My egg yesterday had two yolks. We had a lot of two yolk eggs last month, This is the first one for a while.
Heather was here.
Allen was here.
Piper was waiting for someone to drop turkey.
The turkey was delicious.
Lisa shooting the pistol.
Lisa shooting the rifle.
Andy setting up targets.
Clear Creek Shooting Range is in the Daniel Boone National Forest. It was a nice day for shooting.
The yellow ones hatched first.
They'll be white when they get big. We won't be eating these. We plan to be rid of them long before they stop being cute.
The Christmas cactus is blooming early.
Both of them are blooming.
The bridge crossing before the gates were installed.
The posts were all in and painted.
Lisa packed the posts while I pulled the tension wires.
The flood gates being installed.
The wire is hung.
Completed fence with animals. They are enjoying the new grass.
I was getting a lot of help twisting the wire ends.
The shed posts with batten boards. We used 2x6s since there will be cattle behind them.
Lisa cleaning out the cage for her new bunny.
Lisa's new bunny. It's a male of some interesting variety that I don't know. She'll have to explain. She did mention that it was too small to eat.
Anne came up from South Carolina to help with the posts. In this picture I'm repairing the phone line that the locator said was ten feet away and 120 inches deep. It was only about 10 inches deep and nowhere near the mark, so naturally it was in the exact spot where we needed a post.
Lisa and Anne dug out an area for the phone line junction.
Andy demonstrating his skill with a chainsaw.
All work and no play makes Andy a dull boy.
We have posts for the bridge crossing. It will have two 12' galvanized mesh gates like on the other side.
This is the 14' gate into the creek bottom pasture. The little wrinkle in the top bar is why we got it so cheap at the factory second lot.
The lower corner of the turn around area. The tall square posts are 12' 6x6s. They will be the center support for the run-in shed on the pasture side and an equipment shed on the driveway side. The ground isn't level, of course, so it will have a higher ceiling on the down hill side. The plan is to have a dry shed with a floor deck on the low end.
Lisa's pet bunny.
The one with small ears.
We got some hydrants installed.
It will be nice to have water in the winter. Mike was pretty good on the excavator. He dug around the phone wire and never touched it.
One is over next to the cattle water tank.
They loaded the extra dirt on the truck. I put it in the erosion area next to the driveway.
The other hydrant is down by the bottom pasture.
Lower hydrant.
Upper hydrant.
I got to meet Lisa's pet bunny. It has small ears.
It was windy and the horses were standing against the barn with their butts in the wind.
A mountain road in Menifee county with fall color. There wasn't as much color in the higher elevations.
We talked to Dan, the man who took Darryl's intellectually challenged offspring, to ask him if he wanted to buy Tilly's girl and her lamb. He has sheep too and liked the look of the dorpers. He wanted to buy them so we said we could breed her first so he'd have a spring lambing.
We put the goat gopher on the small trailer and loaded them up. We'll need to strap it down better if we take it down the highway like this.
Lisa was giving Speedy a talking to for rearing up at her. I'm sure he just wanted a hug.
It was quite an event to have all this activity in the pasture.
That's Duane sniffing Tilly's girl. The lamb is only 3 months old and is still nursing. Duane wasn't interested in her. He was still chasing the ewe around when we left.
We drove through Lancaster, KY and they had these fall flowers all around their town square. It was very pretty.
I made a frame out of 2x4s to support the 16' gate. It was sitting on the closed tailgate all the way back until we got to the railroad crossing in Winchester. The bump at the crossing made the tailgate come undone and drop down. Fortunately we had tied the whole load to the truck, nothing fell out. It was too heavy to lift so we just strapped it in and drove the short distance home with it like this. We'll need to get some way to lock the tailgate if we try that again.
We have six more corral panels now. They are all factory seconds like the gates. Usually you have to search for the defects.
The 16' gate is the "bonus", it will be on the driveway down by the road. The plan is to get an electric opener for it. The 14' is for the creek bottom access below the driveway bridge. The two twelve footers will go across the bridge. The 10' will replace the green 7 bar that currently accesses the cattle pasture. We got these wire gates to keep sheep in and dogs out.
We had four hens and a drake left,but we gave two of the hens to Nelson. One of ours started laying eggs again so we let her keep them. She has about 16 in the nest. We ate the last set she produced.
We opened the duck pen so they could go free range. They flew right down to the back pond and have been using it ever since.
They swim in it and feed along the shore.
We like them much better this way. Well, not as good as with dumplings but still better than when they were trashing the barn.
Hildie getting groomed. She had burdocks and dingleberries.
She's a happy cow.
