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June 21, 2008
Hello Everyone,
Getting a little heat around here now. Not quite use to the temps and humidity yet but we will. We get a rain every few days or so and it is a little tough for some who did not get their hay put up. Not huge soakers but an inch to a half inch quite often.
It still amazes me how some folks are still bone dry and others are too wet. The jet stream has moved a little but not enough to help those who need the moisture.
We started pouring concrete yesterday. Man am I getting old! I was able to form up enough area the day before to get the concrete poured in the morning so it would be set up enough before the forecasted rain for yesterday afternoon. Sometimes things work out.
I was looking at hiring all the concrete work done for this year knowing they could be in and out of here in a heck of a lot less time than it would take me to get it done in the time I can work it in from the normal stuff around here but I just can't see me paying that kind of money. My gosh the bid for the labor for that (here anyway) is way more than the concrete. Just going to have to suck it up and get it done one feed yard at a time.
The plumbers finished up trenching in the water lines and putting in the water pipe and electric wires Thursday. They said they had been watching me the past few days and said man Brian you need to get a hired man. I said I know but it is not easy to get one who will do this kind of work along with the cattle stuff. So someone else is seeing that I am running around here like a chicken with it's head cut off too.
I
do get Brad on the weekends or when we are pouring concrete. I am glad
his mother fed him good when he was young. It is not his favorite job
but maybe he does not want to see his ole dad buried under concrete.
I moved cows last weekend to a different part of the pasture and the grass was so tall in areas it was up to the cows back. I should have moved them sooner but not enough time to check and fix fences. When grass is that tall I think we waste a lot grass from them just knocking it down. By fall from the rotating several times though they do get it all ate. We are going to build a drive or alley this year to move them to the third part of this pasture this year when they get this grass down a little so we will be able to lock them out of both the first and second parts of this pasture and make them only go to the third area. This has needed to be done when we first got this ground but just never got to it.
With the grass in front of them, they are sure putting on the pounds and the calves look really good.
We put more listings on the semen and embryo pages on the ACS Classifieds Be sure to check them out.
The
count down getting close for that new grandbaby for the Olson's in MN.
Ruth asks me just about every day if I have heard anything from the
Olson's. I should buy one of those cheap recorders and record a
message where she can hit the play button when she gets home that
says,. "No honey, I have not heard anything about the baby
getting here yet. They said they would let us know right away and I am
sure they will."
Looks like a chance of rain again this afternoon so I got to get outside and start forming up some more area for concrete. Hope all those that need rain gets it and those who don't get a little break to get some feed put up or whatever else needs done.
Well that is it for this week.
Stay
safe and have a great weekend. Brian
Weaver
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