Wednesday Aug. 3, 2011
fairly easy day in some ways.
still hot as all get out.
Hubby had to get out and going to catch birds to deliver to a man in OKC. One hour away but it tears up at least 3 there and back with everything that has to be done. If you have to stop anywhere even more time. I held down the homestead since it was so hot and not only dangerous if the car broke down but someone has to be here for those just in case something happens times.
Our Sam the Dozer man came and finished up the Olympic size pond on the Sire's place. Looks great! Really deep!! I will try to get pics of it all soon. Don't know why I didn't get one so you could see the difference with the before pics. Now we need a gully washer to come in and fill it up. He also fixed one of the holes we have been battling all spring and winter when it rained. Now it is not only filled in but fixed to be drained properly. I told hubby we still need a load of gravel on it because all that is now is a pretty soon to be really deep mud hole! GRUMBLE GRUMBLE is all I got out of that. He brought the big Cat dozer over to the house and worked on the little pond at the barn. Once again no before pics. Sorry. He made it about 2 or 3 times bigger and way the heck deeper. The only problem is that the gate going between pasture and barn pen is now way to close to the edge of the pond. I told hubby when we take that fence out we are going to have to do something way different because it isn't safe when it gets wet or icy somebody is going to just slide right off whether it be truck or tractor we can't afford that kind of mess.
I felt bad because we couldn't check the sick cow and the now moved calf until about 3 p. instead of the 3x's of day we were doing. As we expected the cow was dead and the darn calf was still beside it's dead mama. Sure is exasperating all the way around. We worked hard not only to save the cow but the get the calf excepted by another mama in the herd when we took it up to the cows on the hill by the other pond. So this time we left the calf there with mama and went around the road to the other side and opened the hay field gate and once again called them down to the now huge dry pond and the corral to see if they would take the baby back with them.
Here it is close to 120* (on the car temp.) and we are trying to get cows to follow us. We got lucky and some clouds moved over enough they didn't mind getting out of the shade. They followed us to the creek bed and Hubby got out and walked them across to the woods where the dead cow and now orphaned calf was. Soon as they got close enough he came out of the woods and mixed with them. I noticed one cow booted him away but there were others there watching over him. We will keep track of him the next few days to see if he is sucking another cow. If not well...... we just have to figure something else out. I am now on the look out for a huge dog crate for something like a great dane to put a baby calf in if we ever need to move one like this again. This one we had to let hubby get by the hind leg then carry it and hold in the back of the truck while I drove them around to the other cows. If we had a crate like that it would have been easier on him and even if one of us had to do it by ourselves it would have made it possible. There are just some things it ain't good to try and use a big ol' gooseneck trailer for.
Now the cows know where the new to them pond is with good water. They have only found it once on their own after taking them up to it about 4 mornings in a row. I just hope they will continue to stay up there in the heat of the day. We noticed the cows and bull have been acting better with the better water supply.
Dozer man pulled out today with the Olympic pond and the kiddy pool pond down at the barn done now. He worked 39.5 hrs $95 a hour that was a $3750.00 total bill. It all started out as we have $1500 we can turn loose of and we should be able to get it done for that. W-R-O-N-G !!! W-R-O-N-G !!! W-R-O-N-G !!! We had no clue I guess! LOL Oh it is all done rite now. It is deep like it should be and the big pond is a life saver when it gets full. It also really increased the value of the property. We just moaned and groaned expecting a $5000 dollar bill the way it was taking so long and it was so big. We'll get over it and enjoy the improvement. I told hubby we really need to try to do that to each place once a year if we can. All the ponds need cleaning out and enlarging not only for the cows but you never know if you need it for the house or something sometime.
We wrapped up the day with some pork steaks and shells mac and cheese with grapes for dessert I was lucky to even whip that out. After going out in the heat and doing anything, even just riding around in a unairconditioned truck I am just worthless. No matter how much water you drink or come in and cool off it just doesn't undo the heat damage. Your still weak, tired, can't think, don't give a flip for a lot of stuff and just get it all done good enough to just get it done.
Well got to go.
We have a weird night. Have some people in Florida that want some hand feeding size cockatiels shipped to them. Hubby is going to "try" to nap and then go out about 11p and get them ready for shipping. We will leave about 2:30 to be at the airport by 4 am. I am used to weird sleeping hours but will see how it goes. Still going to be in the 80* range though.
fairly easy day in some ways.
still hot as all get out.
Hubby had to get out and going to catch birds to deliver to a man in OKC. One hour away but it tears up at least 3 there and back with everything that has to be done. If you have to stop anywhere even more time. I held down the homestead since it was so hot and not only dangerous if the car broke down but someone has to be here for those just in case something happens times.
Our Sam the Dozer man came and finished up the Olympic size pond on the Sire's place. Looks great! Really deep!! I will try to get pics of it all soon. Don't know why I didn't get one so you could see the difference with the before pics. Now we need a gully washer to come in and fill it up. He also fixed one of the holes we have been battling all spring and winter when it rained. Now it is not only filled in but fixed to be drained properly. I told hubby we still need a load of gravel on it because all that is now is a pretty soon to be really deep mud hole! GRUMBLE GRUMBLE is all I got out of that. He brought the big Cat dozer over to the house and worked on the little pond at the barn. Once again no before pics. Sorry. He made it about 2 or 3 times bigger and way the heck deeper. The only problem is that the gate going between pasture and barn pen is now way to close to the edge of the pond. I told hubby when we take that fence out we are going to have to do something way different because it isn't safe when it gets wet or icy somebody is going to just slide right off whether it be truck or tractor we can't afford that kind of mess.
I felt bad because we couldn't check the sick cow and the now moved calf until about 3 p. instead of the 3x's of day we were doing. As we expected the cow was dead and the darn calf was still beside it's dead mama. Sure is exasperating all the way around. We worked hard not only to save the cow but the get the calf excepted by another mama in the herd when we took it up to the cows on the hill by the other pond. So this time we left the calf there with mama and went around the road to the other side and opened the hay field gate and once again called them down to the now huge dry pond and the corral to see if they would take the baby back with them.
Here it is close to 120* (on the car temp.) and we are trying to get cows to follow us. We got lucky and some clouds moved over enough they didn't mind getting out of the shade. They followed us to the creek bed and Hubby got out and walked them across to the woods where the dead cow and now orphaned calf was. Soon as they got close enough he came out of the woods and mixed with them. I noticed one cow booted him away but there were others there watching over him. We will keep track of him the next few days to see if he is sucking another cow. If not well...... we just have to figure something else out. I am now on the look out for a huge dog crate for something like a great dane to put a baby calf in if we ever need to move one like this again. This one we had to let hubby get by the hind leg then carry it and hold in the back of the truck while I drove them around to the other cows. If we had a crate like that it would have been easier on him and even if one of us had to do it by ourselves it would have made it possible. There are just some things it ain't good to try and use a big ol' gooseneck trailer for.
Now the cows know where the new to them pond is with good water. They have only found it once on their own after taking them up to it about 4 mornings in a row. I just hope they will continue to stay up there in the heat of the day. We noticed the cows and bull have been acting better with the better water supply.
Dozer man pulled out today with the Olympic pond and the kiddy pool pond down at the barn done now. He worked 39.5 hrs $95 a hour that was a $3750.00 total bill. It all started out as we have $1500 we can turn loose of and we should be able to get it done for that. W-R-O-N-G !!! W-R-O-N-G !!! W-R-O-N-G !!! We had no clue I guess! LOL Oh it is all done rite now. It is deep like it should be and the big pond is a life saver when it gets full. It also really increased the value of the property. We just moaned and groaned expecting a $5000 dollar bill the way it was taking so long and it was so big. We'll get over it and enjoy the improvement. I told hubby we really need to try to do that to each place once a year if we can. All the ponds need cleaning out and enlarging not only for the cows but you never know if you need it for the house or something sometime.
We wrapped up the day with some pork steaks and shells mac and cheese with grapes for dessert I was lucky to even whip that out. After going out in the heat and doing anything, even just riding around in a unairconditioned truck I am just worthless. No matter how much water you drink or come in and cool off it just doesn't undo the heat damage. Your still weak, tired, can't think, don't give a flip for a lot of stuff and just get it all done good enough to just get it done.
Well got to go.
We have a weird night. Have some people in Florida that want some hand feeding size cockatiels shipped to them. Hubby is going to "try" to nap and then go out about 11p and get them ready for shipping. We will leave about 2:30 to be at the airport by 4 am. I am used to weird sleeping hours but will see how it goes. Still going to be in the 80* range though.
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