It never ends

So it has been a long time coming, yes my last post seems like only yesterday, but has been a long while ago.

Lots going on...

After Steph's party, we got down to working horses and tending to the fields and fences.

So the other day, the sheep was ever so lonely without his buddy (the one we ate at the party), so we put him out back with the other two cows and the three of them seemed to be accommodating to each other.

The other evening, after getting home rather late (6 pm or so).....

now fellas got to play golf when the weather is nice, so stopping off after work is great with me.....

I find that Steph, Derek and Casey are butchering the chickens that we have been feeding out....

The Barngoddess comes up to me casually saying that she hasn't seen "Chops" (the sheep) since lunch time.

Are the cows visible?

Yeah, they are eating at the trough!

So put the mud boots on and we head for a round-a-bout, to find Chops.

Poor chops had gotten under the tongue of the burn pile trailer, apparently knocked the board holding the tongue up, and the tongue came crashing down on chops breaking his back.

Chops was still breathing, but the back was broken,

So go get Derek and the 45, and change operations from chickens to a sheep.

Get the tractor, put the loader back on the tractor, hunt for and finally find the chains exactly where we left them (where they belong, but last place to look) .....

long story short, we butched a sheep the other night, kids got done about 10 pm, and after dumping the remains on the other burn pile (the one way out back), we were able to get some sleep. Still kind of miss that Baaaing at times.

Anyway, I have been sick with that summer cold stuff that you get a head full of mucous adn cough and fever, and just want to stay in bed with thirteen hundred covers on you and sweat it out. Seems everytime I am about over it, I get chilled and end up back in bed. Barngoddess is coming down with it now too, so this weekend all plans are off and we are staying inside, plenty of water and fluids and medicines and sleeping.

Horse show is this weekend, but with the two of us under the weather, we called it off.

So being busy, one night the Jeep calls wanting to talk to the Barngoddess about what is the treatment of bee stings...

Hell, Jeep, that is simple, don't get stung in the first place....

trimming bushes in that sunny Florida birthplace of speed, he tangled with a bees nest and lost ... depends on who you talk to.... but definitely lost to the tune of 10 or 11 stings....

Jeep, look before you cut!!!

oh well, I am back to bed before I get too looney...

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