Wannabefree...guess what I got in the mail today!?!?!?!?

[Wannabefree]

I can't. Kids are up getting ready for school - sigh.. I guess they get to go for all day we're gonna show you movies your parents probably wouldn't for your last day of the year school day.

UGH...I am all to familiar with that. DD has been out of school for two weeks already!! You guys go late! When does school start back?

 

[Quail_Antwerp]

I can't. Kids are up getting ready for school - sigh.. I guess they get to go for all day we're gonna show you movies your parents probably wouldn't for your last day of the year school day.

UGH...I am all to familiar with that. DD has been out of school for two weeks already!! You guys go late! When does school start back?

Like the third week of August! They are in a LONG time! Drives me nuts. They get June and July and 2 weeks in August off school.

When I was a kid, we were out in May and didn't go back until September.


Ooops, just looked at the calendar - looks like they may start back closer to the end of August. Usually, they go to school 4 days and then have a 4 day weekend the first of September for Labor Day We think it's so stupid to start school before Labor Day.

 

[FarmerJamie]

I'm procrastinating leaving for work....

 

[Quail_Antwerp]

I'm procrastinating leaving for work....

I'm always at work.... Only downside to farming, work comes home with you - LOL

 

[Wannabefree]

I'm procrastinating leaving for work....

I'm always at work.... Only downside to farming, work comes home with you - LOL

AMEN on that one!

I'm off to work myself Jamie, don't feel bad bro. Hopefully we'll have this fence knocked out by noon. It's flamin HOT down here in Tennessee!!!!!!

Later ya'lls

 

[Wannabefree]

I just got home about an hour ago. I look like a lobster. Needless to say, we ran WAYYYYY over(almost 4 hours) the time I was hoping to get away and I got some really serious sunburn. :/ It was 100 heat index today and I am bout dead Made a bit of cash though, so not really complaining, just had some things here I wanted to get done. Now I am home and out of the blistering hot hellfire in the sky heat....and I aint doin nuthin else...nada...gonna sit on my tail the rest of the day and talk to ya'll cause I'm tired and I need a break this afternoon. Okay yeah...right...I gotta go stake tomatoes later but then I'm gonna sit on my tail and I aint doin nuthin else!!! NUTHIN I tell ya!!!!

 

[FarmerJamie]

Off to baseball shortly. Have a tall glass of iced tea

 

[Wannabefree]

Off to baseball shortly. Have a tall glass of iced tea

actually I think I"m about to have a nap *yawn* Soooooo sleepyyyy....

 

[FarmerJamie]

Crappy, mentally sloppy game, lost 12-4, they gave up 4 runs in 2 separate innings with two outs after mental errors cost them the third out in both innings. They got humbled after starting the season 4-0 and crushing the competition each game. One of the coaches had to work, so I had to keep the score book.

 

[Wannabefree]

Okay I'm awake!! I almost forgot to go to the neighbors and feed/water/run sprinklers/let the cat in It's done now though.

In other news....we as a SS family, have poultry and such, hatch/raise our own, and occassionally we have a chick/duckling/poult hatch that we just don't think is going to make it. DD has a snake, so as in nature the weak and sickly go to the snake to feed him. I know some would disagree with this practice, but it is the way of nature and is not wasting the birds who would die on their own anyway. Don't judge. Anyway, enter little one eyed cross beak turkey poult....three days old, hasn't been seen eating/drinking etc. so...as much as I hate to, snake has to eat and I hate to just watch the little one starve to death, so in he/she goes last night. Peeping ceases after about 30 seconds. Assuming the baby was no more, we go about our daily tasks this morning knowing this is just part of the circle of life and there was nothing we could really do other than what we had done. So this afternoon, hubs goes to check on the snake, and to both our amazement...this little one eyed bugger looks up out of it's good eye and.. peep peep!! It has a nest in there all huddled up staying warm......in the center of the coils of a 5 foot long ball python NOW I don't know WHAT to do?!?!?! The poult is 4 days old today, the yolk sac is gone, I don't want to see her/him starve to death, but the snake, for whatever reason...has given it a reprieve Won't eat the bird. has moved around the bird, knows the bird is there for SURE, but won't touch it. The poult seems to be strong, and it really shouldn't be. It SHOULD be weakening due to lack of nutrition. So we took it out and put it back into the brooder. I hope the poult makes it, but I have my doubts....but after THAT sight...I couldn't just leave it there!!! Apparently the little thing wants to live and the snake agrees it should have that chance. :/ I hope after all this it does! So weird. Maybe they know something we don't?

Another happening on the farm...I have a VERY VERY broody Buff. She is on 4 chicken eggs and 3 duck eggs, and WILL NOT budge *sigh* I tried to run her off a couple of times to check to see if she was serious or just being a pain...she aint letting me have em! She's molting, and hasn't been laying for a few weeks, so maybe she just wants to steal everybody else's kids I dunno But I wonder if she'll sit the whole time on those duck eggs? Muscovy goes 35 days Anybody know?