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Ridgetop - our place and how we muddle along
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Baymule
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I saw it yesterday! And got in the seat and was directed how to pull this lever, pull up the auger and move it forward. Nice tractor!
New tractor smell….. with doors and windows open it had pasture smell. Perhaps with doors and windows closed, it might have a new tractor smell.
New tractor smell….. with doors and windows open it had pasture smell. Perhaps with doors and windows closed, it might have a new tractor smell.
SageHill
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New tractor envy...
Yup - jealous!! But it's good to be jealous of friends because that means something good happened to/for them!
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Ridgetop
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Finally had a chance to get back on here. Worked that new tractor hard! We cleaned the barn and moved stuff around. I cut off the wire and cattle panels from the cattle panels on the back of the barn so DS1 and DH could get in with the tractor ad pul them out. Last Saturday was our annual church fundraiser - dinner and auction. While I was at church with the Women's Guild helping get the auction stuff ready DS1 took off the bucket amd put on the forks. Then he and DH removed the old HEAVY iron cattle panels from the back of the barn. DS1 has a new layout for the winter lambing pasture so we are putting electric netting around the back of the barn around an acre pasture open to the barn.
During the rest of the week DS1 got the new fencing in but the ground was so hard that it took him a lot longer than he thought it would. One day he only got in 7 posts - those pound in PVC T-posts! He had to ound in pilot holes! I worked on Saturday for the church dinner and auction while the guys worked on the fencing, then we went to the dinner and auction. Free Margaritas! Sunday after church DH and I ran 2 lengths of electric netting (320 feet) acrpss the back in front of the small pond. Monday DS1 finished running the electric wires and setting the chargers on the fences. We moved the water troughs to the new pastures. I took down the movable fencing in the barn so DH and DS1 could set it up tor the horses and the new barn pasture. Whe they did that I moved around the jugs and the barn fences for the new barn layout. Finally DS1 and I moved the flock that needs to be bred into the new permanent electric pasture. By then it was dark and we were exhausted. We decided that they would leave on Tuesday since we had to move the other group of bred ewes into the barn pasture. We don't like moving livestock after dark if we don't have to. Tuesday we moved the other flock into the barn pasture. Then I made lunches for them to take and packed for DH. They finally got off around 11.
Went out and fed the ram and the ewes to be bred some grain. Decided to try to flush them since we decided to wait to put the new ram in with them. They need to be wormed an get Bo-Se and didn't have time so will do it when the guys get back. The group that is bred are huge! Some are due anytime after tomorrow while most of them won't lamb until November/December. I think most of them are probably due in NovemberDecember but they could surprise me. I have 4 jugs set up and portable panels ready to go so no problem there.
They have certainly bounce back from being dragged down with lambs. They are all in excellent condition after all summer on just pasture.
Whe waiting for the tractor to be delivered DS1 insisted we rearrange the office space. Not sure that I reported on that but we moved everything around and we like it a lot better. It seems a lot larger, and the second vertical 4 drawer file cabinet fits in now so that is a win!
By moving DH's L-shaped desk over he has his own space and I have mone but we can turn to see what the other is talking about. It also gave us a dedicated "file room" LOL in the corner with room for the printer. I didn't have to move any of the pctures on the walls either which I was worried about.
<DH Me> 
We moved DH's desk over between the closet and under the window. There is still plenty of access to the closet with its bi-fold doors. Moving his big deskThat made room for the 2 vertical file cabinets behind it and the horizontal file cabinet in the corner. He also has space for his trash can and shredder which was always sitting in the middle of the floor before. My desk and bookcases stayed where they were on the opposite side in front of the other window. The room actually looks larger now and we have plenty of work space.
We also put up the sheves in the connex and moved a bunch of stuff into them. DS1 is using the one without shelves to hold his fencing materials and tools. When the guys come back they are bringing another 4 sets of those shelves. Then we can clean out the tool shed, put up cabinets and shelves, and set it up. It will be good to find all our buoding supplies. We are going to wait to do the rest of the fencing until after we get a lot of rain. LOL We have another 4 pastures to fence with permanent electric fencing. Then we have to pull down a long line of heavy iron cattle panels and cut out a lot of brush going through there. Some of the smaller trees have actually grown through the cattle panels so will need to be cut apart to remove the fencing. There is a lot of overgrown metal in there too. We already have to burn another pile that is overgrown with weeds. It was originally a metal scrap pile that a friend said he wanted to collect the metal to sell but never picked up so we'll burn it this winter and then remove the metal outselves. I wonder if I put an ad in Craigslist if we could get someone to get the cattle panels and the metal.
A lot of the cattle panels are broken. We'll have to see. Also have some trees to trim, take down, and stumps to grind.
Maybe I should have gotten that condo on the lake after all . . . .
During the rest of the week DS1 got the new fencing in but the ground was so hard that it took him a lot longer than he thought it would. One day he only got in 7 posts - those pound in PVC T-posts! He had to ound in pilot holes! I worked on Saturday for the church dinner and auction while the guys worked on the fencing, then we went to the dinner and auction. Free Margaritas! Sunday after church DH and I ran 2 lengths of electric netting (320 feet) acrpss the back in front of the small pond. Monday DS1 finished running the electric wires and setting the chargers on the fences. We moved the water troughs to the new pastures. I took down the movable fencing in the barn so DH and DS1 could set it up tor the horses and the new barn pasture. Whe they did that I moved around the jugs and the barn fences for the new barn layout. Finally DS1 and I moved the flock that needs to be bred into the new permanent electric pasture. By then it was dark and we were exhausted. We decided that they would leave on Tuesday since we had to move the other group of bred ewes into the barn pasture. We don't like moving livestock after dark if we don't have to. Tuesday we moved the other flock into the barn pasture. Then I made lunches for them to take and packed for DH. They finally got off around 11.
Went out and fed the ram and the ewes to be bred some grain. Decided to try to flush them since we decided to wait to put the new ram in with them. They need to be wormed an get Bo-Se and didn't have time so will do it when the guys get back. The group that is bred are huge! Some are due anytime after tomorrow while most of them won't lamb until November/December. I think most of them are probably due in NovemberDecember but they could surprise me. I have 4 jugs set up and portable panels ready to go so no problem there.
They have certainly bounce back from being dragged down with lambs. They are all in excellent condition after all summer on just pasture.
Whe waiting for the tractor to be delivered DS1 insisted we rearrange the office space. Not sure that I reported on that but we moved everything around and we like it a lot better. It seems a lot larger, and the second vertical 4 drawer file cabinet fits in now so that is a win!
By moving DH's L-shaped desk over he has his own space and I have mone but we can turn to see what the other is talking about. It also gave us a dedicated "file room" LOL in the corner with room for the printer. I didn't have to move any of the pctures on the walls either which I was worried about.
<DH Me> We moved DH's desk over between the closet and under the window. There is still plenty of access to the closet with its bi-fold doors. Moving his big deskThat made room for the 2 vertical file cabinets behind it and the horizontal file cabinet in the corner. He also has space for his trash can and shredder which was always sitting in the middle of the floor before. My desk and bookcases stayed where they were on the opposite side in front of the other window. The room actually looks larger now and we have plenty of work space.
We also put up the sheves in the connex and moved a bunch of stuff into them. DS1 is using the one without shelves to hold his fencing materials and tools. When the guys come back they are bringing another 4 sets of those shelves. Then we can clean out the tool shed, put up cabinets and shelves, and set it up. It will be good to find all our buoding supplies. We are going to wait to do the rest of the fencing until after we get a lot of rain. LOL We have another 4 pastures to fence with permanent electric fencing. Then we have to pull down a long line of heavy iron cattle panels and cut out a lot of brush going through there. Some of the smaller trees have actually grown through the cattle panels so will need to be cut apart to remove the fencing. There is a lot of overgrown metal in there too. We already have to burn another pile that is overgrown with weeds. It was originally a metal scrap pile that a friend said he wanted to collect the metal to sell but never picked up so we'll burn it this winter and then remove the metal outselves. I wonder if I put an ad in Craigslist if we could get someone to get the cattle panels and the metal.
A lot of the cattle panels are broken. We'll have to see. Also have some trees to trim, take down, and stumps to grind. Maybe I should have gotten that condo on the lake after all . . . .
Love the office!
SageHill
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Yay putting the tractor to work!! A working tractor makes the work easier and kinds fun.
Baymule
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The office looks real good. You are right, it is more spacious. Y'all got a lot of work done! You are ready now for lambs or whatever may come. Tearing apart old stuff is hard work.
SageHill
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Looks great!! Now you're making me think of moving stuff around in my office!
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Ridgetop
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Pulled a hamsting in my left buttock - at least I think that is where the hamstring is located - ham, right? Happened Tuesday while putting out tubs for grain for the ewes that will be exposed next month. They charged toward me hoping I had grain in the empty tubs and I spun around to avoid getting knocked into the hot wire and couldn't walk for a day. This is in addition to the extremely sore, stiff muscles from all the work we did on the barn and fencing.
My guys are experiencing a true Ridgetop trip.
They left Tuesday morning and half an hour after they left the house I got a call from them asking me to bring the envelope of hay money to them up at the Lowes in town. (They are picking up a load of Arizona alfalfa for DS3 on the way.) DH realized he had forgotten it as they started to get on the freeway out of Sulphur Springs! They hit real heavy rain across Texas by the time they stopped for the night in Santa Rosa.
Wednesday I got another call in the afternoon. They had broken down in Winslow and were waiting for a tow truck to take them to Flagstaff for repairs. The local shop could not look at the truck until Monday! They dropped the trailer in Winslow and will have to backtrack 120 miles round trip to retrieve it after the truck is fixed - that will put them 2 hour behind. Also pay storage on it to the Winslow Ford shop. I had to cancel their Kingman reservation and they are still in Flag waiting to hear what repairs they need. The Best Western in Flagstaff does not offer free breakfast which they were not happy about since the BW is rather expensive. Luckily there is a Denny's next door. I told them to use the pool while they were waiting but they told me it is 51 degrees! Luckily they still have some of the sandwiches I made them.
DH said that the truck starts and idles but when they give it gas to go it dies - he thinks it sounds like a clog in the fuel line. Hopefully something simple. DH rushed the truck into Tolliver before they left because the check engine light was on and they fixed that problem but . . . . A Ridgetop trip to be sure.
Sigh . . . Poor Twinkles. Next major purchase will have to be a new truck.
$$$$$$$ And not that many miles on the new engine.
Anyway the weather here has been nice, not too hot. I check the hot wires in the pastures each day and have been giving the ewes and ram a small grain feed when I water everyone. The grass is good in the new pastures but the dogs are having to work further from the house. Ran a couple errands today and stopped at Brookshires - Thursday is 5% off day. I didn't get much with just me here. After buying groceries for our family for years and then with DS1, DS2, DDIL2, and their 3 babies living with us our grocery trips were huge. It feels like I have forgotten stuff every time I shop because I have less than a full basket! LOL
Time to go check sheep water and get grain ready.
My guys are experiencing a true Ridgetop trip.
They left Tuesday morning and half an hour after they left the house I got a call from them asking me to bring the envelope of hay money to them up at the Lowes in town. (They are picking up a load of Arizona alfalfa for DS3 on the way.) DH realized he had forgotten it as they started to get on the freeway out of Sulphur Springs! They hit real heavy rain across Texas by the time they stopped for the night in Santa Rosa. Wednesday I got another call in the afternoon. They had broken down in Winslow and were waiting for a tow truck to take them to Flagstaff for repairs. The local shop could not look at the truck until Monday! They dropped the trailer in Winslow and will have to backtrack 120 miles round trip to retrieve it after the truck is fixed - that will put them 2 hour behind. Also pay storage on it to the Winslow Ford shop. I had to cancel their Kingman reservation and they are still in Flag waiting to hear what repairs they need. The Best Western in Flagstaff does not offer free breakfast which they were not happy about since the BW is rather expensive. Luckily there is a Denny's next door. I told them to use the pool while they were waiting but they told me it is 51 degrees! Luckily they still have some of the sandwiches I made them.
DH said that the truck starts and idles but when they give it gas to go it dies - he thinks it sounds like a clog in the fuel line.
Hopefully something simple. DH rushed the truck into Tolliver before they left because the check engine light was on and they fixed that problem but . . . . A Ridgetop trip to be sure.Sigh . . . Poor Twinkles. Next major purchase will have to be a new truck.
$$$$$$$ And not that many miles on the new engine.Anyway the weather here has been nice, not too hot. I check the hot wires in the pastures each day and have been giving the ewes and ram a small grain feed when I water everyone. The grass is good in the new pastures but the dogs are having to work further from the house. Ran a couple errands today and stopped at Brookshires - Thursday is 5% off day. I didn't get much with just me here. After buying groceries for our family for years and then with DS1, DS2, DDIL2, and their 3 babies living with us our grocery trips were huge. It feels like I have forgotten stuff every time I shop because I have less than a full basket! LOL
Time to go check sheep water and get grain ready.
