in the rain gauge... maybe about .3 ???? I will go out and look in a bit.
I read for awhile last night and have not been outside yet. I filled chicken/turkey feeders last night, clean water in the automatic waterers, so they are set... and did not go to sleep until way late (early this morning) so am not in a rush to get anything done yet.
I did leave the mower out last night, which is not the end of the world but not the best thing for it... and it did get rain water washed... it was so dusty I was going to take the hose to it after mowing. I went up to check the heifers and then did the birds so did not get to the mowing. I honestly did not expect we would get more than a slight sprinkle again...
If it takes me leaving the mower out to get a bit of rain, I WILL do it again
This rain/front that came through, looks like it is about over on the radar... headed east, @Mini Horses might get some more out of it...
Wish I could direct some down to @fuzzi since seems she is as dry as we are... I sure wish we got more, but what we got is definitely more than what we hadn't gotten this past week... Sadly, it is not going to help the corn make much of an ear at this point.
There is nothing on the radar for at least another week.
.....Where's a tropical storm when you need some serious rain or downpours???? 
Funny thing is, the hurricane season seems to be very mild this year... Not that I want destruction... but a good old fashioned pouring down rain for a day or 2 like we often get from one... Almost scary how mild a year when they had been forecasting an active hurricane season this year.
Guess it is our turn to be very dry this year.
We are buying hay to get us where we need to be since we are making less than 1/2 of the normal 2nd cutting amount. DS will finish cutting the field across from my house probably tomorrow... so we can get it made in the next week..... I imagine he will make some more sq bales from it and then that will be the end of the sq bales unless we get some serious moisture for a late 3rd cutting down at doug's farm where we made the 900 orchard grass bales 2 weeks ago. There is a 4 acre patch of just grass hay that we will make sometime... it is on a pretty steep section so we don't work that ground or rotate it. It makes some pretty okay plain mixed grass hay and that is great. There are a couple other places we might get a late cutting of grass hay off of, but so many fields are growing a crop of weeds and junk and not much grass.
The sq bales we make are the "cash flow" ... enables us to pay for the fertilizer and all other expenses for all the hay fields; buy rolls when we have to for the cattle... the orchard grass sq bales we sell are worth 5x the value of feeding them, and we can buy some good hay for the beef cows. It takes alot more manpower to make the sq bales, so we have more time and labor in them. Plus even when sq baling, DS watches the rows and will go around any spots/sections where there are weeds or things like johnson grass so as to not sq bale that up... He then goes and round bales any of the "mixed" stuff with the round baler for the cows. A friend of DS has some nice 2nd cutting hay we are getting.. smaller 4x5 round bales, but nice hay... be good for the cows with smaller calves through the winter...making milk and the calves will eat some of the finer bladed hay. We can feed the 1st cutting we made to the dry cows that are going to calve in the spring as they do not need too high protein in the late stages of pregnancy...
There are approx 20-25 sq bales in a 5x5 roll of hay... at $10 a sq bale, that makes a roll of the good orchard grass worth $200 a roll.... if we were to roll it...instead, we can buy good rolls for $50-75 a roll that will meet the beef cows needs. Seems silly to bale hay and sell it, then buy some back.... but that is the market. DS has gotten in with several people wanting 100 to 300 sq bales of hay... he will deliver 100-200 or so at a time....and they pay extra for delivery.... you do what you have to do to make the cash flow work.
Well, the sun is trying to come out... It is cooler... 65 at 11... need to get all the dishes done and then see about getting the peaches in here and decide what to do... can you cook them down like apples for apple sauce/butter without peeling/slipping the peach skins? We quarter/cut up apples, skins and all, to cook down then run through the hand cranked mill for apple sauce, to cook down further... Takes the skins and the little seeds out.... These peaches are the size of large ping pong balls or so... If they got soft, then might be able to pit... and get the skins off... heating water to dip and then slip the skins, then pitting is going to be a real chore... I could try cutting them in half and pitting them... they are freestone, not clingstone... from the couple I ate... But they are not something I want to try to peel then slice with them being so small...
Maybe freeze whole, then slip off the skins???? Never did that... I have no idea... never worked with little peaches like this...
Well, time to get something accomplished.
I read for awhile last night and have not been outside yet. I filled chicken/turkey feeders last night, clean water in the automatic waterers, so they are set... and did not go to sleep until way late (early this morning) so am not in a rush to get anything done yet.
I did leave the mower out last night, which is not the end of the world but not the best thing for it... and it did get rain water washed... it was so dusty I was going to take the hose to it after mowing. I went up to check the heifers and then did the birds so did not get to the mowing. I honestly did not expect we would get more than a slight sprinkle again...
If it takes me leaving the mower out to get a bit of rain, I WILL do it again
This rain/front that came through, looks like it is about over on the radar... headed east, @Mini Horses might get some more out of it...
Wish I could direct some down to @fuzzi since seems she is as dry as we are... I sure wish we got more, but what we got is definitely more than what we hadn't gotten this past week... Sadly, it is not going to help the corn make much of an ear at this point.
There is nothing on the radar for at least another week.
.....Where's a tropical storm when you need some serious rain or downpours???? Funny thing is, the hurricane season seems to be very mild this year... Not that I want destruction... but a good old fashioned pouring down rain for a day or 2 like we often get from one... Almost scary how mild a year when they had been forecasting an active hurricane season this year.
Guess it is our turn to be very dry this year.
We are buying hay to get us where we need to be since we are making less than 1/2 of the normal 2nd cutting amount. DS will finish cutting the field across from my house probably tomorrow... so we can get it made in the next week..... I imagine he will make some more sq bales from it and then that will be the end of the sq bales unless we get some serious moisture for a late 3rd cutting down at doug's farm where we made the 900 orchard grass bales 2 weeks ago. There is a 4 acre patch of just grass hay that we will make sometime... it is on a pretty steep section so we don't work that ground or rotate it. It makes some pretty okay plain mixed grass hay and that is great. There are a couple other places we might get a late cutting of grass hay off of, but so many fields are growing a crop of weeds and junk and not much grass.
The sq bales we make are the "cash flow" ... enables us to pay for the fertilizer and all other expenses for all the hay fields; buy rolls when we have to for the cattle... the orchard grass sq bales we sell are worth 5x the value of feeding them, and we can buy some good hay for the beef cows. It takes alot more manpower to make the sq bales, so we have more time and labor in them. Plus even when sq baling, DS watches the rows and will go around any spots/sections where there are weeds or things like johnson grass so as to not sq bale that up... He then goes and round bales any of the "mixed" stuff with the round baler for the cows. A friend of DS has some nice 2nd cutting hay we are getting.. smaller 4x5 round bales, but nice hay... be good for the cows with smaller calves through the winter...making milk and the calves will eat some of the finer bladed hay. We can feed the 1st cutting we made to the dry cows that are going to calve in the spring as they do not need too high protein in the late stages of pregnancy...
There are approx 20-25 sq bales in a 5x5 roll of hay... at $10 a sq bale, that makes a roll of the good orchard grass worth $200 a roll.... if we were to roll it...instead, we can buy good rolls for $50-75 a roll that will meet the beef cows needs. Seems silly to bale hay and sell it, then buy some back.... but that is the market. DS has gotten in with several people wanting 100 to 300 sq bales of hay... he will deliver 100-200 or so at a time....and they pay extra for delivery.... you do what you have to do to make the cash flow work.
Well, the sun is trying to come out... It is cooler... 65 at 11... need to get all the dishes done and then see about getting the peaches in here and decide what to do... can you cook them down like apples for apple sauce/butter without peeling/slipping the peach skins? We quarter/cut up apples, skins and all, to cook down then run through the hand cranked mill for apple sauce, to cook down further... Takes the skins and the little seeds out.... These peaches are the size of large ping pong balls or so... If they got soft, then might be able to pit... and get the skins off... heating water to dip and then slip the skins, then pitting is going to be a real chore... I could try cutting them in half and pitting them... they are freestone, not clingstone... from the couple I ate... But they are not something I want to try to peel then slice with them being so small...
Maybe freeze whole, then slip off the skins???? Never did that... I have no idea... never worked with little peaches like this...
Well, time to get something accomplished.
Glad you got a little rain. Hopefully you'll get more soon.Sunday morning... 57 overnight...AAANNNDDD... we got some rain from last night/early this morning... Thursday night was a tiny shower and barely got the ground wet on top... Last night/early this morning, we actually got enough to see it in the rain gauge... maybe about .3 ???? I will go out and look in a bit.
I read for awhile last night and have not been outside yet. I filled chicken/turkey feeders last night, clean water in the automatic waterers, so they are set... and did not go to sleep until way late (early this morning) so am not in a rush to get anything done yet.
I did leave the mower out last night, which is not the end of the world but not the best thing for it... and it did get rain water washed... it was so dusty I was going to take the hose to it after mowing. I went up to check the heifers and then did the birds so did not get to the mowing. I honestly did not expect we would get more than a slight sprinkle again...
If it takes me leaving the mower out to get a bit of rain, I WILL do it again
This rain/front that came through, looks like it is about over on the radar... headed east, @Mini Horses might get some more out of it...
Wish I could direct some down to @fuzzi since seems she is as dry as we are... I sure wish we got more, but what we got is definitely more than what we hadn't gotten this past week... Sadly, it is not going to help the corn make much of an ear at this point.
There is nothing on the radar for at least another week.
Funny thing is, the hurricane season seems to be very mild this year... Not that I want destruction... but a good old fashioned pouring down rain for a day or 2 like we often get from one... Almost scary how mild a year when they had been forecasting an active hurricane season this year.
Guess it is our turn to be very dry this year.
We are buying hay to get us where we need to be since we are making less than 1/2 of the normal 2nd cutting amount. DS will finish cutting the field across from my house probably tomorrow... so we can get it made in the next week..... I imagine he will make some more sq bales from it and then that will be the end of the sq bales unless we get some serious moisture for a late 3rd cutting down at doug's farm where we made the 900 orchard grass bales 2 weeks ago. There is a 4 acre patch of just grass hay that we will make sometime... it is on a pretty steep section so we don't work that ground or rotate it. It makes some pretty okay plain mixed grass hay and that is great. There are a couple other places we might get a late cutting of grass hay off of, but so many fields are growing a crop of weeds and junk and not much grass.
The sq bales we make are the "cash flow" ... enables us to pay for the fertilizer and all other expenses for all the hay fields; buy rolls when we have to for the cattle... the orchard grass sq bales we sell are worth 5x the value of feeding them, and we can buy some good hay for the beef cows. It takes alot more manpower to make the sq bales, so we have more time and labor in them. Plus even when sq baling, DS watches the rows and will go around any spots/sections where there are weeds or things like johnson grass so as to not sq bale that up... He then goes and round bales any of the "mixed" stuff with the round baler for the cows. A friend of DS has some nice 2nd cutting hay we are getting.. smaller 4x5 round bales, but nice hay... be good for the cows with smaller calves through the winter...making milk and the calves will eat some of the finer bladed hay. We can feed the 1st cutting we made to the dry cows that are going to calve in the spring as they do not need too high protein in the late stages of pregnancy...
There are approx 20-25 sq bales in a 5x5 roll of hay... at $10 a sq bale, that makes a roll of the good orchard grass worth $200 a roll.... if we were to roll it...instead, we can buy good rolls for $50-75 a roll that will meet the beef cows needs. Seems silly to bale hay and sell it, then buy some back.... but that is the market. DS has gotten in with several people wanting 100 to 300 sq bales of hay... he will deliver 100-200 or so at a time....and they pay extra for delivery.... you do what you have to do to make the cash flow work.
Well, the sun is trying to come out... It is cooler... 65 at 11... need to get all the dishes done and then see about getting the peaches in here and decide what to do... can you cook them down like apples for apple sauce/butter without peeling/slipping the peach skins? We quarter/cut up apples, skins and all, to cook down then run through the hand cranked mill for apple sauce, to cook down further... Takes the skins and the little seeds out.... These peaches are the size of large ping pong balls or so... If they got soft, then might be able to pit... and get the skins off... heating water to dip and then slip the skins, then pitting is going to be a real chore... I could try cutting them in half and pitting them... they are freestone, not clingstone... from the couple I ate... But they are not something I want to try to peel then slice with them being so small...
Maybe freeze whole, then slip off the skins???? Never did that... I have no idea... never worked with little peaches like this...
Well, time to get something accomplished.
I had someone offer me some nectarines about that size. We grow our own peaches, so I was able to politely decline. Way to much work. Wish I had some good advice on how to work with them. The pit is probably bigger than the flesh.
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Did some research and one website... Prairie Homestead I think... said to quarter, take out the pit, and put in food processor and then cook puree down.. Peeling NOT NECESSARY.... Hummm...pitting will be a PITA... but less than trying to peel the little ones...
Read another that said you can freeze them, put in a sink of warm water and peels will slip off...
Might try some of both... both said riper the better... got some with bad spots so might try cutting them , pitting and puree in the food processor with the peels on and see how it comes out...
Freeze other ones... if I can find enough freezer space... I have got to defrost the one older freezer in the house and then get the ones out in the storage shed, done... I want to replace 2 of the uprights with another BIG chest freezer... not the frost problems in them... and they do so much better with the heavy boxes etc of meat...easier for me to use small cardboard boxes in the chest freezer and lift them out... like have the ground beef all in one box, etc and so on... and the chickens do better in the chest freezer since they were so heavy... still have quite a few from several years ago... cooked one not too long ago... tasted just fine...
Well, out the door to get some things done....
Read another that said you can freeze them, put in a sink of warm water and peels will slip off...
Might try some of both... both said riper the better... got some with bad spots so might try cutting them , pitting and puree in the food processor with the peels on and see how it comes out...
Freeze other ones... if I can find enough freezer space... I have got to defrost the one older freezer in the house and then get the ones out in the storage shed, done... I want to replace 2 of the uprights with another BIG chest freezer... not the frost problems in them... and they do so much better with the heavy boxes etc of meat...easier for me to use small cardboard boxes in the chest freezer and lift them out... like have the ground beef all in one box, etc and so on... and the chickens do better in the chest freezer since they were so heavy... still have quite a few from several years ago... cooked one not too long ago... tasted just fine...
Well, out the door to get some things done....
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I washed and pitted. Cut up into a pan, used the hand processor, skins on. Cooked all down to thick, used a little sugar as the skins aren't as sweet. You can't even see the skins. I WB 10 min.
I WB 10 min.
Thanks for the kind thoughts. It's Biblical here, breezy, cloudy, no rain. "clouds and wind without rain".
I'm using the hose around the house, letting it trickle on each shrub for 20 minutes, then moving it to the next.
I'm using the hose around the house, letting it trickle on each shrub for 20 minutes, then moving it to the next.
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Came in to eat a sandwich... going back out to get on mower since the grass has dried. We wound up with just under .4 inch rain... wonderful... not enough but better than none....
Didn't finish before.... and now it is nearly 7:30 p.m.
The rain cleared the humidity out. Temps hit high of 77 with clear crisp air. It was partly cloudy til nearly noon, then gradually cleared off to mostly sun and breezy this afternoon.
I did finally get the rest of the grass mowed that I wanted to. Will take the walk behind weed eater next and get some of the overgrown stuff knocked down. Need to go around the poultry pens. I am still toying with the idea of going up and doing the whole electric fence at the nurse cow pasture too.. Toyed with the idea of moving the elec fence posts 2 ft and letting the cows have all the overgrown "line"... but it is so dry and the ground is so hard, and there are t-posts every third post, that I would never get them out... or back in the hard ground without a pile driver. That idea lasted all of 2 minutes....
DS came by with her and sister's 2 kids... sister has a house cleaning business and does alot on the weekends at these different B & B's.... so sometimes GF has them on the weekends... so they went and helped DS tag the couple new calves... there were 2 new ones at doug's farm and the one at snyder's nurse cow pasture that was born yesterday afternoon. No new ones this afternoon he said... so I didn't go up there this evening. I finished up with the mower, brought the batteries in to get recharged and put one 4 amp in to move mower to carport and all. Then when I go out to get it, I will bring it around to the deck and get the charged up 8 amp batteries from the house and put them in it. They just run alot longer than the 4 amp, but it works great to move it around or pull the cart a bit. The 4 amp don't last as long especially if using the mower.
Had put a gal out to make tea and brought it in... all made... Put a load of laundry in and they are just now spinning out, so will hang them in the morning...
Forecast is for no precip for the next week to 10 days...
DS said he will cut the rest of the field across from my house Tues eve or Wed morning...said it will take about an hour; He has a dr appt at 2, in Blacksburg on Wed... we will go to Rural King before...so have to have enough time to go there first... have to get the battery replaced as it is only a couple months and won't hold the charge... Got to get some feed and other stuff...
Then back to another appt in Roanoke on Thursday... for the spine pain clinic ... for the injection he couldn't have due to the aspirin a couple weeks ago... they had set him up with an appt on 9/29... and would call if they had anything sooner... well they did... good thing he told me because I was going to set a farm up for Thursday...
Well the farm that texted me again... is getting another test tomorrow, Mon, afternoon... he has got to find what cows are causing the problems because the milk company that picks up the milk, is saying if he doesn't get his cell count down, they will shut him down and won't pick up the milk... He said he sold 5 cows with the highest cell counts this past week... but then he got a certified letter... so now is panicking... I really don't feel all that bad for him... he does stuff like this and hasn't kept up with his cell count... like he should... and can only do that through testing the cows.... had 2 tests last year and then didn't do any more... same scenario... milk company raising cain about high cell count... Seems their vet had them do some milk sample cultures... and there is a "yeast like algae" .... called Prototheca; that causes some high cell counts... just like a staph or strep infection... and there is NO KNOWN way to treat it... it does not respond to any antibiotic... it is more prevalent in wetter environments, can be found in anything from manure to grass to bedding to the water source to the soil.... in the barn...and outside... can exist and never infect a cow.... but when they get it... there is no treatment for the udder and the cow has to be culled out... I had never heard of it...did some reading up on it... not common, but is becoming more prevalent than it used to be...
So, anything with a high scc (somatic cell count) either gets treated... if he thinks it is a staph or strep or even a mycoplasma.... or cultured to determine what it is... which means taking samples to the state lab... or just sold if it is way up there... If close to dry off, he might dry the cow off, then after she calves, have samples cultured.... Not my call... BUT... that means I will be back there tomorrow afternoon. I have a couple other farms that need to be tested so made him take tomorrow which gives me time tomorrow to see if anyone wants Tuesday aft.... and now won't be able to test again until Friday....
Most farmers are chopping so many will not want to test anyway.... but need to get in contact and see what is what..
I am going to bed earlier tonight for sure. Had some cooked, peeled shrimp that had alot of frost in the bag so I defrosted them and ate a whole meal of "shrimp cocktail" instead of as an appetizer...half last night and half tonight... Only a few were really freezer burned...did not see a pinhole and it seemed to still be sealed... certainly wasn't going to waste them. Trying to eat out of the freezer and use some of all this food that is stockpiled..... I have got to defrost a couple freezers...
Didn't finish before.... and now it is nearly 7:30 p.m.
The rain cleared the humidity out. Temps hit high of 77 with clear crisp air. It was partly cloudy til nearly noon, then gradually cleared off to mostly sun and breezy this afternoon.
I did finally get the rest of the grass mowed that I wanted to. Will take the walk behind weed eater next and get some of the overgrown stuff knocked down. Need to go around the poultry pens. I am still toying with the idea of going up and doing the whole electric fence at the nurse cow pasture too.. Toyed with the idea of moving the elec fence posts 2 ft and letting the cows have all the overgrown "line"... but it is so dry and the ground is so hard, and there are t-posts every third post, that I would never get them out... or back in the hard ground without a pile driver. That idea lasted all of 2 minutes....
DS came by with her and sister's 2 kids... sister has a house cleaning business and does alot on the weekends at these different B & B's.... so sometimes GF has them on the weekends... so they went and helped DS tag the couple new calves... there were 2 new ones at doug's farm and the one at snyder's nurse cow pasture that was born yesterday afternoon. No new ones this afternoon he said... so I didn't go up there this evening. I finished up with the mower, brought the batteries in to get recharged and put one 4 amp in to move mower to carport and all. Then when I go out to get it, I will bring it around to the deck and get the charged up 8 amp batteries from the house and put them in it. They just run alot longer than the 4 amp, but it works great to move it around or pull the cart a bit. The 4 amp don't last as long especially if using the mower.
Had put a gal out to make tea and brought it in... all made... Put a load of laundry in and they are just now spinning out, so will hang them in the morning...
Forecast is for no precip for the next week to 10 days...
DS said he will cut the rest of the field across from my house Tues eve or Wed morning...said it will take about an hour; He has a dr appt at 2, in Blacksburg on Wed... we will go to Rural King before...so have to have enough time to go there first... have to get the battery replaced as it is only a couple months and won't hold the charge... Got to get some feed and other stuff...
Then back to another appt in Roanoke on Thursday... for the spine pain clinic ... for the injection he couldn't have due to the aspirin a couple weeks ago... they had set him up with an appt on 9/29... and would call if they had anything sooner... well they did... good thing he told me because I was going to set a farm up for Thursday...
Well the farm that texted me again... is getting another test tomorrow, Mon, afternoon... he has got to find what cows are causing the problems because the milk company that picks up the milk, is saying if he doesn't get his cell count down, they will shut him down and won't pick up the milk... He said he sold 5 cows with the highest cell counts this past week... but then he got a certified letter... so now is panicking... I really don't feel all that bad for him... he does stuff like this and hasn't kept up with his cell count... like he should... and can only do that through testing the cows.... had 2 tests last year and then didn't do any more... same scenario... milk company raising cain about high cell count... Seems their vet had them do some milk sample cultures... and there is a "yeast like algae" .... called Prototheca; that causes some high cell counts... just like a staph or strep infection... and there is NO KNOWN way to treat it... it does not respond to any antibiotic... it is more prevalent in wetter environments, can be found in anything from manure to grass to bedding to the water source to the soil.... in the barn...and outside... can exist and never infect a cow.... but when they get it... there is no treatment for the udder and the cow has to be culled out... I had never heard of it...did some reading up on it... not common, but is becoming more prevalent than it used to be...
So, anything with a high scc (somatic cell count) either gets treated... if he thinks it is a staph or strep or even a mycoplasma.... or cultured to determine what it is... which means taking samples to the state lab... or just sold if it is way up there... If close to dry off, he might dry the cow off, then after she calves, have samples cultured.... Not my call... BUT... that means I will be back there tomorrow afternoon. I have a couple other farms that need to be tested so made him take tomorrow which gives me time tomorrow to see if anyone wants Tuesday aft.... and now won't be able to test again until Friday....
Most farmers are chopping so many will not want to test anyway.... but need to get in contact and see what is what..
I am going to bed earlier tonight for sure. Had some cooked, peeled shrimp that had alot of frost in the bag so I defrosted them and ate a whole meal of "shrimp cocktail" instead of as an appetizer...half last night and half tonight... Only a few were really freezer burned...did not see a pinhole and it seemed to still be sealed... certainly wasn't going to waste them. Trying to eat out of the freezer and use some of all this food that is stockpiled..... I have got to defrost a couple freezers...
