Texas

[jockeyeba]

jockeyeba - Those are some good and healthy looking birds!  So pretty!

Thanks

 

[jockeyeba]

I have an outside kitty that appeared on my front porch in the middle of an ice storm. I'm out in the middle of 83 acres, 1/2 mile from the road, and if you didn't know my house was back here you would think this was just land. I do not know if he was dumped or born near here and felt the "vibe" of this place, but he stayed and is just the nicest cat.

I also have horses and 5 years ago one of mine clocked me in the chin with his shod hoof. Broke my jaw in 3 places! I'm lucky, he could very well have killed or paralyzed me. I had to have surgery to rebuild my jaw, and I get random bouts of vertigo, but everything else is good. I kept working with that horse until about 6 weeks ago when a friend of mine (a very good cowboy) expressed interest in him. Now he's on a trial run with that friend. I hope it works. He's a cool horse, just not my horse.

They can hurt you even if they didn't mean too I've had 3 broken wrists from horses flipping in the starting gates but my 1st broken wrist when I was 12 (both bones snapped in two) was from my horse jumping forward from a standstill when my dog ran up behind him. I just fell on the ground, not even hard, but my wrist hit a rock. I had to walk home leading the horse for over a mile

 

[LBejaran]

Anyone have their own website? 

I just signed up for a free trial for one and registered my web name.  I still need to register the business name in Texas and get my food tax permit.  I've been wanting to do it for a while and since the Texas Cottage Food law has improved, I thought maybe I would start to slowly grow the site so that in the next 3 or 4 years when I retire it will be running consistently.  We can't sell food online at this time, but you can advertise for home and farmers market sales.

Several years ago, I had a tax permit for soap-making, but I put that on pause when soooo many people started making soap and I didn't have many customers who actually paid, anyway.

I had a website last year (when I was in college). I actually created it from scratch with HTML & CSS coding. Heck, I even designed it in Photoshop myself and created my own images. It was really fun. I think if you can find a way to create your own domain for a decent price, it's a good investment. If I had the money, I'd sign up for a five year domain. It's generally cheaper that way.

 

[Jungleexplorer]

LMAO yes! Some chick hopped up on something just walked up and knocked the hell out of me for no reason at all. I hit back. It was.. different. In all my years I never was in a fight then when I'm 56 this happens. Guess she picked the one that looked most vulnerable.

Make no mistake, I've been clonked in the head by a horse too. And stepped on, and fallen on, and you name it. I even shoed horses for around 8 years and oddly enough, never got for real kicked. I mean kicked so that it connected well. Did get cow kicked a couple times, those are sneaky but didn't hurt me much, just bruises. I'll take a horse trying to kill me over a hopped up bar fly or a baseball any day.

Maybe she was on the same thing this person was on. There is a newer drug known as bath salts that is really deadly and causes people to go on rampages and attack and kill senselessly. My son is an EMT and he bought a bulletproof vest to wear when dealing with people on bath slats because because a friend of his was stabbed to death by a guy on the stuff his friend was trying to help. Beware! this video contains some language.

 

[jockeyeba]

Anyone have their own website? 

I just signed up for a free trial for one and registered my web name.  I still need to register the business name in Texas and get my food tax permit.  I've been wanting to do it for a while and since the Texas Cottage Food law has improved, I thought maybe I would start to slowly grow the site so that in the next 3 or 4 years when I retire it will be running consistently.  We can't sell food online at this time, but you can advertise for home and farmers market sales.

Several years ago, I had a tax permit for soap-making, but I put that on pause when soooo many people started making soap and I didn't have many customers who actually paid, anyway.

Stallions can be a pain literally We have a website with Weebly for our Painted Desert sheep. What do you sell?

 

[jockeyeba]

Love Paul Harvey Jungle is that shade screen material covering your greenhouse?

This photo was taken before it was covered. It is covered with a double layer of 6mm GH plastic with an inflation blower, there is a layer of solar screen cloth over that.

I thought I could see a covering of some kind

 

[bnjrob]

This was my solution to gardening here in Abilene during this drought. It is made almost completely of repurposed oil field junk.

Love this. We're still battling locusts here. Chickens were doing ok for a while but the hotter the summer got, the more hoppers came and the chickens started losing the battle with those nasty things. May have to start enclosing everything and hand pollinating - we're seeing a decrease in pollinator numbers here too.

 

[bnjrob]

Everyone I'm really starting to get scared for Mandy she hasn't been online sence Friday. She told me some personal details before she left that I feel it's not my place to repeat. Could everyone pray for her hopefully she will be back soon! I miss her!!

You can always call the local sheriff where she is and let them know you are concerned and see if they will do a wellness check.

 

[jajeanpierre]

I've kicked many a horse in the mouth that was trying that. I don't know if they intend to miss or not but when shoeing you learn to keep close and in contact with those back legs because if they do kick when you're there, all the end up doing is pushing you away. I've been "push kicked" this way a lot. But never hurt since I was too close for them to connect well on.

This was a really nasty horse. I don't normally say that because most bad behavior is mismanagement somewhere down the line but he really, really tried to hurt you, and not just a little hurt, either. If you were at his shoulder, he would turn himself inside out reaching up to get you. He's do it on the walk, too. If you were too far forward, he would rear to strike you. Too far back and he'd twist up underneath himself to get you. I've worked with a lot of young racehorses and they can be full of themselves--too young, too fit and too confined to be the sensible older horses they grow up to become. This one was different. He was out to kill you. I've never met another horse like that, and I've been around a lot of horses including breeding stallions.

 

[TammyTX]

Stallions can be a pain literally

We have a website with Weebly for our Painted Desert sheep. What do you sell?

I'm not selling anything at the moment, but I want to start selling baked goods from the house and at farmers markets...Angel Food Cakes, Breads, Pies, Honey (no bees yet, but I have the books!), Goat milk (no goats yet, either...), garden surplus (insert laugh here) and of course soap and eggs.

I have sold soap to friends/family and I used to sell eggs from the house but not a lot.

These are things I want to do to earn a little extra money after I retire.