Coffee's Ready, Come and Sit on the Porch

[Mini Horses]

@tortoise I'm not sure it's even legal to post a pic looking that delish without samples! 🤔🥰 DANG!!



And that's not some store bought crap, either.

 

[baymule]

Good morning! Coffee is ready!

It’s been a busy couple of days here! I decided to hire a fencing crew to fence in the front field. In TWO DAYS they did what would have taken me two months to do. These guys swarmed the fence like poking a fire ant hill with a stick. Professionals of their trade, it was educational to me, just watching.

Remember that big oak with the rotten streak, right on the fence line? It was in worse shape than I thought, it was hollow and so rotten that it broke off before he finished sawing it down.

Carson was delighted to have new friends and galloped up to meet them. These men only saw a giant black dog rushing at them, jumped back in the trucks and slammed the doors! It didn’t take long for Carson to win them over.

The Anatolians were another story. They stood on their side of the fence, across the driveway, hating on the fence crew. If they weren’t barking at the men, they were glaring at the intruders, looking very mean. I warned the crew, not to approach their fence or even directly look at them.

Pictures!

These men worked after dark! They wore headlights and turned trucks on fence with lights on. They finished up at 8:00 last night. I’ll get more pictures today. I’ve got ryegrass seed to sow on the bare bulldozed ground, going to rain tonight, so that will be good.

 

[FarmerJamie]

2023 Toys for Tots complete! 170 families, 416 kids in the County hopefully will have a little brighter Christmas. Combined totals of several hundred hours of community service by the group

 

[Hinotori]

Merry Christmas

 

[FarmerJamie]

Merry Christmas!

Took the wife out last night to view the light displays. Got bonus points by doing some internet sleuthing. Lots of creative people out there, but some were overwhelming! Flashing light inducing epileptic seizure anyone?

Lifted the wife's spirits. ❤️

 

[FarmerJamie]

My kids inherited my love of jigsaw puzzles.....and my sense of humor.

Eldest is getting this.

 

[The Porch]

Good morning up at 3am,
Stirred up the honey ginger I made yesterday, washed up a cabbage and some carrots for kraut, made coffee, let the flock out, built a fire,
I still need to wash up the beets




Have a great day

 

[baymule]

On my second cup of coffee. Been busier than a three legged cat in a sandbox around here. Calming down a bit for now . Go bottle lambs moved out of the house into a pen outside. A week there, then put with all the lambs and ewes. I take their bottles to them.

Got 3 breeding pens going with 13 ewes divided between 3 rams. Had 4 young ewes left and my 10 year old ewe, Ewenique, so put them with the ewes and lambs too.

Took Sheba out of the ewe and lamb field and put her with Buford. Put Sentry with ewes and lambs.

Neighbor baled his field of rye grass in 4x5 net wrapped bales. Got 41 and I bought them all. Then he even brought them to my field. I paid him I’m $100 bills, plus $70 extra, to thank him for his time and diesel for the tractor in moving the bales to my place.

Getting daylight, gotta get chores done before church.

 

[The Porch]

All done,

 

[FarmerJamie]

Got my shoulder cortisone shot this morning. Left a little early with the wife and had a nice breakfast in a little local place before my appointment.

Explanation of the process took longer than the procedure. Amazing what modern medicine is capable of.