Good Morning!

[smurfy]

which one is yours??????? or do you need to install the training wheels yet??????

[RebelSS]

2 minutes ago, smurfy said:

which one is yours??????? or do you need to install the training wheels yet??????

[leechlake]

but Boar has velcro sneakers that kids ties his shoes.

[Boar]

yup! certified bad a$$ boar.

[RebelSS]

Read yer PM's!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Boar]

your PostMenstral?  dont have any...???

smurf did it. hes lieing. he payd me to say it.

[RebelSS]

WHAT?! You do too....3 hrs ago! Resending, ya nozzlenose!!!  

5 minutes ago, Boar said:

your PostMenstral?  dont have any...???

smurf did it. hes lieing. he payd me to say it.

Why that little........

[Dotch]

27 - 9! Found a bonus ewe lamb tonight that was born after we penned the mother up with what we thought was a single buck lamb this a.m. Must've been dazed and confused when I looked this noon. 

 

[Dotch]

5 hours ago, Deet said:

As a center in high school football I will say that soft hands are something that quarterbacks should strive for - they're not just for hockey players and wide receivers.

I wasn't actually a center but considering RH (who's that?) games must have an HSO'er for a QB, it's no wonder you can't keep a center on the payroll.

In all seriousness this corner of the page is just the niche for y'all's senses of humor. And I like reading about lambing... gotta help a foal pop out this spring, first time ever, so I'm soon to be a real farmer.

Hey, welcome to where it's at man!  These are the best guys on the s-i-t-e to hang with. Was that out loud?!?!?! Darned juniper berry extract and quinine water!!!!  Good luck with the foaling thing. Colts are the coolest little critters. Although I was never as interested in the horses as I was the horse ladies!  

[lovebigbluegills]

Good morning everybody!! Coffee is done and tasting goooood. The granddaughter and I have another busy day planned, yard chores and such. She just came in with eggs (that is her morning chore when she's here, picking eggs), 5 of them today.

The chickens sure enjoyed being outside all day yesterday, and we're tickled to come outside when I opened the door for them at 630. Yesterday was Marvin's first interaction with them, and he did about as well as you'd expect for a lab adolescent.

It got a little below freezing last night, and when Marvin and I were out earlier he had quite a thing for chicken p00psicles. He was running around gobbling them up like candy for a couple minutes, until I saw what he was eating and told him to quit.

Ok, I better get going for now, have a great Saturday!!!!! 

[ThunderLund78]

I just made a ham, egg and cheese breakfast sandwich and I used toaster waffles as the bread - BOOM!

Drinking my coffee and contemplating the days tasks.  Going to paint two 4 x 8 garden boxes today for our back yard.  My wife's out of town on a girls weekend so it's me, an 8-year-old, 5-year-old and a lot of paint.  What could go wrong?

[LindellProStaf]

Good morning.  The score is sort of catching up I see Dotch.  Do you want more ewes or doesn't it matter to you how the count turns out?  And what do you do with the wool from the shearing program?  I was wondering about that.  LBBG you have it made with the granddaughter doing your chores for you.  Enjoy, those eggs will taste a little better than most.  Thunder I think of Cliff Claven when he babysat Carla Tortelli's kids and they duct taped him into a mummy and threw him down the steps of Cheers from the car they stole and were driving around in.  I wonder what color they will paint you.  And Boar cool looking bikes, I knew you had them but didn't know they were so decked out.  Impressive!  

Well we had our first fire last night.  Was a great feeling.  We had a few cocktails to help christen the first fire of the season of course.  The classic rock stations were playing to much heavy metal for us so I found a Highwayman Country station on my iphone and bluetoothed to a cool speaker I bought.  MAN what great tunes.  Old Willy, Waylon, even some Allman Bros and other GOOD country artists I didn't even know doing Eagles stuff, and they even played some Lynnrd Skynnrd. How cool is that.  They wife told me that is how  it is spelled.  Therefore it is.   lol  It is on the IHeart App on my phone.  Will be doing a repeat tonight I am sure.    The wife is a fire sign zodiac thing and I am a water sign so we have it made.  I sat and watched ice melt on the river for awhile with the new dog Buddy whilst she built a fire with Sammy.  When I saw smoke I went up and enjoyed the fire....  I saw my first Canada goose last night flying over the river and also saw my first woodchuck on my way to work yesterday morning.  Things are happening.  The river is great in the spring as the birds arrive.  I gets really loud when the seagulls appear.  Can't wait.  Ok need another cup of Java so I guess I will be the one getting it.  Buddy is in the wifes lap.  I got two big T-Bones last night and have them rubbed with my new Mossy064's  Tatonka Dust for tonight on the charcoal grill.  Had RH's Old Fashioned Ring Bologna last night.  Awesome stuff.  See ya later. I may go watch the river melt some more today too..   lol

[Boar]

i love wen i visit you guys barry, u truly have a pice of heaven ther. i dont want to leave. well coofee is flowin and gettin ready for some breakfast of somesort. was.out side.letti g the pups run a bit and and enjoy the morni g air. i bave a love hate relationship with spri g. hae hate the slopyness and i get overwhelmed with stuff that needs to be done. this year is especiLly hectic,.iv got my last boarlit graduation..im gona be balls to the wall here in a month. ive put my executive foot down and rented adumpster, and told her if we havent used it in a year its going. gona do that in all the closets, and rooms. and garages.and kitchen cabinets. then she''ll.chew about the how many.dumps.it cost. cant win for trying, have great day guyz. tha ks for listenting. 

[Dotch]

Chores done, walked the electric fence and got it charged, then let the ewes with lambs out of the loafing area. It's an annual rite of spring. The lambs come out of the barn like they've been shot out of a cannon. Will need to expand their loafing area as we'll have more lambs and ewes to move soon in addition to setting up a creep feeder. That's an area where only the lambs can get into and helps get them started on solid feed. The faster they're weaned the lower our feed bill on the ewes which end up on pasture. The way spring is coming we'll want to be ready to take advantage if it continues to break early. More snows and blues this a.m. as well as some speckle bellies. Canada geese swimming in our pond. Spring has sprung.

Ewe lambs are almost always preferable LPS. They just have more utility from the standpoint that they can be put back into the flock or sold as replacement ewes. Or if they're not of that quality, they still taste really good on the grill.Buck lambs are a pain although we don't castrate ours. They go to an ethnic market where that's what they prefer. The "big" wool money was a whopping $135. That's before expenses. It costs about $6 a head to shear them by the time you pay the shearer and the catcher. We sheared 48 head so it's an expense.

Have fun with clean ups, grandkids and chickens! If anyone isn't busy and wants to help get a load of hay, I have a fridge full of brews for the taking. Best keep at it. Chops and steaks to marinate. Ciao! 

Oops! 27 - 10. Another ewe lamb just a minute ago. They are sneaky sometimes. 

[RebelSS]

Hmmm....I found some woolies for LL to raise.....whaddya think, Dotch? 

http://www.postbulletin.com/news/local/babydoll-sheep-cute-and-easy/article_8a5061bb-069b-59d0-b3f8-6b8f4030e12b.html

 

[Dotch]

Have friends with baby dolls. I think you could put a whole one in a sous video machine. Go well with Rice a Roni I am told. 

Score update: 28 - 10, bucks kick the extra point. 

[bobberineyes]

What a day!!, pointed the boy in the right direction last weekend and he with a little help slapped together some wood duck boxes. We had so much fun that we thought let's keep going. I was gone most of the day so this is how our bird house ended up, I thought he did pretty  dang good. 3 rooms on each side,  is it me or is something missing,  thinking maybe dropping it back down and painting windows on it to fill in some blanks..what ya think?

[lovebigbluegills]

Those look very livable, nice work boober jr!!!!!!

[delcecchi]

Martins the target?

Edited March 13, 2016 by delcecchi

[bobberineyes]

7 hours ago, delcecchi said:

Martins the target?

He went with a smaller hole hoping to keep the sparrows out, but to me I guess it doesn't really matter what pays us rent to use it.  we have a lot of those little chickadees at the feeders so I think that was his target. 

[Dotch]

Those are some nice houses bobber. Be interesting to see what uses the martin house and I hear ya about house sparrows. They make my blood boil when I find they've pecked a tree swallow to death in the bluebird houses. Ya, I think little painted on windows with curtains and shutters would be bomb! 

No news is good news from the lambing barn. We got the 4-H kid to come and get her ewes that we had already lambed out for her yesterday. We'd also paid to have them shorn along with pasturing and feeding them since September. Was a little disappointed. The parents didn't offer to pay for any of that. Not that I would've taken anything for it but it's just kinda the principle of the thing. It cost roughly $150 just for the feed, hay and shearing alone on the 5 head, not to mention anything for pasture, mineral, labor, etc. This must be some of the "free stuff" I keep hearing about. See? It does exist.

Oh well, we got a lot done yesterday. Got hay hauled and stacked (singular "we", don't want to sound like there's an "eye" problem), got the creep feeder established and got a kick out of the lambs enjoying a run in their newly opened space. I gotta figure out how to do the video thing so I can transfer it from my phone to here. Need to dock some more tails, put in some ear tags and give some shots. Then we can move another group down into the loafing area later this afternoon. Just makes chores go a lot smoother and quicker. Can see the light at the end of the tunnel. Think there are only about 10 ewes left to lamb. The cooler weather should help force the close up ewes to lamb inside. Gotta think positive. Dragging lambs and ewes up out of the bottom of the pasture is highly overrated.   

[RebelSS]

Oh, I like tweeter homes...nice job, bobberooniie! You'll have to have a neon motel type sign up soon!  46* and rain here, can't believe I slept ten hours...took one of those pain pill/muscle relaxant thingies before bed.....they always put me out. Looks like rain most of the week and colder. I need more coffee to get outta my fog, enjoy whatever yer doing today, guys. 

[LindellProStaf]

Had another fire yesterday.  We trim lots of old trees out of our grove doing it.  Looking good too.  Chopped a hole in the ice on the river.  It was 12" thick yet.  I am a little stiff today from all of the chain sawing and carrying wood but feels good to get it done.  Cooked big Porterhouses last night.  Were great.  The wife said I better clean out the bird houses yesterday as we sat by the fire.  I made bigger houses for the tree swallows.  We love them being around.  They are so friendly.  I used to have Peterson Bluebird houses for them but read that they are too small since Tree Swallows have so many babies.  Half of them die due to small houses.  They liked the bigger houses last year.  My brother gave me one of those tin white and green bluebird houses last year.  Curious to see if we get any birds in it this year.  I see a red squirrel sneaking abound outside today.  Will have to exterminate him. Usually ends up being around 5 of them little trouble makers each year.  Getting cloudy here and are supposed to have rain this afternoon.  Hopefully it does rain to clean things up a little.  Yes I think LL should fence in the yard at home and the cabin.  He can then haul the little lambs back and forth with him.    Thanks for the wool info Dotch.  That is about what I thought about the market for wool.  Necessary task though.  Too bad that people don't stop and think about  what goes on around them such as your 4H ers.  Have had that happen before too.  Oh well you are a good person. Good for you.  Well time for more Java and then warm up steak leftovers to have with eggs that I get from the neighbor for breakfast.  Will work on Ice Rigs today and other inside projects.  Have a good one all.  Also bought $5 worth of Lotto tickets yesterday..  Will let you know if I get rich.   

[lovebigbluegills]

Good luck with the tickets LPS!!! 

I should get some bird houses built too.

It's supposed to be rainy here all day, so inside projects it is. Last night, I coarse ground the bacon I smoked last weekend and mixed it together with ground venison, that ran them thru the smaller plate. The ratio was 2 parts venison to 1 part bacon. We pattied half of it last night and will be doing the other half pretty soon. Should end up with 75 1/3lb burgers total. Well, 74, we fried one last night to try and it was great!!!

The belly I smoked last weekend was off of one of the neighbors pigs and the thickness varied rather drastically, and would have made for some really odd looking slices. I did pick up a pork belly from the local meat market on friday, and got that soaking yesterday for what should be the last bacon I make until fall. That one is a perfect rectangle and uniform thickness.

[lovebigbluegills]

Little Miss Patty Maker.