Well Paul's son has been doing it since he was old enough to lift a pitch fork. I've actually got the weekend off so I'm going to offer to help with the shocking up. I'm normally too busy at work this time of year. The main camera on my phone is playing up but I'll be able to get a few badly framed shots with the selfie camera.
We have been under a heat advisory for a while now....off and on. It gets too hot for my old self. Y'all be careful out there. Take a wet cloth around your neck....and wear your hat!
I've got a lovely wide brimmed hat brought back from Australia that I wear. It doesn't have the corks hanging off it though. We don't have the same fly problem. Paul and his son both have straw hats Panama style.
It's a lovely 19 degrees right now but it's forecast to reach 30 again over the weekend. I might go and see if I can get a few snaps now. It may be too bright for a good picture tomorrow.
This is a redbird nest in a fig tree. Mommy and Daddy were raising Cain. I noticed something. The goats got out and they munched on my hibiscus and rose but left that big fig alone. If goats don't eat figs I am going to have a fig orchard goat pasture. The goats eat down the weeds and fertilize. And the figs make fruit.
Have you ever seen grain sorghum (milo) on the ground? It’s common a hundred miles south of me down in Kansas. I think the different colors are beautiful.
Your clothes they would pull off the line, chew on for a bit, then drag them through some dirt and take a leak on them. If you liked the results they would not do it again. If you were upset or disturbed in any way by their actions they would go to extreme lengths including self levitation to ensure they could repeat the behavior on a regular basis.
How did it do? Grain sorghum doesn’t do well here but does just a hundred miles or less south. Was yours for syrup/molasses?
My wife bought 4 Toggenburg does a couple months ago from a person who keeps her goats in a barn and feeds alfalfa hay and grain year round. When they got here they would not eat any weed or any tree leaves or bark. They just stood around begging for hay. It’s been fun and amusing watching them learn to be goats. They will now stand on their hind legs to get tree leaves and will eat most any weed. They even ate a broccoli plant the other day! They are learning to amuse themselves with their new freedoms instead of standing around vocalizing all the time. When their quarantine period is over and they join the main goat herd they will have more to learn. Things like this.
The farmer that rents some of our land uses a John Deere baler just like the one pictured here. This year his hay wrap was patriotic.. kind of neat seeing it.
I’ve seen the US flag wrap style wrap advertised in ag publications but never seen it for sale locally. It’s a cool idea. I just get boring light green and white with a red stripe on the last bit of the roll so you can tell when it’s almost gone. LOL I’m a bit jealous!
