Dacjohns--Changes

[dacjohns]

My exciting (Did I get you to look?) day today, really it was just a normal day.

Check news and email.
Pick up my fixed air pump for the private home sewage system.
Stop by Yoders and pick up some cookies and fudge and drool over the furniture.
Stop by a friend's house and get some more prime oak for firewood.
Stop by Wally World (ugh).
Get home and hook pump back up.
Somewhere along the line eat lunch.
Unload and split firewood. Can't believe that took so much time. Heat and getting older slows one down.
Tinkered with the tractor.


Surely I did more than that today.

I did, I took some breaks.

 

[justusnak]

Surely I did more than that today.

I did, I took some breaks.
HAHAHA! Its those breaks that get ya! Gotta watch out for them!

 

[Henrietta23]

Wasn't there an ad for bored goats?

I haven't found any bored or board ones today but I found this:
BUCK KID - NUBIAN X - BORN 3/9 - READY TO GO - DISBUDDED - WILL BE WEATHERED SOON -
Looking for that nice patina I guess....

Congratulations on the firewood. It sounds like a real score!

 

[dacjohns]

Ticks and chiggers, I hate them.

and poison ivy. Maybe it is time to move out West.

 

[dacjohns]

Initially intended on cutting cedar (Juniperus virginiana) posts today but somehow got sidetracked.

First I tightened a bolt on the tractor and then noticed that the bearings were showing on the back wheel of the bush hog. Took the axle all apart and cleaned it and decided that things weren't right (maybe never were right) so now the wheel is still off and I'm going to take it to the tractor place and see what can be done. Then I decided to grease the tractor. Four fittings I can't get to without a flexible hose on my grease gun. Something else to buy. One fitting is froze up and needs replaced.

Two projects started and not completed not including the parts I'm waiting on.

Then I decided to try and repair a leak on the fancy wheeled hose reel. Nope, leak is inside and I need to take the drum apart.

Then I decided to air up the tires on my wife's mower trailer that has been sitting for a couple of years. Nope, tires need replaced.

Screen door. Hah. This pole barn house has metal trim. Have to take the trim around the door off and replace it with something else. Started on the that and the drill batteries are dead.

Guess I'll see what all my virtual friends are up to.

 

[TanksHill]

I can't stand days like that.

But.. you know tomorrow could be the exact opposite. If you finish those half done projects.

 

[ohiofarmgirl]

Ticks and chiggers, I hate them.

and poison ivy. Maybe it is time to move out West.

aint that right.... you dont know how many times i have said this. throw in the humidity and i'm just one packing box away from becoming "Oregonfarmgirl".....

we arent doing anything either - raining like we need to build an ark. that and we spent all darn day in town. might as well sit around and eat, if you ask me
;-)

 

[dacjohns]

Yesterday I took a walk out to back 20 to dispose of an animal carcass. On the way back I was walking around the edge of the field in some oak saplings that need thinned and I heard some rustling. I looked toward the sound and saw a black thing with white stripes. It kind of moved toward me and I did a quick back step, turn, and run. It then ran off the other direction. Luckily no odor detected in the air.

Late afternoon the chickens were squawking up a storm. Didn't know what the problem was and they do make a lot of racket occasionally. Later I went in the coop to gather eggs and two big rat snakes were in the coop doing their mating ritual. Got them out and the wife went to get the camera since they were still courting. By the time she got back one snake left but I grabbed the other one and took it away.

Got back and went back in to gather eggs. Another snake was in the nest box with an egg in its mouth. Got it out, saved the egg, and relocated the third snake.

Gathered two eggs. Just before we went to town the Brahma was in the nest box. Guess she was waiting for the snake to leave. Three boxes and she wanted the one with the snake.

Good thing the snakes help keep the rodents down.

 

[Quail_Antwerp]

It makes me shudder just thinking about Snake Season being upon us.

How funny that your hen waited for the box that had the snake in it!

 

[dacjohns]