Wednesday, June 3, 2015

Official Rain Rant, The New Ram and Why is Bubba's Blog Restricted?





Went and picked up the new Registered Blue Faced Leicester Ram today. He is a good looking fella. Nice easy going, very gentle, didn't even get excited about the loading, transport or unloading. He seemed to like his new digs especially since I let the grass get really thick in there for him.




He is a bit over two years old now so he should start really packing on the size over this next year. I really would have preferred a White Ram but my Mother is obsessed with colored sheep for her hand spinning.

We are calling him Coco and I noticed right off the bat he responds much better to the ladies than to me unlike Frazier our other ram who seems to have zero respect for two legged Women. Really watching him with the ewes he has zero respect for the four legged ones too. Anyway Coco would walk away when I came close but was all lovey dovey on the wife. Guess I can't blame a guy for that.

He got to introduce himself to all the lady sheep through the fence and some of them seemed very interested in the new arrival already. I told them hussies we would have none of that yet they still have children to raise.




He also has Bubba sized balls it seems. Speaking of Bubba. Why is his blog private now and why was I not invited? Where ya at Bubba? What's going on?

Did I mention rain? Well it poured down so hard today that when I went and opened the pasture gate to let the flock go into the barn out of the rain I had to go back and help two of the lambs across the run off stream behind the barn. Seriously it was almost over the top of my rubber boots it was coming down so hard and two of the lambs were afraid to cross it to get inside the dry barn.  I am now officially gonna bitch about the rain.

It has rained like every day for over a week at least in some amount and I don't think I have seen the sun in 10 days now. The only saving grace is that it hasn't been too hot but all this rain has stunted about a quarter of my Buckwheat plants. It's also breeding flies like crazy and everything smells like a swamp or an old wet dog or worse because everything is constantly damp.  It hasn't killed the Pumpkins yet but because it has been so cool and no sun they are losing the battle with the weeds and it's too wet for me to do much to help them either. We have also been getting several floods up here as well with more than a few deaths and the ants are moving into buildings, bee hives, anywhere dry and causing even more problems than the pesky flies.

I am putting up new fly strips almost hourly and the doors and windows are covered with the filthy things as they wait to rush in whenever an opening presents itself.

It is literally a fly plague I kid you not.

The solar electric fence chargers are running out of juice. I cannot get the diesel tractor out of the barn because there is now a pond where the door opens and it would sink to it's belly if I tried. I have to mow the various yards I take care of in parts because it never stops raining long enough to get even one finished completely. The frames in my swarm traps are molding and the poor bees haven't hardly been out of their hives in like two weeks.

Friggin Stop Raining Damnit!!!!!

Keep Prepping Everyone!!!!!




15 comments:

  1. Bubbas last post said his doc told him he had cancer and he was dying. Prayers offered.

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    1. MD - Thanks for informing me. I guess I missed it since I was out on my business trip. Man that saddens me. I hope they are wrong or he pulls through it. Maybe he will read this and contact me since I have no way of contacting him. All my prayers to him.

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  2. Oh wow, coming to Gainesville next week, hope we have nice weather, was going to kayak down at river of life in Dora, going to bakers creek monthly shindig on Sunday....hope you dry up PP

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    1. LW - I don't know how they are down that way. The South Central part of the state was listed as borderline dry a few weeks ago but they could be getting it just as bad as we are here now too. I haven't traveled South in a few months.

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  3. ahhh yes the rain, welcome to my world :O). Sorry just had to be smarty pants... Actually we have finallllly hit a dry spell. No rain now for a few days! None in forecast either for several more. Hoping my garden can make a full come back since its drying out! So do you guys raise the sheep for the fiber? or the meat?

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    1. Texan - LOL NO, You were welcomed to our world. This rainy season happens almost every year here. Even the drought year of 2012 started out this way. Every year I say I am not going to bitch about rain and yet every year I end up writing up at least one rant about it. This year seems a bit worse than usual though.

      I hope your garden bounces back!!!

      We raise the sheep for both although it started out as a fiber thing. We actually make a little money off the wool now. Not much but a bit. Honestly I think my mother keeps too much of it for herself.

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  4. We have had 5 days of straight not-rain now. Of course the heat popped right back up to where it usually is so some level of humidity. I tried digging a bit last night and the ground in my garden is still completely sodden. No planting yet.

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    1. TB - Most of my planting is already done. I just hope all this water doesn't kill off what I have. It's jut getting anything else done that's impossible now.

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  5. PP,

    Oh dear, the rain from H - - L.........we had it for over 2 weeks straight with all kinds of flooding and damage. Yes, it will bring out all the strange bugs, flies, snakes, spiders, and scorpions so be careful. Finally the rain has stopped and we've been dry for about 2 1/2 days. Were expecting rain when this hurricane hits the west coast. Hopefully it won't be as bad as before bring havoc across this country.
    Congrats on your new ram, Coco!!!

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    1. Sandy - We get a period of this every year it seems like. Usually it comes a bit earlier than this though. No matter how hard I try it always gets to me before it's done.

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  6. I really dislike ANY flying insect. Here in Jax we have sand gnats that bite & yellow flies that bite but are only here a few weeks of the year. In GA we have annoying regular gnats but at least they don't bite but they show up in great numbers. Of course we have regular flies & mosquitoes too. Hope you dry out soon.

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    1. DFW - LOL you would hate Wisconsin in the late spring near the lakes whent he blackfly hatch happens. It's the most terrible bug plague I have ever seen.

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  7. Your flies sound like our stink bugs in the fall and I suspect that if you spray stink bug spray around your windows and doors that it would wipe them out by the hundreds but then the spray is probably not in your area and is pretty potent.

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    1. Sf - I am afraid to spray much cause of the bees. Liquified sheep dung makes for a lot of flies let me tell ya.

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