Baymule’s Farm

[baymule]

Bay, have you heard of Flower Mound, Tx? MY son's hopefully future in laws were visiting and we got to meet them. Very nice folks and live in Flower Mound. She said Dallas Fort Worth airport is 40 minutes from them and I don't remember the name of the other airport that is 15 minutes from them.

Wonder how far that is from you?

Mary

Flower Mound is 210 miles from me, 3 hours, 30 minutes.
The other airport is Love Field. Flower Mound is kinda between Dallas and Fort Worth, but straight up north.
If you ever go see them, we will have to visit with each other!

 

[baymule]

Hey @baymule you are an AWESOME Neighbor. <3

Thank you! I just feel like if I have a skill, I should use it to help my friends.
@Shades-of-Oregon move to Texas and I’ll help you paint your house!

 

[baymule]

Finished painting the house yesterday. It looks so nice, clean and fresh, pretty color.

Coyotes have been howling all night, my dogs howl back at the coyotes, then bark madly. All. Night. Long. Woke up at 2-something, got up at 3:49 AM. It’s real foggy, been foggy for couple of weeks, no rain in months. We are in drought, burn ban, grass is dry and crunchy. Since painting is done, now I’ll turn my attention to my sheep.

Going to sort the ram out of the flock in the front field. Not sure how I’m going to do that, should be interesting. I need to doctor on Granny’s foot, her hoof is growing out, but slowly. She is due any time now, she is enormous.

Got to take a gate loose, raise it, it’s dragging and hard to open and close. Need to clean out the place where I put the hay bale for the middle field and set a new round bale. Need to set a round bale for the ewes in the front field and run a temporary fence to close them off from the field. Time to dry lot the sheep, there is no grass and they will kill it if I leave them on the grass. I’ll have to go buy a hog panel and cut it in half to build a cover for the round bale in the front field. I will bow over a 16’ cow panel, drive 4 T-posts to hold it, then put the half hog panels on each end. I already have a small tarp to go over the cow panel, to keep some of the rain off, if we ever get any. This is the time of year when grass goes dormant and winter grass is coming in. But no rain, grass is brown, winter grass isn’t coming up.

I have 26 bred ewes, split into 2 flocks. They are due now through February. I’m gonna be busy.

 

[baymule]

I got the ram sorted out and in a pen. I ran the ewes across the driveway to the working chute and doctored Granny’s foot. I rehung the gate, it took 1 1/2 hours……..something about only having 2 hands…… At one point I threw it down and kicked it. Stupid gate!

 

[baymule]

It’s been a fun week. I picked up the little granddaughters on Sunday, October 27, took them to meet my son in law yesterday November 2. So o had them for Halloween. Mom forgot to pack their costumes! So we went to Lufkin to Walmart. They spent an hour agonizing over their choices. No more Disney princesses, no more fairies, no more super heroes, that left nothing. FINALLY #3 chose a Moana costume and #2 chose a Snow White, so much for Disney princesses. Then we went to go pay for them. Sitting in the middle of the aisle were these things called Squish Mallows. Wearable animal characters that looked like an oblong soft squishy stuffed animal. Price went from $10 each to $39 each. No problem—I had their Mom’s credit card!

The next day, #2 told me that’s what they wanted in Walmart in Corpus Christi, but Mom said they cost too much money!
BWA HA HA HA HA!!!

But let me back up. On Monday I had a doctor appointment in Tyler so we were up early and gone. We stopped at Loves Lookout in Jacksonville where I took their picture sitting on a giant concrete tomato. Jacksonville Texas is known for raising tomatoes.

Next day we constructed a new hoop cover for round bales in the front field, in preparation for dry lotting the ewes in the front field. My son set the hay bales, letting the girls sit in his lap and drive the tractor.

Halloween morning we went to the Forestry Museum in Lufkin for the I Spy trail. They were given a card with a list of what to look for and how many of each. The trees were decorated with skeletons, spiders, a bumblebee, super heroes, fairies and vampires. We found all but one skeleton. Then we went home.

A dearest friend on here on TEG that lives in Iowa, not calling her name but her initials are @Carol Dee saw a Texas adult coloring book and sent it to me. Perfect for spending time with granddaughters! It was a bleary, drizzling day, so we colored.

#2 picked an intricate detailed picture, and did really good. She wants to be an artist

#2 chose a picture of a horse. She did good too!

I colored a picture too!

Then we took care of animals, had tacos for supper and went trick or treating.

 

[baymule]

The community of Apple Springs really celebrated Halloween for the kids. There was even a FB post for people who were giving out candy with their names, addresses and directions to their house. The local grocery/convience store and the Subway inside gave out candy. The volunteer fire station gave out candy, plus quite a few homes. People decorated for Halloween and one place we went even put up a spook house. Good thing people responded to the FB post or we would have never found some of them.

The girls made quite a haul.

No visit is complete without lots of playing with sheep. Here they were learning to be quiet, still and small, not standing up and looking like big child monsters.

The girls adore the dogs and the dogs adore them right back. Lots of tummy rubs and chest scratches.

The next night after Halloween, a local small school had a carnival. We walked in and there was a mechanical bull! Of course both wanted to ride the bull. I took pictures plus videos. I sent the videos to their parents. DSIL responded back, “Did you take them to a bar??”

Yesterday morning before we left to go meet their Dad, we found some petrified wood.

We had a fun week!

 

[Carol Dee]

@baymule it sounds like a really fun week. All 3 of you did some very nice coloring.

 

[Marie2020]

The community of Apple Springs really celebrated Halloween for the kids. There was even a FB post for people who were giving out candy with their names, addresses and directions to their house. The local grocery/convience store and the Subway inside gave out candy. The volunteer fire station gave out candy, plus quite a few homes. People decorated for Halloween and one place we went even put up a spook house. Good thing people responded to the FB post or we would have never found some of them.

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The girls made quite a haul.

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No visit is complete without lots of playing with sheep. Here they were learning to be quiet, still and small, not standing up and looking like big child monsters.

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The girls adore the dogs and the dogs adore them right back. Lots of tummy rubs and chest scratches.

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The next night after Halloween, a local small school had a carnival. We walked in and there was a mechanical bull! Of course both wanted to ride the bull. I took pictures plus videos. I sent the videos to their parents. DSIL responded back, “Did you take them to a bar??”

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Yesterday morning before we left to go meet their Dad, we found some petrified wood.

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We had a fun week!

What a wonderful set of photographs, on such a really beautiful life

 

[SPedigrees]

The community of Apple Springs really celebrated Halloween for the kids. There was even a FB post for people who were giving out candy with their names, addresses and directions to their house. The local grocery/convience store and the Subway inside gave out candy. The volunteer fire station gave out candy, plus quite a few homes. People decorated for Halloween and one place we went even put up a spook house. Good thing people responded to the FB post or we would have never found some of them.

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The girls made quite a haul.

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No visit is complete without lots of playing with sheep. Here they were learning to be quiet, still and small, not standing up and looking like big child monsters.

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The girls adore the dogs and the dogs adore them right back. Lots of tummy rubs and chest scratches.

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The next night after Halloween, a local small school had a carnival. We walked in and there was a mechanical bull! Of course both wanted to ride the bull. I took pictures plus videos. I sent the videos to their parents. DSIL responded back, “Did you take them to a bar??”

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Yesterday morning before we left to go meet their Dad, we found some petrified wood.

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We had a fun week!

That is so cool that you can find petrified wood just out in the landscape. That was one of the things I found most fascinating about the desert southwest. We have nothing like that here.

Too funny about the girls' dad asking if you took them to a bar! Since you let them stay up late and eat limitless sugar treats, perhaps that was just the next step ;-)

Cuteness overload on the dogs and kids photos.

 

[AMKuska]

I want to be a grandkid. You guys have all the fun!!