Here I am! Been busy this week.get chores done in morning, eat lunch and nap in the afternoon from heat exhaustion.
So, Wednesday Eve, Lucy and Angus went to their new home to join Callie, the bottle ewe lamb with crooked legs and Marty, her companion wether that I gave Neighbor Chase in January. Callie’s legs have straightened out and she is making a nice ewe. Neighbor’s daughter is smitten with Eve and Lucy and is constantly in their pen, petting them.
I’ve been looking for a small trailer to build a chicken coop on. Even used, they start at $700 and go up. Son found one on FB Marketplace for $450. AND it has a coop already built on it! It has a roll out nest box, blue water barrel, tillable from the outside through a hose fitting, hanging feeder that holds 35 pounds. There is a pop door that doesn’t work because a goat tried to crawl through it. So I left at 5:30 Thursday morning, drove 86 miles to go get it. They took $50 off because of the pop door not working. It has side wings that fold down or out for ventilation and shade. We strapped them down, but one came off before I got very far. I stopped and tied a rope around the coop, drove 55-60 all the way home. Got home at 11:20, moved dogs off the field, they were already hot. Coop is parked in field, still tied and strapped down. I’ll unwrap my present to myself one morning next week.
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Friday morning I went to get feed. Sheep are on dry lot eating a 4x5 round bal a week and pellets twice a day, plus mineral and salt. I normally go get 20 bags, 1,000 pounds, every 5-6 weeks. Also feeding horse same feed. With no grass on dry lot, horse and sheep ate 1,000 pounds in 20 days. $$$ Ouch.
Feed store I go to is an hour away. Carson gets to go too. Forgot a leash, Carson bounded in, ran behind the counter to say HI to his adoring fans, got a dog biscuit, ran to me, dropped his biscuit. Then he peed on a display. I scolded and he got such a shamed look on his face, that the employees were laughing.
Got home, neighbors came over, helped unload feed. They took me to their cow lot and gave me 5 halves of blue plastic barrels, 2 feed bunks with bottom bars rusted off and one feed bunk with good metal and 2 liners that were busted on opposite ends so they used 2 to make 1. I’m delighted!
I also picked up feed for neighbor Chase and he came over later and got it.
This morning. I’ve done outside chores, then came in. 107F today, been out in it last 2 days, taking a day off. Cleaning house and doing laundry.
Scorching hot, getting so dry that there’s barely any humidity. August is brutal this year, so was July. Need rain.
I'll have farmbabe take a look at AS. 
