HAPPY FATHER'S DAY to all you Dads.
I'm off for the golf course today, so plan to relax and enjoy.
Chamber of Commerce type of day today, going to be perfect.....
of course said that about yesterday and after getting the mowed hay raked and ready for baleing, here came the rain.....
We only got a gentle soaking, so the mowed hay won't be ruined, but guess the Bus got nailed pretty hard .... downed limbs, no power....
boy am I glad it went east of us.
Off to the golf course, enjoy your day.
tom
Sunday, June 20, 2010
Friday, June 11, 2010
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...
Celebrate Life
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...
Celebrate Life
Sunday, May 30, 2010
A salute to all our Veterans.
I take time this evening to remember those who have served their country.
Some gave all and haven't returned to family and friends.
Some gave all and came home broken, mental and/or physically.
Some tried to serve but limitations prevented them.
To all who have helped or tried to help this country become a free nation, I applaud you.
Take time tonight to remember Bill and Bob Lee who served in WWII, and Frank Lee who served in Korea. To Bob Jr who served in Vietnam, Jim who served in Germany because Bob was in Nam.
To all the families, your loved one is remembered.
May the fighting end soon and bring the troops home safely.
Happy Memorial Day.
Tom Lee
A disabled American Veteran
who also proudly served.
Some gave all and haven't returned to family and friends.
Some gave all and came home broken, mental and/or physically.
Some tried to serve but limitations prevented them.
To all who have helped or tried to help this country become a free nation, I applaud you.
Take time tonight to remember Bill and Bob Lee who served in WWII, and Frank Lee who served in Korea. To Bob Jr who served in Vietnam, Jim who served in Germany because Bob was in Nam.
To all the families, your loved one is remembered.
May the fighting end soon and bring the troops home safely.
Happy Memorial Day.
Tom Lee
A disabled American Veteran
who also proudly served.
Sunday, May 23, 2010
Steph's Graduation Party
Yes fellow bloggers, I can finally say that our youngest daughter has graduated from that institution of higher learning.
Steph received dual degrees at the graduation ceremony, 5/22/10 from Missouri Southern State University, Joplin, MO.
Her Mother and I, along with her daughter and sister, are very proud that she persevered and graduated.
Degrees in Computer forensics an d other stuff like the CSI guys on TV have.
So to figure out a way to say thanks for getting thru college, the Barngoddess and I decided a party was in order......
My previous post shows how we prepared the meat for the smoker......
Here are a few pictures from the party.....
But before I go too far into partying.... I must take this time to thank my two younger sisters Mary and Carol, who sent Steph a watch for graduation..... what a gift, sounds simple, but Steph only wears it on special occasions... thanks again Mary and Carol.... may your life in Florida be long and rewarding and may you become the blue hair scrourge of the yhounger crowds.... thanks again....
so here are a few pictures from the party....
Casey, Steph and Derreck. Casey and Derreck are the two who helped shoot the cow, butcher it and then spend all night cooking it in the smoker... way to go guys.
This picture shows David and Sarah, Sarah graduated with Steph and is from St Louis, so she came buy to celebrate also. Sarah is heading for duty with the Coast Guard, and I am proud she is taking that step... way to go...
Steph received dual degrees at the graduation ceremony, 5/22/10 from Missouri Southern State University, Joplin, MO.
Her Mother and I, along with her daughter and sister, are very proud that she persevered and graduated.
Degrees in Computer forensics an d other stuff like the CSI guys on TV have.
So to figure out a way to say thanks for getting thru college, the Barngoddess and I decided a party was in order......
My previous post shows how we prepared the meat for the smoker......
Here are a few pictures from the party.....
But before I go too far into partying.... I must take this time to thank my two younger sisters Mary and Carol, who sent Steph a watch for graduation..... what a gift, sounds simple, but Steph only wears it on special occasions... thanks again Mary and Carol.... may your life in Florida be long and rewarding and may you become the blue hair scrourge of the yhounger crowds.... thanks again....
so here are a few pictures from the party....
Casey, Steph and Derreck. Casey and Derreck are the two who helped shoot the cow, butcher it and then spend all night cooking it in the smoker... way to go guys.
This picture shows David and Sarah, Sarah graduated with Steph and is from St Louis, so she came buy to celebrate also. Sarah is heading for duty with the Coast Guard, and I am proud she is taking that step... way to go...
Saturday, May 22, 2010
WE've been busy
OK, so it's been a few weeks since our last bloggings.........
well to quote the Bus, we've been busy
More to come later, but for now it is off to graduation, college style....
So this......
has become this..........
which becomes this ............
City folks, this is where your meat comes from, not Walmart,Krogers,PriceChoppers or Alps, but from the cows you see as you travel this great country....
Eat and enjoy, more to come later.......
well to quote the Bus, we've been busy
More to come later, but for now it is off to graduation, college style....
So this......
has become this..........
which becomes this ............
City folks, this is where your meat comes from, not Walmart,Krogers,PriceChoppers or Alps, but from the cows you see as you travel this great country....
Eat and enjoy, more to come later.......
Sunday, May 2, 2010
JEEP = forgot these pics
So the Jeep puts a note about my buddy Sam McGee on my last blog ramblings.
But alas, it is 70 here already today
Jeep - for you and the Long Roof, does my popper in my left hand look familiar....
My Noble Assistant has her 22 rifle and I only have a 16 guage made from Central Arms Company, St. Louis Mo that is older than the Long Roof.....
Enjoy the demise of these three critters who were trying to steal from the Barngoddess1 garden.
And of course here is My Noble Assistant and yours truly the Horsefarmer bringing home dinner..
That the Barngoddess1 refused to cook......
So yes, we borrowed a hole in the coals and stuffed them in.....
But alas, it is 70 here already today
Jeep - for you and the Long Roof, does my popper in my left hand look familiar....
My Noble Assistant has her 22 rifle and I only have a 16 guage made from Central Arms Company, St. Louis Mo that is older than the Long Roof.....
Enjoy the demise of these three critters who were trying to steal from the Barngoddess1 garden.
And of course here is My Noble Assistant and yours truly the Horsefarmer bringing home dinner..
That the Barngoddess1 refused to cook......
So yes, we borrowed a hole in the coals and stuffed them in.....
May 2, 2010 = What a day!!
Well I guess you are wondering what makes May 2, 2010 qualify to fit the description of "What a day". So I guess I will have to tell you so that LongRoofFan doesn't get all nervous and upset.
Today on the farm there was a house burning, well actually one house burned pretty much to the ground, while the other just smoldered a little bit.
Yep, yesterday was an on again off again day, that had rain and wind one hour, sunshine the next, and then back to gale force winds and more rain. In between I managed to clean out the stable ( been a long time since I've done that, and I will now do it more often, why? because when that s**t from the horses is packed in, it takes a rotor tiller to break it up to get removed)..
but I am straying from the reason for this blog.
After sitting up half the night waiting for rabbits to appear around the garden, I finally went to bed. Got up at 7:30 am today and looking at the garden over my first cup of java - those damned rabbits had attacked my corn again.
THAT'S IT...... no more mister nice guy..... get them rabbits. And so that is what caused the house burning .....
now don't think it was a small fire like this guy is playing with
NOPE, it was a good old fire, yep here are a couple pictures of the burn in progress.... That home to those fat rabbits was going to be nothing but ashes when I got done...
from the looks of this pile, oyou can tell that my Mother taught me how to make fires that really are interesting to watch...
actually this is the brush pile that was generated from the tornado clean up. It is also the backdrop the Jeep and the Kid use when visiting the farm, works greatas a backstop to their little rifles that need target practice. Will build something from all the dirt left as a result of the stumps ...
So sitting on my big deere, yes with coffee in hand, I watched that house burn to the ground..... well almost
Then it was off to the second house where some more of those furry critters hang out
but alas, five gallons of gasoline, mixed with 5 gallons of diesel, throw in some paper and some rather bad swabby words, well, I guess my ability to burn down things was lost on the fire above, because all I got this pile to do was smolder....
So that's what caused the house burning here on the farm, and along with a great garden coming in, we
CELEBRATE LIFE
Today on the farm there was a house burning, well actually one house burned pretty much to the ground, while the other just smoldered a little bit.
Yep, yesterday was an on again off again day, that had rain and wind one hour, sunshine the next, and then back to gale force winds and more rain. In between I managed to clean out the stable ( been a long time since I've done that, and I will now do it more often, why? because when that s**t from the horses is packed in, it takes a rotor tiller to break it up to get removed)..
but I am straying from the reason for this blog.
After sitting up half the night waiting for rabbits to appear around the garden, I finally went to bed. Got up at 7:30 am today and looking at the garden over my first cup of java - those damned rabbits had attacked my corn again.
THAT'S IT...... no more mister nice guy..... get them rabbits. And so that is what caused the house burning .....
now don't think it was a small fire like this guy is playing with
NOPE, it was a good old fire, yep here are a couple pictures of the burn in progress.... That home to those fat rabbits was going to be nothing but ashes when I got done...
from the looks of this pile, oyou can tell that my Mother taught me how to make fires that really are interesting to watch...
actually this is the brush pile that was generated from the tornado clean up. It is also the backdrop the Jeep and the Kid use when visiting the farm, works greatas a backstop to their little rifles that need target practice. Will build something from all the dirt left as a result of the stumps ...
So sitting on my big deere, yes with coffee in hand, I watched that house burn to the ground..... well almost
Then it was off to the second house where some more of those furry critters hang out
but alas, five gallons of gasoline, mixed with 5 gallons of diesel, throw in some paper and some rather bad swabby words, well, I guess my ability to burn down things was lost on the fire above, because all I got this pile to do was smolder....
So that's what caused the house burning here on the farm, and along with a great garden coming in, we
CELEBRATE LIFE
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