Wehner Homestead

[Wehner Homestead]

NAILE cont’d

Old MacDonald’s Farm...

Duckling slide

Prize pig

Commercial piglets

Sheep

Llama and alpaca. Neat comparison.

We also picked up some jewelry for gifts that we’d ordered that have Show cattle on them, Mindbender semen from a bull that we want to try, and a breaking stand for calves that want to spin and kick. (I’ll try to get a pic of the breaking stand once it’s unloaded, the jewelry too at some point.)

 

[Baymule]

Nothing like fun family time. The projects were awesome. That pie was purely artistic and beautiful!

 

[RollingAcres]

Went to NAILE (North American International Livestock Expo) yesterday. Great time as always. It’s a yearly tradition.

Mounted shooting competition while eating ice cream!
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There were three male and one female contestant. The female was the only one to hit every target and won!
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We also saw some hitch competitions. I don’t know much about them but the kids were enthralled by the horse with the long tail!
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Watching the beef cattle show!
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Wow nice! Glad y'all went and had a good time!

 

[Rammy]

Thats one big A bull. Looks like y'all had alot of fun. Icecream looked delicious.

 

[goatgurl]

@Rammy's right, that's a lot of bull right there. the expo looks like it was a lot of fun. there is a kid down the road from me that has been a national champ on the mounted shooting. kind of a big deal around here. probably something I would have done back when my hands worked and I could hold a pistol and a horse at the same time.
don't let @Bruce give you a ration of stuff about your Christmas tree. I've had times in my life where the tree stayed up so I could sit in the dark with the lit tree to soothe my soul. I put one tree up the day after thanksgiving and took it down on april fools day the next year. DD and her friends kept asking me when I was going to take it down and i'd tell them "after youall eat all the candy canes off of it", lol. they kept eating candy canes and I kept buying more.
did you ever say what your new job was?if you did I missed it somehow. I sure hope its less stressful than 12 hours in icu. take care of yourself bbgirl. you've got a lot of people counting on you. hope your abd pain is better

 

[Wehner Homestead]

@goatgurl my pain is gone! I’m still doing 12 hr shifts of bedside nursing on an ICU stepdown unit. It’s better than the ICU where I was working but I’m not sure how long I can keep up bedside nursing. I’m a 24/7 caretaker at home and it’s hard to give as much of me as I feel like I should at work when I’m not sure I have anything left to give. I’m really tired when I get home!

I forgot to mention that one of the mounted shooters didn’t have a bridle or halter on his horse, just a little loop of rope around his neck! It can be seen closely in some of the pics.

 

[Wehner Homestead]

This also happened today...

Introducing Pork Chop!

We got a call to see if we wanted a free 75# barrow with a hernia. Sure! (Factory processing lines won’t take hernias because the abnormality causes a dirty mess of their process and everything has to be stopped and cleaned, causing an expensive loss. Several have discovered that we will take them or pay a bit and local butchers can process with minimal issue.)

The hernia isn’t very bad and he’s actually more like 125#! That’s pork even sooner! We did jump the gun a bit so he’s hanging out in the kidding pen until we get him another pen built.

DS asked his name as soon as he saw him...I quickly said Pork Chop as I didn’t want them thinking he was a lifelong pet. My preference isn’t one but there wasn’t another for sale to pair with him.

He is a Duroc.

Pork Chop rode home in the rear of my Edge in a dog crate. It’s only about a mile! Lol

 

[Wehner Homestead]

Halo likes laundry baskets!

Remember when Otis fell this summer and had to be put down? This is the ledge he fell off of and the tree that he was upside down on. It’s a 3 foot drop.

The trunk end of the tree. Yes, DS is climbing on it.

 

[goatgurl]

after about 5 or 6 years in the unit i'd be burned to a crisp so i'd switch to home health or some other much less stressful part of nursing, after a year or two back i'd go to the unit. insane but I loved icu and the challenges. one of the places I worked when I did travel nursing was an icu stepdown in Tulsa. hard work but not near the stress level. stayed there for 2 contracts. was headed to Alaska when my mom started to fail and asked me to come home. wanted to go really bad but what ya gonna do so I stayed home with her and worked locally, yup, in icu.
yea!! on porkchop. I see sausage and bacon in your future. ever so often I would get 'greasy' pig from a hog farm across the ok line. like the hernia pig they couldn't be shipped but got over their skin issues quickly and were good eating.
love the picture of the tree DS is climbing on and the way it has grown around that big rock. neat.
did you happen to hear where the bridleless shooter was from? kid down the road is just over the line in Oklahoma. he's been know to do that sort of thing. I say kid but he's in his 20's I think.

 

[B&B Happy goats]

It has been postulated that He (She?) will never give you more than you are capable of bearing. Sorry for all that has burdened you. Try to get a little recovery time for yourself so you can recover a bit of strength/sanity...

perfectly stated latestarter !