I’m sorry I haven’t posted in a while. I have been so busy
it is crazy! Lol. We got a lot done this week that we wanted to. We fixed the
hog pens, to try keep the ducks from eating the pig feed. We painted the small
boat all camo colours so that it looks like reeds for when we go fishing. Stained
the deck. Been bottling calves and tagged them. There were a few small things
we got done too that I can’t really think of right now. We moved stuff from the
big tack room to the new tack room and a bunch more J
Friday was apparently just not my day!! Started off as
usual, feeding everyone etc. I did notice though that the surrogate hen lost
another baby, so she has 8 yellow and 10 black babies now, that’s a serious
amount of kids to look after and she is doing great! She has only lost 5 so far
and she is a first time mom so I think she is doing pretty well. G decided that
he would break out that morning and be miles out in the field with the mares.
So I trek across the pasture, pretty much all the way to the border fence in my
pj’s!! LOL, Yeah I rocked it! Alyson finds it hilarious that I do all these
strange things, lol, she calls me weird... So I ride G back to the ranch (in my
pj’s) ;) then carry on with the day.
Friday is Auction day so we decide to take ducks to the
sale. Me being a bright spark decide to put all the wrong ducks in the kennel,
so I now had to take them out after they had shat all over the kennel. This is
where my shitty day started! Covered in duck crap. So I get all cleaned up and
off the the sale we go! Aly as usual gets into the conversation and we miss our
turn, lol. We are so used to it now we just laugh and carry on. There was a guy
that was selling poodle pups!! Alyson’s weakness!! LOL, originally when Aly
went to get a poodle it was supposed to be a black male and then she came home
with Gemma a white mini poodle!! J
Hehe, anyway yeah we bought a black teacup poodle! He is really so tiny and the
cutest thing ever!
We are sitting in the action hall with the puppy and they
start brining feeder calves through. There was this really big and strong
looking calf and well Aly raised her hand we got it for $38 which is a really
good price for a feeder. Generally they can go between $100 and $250 for one
calf. Then another really cute and little calf comes by and yeah we got her for
$18 which is a REALLY great price, like we seriously scored! Then our poor
little $5 calf came through, he was in really bad shape and they just said he
needed some TLC so we got him anyway. Now we think we are done and as we are
about to leave and “Pistol P”, the poodle puppy decides to pee on my lap! So
number two for the day!! We left the auction to go fetch the trailer because we
never thought we were going to come home with some more critters.
We get home finally and I can change my pants, we grab the
trailer and truck back to the sale to fetch our babies. We get home and I start
unloading the calves, they were in such bad shape I had to carry them out, I got
the first two girls out and guess what...n I was now covered in cow shit...
Number 3 now over with!! When I went to grab the next calf I noticed he had a
broken leg... Thats obviously why they carried him across the sale pen, but
they never mentioned that he had a broken leg. We filled them up with milk and
water to rehydrate them and they started looking a little more perky. It was a
little horrible though to watch the little guy try stand up with no leg, his
shoulder was completely out and his bone broken right by his pastern. Was so
sad, so we just bandaged him up and kept feeding him and maybe hoping he would
get somewhere.
Matt came over to visit with his 8 little sale goats to come
visit. Now these are the most horrible goats ever. They arrived at the auction
in a hummer, with little goat collars on and they arethe most vicious horrible
things, they bite you and they are just terrible things... LOL, I hope you
noticed the sarcasm, for those of you who didn’t its okay! They are the cutest,
they remind me of Mavis our little mountain goat. They are just smaller but
just as friendly and the ‘Vicious biting’ is them trying to nurse.
So Aly and Matt decide that they want to castrate Lady’s
man, our male pig. I was not particularly happy about that so we made a deal, I
would catch him and then I could walk away... Needless to say that never
happened. I couldn’t catch him so Matt did and he screamed like there was no
tomorrow, it was horrible. So Matt now has this pig and Aly tells me to sit
down, for a minute I was thinking HELL NO I’m not doing this and yeah I stepped
up sat down. Matt showed me how to hold its legs and keep it between my legs a
bit and Matt sliced the little thing open. The screams were crazy!! OMW, I had
such a headache but yes now for number 4 I was covered in pig shit, mud and on
top of that his ball sack blood. But yes
Aly was proud of me cause I manned up and got the job done. I think my ears are
still ringing.
To end Friday off we needed some girly time! So we got all
dressed up and went out. We had a really great night Aly and I danced our butts
off while Russ and Danny played pool. It was a great night, real good start to
the weekend!
Saturday morning comes and yeah up extra early to start
Landscaping... This is a project that Aly has wanted to start for a while. It
involves moving dirt from pile to a new pile where Aly wants her mountain like
dessert garden, moving huge boulders from pile to a new pile where Aly wants to
border her mountain like dessert garden. It was an exceptionally hot weekend,
so we decided to stop working so hard at about 2 and took the little dingy to
Salt Springs to putter around and cool off. It was really nice Aly and I just
chilled. Then we got home late as usual, and were in trouble with Russ as
usual!! LOL. Being late and we both still needed to shower and get ready!
We got all dressed up and looking good again to go off to
Dave’s house for a party. Matt cooked a pig in a barrel, omw it was soo good!
It was actually a small pig but tasty. That was also a great night. Met so many
great people, and had a great time with my friends... LOL J
Sunday morning, up really early again, by now I was really
tired from going to bed 1:30am and up at 4:00am two days in a row. The sun also
pretty much takes the life out of you! We continue with the landscaping
though... All morning, stacking boulders and rocks to make a wall. It looks really
good so far actually. It is so hot though, like every 10 minutes or so you feel
dizey and have to sit down. I hate the feeling but I guess it could be worse!
Like I could be living in Arizona! At about noon Russ came out to ask us if we
wanted to go to the lake, Aly and I were like Heeeeell yeah!
Jordan(Kent’s Niece) and Javier joined us on the boat and
then we met up with Chris and a bunch of their friends on Kurts boat and Kelly
and a bunch of her friends on their boat. Party in the cove! LoL, its great
back there to just float around in the water with a drink while its so hot! We
had a good time tubing too, we never tried the water-skis though, so that’s
next weeks laugh! We were so tired we literally got home and passed out!
This morning another early start! Fed all the animals etc.
It was Chris’s first time feeding a calf this morning, it was Hilarius!! Chris
is so full of crap I’m glad he got some crap from that calf! The one is so
strong she pushes you over and knocks the bottle around, Aly and I have bruises
from her ramming us! Therefore her name is Rowdy, Aly’s calf. My calf is the
cutest little thing, she is little and cuter than cute, I named her Belle. Oh
yeah I named my pig Goat... J
Just cause I am weird like that!
So Jordan, Aly and I got the big trailer hooked up to the
truck, got all the tack in and fetched the ponies and off we went to Matts
place up by Red Ranch. In fetching the horses I got stung again by another
yellow jacket on the wrist, it swelled up so fast I now have a fat wrist! We
had a great ride, even though it was stupidly hot!! Honey also decided that my
calf was a good place to stand on and that made me a little lame. I think Matt
now finds it funny to give me crap about all the animals, like telling me I
should make slappers out of my puppy, or how I was the one that hurt the pig
cause I was holding him! So I think he intentionally wants me to help just so
he can give me crap. He asked me to help him put bands on the goats, so I’m now
the horrible person again cause I grabbed all his goats and held them down
while he banded them.
It was so hot at one point Jordan and I could not handle it
so we went into the trailer and turned the a/c . We then climbed up into the
bed to get closer to it and we both passed out in the living quarters. That was
such a good power nap! J
Then we trailed the babies home... Did the usual afternoon ranch stuff and now
I am entirely tired and need to pass out!
Have to be up early again tomorrow because Jordan and I are
going riding in the morning. We are riding up to a really old peasant graveyard
where the headstones are even still made of wood. That should be fun! Then I
have to finish staining the deck and look after Mr Pistol and the baby calves.
I think tomorrow might have to be a slow day cause I’m limping like a tonsil...
Need to rest my leg, I am so going in the hot tub, soak my bones!! J
Oh, I still haven’t found the stupid camera so I can’t put
up my bday photos, will get them up asap, as soon as I find the camera! ^^) I
probably missed out loads of the weekend, I’ll add on if I remember anything
grand J
PEACE LOVE and COOKIES!!!
XxxX
Tazzy
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