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When In Doubt…Electrify

When In Doubt…Electrify

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*******Please Subscribe To My Blog…..It Really Helps******* Draft horses are big….. Everything is over-sized…they are tall…they have big hooves…big barrels…big heads…and big butts….. …..and even when they do something small…it ends up big….. All horses rub and scratch…to one degree or another…(especially in the summer months)….. You always need to look for the cause of any excessive rubbing………….the weather…skin conditions…bugs…and yes…worms….. There are lots and lots of potential causes….. When they rub their butt cheeks or tails…your first go to…is…

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*Pasture Repair*

*Pasture Repair*

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*******Please Subscribe To My Blog…..It Really Helps******* I know it’s a boring subject for a post….. It’s a boring chore….. It’s a forever chore….. But it’s gotta be done….. And somebody’s gotta do it………….and I’m that somebody….. We need to have the pasture’s electric fencing up to snuff before the mares come home….. They will immediately test it….. …..we need it to “get their attention”…(and unwittingly…ours too)….. We also have to clear out all…or at least most…(or maybe we’ll just…

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The Spring Plant Sale

The Spring Plant Sale

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*******Please Subscribe To My Blog…..It Really Helps******* The local University’s botanical society just hosted their Annual Spring Plant Sale….. My daughters both went….. They took our “State Fair wagon” with them….. …..that’s kind of scary…because when you have the capacity to drag a wagon around with you….. …..you also have the ability to fill it….. And that’s exactly what happened….. My daughters bought lots of young fruit bearing trees and bushes….. A few years ago…I dutifully bought and planted and…

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Farm Repair Update

Farm Repair Update

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**********Please Subscribe To My Blog…..It Really Helps********** We’ve been working hard on the farm…the outside weather still remains tolerable-ish….. But sunstroke…dehydration…are just around the corner once again….. General exposure to the sun in our sub-tropical hostile environment…(which we lovingly call a Florida Summer)…is almost here………….(Yippee!)….. But there’s always a lot that needs to be done…regardless of the heat….. We’ve gotten all the gate repair done…(plus I’ve got a good inventory of spare gates–for the big limbs that are just waiting…

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*****Freedom*****

*****Freedom*****

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**********Please Subscribe To My Blog…..It Really Helps********** Remember the movie “Braveheart” with Mel Gibson playing William Wallace…and his rally for Freedom?….. My hurricane-secured livestock (who we had safely stalled in our barn)…decided to break out….. Lots of young goats…as well as MaMa Pig…scurrying and bounding everywhere…(MaMa Pig doesn’t scurry…she rolls along with her sizable authority)….. These beasties did an organized/combined jail break….. They probably concentrated on the old lower boards….. Too much standing water…too much flooding…added to their escapability….. …..and let’s…

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Insomnia & The Palmetto Bug

Insomnia & The Palmetto Bug

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*******Please Subscribe To My Blog…..It Really Helps******* Palmetto Bugs are the Humvee-Half-Track vehicles of the bug world….. You can easily hear them clattering down a tile hallway….. Armadillos…alligators…and palmetto bugs have successfully reached their peak on the evolutionary scale…they have evolved into perfect self-sustaining creatures….. …..well…armadillos haven’t learned how to survive crossing a road yet….. …..and palmetto bugs can’t out run a chicken either….. But…alligators….. …..yep…they’re at the perfected-top of their evolutionary ladder…and I will leave them well enough alone…right…

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***DON’T MESS WITH MY DUCKS***

***DON’T MESS WITH MY DUCKS***

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**********Please Subscribe To My Blog…..It Really Helps********** …………………(Ode to Caesar…continued)………………… …..(but this is still re-hashing the night prior to going into the hospital the last time)….. ………….(I haven’t gone in again)…(phew)…………. …..after the initial attack & Caesar’s demise…all was quiet for a little bit that night….. I kept reading…and listening (remember…the coop is right off my bedroom window)….. AND DAMN!…if there wasn’t a thump and a quiet kerfuffle in the coop a little after 1:00am….. I was prepared for a…

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What The @#$%$#@ Happened!!!

What The @#$%$#@ Happened!!!

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**********Please Subscribe To My Blog…..It Really Helps********** …..I Am Home…I Am Home…I AM HOME!….. …..I Do have to give myself stomach injections of enoxaparin twice daily….. …..BUT I AM HOME!….. The nurses laughed watching me give myself shots….. They said it was obvious I was more used to giving shots to the farm animals….. …..they coached me on how not to “fist” an injection…(you farmers out there know what I’m talking about)….. I’ve always been very active…I thought I was…

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~The Need For Good Fence Repairs~

~The Need For Good Fence Repairs~

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**********Please Subscribe To My Blog…..It Really Helps********** I’m probably stating the obvious….. …..but it bears repeating….. A farm…big or small…is only as good and/or successful as its fences….. It could be as simple as containing a vegetable garden…or as important as corralling a bull….. …..(there’s no bull here)…(well there is…there’s a lot of Bull…but not of the bovine-version)….. …..we have horses…pigs…chickens…turkeys…and hounds………….and they all need containing…in one form or another….. Not only do they need to be kept in by…

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~Daughter versus Fence~

~Daughter versus Fence~

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**********Please Subscribe To My Blog…..It Really Helps********** The goat herd has been culled down to just six….. …..Trooper is still being kept separate from the girls…for the time being….. But the girls….. …..are characteristic-ably running amok….. It’s just what goats do….. They plot…they plan…they scheme…it’s their primary focus in life….. My older daughter has taken on a solitary/stoic task of correcting and finishing an important fence-line….. …..the goat fencing….. …..it was started months ago….. …..but so many things got in…

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