flowerbug
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it is so sad when such extremes happen. as a mid-20s someone i had issues and considered that option but am glad to say that i figured things out and managed to avoid the extreme soon ending choice.
Baymule’s Farm
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it is so sad when such extremes happen. as a mid-20s someone i had issues and considered that option but am glad to say that i figured things out and managed to avoid the extreme soon ending choice.
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baymule
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Been busy! I had my two youngest granddaughters for a week, celebrated the youngest turning 9 on September 1. She wanted pumpkin pie for her birthday so we went to the grocery store. My daughter orders online and does the pick up thing. A busy working mom with kids, it's much easier on her. So going in the grocery store is a big deal for the girls. They ran wild. We terrorized the store and bought up a bunch of junk food. LOL We face timed the parents and sang her Happy Birthday. The next day she wanted cake, so we did that too and facetimed her parents and sang Happy Birthday again.
The girls played with the sheep and dogs. Sheba always targets Catherine for tummy rubs. Buford looks like he thinks he'd like a tummy rub too.
Cooper follows Charlotte around for attention. Rams are usually looking for a way to knock you down, but Cooper is an exception. Still, I caution the girls to keep an eye on him, he IS a ram! And I'm always nearby when they are in the sheep pasture and Cooper is out with them.
I had a great time with the girls and all too soon, it was time to take them back to their parents.
A long time friend of mine has a daughter and son in lay that opened an ice house and cafe. only open on Friday and Saturday nights, they both have full time professions, but he wanted a bar, so there it is. My friend and her husband were going to go to the icehouse for some live music, so I met them there. My first "going out" in 4 years since BJ died. We sat at a table, they had a couple of beers, I had iced tea. Nice place, family atmosphere, there were kids running around playing. They are having an Urban Cowboy night in October and I've made reservations for 3, me and 2 friends. Girls night out!
And of course work on the farm goes on. I had a huge dead tree taken down, took 2 people to reach around it. It's been dead awhile, huge branches falling down, it was dangerous. I'm glad to have it gone. I've been on the tractor, mowing goat weed and cleaning up the fields for fall. I've done some repair work, various things and the cooler weather sure is helping. My plans for fall/winter are to tear down an outbuilding and a roping chute. The roping chute id full of black berry canes over my head and covered in thorns. Not going to be much fun, but it needs to get done.
The girls played with the sheep and dogs. Sheba always targets Catherine for tummy rubs. Buford looks like he thinks he'd like a tummy rub too.
Cooper follows Charlotte around for attention. Rams are usually looking for a way to knock you down, but Cooper is an exception. Still, I caution the girls to keep an eye on him, he IS a ram! And I'm always nearby when they are in the sheep pasture and Cooper is out with them.
I had a great time with the girls and all too soon, it was time to take them back to their parents.
A long time friend of mine has a daughter and son in lay that opened an ice house and cafe. only open on Friday and Saturday nights, they both have full time professions, but he wanted a bar, so there it is. My friend and her husband were going to go to the icehouse for some live music, so I met them there. My first "going out" in 4 years since BJ died. We sat at a table, they had a couple of beers, I had iced tea. Nice place, family atmosphere, there were kids running around playing. They are having an Urban Cowboy night in October and I've made reservations for 3, me and 2 friends. Girls night out!
And of course work on the farm goes on. I had a huge dead tree taken down, took 2 people to reach around it. It's been dead awhile, huge branches falling down, it was dangerous. I'm glad to have it gone. I've been on the tractor, mowing goat weed and cleaning up the fields for fall. I've done some repair work, various things and the cooler weather sure is helping. My plans for fall/winter are to tear down an outbuilding and a roping chute. The roping chute id full of black berry canes over my head and covered in thorns. Not going to be much fun, but it needs to get done.
Carol Dee
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Well, Hello! I have missed seeing your posts. (That was me not you.) Looks like a good time with granddaughters. ALWAYS. The pie looks so good. And I LOVE your dress. (it sure would not look the same on me, LOL)
flowerbug
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same here!
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baymule
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Whoa! Its been a few weeks since I checked in. @AMKuska texted me yesterday, checking on me. I've been busy doing things practically every day. No huge projects, just a running list of small ones. I did a head count on the sheep........ somewhere between 50 and 55. Then I offered to sheep sit for a friend whose job changed location from the Dallas - Fort Worth area to south of Houston. Her husband and 3 kids are at the "old" place, which is up for sale now, then they will buy a "new" place and move. She is in an apartment and goes home on weekends. Tough time for the family. And what to do with her flock between selling and buying another place? So I gained 10 more sheep, probably all of them are pregnant. They are in a spacious pen, have shelter, all the hay they can eat and fed twice a day.
Random pictures
grazing 35 ewes in the yard
One of my winter projects is to clean out all the blackberry canes, brush, vines and trees from this former roping chute, then take down the wire and pull up the posts.
Also have to tear down this outbuilding. The 2 shipping containers to the right are 40 feet long and will get moved, blocked up, placed 40 feet apart. I have old chicken house roof trusses that will be, at a later date (time and money) welded in place so I can put a roof over it, barn!
I rehung a small gate that was sagging.
day before yesterday I went and got 6 round bales of hay with my 18' flatbed trailer. Had to make 2 trips. Unloaded them with son's 100 HP tractor. Never went and got round bales or unloaded them by myself, did everything wrong, including hooking the rail on my trailer and lifting it up off the ground. Oops! But I got it done and even set a bale in the middle field night pen for my sheep. I'll have to block off the bale for the visiting sheep so mine don't eat their hay.
So I've been doing a lot of time consuming chores in preparation for tackling tearing down that outbuilding and old roping chute that will probably take all winter.
Random pictures
grazing 35 ewes in the yard
One of my winter projects is to clean out all the blackberry canes, brush, vines and trees from this former roping chute, then take down the wire and pull up the posts.
Also have to tear down this outbuilding. The 2 shipping containers to the right are 40 feet long and will get moved, blocked up, placed 40 feet apart. I have old chicken house roof trusses that will be, at a later date (time and money) welded in place so I can put a roof over it, barn!
I rehung a small gate that was sagging.
day before yesterday I went and got 6 round bales of hay with my 18' flatbed trailer. Had to make 2 trips. Unloaded them with son's 100 HP tractor. Never went and got round bales or unloaded them by myself, did everything wrong, including hooking the rail on my trailer and lifting it up off the ground. Oops! But I got it done and even set a bale in the middle field night pen for my sheep. I'll have to block off the bale for the visiting sheep so mine don't eat their hay.
So I've been doing a lot of time consuming chores in preparation for tackling tearing down that outbuilding and old roping chute that will probably take all winter.
flowerbug
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always glad to hear from you and hope all your tasks go safely, even if not as desired! 
that's a big bundle o' sheepies you got there Bay.
that's a big bundle o' sheepies you got there Bay.
SPedigrees
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Looks like you've been busy, Bay! That's too bad about your friend being uprooted along with her family and having to sell the one home and buy another. Wow your sheep population has really exploded!
Love the dress (above). That's a side of you we haven't seen!
Love the dress (above). That's a side of you we haven't seen!
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baymule
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I did a head count, that number i always fluctuating. But right now I have 50 plus 3 lambs. 53 total. That number will go down, go up and run wild all over the place. Add in my friend's 10, total 63, Her ewes are supposed to be bred, some 35ish of mine are bred......
I hit a dress buying spree and over a couple months bought 6 new dresses. Then I bought those cowboy boots to wear with my dresses. I refuse to wear most women's dress shoes, wearing sandals or sparkly flip flops. With winter on the way, I bought those boots. I'm all set now. Going back to that place in a couple weeks on the 18th. They are having a Urban Cowboy night with a Dolly Parton look alike contest, a mechanical bull riding contest, run by Gator, who ran the mechanical bull in the movie Urban Cowboy. I did ride the bull in Mickey Gillie's but I think I'll pass on this one.
Thanks! I'm usually in scrubby clothes that any normal person would throw away, dirty, covered in who knows what and happy in my element. Sometimes I've been known to hurry myself to church on Wednesday nights right out of the sheep pens. Last night I was not dirty but my work gloves were sticking out of my back pocket. LOL
I hit a dress buying spree and over a couple months bought 6 new dresses. Then I bought those cowboy boots to wear with my dresses. I refuse to wear most women's dress shoes, wearing sandals or sparkly flip flops. With winter on the way, I bought those boots. I'm all set now. Going back to that place in a couple weeks on the 18th. They are having a Urban Cowboy night with a Dolly Parton look alike contest, a mechanical bull riding contest, run by Gator, who ran the mechanical bull in the movie Urban Cowboy. I did ride the bull in Mickey Gillie's but I think I'll pass on this one.
SPedigrees
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That describes my daily attire to a tee! Womens shoes and clothes have never fit me comfortably. When our horses were still living I had two pairs of cowboy boots that I wore much of the time (since I was on horseback much of the time). They were the most expensive pieces of foot gear that I ever owned and my feet would never fit in them today, but I can't say I didn't get my money's worth out of them. The most dressed up I ever get is a nice shirt with a pair of new-ish clean jeans (I need the pockets for wallet, money and keys) and sometimes even a pair of earrings.
For the Dolly Parton look-a-like contest, you'll need sparkles! She loved/loves her sequins and rhinestones!
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baymule
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I only had a pair of very scuffed up cowboy style work boots, no nice ones. I decided to start wearing cowboy boots with dresses, the high tall type. So I choked on the price, $330, and bought a pair. I want some more! I found a online place that has some of the fanciest boots I've ever seen, Tooled leather bottoms with cowhide uppers. I'm drooling....... over $400........ I'll have to save up.
