What's everybody doing today?

[snappy1]

Yesterday, was Church first.
Walked dogs.
Finished moving ebay clothes that DH wanted to keep to list. Moved to appropriate place. We have so much more room! Donated So much clothes to a Church rummage sale. DH is much pickier in what he buys, these days.
Made oatmeal for DH's breakfasts.

Today--VA clinic for labs for DH first.
Walked.
Have laundry started.
Need to look through some filing.

 

[sonya123]

Cows and calves do fine by themselves, raining, snowing, lighting, hail doesn't matter. If your neighbor was losing a lot of calves it wasn't the weather... it was something they were doing. I lost 3 calves in 20yrs. 2 during uterine prolapse births. They suffocated in the birth canal, too large to be born. The other died on a warm, sunny spring morning. I've never lost a calf due to the weather.

Interesting. I don't know . I know one got into their pond and either died from cold there or drowned. One didn't come out because they were twins and all died ( calves and cow)
Sometimes they would just find them dead when they got home.
I helped out with their goats ( from us) and they did ok. But I don't know much about cows so I didn't volunteer with anything. They still have one of the goats as a pet ( the daughter)

 

[dademoss]

Cursing Garmin and my computer, it seems EVERY GPS I own needs an update or 6

There is a queue, I only have so many available USB ports

I did clean out 1/2 the car, and actually found what I was looking for. (Leatherman, Fenix12 flashlight V1, and tiny EMT shears in their case.

 

[Spikedriver]

Sitting in the terminal at Eppley airfield in Omaha, waiting for my flight. I screwed up a little bit. I have a flight out of Omaha on the 20th for early afternoon and a 6:00 flight this evening. In my brain I switched them around and I showed up here for an early afternoon flight. I've got 4 hours to kill in the airport. Oh well, could be worse. There are some cute girls in this terminal...

 

[Peanut]

I was once delayed a few hours at Ohare in chicago. I sat in a concourse bar between a catholic priest and an episcopalian minister from mississippi. During those 3hrs I think I heard every religious joke in existence. Even worse, the bar was running low on booze.

 

[Amish Heart]

The neighbor and I butchered 8 roosters and 1 turkey. I cut my left index finger pretty bad during rooster number 5. So blood everywhere. Was working on the wing, and the scalpel knife slipped. Dumb. So a box of web clot material later, lots of gauze, and some compression wrap, it finally stopped bleeding. The neighbor almost fainted.
I finished killing the last three, and she did the butchering.

 

[dademoss]

Amateur Radio Emergency Services Monthly Report for Hamilton County, Feb

 

[Weedygarden]

Cows and calves do fine by themselves, raining, snowing, lighting, hail doesn't matter. If your neighbor was losing a lot of calves it wasn't the weather... it was something they were doing. I lost 3 calves in 20yrs. 2 during uterine prolapse births. They suffocated in the birth canal, too large to be born. The other died on a warm, sunny spring morning. I've never lost a calf due to the weather.

Bad blizzards have been known to take out cattle. There was a really bad one that took out more than 100,000 more than a decade ago. Calves, that is different.

 

[dademoss]

I was once delayed a few hours at Ohare in chicago. I sat in a concourse bar between a catholic priest and an episcopalian pastor from mississippi. During those 3hrs I think I heard every religious joke in existence. Even worse, the bar was running low on booze.

I HATE Ohare airport!! PTSD Flashbacks. The only worse airport was Pittsburg. If you pissed my DW off when she was doing your travel, you were going through Pittsburg, BOTH ways.

 

[Peanut]

Bad blizzards have been known to take out cattle. There was a really bad one that took out more than 100,000 more than a decade ago. Calves, that is different.

Yes, but her neighbor is in VA, not north dakota with a polar vortex sitting there. Also, lots of trees in the eastern us to give shelter to livestock and protection from the wind. I always knew were my cattle would be during storms.

 

[Morgan101]

Finished birthday shopping for my wife. She asked for a bottle of Kahlua and a bottle of Jim Beam. You think it was something I said?

 

[Neb]

Well those grape vine cutting that are starting to leaf out didn't have roots yet so back in the pot they went. I am a little concerned about them because no roots with leaves opening could spell failure. To to be patient.

So I turned my efforts back to the plumbing project. The central manifold is now complete. That let me isolate the heater on side 2 and finish the install of 3rd electric heater. So both sides have water supplied from side 1 and side 2 has hot water from heater 3.

I will work on heater 2 and the pressure reducing valve on side 2 as my schedule permits. Without the central manifold those projects would be high priority. Nice.

The other project concerned the sude by side. I don't use it that often during bad weather and I had to jump start a dead battery. I purchased a charge maintainer to keep the battery happy. Today I installed it in the side by side. It is showing as charging when last I looked. I just have to remember to plug it in when I am covering it up.

Ben

 

[dademoss]

Finished birthday shopping for my wife. She asked for a bottle of Kahlua and a bottle of Jim Beam. You think it was something I said?

No no, she is gonna get you drunk and take advantage . No further details available.

 

[Morgan101]

No no, she is gonna get you drunk and take advantage . No further details available.

What a great idea!! Why didn't I think of that? Remember the old vaudeville joke? One guy says "You been getting any on the side lately?" The other guy says "It has been so long since I got any, I didn't even know they moved it."

Story of my life.

 

[Spikedriver]

I HATE Ohare airport!! PTSD Flashbacks. The only worse airport was Pittsburg. If you pissed my DW off when she was doing your travel, you were going through Pittsburg, BOTH ways.

All the big airports suck, but O'Hare is one of the worst. Denver, LAX, and San Francisco rate high on the suck-o-meter too. The smaller airports might be more expensive, but the travel experience is far nicer. Whenever I have to fly to Los Angeles for work, I try to fly into the airport at Ontario instead of LAX. It costs about $100 more, but I'm in and out in 15 minutes and the rental cars are on site.

I should do an airport rating thread. It seems like I spend half my life dealing with the damn things. It's a little surprising which ones are great, and which ones are horrible...

 

[Peanut]

Finished birthday shopping for my wife. She asked for a bottle of Kahlua and a bottle of Jim Beam. You think it was something I said?

Have you been telling religious jokes?

 

[Morgan101]

I should do an airport rating thread.

Please do, and count me in. I do not miss being a road warrior in the least. I had to deal with it both before and after 9/11. It was bad before but the TSA has made it infinitely worse. I agree with your assessment. All the big airports suck.

 

[Peanut]

My road warrior days ended just before 9/11. I'm so glad I never had to deal with the tsa. Agree with the consensus, big airports are the worst no matter the city.

 

[Wingnut]

Managed to drop my Chinese reading glasses (2X) on the carpet, and they struck the carpet at JUST the right angle for the bridge to break... carpet is fairly thick too, with the best pad available. Now, when I say the bridge broke, I don't mean at either end where it meets the framed lenses, but 1/3 of the way across, go figure. The frame & bridge must have been made from 'Chinese steel' (i.e. recycled beer cans), I have NEVER in my life seen a bridge break in that spot. Meh, I tried taping them together with part of a toothpick as a splint, wore 'em for a bit but finally tossed 'em... fished out the spare pair I keep in the car and brought 'em inside, but I'll have to pick up a new pair soon. They only cost a few bucks, but it's the principle, seems like EVERYTHING made in China is designed to fail at the first opportunity. I mean seriously, the glasses landed on thick carpet...

Oh, well, I'll pick out another pair of Chinese reading glasses next time I'm at WallyWorld... unless I can find a pair made elsewhere, there might be some available at Walgreens, yeah? Better look around first, even if the price is a few dollars higher. I can see like a hawk after having Lasik surgery in both eyes, but I need reading glasses for books, paperwork, etc. I had the Lasik surgery not long after I arrived in Arizona , figured I should do it while I had the money, otherwise it'd never get done. It set me back $3600, which averages out to $1800 per eye, but I don't regret it for an instant, I would much rather be able to see clearly in the field and wear reading glasses on the side... my vision was never THAT bad, I could still see without prescription glasses, but having that surgery really helped. I wouldn't be able to afford it right now either, not paying cash the way I did, so it was the right call to get the job done...

Anyway, I'm sipping the last of the homemade apple cider I made months ago, it has been sitting in the fridge for awhile but it's still pretty tasty, and I can already feel that cider buzz coming on, lol. How did Mark Twain word it in his classic HUCKLEBERRY FINN novel? I have enough cider left for two good drunks and one delirium tremens... or was it one good drunk and two delirium tremens? Meh, I can't recall, guess I'll have to read the book (again) later this year. But I have enough cider left to get ripped, lol... probably NOT enough to get in trouble though, which is definitely a good thing. I'm gonna start those four remaining gallon jugs of sweet cider tomorrow, using another type of yeast and some sugar, that way I'll have cider to sip this spring, summer & fall as I lie in my Pawleys Island Hammock, lol. Ya know, I haven't even set up the sling anchors yet for that hammock, I like the slings instead of the screw type which can damage trees.

I meant to do some weeding and possibly some weed-whacking in the yard, but I never got around to it... "MANANA!!!" Y'all know that weed-whacking is my FAVORITE activity in the yard, nothing I like more than having boulders the size of Rhode Island glancing off my face and cheap work sunglasses, while my shins get peppered with shrapnel... somehow, I always wind up wearing shorts for the weed-whacking, maybe I ought to try a different approach, lol. I'd like to use friggin' NAPALM to do the yard work and weed abatement, but that might not go over so well with what few neighbors I have. Goldurned yard will look like a scene from 'APOCALYPSE NOW' or 'WE WERE SOLDIERS'---I suppose the volunteer fire department here in my subdivision would frown upon my methods, lol. Might even prompt a visit from the local P.D. & rural redneck Sheriff's Department... no need to put those good folk to any trouble, aye?

 

[txcatlady]

Congrats on your calf! We only have 34 acres all fences, plus we keep an eye on the pregnant ones and put them in the barn when they are in labor, if we see it. But they are not cows can't drag a cow anywhere...lol
So what do you do about calves if the weather is bad ? Do you try to put it indoors or under some shelter? We have had neighbors here ( the ones that quit being farmers, this was one of the reasons why they quit) that lost a lot of calves because they were at their other jobs and the calf got cold or needed assistance and died.

We have a barn with a roof for them if they feel need. Winters not severe. I have 70 acres cleared pasture with50 or so hardwood, briars, brush etc. I did have a calf once that lost an inch of her ear to frostbite We keep an eye on them and watch physical changes. 8:45 right now and will go now to check or look for other who is due

 

[Weedygarden]

I HATE Ohare airport!! PTSD Flashbacks. The only worse airport was Pittsburg. If you pissed my DW off when she was doing your travel, you were going through Pittsburg, BOTH ways.

OHare is a challenging airport, but I love that walkway that has all of that colored neon glass with the music playing. It is probably the only thing I really remember about that airport. I haven't been through there in more than 30 years.

 

[Neb]

OHare is a challenging airport, but I love that walkway that has all of that colored neon glass with the music playing. It is probably the only thing I really remember about that airport. I haven't been through there in more than 30 years.

Had to run from one side to the other side in. Ohara Don't miss it one bit.

Ben

 

[txcatlady]

All well with cows. We do need to move mom and baby back to open pasture with other cows. She is resisting and my husband tried to drive her to gate with his truck. When I got home and went to feed,she was against back fence by my deer stand. I am carrying cubes and hay to her. I have had my hands all over baby girl 3 times with no issue. I just don’t trust mom enough to get out and load calf and drive out and hope she will follow
One funny today. Saw fuel light on my truck today for first time ever. Got my license in 1969. Drove back to town to fill up since I put all fuel in mower Saturday. Fumes!

 

[Pearl]

The neighbor and I butchered 8 roosters and 1 turkey. I cut my left index finger pretty bad during rooster number 5. So blood everywhere. Was working on the wing, and the scalpel knife slipped. Dumb. So a box of web clot material later, lots of gauze, and some compression wrap, it finally stopped bleeding. The neighbor almost fainted.
I finished killing the last three, and she did the butchering.

When I was a kid our neighbor lady ( she looked like Maude), cut the end of her pinky finger off! She took it to her husband's shop, dipped it in kerosene then taped it back on. It did reattach, but had no feeling in it!

 

[Amish Heart]

I've almost cut off my fingetrips a couple of times. I used superglue for that, and still have feeling in them, I think. This is a slash to the bone across the front of my index finger. About to take off the bandage in a bit to shower and rebandage it. I'll leave the clot webbing on if I can.

 

[Peanut]

@Amish Heart I'd be watching for signs of deep infection, dirty knife, cut to the bone. At least you got meat out of the deal. I was cutting a watermelon, ended up with 12 stitches across the end of my thumb. Worst part, it wasn't even a good watermelon! Bad year for growing melons. I lost some of the feeling at the tip.

Yarrow, plantain would help. Sida grows around old barns, excellent for bacterial infections. Threads on each under remedies.

 

[zannej]

My cow had her calf in February 2008 when it was still very cold. She didn't know how to nurse when she was a baby and didn't know how to let the baby nurse. I had to bottlefeed the baby collostrum. The baby kept trying to go to the udders but the cow kept trying to look at her face. When she was a baby I bottlefed her and petted her face so she didn't understand how things worked. Eventually got her distracted enough to hold still and manually shoved the teat in the baby's mouth. That first night it got cold so I went out to check. Calf was lying down in the field and I couldn't see to drag her to the barn. So I got a blanket, dragged her onto it, and then laid down with her and wrapped the blanket over the both of us so I could keep her from freezing. Apparently my foot was sticking out so my horse gave it a tug. I adjusted the blanket so it covered my foot but it uncovered the calf a little. In an uncharacteristic moment of kindness, the horse grabbed the blanket and pulled it over the calf. Spent all night out there and when I woke up, everything was covered with frost. I was sore, but the calf was ok. After that I managed to get her to the barn.

Amish, I hope the cuts heal and that you won't get infection.

I took measurements in my bathroom and tried to shim a bit more but am still trying to figure out the best way to go about getting everything plumb. Looked up stuff I want to get for my bathroom once the shower is all fixed up. I want to get one of those soap/shampoo dispensers that mounts to the wall without screws for inside the shower but I'm worried my brother will knock it down and break it.

Went to samsclub and managed to not strangle my brother for being an idiot & griping about things that he could remedy himself.

Cooked for Mom and am relaxing. Back is a bit sore so I'm resting it.

 

[sonya123]

Yes, but her neighbor is in VA, not north dakota with a polar vortex sitting there. Also, lots of trees in the eastern us to give shelter to livestock and protection from the wind. I always knew were my cattle would be during storms.

Well we do have blizzards here too and it can get minus degrees. Maybe it also depends on what sort of cows you have, they had Jerseys. Our goats are not bred for our climate ( they come orginally from South Africa and New Zealand, which is not anywhere near as cold as here). Sheep are generally more ok outside but the lambs will die if they are born outside and not taken care of right away. This is why we don't have offspring till at least mid Feb when the worst of the winter is usually over, goats not till next week

 

[sonya123]

Zannej, wow, that's some story! Don't think I have ever done anything like that! Glad you and calf were ok. It's a lot easier to drag a sheep or goat back in the barn, sheep can be hard, they are stronger than they look. But we just pick up the lambs and take them first and the sheep will cry and look for them so we have to hold them right in front of their noses and walk slowly backwards to the barn, a few steps at a time so they don't run back to where the lambs were born looking for them...stupid sheep lol! The goats are a little smarter and know to follow right away.

Amish, ouch! Hope your fingers heal up ok.

Started doing sheep hoofs yesterday, what a nightmare..the goats just jump on the milkstand and eat, while I do the hoofs. The sheep, husband has to make them lie on the ground and practically sit on them for me to trim the hoofs.

Today , shopping and getting sawdust. We will take both vehicles to do that. I'm thinking about taking the puppy ( who is almost as big as the livestock dogs, he is very tall for a GSD) and taking him for a walk so he is not too bored. Lately his buddy, son's very old mutt is not wanting to play as much as before. I think he is getting too old.

 

[Pearl]

Really exciting day here!! Going to work, then the bank and Walmart! Just living the high life! Warm today but rain returns tonight and the next few days. So I'll get some outside stuff done later! Hope everyone has a great day!!