Gate Hanging Class

 Monday afternoon was Gate Hanging Class.

All of the calves showed up and were quite attentive,

except Lexus, who loves the attention

 and has to be the class clown!

Waterer Winterization

 A few weeks ago

 it was time to winterize the waterers.

Paul makes a great scratching post.

Everyone watched and listened.

Such an attentive class!

In the end,

I'm not sure they learned much.

But at least they were well behaved!

Baling is Done

 The 2022 baling season ended last weekend.

We finished off with doing cornstalks  at Grimm's.

Thank you, Lord!

It kind of makes me sad.

Baling is my favorite season of the year.

Custom Work

 A neighbor called.

He wanted to try something new 

to see if there would be less damage to the alfalfa.

So he had Paul rake with our WD45.

It was a great day for it!

We Heard That One

I wanted to sleep in this morning,

but I heard some far away rumbling,

so I got up to hopefully watch a storm. 

It was very dark.

There was a decent lightning show going on, 

but nothing spectacular.

Then there was one simultaneous lightning bolt and thunder!

This tree is 40-50 feet straight west of the shop.

There are splinters of it on the ground right behind the shop.

Jack was laying in bed and saw it happen.  

It twisted his hammock up pretty good.

That brought the end of the loud part of the storm.

It still gave us 1.92" of rain though!

Hot and Stormy

We had some heat on Tuesday. 

And a very uncomfortable dew point. 

Thus, some big winds that night. 

All we had 

were some branches 

and lots of twigs with leaves 

that came down. 

The bad part was that the storm had almost no rain. 

We need the rain badly!

Maybe we will get some this weekend?

Castle Work

The Chicken Castle has been badly in need of a new paint job.

Ben and Elsie started the project.

There was one extra helpful lady hanging out to give advice.

It was a group effort.

It was so nice to have everyone working together.

That doesn't happen nearly as often

as it did when everyone was younger.

So it was a wonderful thing.

Plus the Castle looks a lot better!