Good Morning!--Chat thread

[amysflock]

Good morning, all,

Wow, you must have all worked so hard you're still sleeping!

I'm going to show T-Bone and Annabel in the Grays Harbor County Fair the second week in August! I wasn't planning to, was just going to help a friend with her cow/calf pair, but our association president called last night and easily convinced me that showing would be a great thing for me and the calves. I posted a bunch of questions in the "Showing Your Herd" section.

DH is happy to haul them using a borrowed trailer (so long as he doesn't have to show) and will hang with me over the weekend they're there to help answer the public's questions, etc. He said it's clear I'm way more into the cattle than he is, and that's ok, he's happy to support me. He doesn't regret having them (thank God), just isn't as into it as me. Big surprise (not).

Ok, gotta go bake a rhubarb crisp for a "thing" I have to go to tonight.

 

[countrygirl23]

good mornin amysflock

 

[Thewife]

Good morning everybody!

I'm up!
Don't know why I'm up, I could have slept in!
Our plans to run around tomorrow, have been squashed by a bunch of bicycles! A whole bunch of people get on their bikes and ride from Seattle to Portland once a year!
Traffic around here turns to scours!

Amy, I used to know someone that showed Jerseys, she really liked it!

 

[Farmer Kitty]

Couldn't sleep in here. But I did get a rest in after DH went off to work.

amysflock, good luck showing the calves!

 

[homesteadingcowgirl]

wide awake here, just trying to get everything done

My goal: to be the woman that makes the devil say "oh, crap, she's awake!"

this house will get clean if it is the last thing I do!

 

[wynedot55]

im up an going just moving slow.an in no hurry todo anything.buddy is going to fire up both sq balers an start baling before lunch.

 

[Farmer Kitty]

It's HOT out there! I opened the fence between the little chicks and the older ones the other day. Today, I pushed the little ones outside into the run. They didn't know what to do. Some stayed out and some went in.

 

[wynedot55]

theyll learn what todo pretty quick.

 

[WildRoseBeef]

With this rain everything has really picked up!

Sad day yesterday and today...yesterday night (not last night but the night before) the boss had a cat come in that had a stroke. Kept an eye on him almost all day yesterday to see how he'd improve; in the morning he was up and using his right hind leg, but in the afternoon he was back to being paralyzed in his back legs again. Checked his eyes for any retinal reflexes and there were none. So, unfortunately, we had to call the owner in and let her know we had no choice but to put him to sleep. He was only 4 or 5 years old.

And last night the boss got another cat in for kidney failure. Kept it on IV fluids til this afternoon, when we seen that it was a hopeless cause; the cat was slowly dying anyway. It's pitiful meows could be heard from the kennel room, it was so sad. So the kitty had to be put to sleep. I dunno how old this one was, but he sure was thin; weighed about 3 lb for a big cat like him. There was just nothing left of him; I guess it sounded like the owners weren't taking care of him he they should've.

 

[Farmer Kitty]

It's sad to have to put beloved pets down. They may not have been yours but, it can't be easy having cared for them, even for a short time, and then having to watch the owners go through the agony.