Glad to be able to stop by... I took a solid break from all the big projects for about four days while my friend visited, but even the daily chores are still a lot... there’s about four to five hours a day minimum for me, longer if I have to walk to the other side. I won’t drive the 2wd truck off the farm without a license and on our narrow roads (a jeep is a slightly different matter though
should I get one working again) so there’s also lots of cardio. I’m now playing catch-up on procrastinated chores/projects I delayed while my friend was here.
Here’s a good farming soap opera plot for you... just needs a catchy title.
For the
real Drama, it was all going down at my friend’s farm, where I’m planting my garden and brooding my chicks. So my Friend “W” (64m) who I previously hatched with, has a drinking problem, loves animals, and is a little less than mentally stable. Farm owner “A”(43m) had his cows calf processed last fall leaving one lonely mama cow. “A” has a tenant “R” (23m) and his gf “B”(~20f) living in a tiny home ie: shack with a heater woodstove, and is also renting an 5th wheel to Chefs that keep quitting the pub.
“B” just rubs me the wrong way, so I’m scaling back my gardening and pulling out a bit, planning on also doing some planting around my trailer. “R” is flaky at best, somewhat skeezy feeling to me. So it’s all really about the cow... W,R, and The chef were
all feeding her. An agreement was reached that W would feed her (amongst A,W,R, the chef and A’s father who actually owns the property) W is buying the bagged feed out of pocket because he likes/felt bad for the cow. R decides to let B and apparently a
second gf I’ve never met feed her the grain W has been buying (and I’ve been bringing in for him). This happens several times, feed is consistently going missing, the cow is getting fat and a little ill. W confronts R in the store over it, and R sucker punches him, then calls the police claiming he was strangled and is being threatened. Of course the store security cameras “aren’t working” but two people witnessed the assault. W was about two sheets to the wind when the incident
happened and doesn’t like the police... I can also assume he was being a little confrontational/belligerent. Still it takes a really brave person to punch a 64 year old man in the back of the head... personal aside, my money is also on R and B for the tire flattening incident...
