Well now that the summer is winding down it is time to reflect on all that has happened. Reflection about the summer while one tries to harvest and preserve the bounties of a garden that I have not more than just walked through all summer (I know there are edible weeds but really........) I know I planted seeds somewhere. I I mean Canna's that are eight feet tall, pig weed and goose foot at least four feet tall, look at that grass.....where is the machette?
Beside preperation for health papers for so many animals and birds so they can go to fairs, almost all the bird leg bands fall off to prevent them from being shown all summer (one fair will not pay for the testing done, which is all we have left.)and I spent a considerable amount of time trying to get the vet back to reband:
My beautiful daughter breaks a vertebre in her neck in an on farm accident (dealing with the insurance company),
600 bales of hay stored to the loft (do you know the price of hay?),
8 agrucultural fairs (lots of new friends and contacts and not enought premium money to pay for the fuel to get back and forth),
60 square of shingles on the roof and filling a dumpster (Do you remember how hot it was this summer?),
My son's apendectomy (surprise didn't see that coming either!),
five batches of chickens raised and sold (business holding on barely),
six pigs the same ("At The Farm Dinners" a worthy cause and tasty too, Google it, for it is good for local farmers including me),
four veal calves (there is a real shortage of farm calves who would have thought),
one heifer and several goats to auction (culling time for those who don't produce enough to pay for their grain),
the new bee hives giving me greif (one hive decided to swam (as in leave)not once but twice, ungrateful creatures....)
and finally the decision to homeschool both children...........
Yes, it took a considerable amount of stamina to get through. Keeping the farm running throughout the whole process was trying to say the least. My poor home has suffered the most. Thank goodness that it has a new roof and isn't complaining too much. So perhaps there was some moments of sheer exhaustion (What day is it? Where am I supposed to be? What do you mean it's raining again!).
Time for me? You must be joking.........
Thursday, September 18, 2008
Wednesday, September 17, 2008
Are you kidding me?
I have heard that the presidential candidates are going to spend collectively about a billion dollars on the election process. Am I missing something? That is over three dollars per american!
HEY! JUST IN CASE YOU DIDN'T REALIZE THIS YOU BUNCH OF ARROGANT IDIOTS, A GREAT MANY MORE PEOPLE THAN JUST MYSELF THINK NEITHER CANDIDATE IS WORTH THEIR WEIGHT IN MANURE! BELIEVE ME WE KNOW ABOUT POLITICIANS AND MANURE AROUND HERE!
I understand they are keeping the advertising agencies busy however don't they think that the big donations people need to give to a more worthy cause? With the US population in the avenue of 304 million people I would imagine that the money could be warranted to some much need help to those in need. Starting with our veterans and moving to education and housing?
Perhaps if they were kept in check on spending the debates would be worth watching because they would actually have to answer questions about their stance on an issue rather than skirt it and bombard us with more political retohric. If they were limitied to just the issues and none of the name calling. Vote for me I'm black and a minority and the underdog, vote for me I am a veteran and have values just like you.
I am insulted by this tactic.
How is it that Freddie Mac and Fanny Mae executives get to walk away with a 25 million dollar severance package? Aren't they going to be held responsible? Didn't they put the market in it's current decline to their deliberate acts such as were practiced at Enron?
Holy cow puckies, if I ever dreamed of keeping books like the government I would be in jail for life. I live in fear that the IRS will bang on my door because I forgot to inclued the 40.00 someone paid me for grain or the fair premimum that my children earned this summer. If the money belongs to a goat or a cow, do they have to pay taxes on it too?
I have been saying for he past three years that things were harder for the middle class and our economy was hurting. Now the market goes down a bit and the rich start to feel a pinch so now is the only time the econory is in turmoil?
Wake up and smell the coffee.
Our econony is at it's healthiest when the markets is around 10,000. It all boils down to greed. The rich want to be richer and the middle class would be happy with a little less stress thank you.
HEY! JUST IN CASE YOU DIDN'T REALIZE THIS YOU BUNCH OF ARROGANT IDIOTS, A GREAT MANY MORE PEOPLE THAN JUST MYSELF THINK NEITHER CANDIDATE IS WORTH THEIR WEIGHT IN MANURE! BELIEVE ME WE KNOW ABOUT POLITICIANS AND MANURE AROUND HERE!
I understand they are keeping the advertising agencies busy however don't they think that the big donations people need to give to a more worthy cause? With the US population in the avenue of 304 million people I would imagine that the money could be warranted to some much need help to those in need. Starting with our veterans and moving to education and housing?
Perhaps if they were kept in check on spending the debates would be worth watching because they would actually have to answer questions about their stance on an issue rather than skirt it and bombard us with more political retohric. If they were limitied to just the issues and none of the name calling. Vote for me I'm black and a minority and the underdog, vote for me I am a veteran and have values just like you.
I am insulted by this tactic.
How is it that Freddie Mac and Fanny Mae executives get to walk away with a 25 million dollar severance package? Aren't they going to be held responsible? Didn't they put the market in it's current decline to their deliberate acts such as were practiced at Enron?
Holy cow puckies, if I ever dreamed of keeping books like the government I would be in jail for life. I live in fear that the IRS will bang on my door because I forgot to inclued the 40.00 someone paid me for grain or the fair premimum that my children earned this summer. If the money belongs to a goat or a cow, do they have to pay taxes on it too?
I have been saying for he past three years that things were harder for the middle class and our economy was hurting. Now the market goes down a bit and the rich start to feel a pinch so now is the only time the econory is in turmoil?
Wake up and smell the coffee.
Our econony is at it's healthiest when the markets is around 10,000. It all boils down to greed. The rich want to be richer and the middle class would be happy with a little less stress thank you.
Tuesday, September 9, 2008
So there we have it.
The Agricultural Fair season is drawing to a close for our family. I must say that it was a difficult (at best) season for me. The children had a good time and thanks and kudos go to the person or should I say persons who watched them while they were there.
The premium monies barely paid for fuel to get them there(my driving back and forth every day to make sure the children are behaving and that they are caring for the animals properly) let alone the food and new clothes to help them look presentable.
The cows were not a total loss but almost. The girls were supposed to keep after them. At last weeks fair the superintendent from that barn had a chat with the girls and explained how the cows should be clean throughout the whole fair. Needless to say that one girl has given up on the cows. I must admit when the cows go un-handled for the entire Fall, Winter, Spring, then Summer rolls around and they get loaded onto a trailer and are expected to preform, well I don't blame the cows for unruly behavior. As someone has said "being tied to a post for three days works wonders on their attitudes" This is very true, and "Just" now behaves better when she goes to be shown.
I don't blame anyone for loosing interest. My son has decided to take on a cow himself. My daughter will continue and I suppose I will harass them both to do as they should.
We have had steady goats at the fairs and have dropped a few from the roster due to condition problems (some animals don't like to be in display). We have some who love being there and can definitely place last. As I have stated in the past someone has to be comic relief.
The roof has been completed and now we get to move on to other projects that have been put on hold while we gave new life to this old house.
I am not sure if there will be three or two more fairs to go to but I am giving serious thought to next years adventures. I may be heading to the outer rim of the vortex and may make a break from it.......
The premium monies barely paid for fuel to get them there(my driving back and forth every day to make sure the children are behaving and that they are caring for the animals properly) let alone the food and new clothes to help them look presentable.
The cows were not a total loss but almost. The girls were supposed to keep after them. At last weeks fair the superintendent from that barn had a chat with the girls and explained how the cows should be clean throughout the whole fair. Needless to say that one girl has given up on the cows. I must admit when the cows go un-handled for the entire Fall, Winter, Spring, then Summer rolls around and they get loaded onto a trailer and are expected to preform, well I don't blame the cows for unruly behavior. As someone has said "being tied to a post for three days works wonders on their attitudes" This is very true, and "Just" now behaves better when she goes to be shown.
I don't blame anyone for loosing interest. My son has decided to take on a cow himself. My daughter will continue and I suppose I will harass them both to do as they should.
We have had steady goats at the fairs and have dropped a few from the roster due to condition problems (some animals don't like to be in display). We have some who love being there and can definitely place last. As I have stated in the past someone has to be comic relief.
The roof has been completed and now we get to move on to other projects that have been put on hold while we gave new life to this old house.
I am not sure if there will be three or two more fairs to go to but I am giving serious thought to next years adventures. I may be heading to the outer rim of the vortex and may make a break from it.......
Thursday, August 21, 2008
Really, Beware
Hey all,
As everyone on my list knows our driveway is a half mile long.
Today a person came to solicited us to buy books and donate them to a hospital so they could earn money to go to London. Never heard of any of the hospitals of choice...
It didn't add up for me, his collage type cloths. He seemed too old. Mentioning a neighbor that I didn't know, his "grand parents"....
He had tattoos on his knuckles and all over his arms and legs. Didn't seem to fit with his Seersucker shorts and knit Polo top.......
I told him that I wanted his name and phone number and wanted some kind of ID. Oh, it was back at his car at his grandparents house.......
Only one order form, a brochure that seemed never to have been handled before, this was his second trip down the driveway? What are you out for exercise?
OK, give me your name and phone number, I am calling the Resident State Trooper to see if he knows anything of you.......or your grandparents.....
Believe me when I tell you by the time I called the local dispatch for the police, Dave was turning the truck around and we went to see exactly where he was..........yup almost gone........
A silver Ford Van Large style with Texas plates......seemed to have helped him get away.
If you want more details feel free to call or message back. Just be so careful. I don't know why he picked us. All I can think of is that my daughter had walked out with one of the dogs to get the mail today and they could have seen her. Maybe not. We will be locking the door and taking keys out of the vehicles for a long time to come.
My daughter has now been lectured again not to open the door to strangers even with the dogs barking by her side like mad. I told her if his hand can fit in the door they can grab you.! Horrible to think about and she is terrified now. All for the best. We must keep the children safe. So sorry to spoil and innocent childhood, better to be on guard than not to have a childhood at all...
He may have been scoping out the houses to see which one looked right. There have been many burglaries in surrounding towns.......
I won't forget his face, the cloths he wore, the "expensive watch".....supposedly, you have an expensive watch? Why are you selling books and magazines? For all I know the watch is a fake......looking him dead in the eyes.........wouldn't write his name on my message book........wouldn't shake my hand........nor look me in the eyes any more.
Yup, I'm scared now.
As everyone on my list knows our driveway is a half mile long.
Today a person came to solicited us to buy books and donate them to a hospital so they could earn money to go to London. Never heard of any of the hospitals of choice...
It didn't add up for me, his collage type cloths. He seemed too old. Mentioning a neighbor that I didn't know, his "grand parents"....
He had tattoos on his knuckles and all over his arms and legs. Didn't seem to fit with his Seersucker shorts and knit Polo top.......
I told him that I wanted his name and phone number and wanted some kind of ID. Oh, it was back at his car at his grandparents house.......
Only one order form, a brochure that seemed never to have been handled before, this was his second trip down the driveway? What are you out for exercise?
OK, give me your name and phone number, I am calling the Resident State Trooper to see if he knows anything of you.......or your grandparents.....
Believe me when I tell you by the time I called the local dispatch for the police, Dave was turning the truck around and we went to see exactly where he was..........yup almost gone........
A silver Ford Van Large style with Texas plates......seemed to have helped him get away.
If you want more details feel free to call or message back. Just be so careful. I don't know why he picked us. All I can think of is that my daughter had walked out with one of the dogs to get the mail today and they could have seen her. Maybe not. We will be locking the door and taking keys out of the vehicles for a long time to come.
My daughter has now been lectured again not to open the door to strangers even with the dogs barking by her side like mad. I told her if his hand can fit in the door they can grab you.! Horrible to think about and she is terrified now. All for the best. We must keep the children safe. So sorry to spoil and innocent childhood, better to be on guard than not to have a childhood at all...
He may have been scoping out the houses to see which one looked right. There have been many burglaries in surrounding towns.......
I won't forget his face, the cloths he wore, the "expensive watch".....supposedly, you have an expensive watch? Why are you selling books and magazines? For all I know the watch is a fake......looking him dead in the eyes.........wouldn't write his name on my message book........wouldn't shake my hand........nor look me in the eyes any more.
Yup, I'm scared now.
Thursday, August 14, 2008
Where ya been.......
So yes I have been busy.
Fair last weekend. One cow completely freaked out the other placed second out of two. Still paid for the gas to get her there and the girl who showed her had fun. Both children enjoyed the weekend staying with the 4-H leader who is a gem unto her own.
Still working on the roof every other step. Going crazy trying to keep up. I am not in bed until 11 and now I can't get out of bed until 6. Go figure. A little more help would be appreciated. I guess all I have to do is ask since when I do the help arrives. OK, maybe it's not always the kind of help I need but it is help none the less.
No fair this weekend but there is still the roof and the weather looks good after tomorrow for a while so we can button up the front. The sky lights ordered for the last section of roof have yet to come in. I guess we could start with just three but if the differ in manufacture, well, I would like all six to match.
UPS packages lost and not found. That will take some time. Other items bought on line still not arrived that were sent USPS. I don't know maybe postage should go up again so I can wait longer with every price hike.
Chickens harvested, pigs delivered, payment yet to be made.....
It is getting to me oh well I think I will find a cool one take a sip and then off to take a power nap before I make cheese, the pizza, evening animal care and shingle clean up before the start of tomorrow.
Fair last weekend. One cow completely freaked out the other placed second out of two. Still paid for the gas to get her there and the girl who showed her had fun. Both children enjoyed the weekend staying with the 4-H leader who is a gem unto her own.
Still working on the roof every other step. Going crazy trying to keep up. I am not in bed until 11 and now I can't get out of bed until 6. Go figure. A little more help would be appreciated. I guess all I have to do is ask since when I do the help arrives. OK, maybe it's not always the kind of help I need but it is help none the less.
No fair this weekend but there is still the roof and the weather looks good after tomorrow for a while so we can button up the front. The sky lights ordered for the last section of roof have yet to come in. I guess we could start with just three but if the differ in manufacture, well, I would like all six to match.
UPS packages lost and not found. That will take some time. Other items bought on line still not arrived that were sent USPS. I don't know maybe postage should go up again so I can wait longer with every price hike.
Chickens harvested, pigs delivered, payment yet to be made.....
It is getting to me oh well I think I will find a cool one take a sip and then off to take a power nap before I make cheese, the pizza, evening animal care and shingle clean up before the start of tomorrow.
Wednesday, August 6, 2008
Archaic times
With the roof being replaced smoothly I figure it's time to remove some of the waste that is accumulating. Pretty simple, just call the carting company order the correct size container and off it goes...........ah if life were so easy for me.......once again welcome to the "VORTEX THAT IS DONNA"
Me-I telephone the first company on the list:
"Hello, I need a container"
Jerk- "What size of container are you looking for and what are you putting in it?"
Me- "We are re-roofing so spent shingles and some nails" (of course if you don't know me I am going to recycle the aluminum myself and make a few pennies)
Jerk-"Well how large a job is it?"
Me-"It's a 60 square job so I think right now I need about a 6-8 yard container and I am wondering how much they would be?"
Jerk-" Where is the house located?" (Oh crap when he finds out there goes the price)
Me- (my town since I haven't pulled a permit I won't mention it now).
Jerk-"WOW how large is the house for sixty square 10,000 square feet at least"
Me-"Now don't get carried away. The house has a twelve pitch and the house isn't even half that size. "
Jerk-"Well you need at least a 20 if not 30 yard container for all that mess, it's going to cost you many thousands of dollars"(see he found out the town and now the price just went up)
Me- "I know what I am speaking about. (of course I have been in construction for over...... not to age my self several decades) I am telling you I only need a 10 maybe 12 yard at best if I clean out the garage and basement......"
Jerk- "LISTEN LADY YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT YOUR TALKING ABOUT, YOU NEED A REALLY LARGE CONTAINER, ITS GOING TO BE EXPENSIVE"
ME- " I appreciate what your saying but looking at the pile of rubble it is only at best four yards now. Maybe you should go and (At this point I was going to say the lumber yard to see what 60 square look like but I didn't get the CHANCE).
Jerk- "What the f*$#K are you talking about, you don't know what the H*%#l you need, I'M TELLING YOU WHAT THE F*&&^^K YOU NEED AND IT IS A HUGE CONTAINER!!!!!"
Me- Speechless for once....
Jerk-"YOU NEED TO CALL ANOTHER F%&**NG HAULING COMPANY!!!!! CLICK
I must say that I have run into this type of neanderthal thinking in the past usually with older vehicle salesman, but to be bombarded with foul language by the what I would have imagined was the owner of the company left me dumbfound. I don't think men believe that there are woman who know what they are talking about when it comes to construction. I have be lucky enough to be taught by the best and have used my knowledge on a great many projects and have more experience than I would like to admit so that no one asks me to do jobs for them.
I had a cold hard slap of reality again this morning and it really set my britches to smoldering. Since I am such a large person in real life people give me respect that I have grown accustomed to. When using the phone they can not see my laser eyes burning holes into their little pea brains putting the fear of the attack of the Amazon, who will with her aura just melt you into the sniveling mud sucking squid dick that you truly are. Now with that said I can't say I feel much better, I do know that someday I will meet this person face to face and will in no uncertain terms tell him where the dog died. Because I can always count on fate and destiny to help me through. God gives me the strength to control myself so I don't pummel them into the ground and wipe my feet on their eye brows.
On another note, my daughter is healing well and is into a soft neck collar for another 3 weeks using the hard collar when she is around the animals. No tag playing or rough housing yet.
The boy has unplugged from the head set and has turned human again. I think maybe our parents were correct that the more that we listen to others the less we are of ourselves.
Enough rambling for one day, Slurp.....mmmmmm......I feel much more relaxed now......
Me-I telephone the first company on the list:
"Hello, I need a container"
Jerk- "What size of container are you looking for and what are you putting in it?"
Me- "We are re-roofing so spent shingles and some nails" (of course if you don't know me I am going to recycle the aluminum myself and make a few pennies)
Jerk-"Well how large a job is it?"
Me-"It's a 60 square job so I think right now I need about a 6-8 yard container and I am wondering how much they would be?"
Jerk-" Where is the house located?" (Oh crap when he finds out there goes the price)
Me- (my town since I haven't pulled a permit I won't mention it now).
Jerk-"WOW how large is the house for sixty square 10,000 square feet at least"
Me-"Now don't get carried away. The house has a twelve pitch and the house isn't even half that size. "
Jerk-"Well you need at least a 20 if not 30 yard container for all that mess, it's going to cost you many thousands of dollars"(see he found out the town and now the price just went up)
Me- "I know what I am speaking about. (of course I have been in construction for over...... not to age my self several decades) I am telling you I only need a 10 maybe 12 yard at best if I clean out the garage and basement......"
Jerk- "LISTEN LADY YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT YOUR TALKING ABOUT, YOU NEED A REALLY LARGE CONTAINER, ITS GOING TO BE EXPENSIVE"
ME- " I appreciate what your saying but looking at the pile of rubble it is only at best four yards now. Maybe you should go and (At this point I was going to say the lumber yard to see what 60 square look like but I didn't get the CHANCE).
Jerk- "What the f*$#K are you talking about, you don't know what the H*%#l you need, I'M TELLING YOU WHAT THE F*&&^^K YOU NEED AND IT IS A HUGE CONTAINER!!!!!"
Me- Speechless for once....
Jerk-"YOU NEED TO CALL ANOTHER F%&**NG HAULING COMPANY!!!!! CLICK
I must say that I have run into this type of neanderthal thinking in the past usually with older vehicle salesman, but to be bombarded with foul language by the what I would have imagined was the owner of the company left me dumbfound. I don't think men believe that there are woman who know what they are talking about when it comes to construction. I have be lucky enough to be taught by the best and have used my knowledge on a great many projects and have more experience than I would like to admit so that no one asks me to do jobs for them.
I had a cold hard slap of reality again this morning and it really set my britches to smoldering. Since I am such a large person in real life people give me respect that I have grown accustomed to. When using the phone they can not see my laser eyes burning holes into their little pea brains putting the fear of the attack of the Amazon, who will with her aura just melt you into the sniveling mud sucking squid dick that you truly are. Now with that said I can't say I feel much better, I do know that someday I will meet this person face to face and will in no uncertain terms tell him where the dog died. Because I can always count on fate and destiny to help me through. God gives me the strength to control myself so I don't pummel them into the ground and wipe my feet on their eye brows.
On another note, my daughter is healing well and is into a soft neck collar for another 3 weeks using the hard collar when she is around the animals. No tag playing or rough housing yet.
The boy has unplugged from the head set and has turned human again. I think maybe our parents were correct that the more that we listen to others the less we are of ourselves.
Enough rambling for one day, Slurp.....mmmmmm......I feel much more relaxed now......
Sunday, August 3, 2008
ARE YOU CRAZY....
So I'm off to pick up a buckling for goat breeding that I had actually purchased last year and I asked my husband to help me put one crate in the back of the truck.
Just put the cap on he says that way you won't have to worry about rain or anything. No, I say. I just need the one crate.
So on goes the cap and home I come with two goats (lucky that it is not four......he doesn't know how tempted I was with the payment plan offered!).
Why are there two? What are you kidding me?
Even with the visit I make it home in 6 hours. I can see how tired he is from working on the roof and just let it all slide by with the vodka and soda I was handed. My how smooth that went down. May I have another?
What do you mean there are evening chores to do? After the second cocktail I will swagger down to take care of all those lost souls.......after all I did finish late again this morning.
No, I just realized that I don't have to harvest 30 chickens this week it can wait a week. Just as well they aren't quite big enough.
Slurp......mmmmmmmm..........oh I suppose..........
Just put the cap on he says that way you won't have to worry about rain or anything. No, I say. I just need the one crate.
So on goes the cap and home I come with two goats (lucky that it is not four......he doesn't know how tempted I was with the payment plan offered!).
Why are there two? What are you kidding me?
Even with the visit I make it home in 6 hours. I can see how tired he is from working on the roof and just let it all slide by with the vodka and soda I was handed. My how smooth that went down. May I have another?
What do you mean there are evening chores to do? After the second cocktail I will swagger down to take care of all those lost souls.......after all I did finish late again this morning.
No, I just realized that I don't have to harvest 30 chickens this week it can wait a week. Just as well they aren't quite big enough.
Slurp......mmmmmmmm..........oh I suppose..........
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