Baymule's Pigs 2018 HEREFORDS!

[baymule]

I got compliments on it today from my daughter. Then she said that I could build a kid play house. Hmmm........ I want to get a couple of those star plate kits from Strombergs and build a couple of gazebos. (but not for pigs) LOL

 

[CrealCritter]

Thanks. It's kinda low ceiling, but what the heck, pigs have short legs.

Notice the extra flap of tin hanging off the roof? My husband asked me why I did that and I told him that's poor peoples edge trim. After I put up the sides, I'll fold it over the edge and screw it down.

Actually a low roof is probably better for pigs than a tall one. More shade with a lower roof. And here I thought you planned it that way.

You could turn your circular saw balde around (backwards) and it becomes a tin cutting saw. Running the blade backwards cuts tin like a butter knife cuts room temperature butter.

You don't have any unexpected fedex packages there do you? If so don't open it / leave it be and call 911 You guys got some nut job sending bombs in packages running around in Texas. But I'm sure you already knew that... I hope they catch who is doing it soon, lock em up and throw away the key. Freaking nut jobs!

 

[CrealCritter]

That really is some scary stuff for us Texicans. One of them went off on a road about a half-mile from where my daughter used to live and a little bit further from where DH lived for awhile.

Austin is such a cool town...it's a shame what's happening there. Of course, it's a shame that it would be happening anywhere.

Your 100% right - all I can say is a lot of nut jobs out there nowadays please be careful.

I used to contract with in both Huston and Austin. Fly down there Monday morning, fly back home Friday afternoon. I agree Austin is a neat city. I don't remember the street but it is lined with pubs with live music. There was one pub I used to like to go to, it had a dirt floor and the best live blues I've heard play live. The pub also sold cans of beer sold out of ice packed trash cans 2 of $1.00. One night there was a band playing with out a bass player, the bass was on the stand but the player didn't show. So I walked up on stage during mid set grabbed the bass, plugged it in and played with the band - It was pretty cool... No real words were spoken between us because playing music is a unerversal language all to it's own.

That was a long time ago... I don't even remember the street name or the pub name anymore but if I seen it I would know it by sight.

The street also had a dual stage jazz club that I also frequented. There was one group of jazz musicians that played every Thursday evening. The called themselves the hill country boys. These guys were real musicians, they we're stuck in the way back machine and played mainly 40s and 50s jazz numbers. I remember the guitarist (an amazing techinally sufficient musician) had strings of beeds hanging of his guitar. it was not only flashy but it most definitely made a statement

 

[NH Homesteader]

It's because she was a redhead once. Ginger power haha, my husband has it too!

 

[CrealCritter]

How do you do these things? Free chickens, free barrels.... sigh. I mean - do you cry? Do tears work? Or do you get loud and angry or pout? Sweet talk? Bargaining? I need to take a lesson or twelve! LOL!

Congrats! Hawg hut is looking great!

In a good way not a bad way, she's (say it slow and low) S A S S Y. Men like sassy. There's a good sassy and a bad sassy Bay has got the good sassy down pat. I suspect many men are helpless against her sassy power.

I married my wife she's sassy, my mother in law also sassy, my daughter's all sassy, my daughter in laws yep all sassy. Even my 3 year old grand daughter is sassy. She so cute... I'll say to her just above a whisper and slow " S A S S Y" she'll give me that sassy look and say in a sassy voice "Hey paw paw I'm not sassy!" We all get a huge laugh out of it, she so cute and has me wrapped around her little finger.

 

[baymule]

How do you do these things? Free chickens, free barrels.... sigh. I mean - do you cry? Do tears work? Or do you get loud and angry or pout? Sweet talk? Bargaining? I need to take a lesson or twelve! LOL!

Congrats! Hawg hut is looking great!

I'm just a real nice person.......with the gift of gab. I'm friendly like a big wet dog with muddy feet, give me a minute and we'll be best friends, 2-3 minutes and we'll be kin.

Nope, I don't cry, don't get loud or angry-people have to put up with A-holes all the time, so a friendly, caring person with a smile brings out the best in them.

A gas pipeline runs through our place. I called them because we were going to go across it with fence. A man came out to mark the pipeline. I asked what size gate to put up for their access, other questions, stressing that I wanted to do things right and respect the pipeline. We had a good conversation in which he told me he had just been cussed out and yelled at by a land owner that very morning. I was appalled at the ugly people he had to put up with. He said all he was able to do was to say "Yes sir. Yes sir." and could not so much as raise his voice or he'd be fired. He said he got cussed out all the time.

As our conversation concluded, he said I had been so nice to him that he was going to send out a couple of contractors the next morning to put up the gate for me. And he sent the gate and posts for the H braces too.

The 2 guys who came out to hang the gate were friendly nice guys. I gave them iced tea, ran the water hose over for them to use and was nice to them. They also said that people gave them a hard time all the time. Since I was so nice, they gave me 2 spools of smooth twisted wire, like barbed wire, but without the barbs. We have used that wire for every cross wire on every H brace on this place!

 

[CrealCritter]

DH dug ssafras roots and I made tea for tomorrow.

It's been forever since I've had real homemade ssafras tea or fermented root beer. You all are living the dream.

 

[frustratedearthmother]

I'm just a real nice person.......with the gift of gab. I'm friendly like a big wet dog with muddy feet, give me a minute and we'll be best friends, 2-3 minutes and we'll be kin.

So that's how you do it! MY DH is like that... His mama is like that too - they've never met a stranger. These folks went to Europe year after year and met folks that ended up lifelong friends. They vacationed together in different places and stayed at each others homes for weeks at a time.

Me - I gotta have a beer or three before I can do all that bonding, lol!

 

[baymule]

WE ARE DONE!! I don’t know who is the happiest, us or the pigs!

An airial view(I was standing on a ladder).

Piper and Poodle checking things out.

This is how we feed pigs!

They’re getting the hang of it.

What’s in here?

I poked a stick through the wire and depressed the hog nipple. They got excited and plowed up the mud. I poked it a few more times and they finally bit the nipple. In moments they both bit down on the nipple and sucked up a drink. We decided to use a blue barrel instead of the tote.

We are tired, but very satisfied with our hard work. Piper and Poodle like it too!

 

[baymule]

This is the original Hawg Hut and it is now in Pasture #2 and will be home to weaned ram lambs.

So even though I still like the name Hawg Hut, pigs have moved up a notch on our little farm and now have a much nicer place to live.