Covered Wagon

The weather was beautiful this weekend. It was sunny with highs in the 40s. I took a lot of pictures, thus the long post.

 Lisa followed me over to Nelson's to get hay. We had some details to iron out on the hog deal. She was visiting with one of the baby horses.

 Behind the barn.

 One of the cows with her week old calf.

 The stalls.

 Hay spear with a roll of cattle hay.

 They all came down to watch me go by on the road with the hay.

 The hay was well received.

 We pulled the trailer out of the lower pasture and took it over to Nelson's barn. His ground is flatter and wider so this way it will be ready to go when the hogs go to Flemingsburg.

 Look at those hams!

 Nice looking hogs.

 That's Nelson feeding his horses. They were pleased with the hay too.

 The sheep didn't like the last batch of square bales for some reason. Lisa has been bringing flakes off of the downhill sheep round bale.

 That's Ally next to the wheeler. She's whiter than the rest so she's easy to spot in the pasture. She's soft and fluffy with her winter wool.

 The sheep know what it is.

 Lisa fills the big manger and the one in the sheep's stall too.

 We took the squares back to Heather. Her horses like them.

 Andy and Lisa were waiting for me to take the hay over to the barn with the four wheeler.

 Andy taking hay over to the barn with the four wheeler.

 Heather once told me I didn't have enough bunny pictures on my blog. So, here's a bunny.

 There may have been a little mud next to the barn.

 We stopped at Tractor Supply to get a cattle panel. We prefer the covered wagon method for transporting the panels. We also got a sulfur salt lick for the cattle. Rumor has it that the flies don't like the cow poo with sulfur.

We stopped at Lowe's to get some extension cords to replace the one's I broke with the tractor. The things in the pots are some kind of birch and blueberry bushes.

 This is just the Enterprise.

Cold and Sunny

It looks nice out but it has been cold. Too cold for outdoor projects, but it's a dry cold.

 Andy and Heather came over today.

 The girls don't mind the cold. They have nice fur coats to wear. Luna was moving too fast to get in this picture.

 Heather did her taxes. They picked up the little trailer to haul the bad hay out. The horses don't like it but the cattle ate most of the last one.

 We hung out inside and had hot dogs for lunch. Luna slowed down enough to be in a picture.

More Playing With Fire

It was nice out and wasn't windy so I lit the big burn pile.

  It was going pretty good. The sheep and llamas had to spend the afternoon in the front pasture.

 Lisa brought over stuff from her failed burn pile. Some of it was still damp but it burned anyway.

 It got late so I banked the fire and put panels around it to keep the sheep out.

 Feeding time.

Playing With Fire

Lisa has been collecting the debris from the flooded creek over the past few weeks. She tried to burn it today but it didn't work out. You can see all the snow has melted. It was in the 50s today.

 She got it started with some diesel fuel I had left from changing the fuel filter on the tractor. She had trouble keeping it burning, it was still damp from the snow last weekend.

 Martha and Bonnie have been taking good care of the flock. We think they'll work out nicely now that the antagonist is gone.

Llama Drama

With Paddy gone there hasn't been as much llama drama. They all seem to be getting along and the sheep, as usual, don't care much one way or the other.

 Martha and Bonnie are on opposite sides of the fence now. They still hang out around the water tank and gossip.

 We've had the gate to the big pasture closed for the last few days. Mainly to give Martha a chance to bond with Dolly and the sheep in the barnyard. They share hay and the llamas get grain. Lisa fixed one of the stalls so the sheep can go in there and the llamas can't. Llamas tend to always poop in the same place every time. Dolly likes to poop indoors and usually picks a stall if she has access. The sheep don't like the llama poo.

 I was on my way to get a round bale for the sheep. We put the welded goat wire back under it so no one can get their head in between the bale and the rack.

  It has been snowing lightly since yesterday.

 The truck wouldn't make it up the hill so it will be down there for a while. Don't worry Andy, Lisa said she'd come down on the 4-wheeler to pick up the pizzas tomorrow night.

 This is Nelson's hay shed. Most of what you see here is our hay for the winter.


 The bales are pretty good size. This is one of the good sheep hay bales. The cattle get good hay too but it is first cutting and has more clover. The sheep's hay is mostly grass. They like clover too but it isn't as good for them.

 It's cold moving hay. It isn't something that needs to be done in the summertime.

 You can see our house on top of the next ridge.

  I zoomed in to our house.

 At the bottom of Nelson's driveway.

 Lisa set up a corral for Bonnie. Now she can eat in peace. She doesn't like the sheep stomping around by her feet. Also they jump at her feed bucket trying to knock it down. It's like they know what's in there.

 The sheep approved of the new hay.

 Lisa was out sliding around on the 4-wheeler. She was trying to get some air on the snow drifts.

 The pond has snow on it.

 I had to take some dog in snow pictures. It wouldn't be winter without dogs in snow. Here is Piper, Luna and Satin.

 Paris was waiting to go in. Her feet must have been getting cold.

 Piper, Satin and Paige. Piper wasn't being affectionate with Satin, in case you were wondering. That is Piper being the dominant bitch that she is.