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[chickadoodles]

Tara and Bunnylady you both have beautiful pics and animals and love the flowers Tara.

 

[perchie.girl]

Just shoot me!!!

I finally screw up my courage to call the vet (haven't wanted to give myself another bill to pay).

I need him to come out, do a good check-up on my three does. I never did have them looked at after buying them. But one has disbudded horns that I think are fine, but dont look quite right so I want looked at, and one has bumps that looks like the parasite bumps that my horse had (back when I had horses) that are ignorable but I wanna be sure that is what there are, and see if he sees anything else that I need to be monitoring on them, or testing them for to male sure that their milk wont kill us (and yes, we have been drinking it for months and are not dead....dont poke at my logic, I know it isn't there, it would just make me feel better...and then also I could maybe give some extra to the neighbors... ) ...

and I need to get them tested for johnes, CAE and CL so that I can pimp them out. I need them bred in the next couple of months. I found someone with a buck that will cover them if I can prove they are clean of the above.

And... (Drum roll) the ONLY vet within a FOUR hour driving radius that does house calls and knows his stuff and will drive out to your place to see your animals (and actually charges reasonable rates..a big shocker there, good price and totally worth it) IS TOTALLY GONE!!!

As far as I know, he isn't dead, but might be, but has disconnected his phones and if not dead has something horrid wrong with him and is in the hospital in Anchorage. And has been for the last 2 to 3 weeks.

I guess I have to google how to do the blood draws myself......

and screw the rest.

you can A.I. the goats if need be...

 

[superchemicalgirl]

I managed to slam the back of my head into a 4x4 wooden crossbeam last night while doing the chores. Fairly stunned, I then couldn't figure out how to get out of the chicken gate. Now in a (painful) panic, I realized I had left the other chicken gate closed but not latched when I was doing the water. I stumble up to that gate, get kinda tangled in the hose, throw the hose out the gate. The hose comically lands on its handle in the ground, turning the hose on (this is a problem with the cheap metal ones that I buy but they're more sturdy than the plastic ones since we seem to get unexpected freezing nights sometimes). Still trying to get out of the gate, and now being sprayed by a rogue hose, I manage to get out of the chicken run and go get BF. I'm terribly confused at this point, soaking wet, sobbing, in pain...

Poor BF takes one look at me as a hot sobbing snotty dirty wet mess and sets me down on the couch, gets me a bag of ice for my noggin, and says he'll finish the chores. While he's outside I (stupidly) decide I can finish the indoor chores (clean the cat box). About 5 seconds into cleaning the cat box I (still don't know how it happened or what it happened on) but I slam the top of my head into something else. BF then finds me in a heap in the hallway, crying again.

He puts me to bed.

I have to admit it was the best nights sleep I've had in a long time.

I have a splitting headache this morning, feel a bit stupid and my head is throbbing in both areas where I slammed it into something... but for the first time in a long time I'm not tired.


There's always a bright side.

 

[bruceha2000]

Lots of -snip-

We do get enough cold here during winter...

more lots of -snip-

Um, is that a typo? In Alberta? The one in Canada? It doesn't get cold 'enough' there???

I managed to slam the back of my head into a 4x4 wooden crossbeam last night while doing the chores. Fairly stunned, I then couldn't figure out how to get out of the chicken gate. Now in a (painful) panic, I realized I had left the other chicken gate closed but not latched when I was doing the water. I stumble up to that gate, get kinda tangled in the hose, throw the hose out the gate. The hose comically lands on its handle in the ground, turning the hose on (this is a problem with the cheap metal ones that I buy but they're more sturdy than the plastic ones since we seem to get unexpected freezing nights sometimes). Still trying to get out of the gate, and now being sprayed by a rogue hose, I manage to get out of the chicken run and go get BF. I'm terribly confused at this point, soaking wet, sobbing, in pain...

Poor BF takes one look at me as a hot sobbing snotty dirty wet mess and sets me down on the couch, gets me a bag of ice for my noggin, and says he'll finish the chores. While he's outside I (stupidly) decide I can finish the indoor chores (clean the cat box). About 5 seconds into cleaning the cat box I (still don't know how it happened or what it happened on) but I slam the top of my head into something else. BF then finds me in a heap in the hallway, crying again.

He puts me to bed.

I have to admit it was the best nights sleep I've had in a long time.

I have a splitting headache this morning, feel a bit stupid and my head is throbbing in both areas where I slammed it into something... but for the first time in a long time I'm not tired.


There's always a bright side.

Perhaps you need to add an item to your "farm chore clothing"


Really sorry you smacked your head. Been there, done that, got the stitches. But I THINK I've managed to not do it TWICE in a short period of time.

 

[chickadoodles]

I managed to slam the back of my head into a 4x4 wooden crossbeam last night while doing the chores. Fairly stunned, I then couldn't figure out how to get out of the chicken gate. Now in a (painful) panic, I realized I had left the other chicken gate closed but not latched when I was doing the water. I stumble up to that gate, get kinda tangled in the hose, throw the hose out the gate. The hose comically lands on its handle in the ground, turning the hose on (this is a problem with the cheap metal ones that I buy but they're more sturdy than the plastic ones since we seem to get unexpected freezing nights sometimes). Still trying to get out of the gate, and now being sprayed by a rogue hose, I manage to get out of the chicken run and go get BF. I'm terribly confused at this point, soaking wet, sobbing, in pain...

Poor BF takes one look at me as a hot sobbing snotty dirty wet mess and sets me down on the couch, gets me a bag of ice for my noggin, and says he'll finish the chores. While he's outside I (stupidly) decide I can finish the indoor chores (clean the cat box). About 5 seconds into cleaning the cat box I (still don't know how it happened or what it happened on) but I slam the top of my head into something else. BF then finds me in a heap in the hallway, crying again.

He puts me to bed.

I have to admit it was the best nights sleep I've had in a long time.

I have a splitting headache this morning, feel a bit stupid and my head is throbbing in both areas where I slammed it into something... but for the first time in a long time I'm not tired.


There's always a bright side.

I hope you feel better soon.

 

[chickadoodles]

I have had a bad week with wire and rabbits.



Dh brought home a very large crate from work yesterday that we are going to use to make rabbit cages. We will have 8 cages. And I hope we can make better doors so this won't keep happening to my hands!

 

[bruceha2000]

Me too Chicka! That looks mighty uncomfortable.

 

[ronott1]

We went on a whale watching tour yesterday. We were outside on the way out of the Bay and it was very wet. I did not have a coat on and was wearing just an SF Giants shirt. When I went into the cabin to get the shirt, the boat hit a rough patch and I fell forward and stopped myself inches from hitting a hard edge. I could have been like SCG!

It is very hard to get a picture of wales but I did manage to get three!







As always, click to make the pictures bigger.

Picture of the Golden Gate Bridge from inside the boat:



This is the new Bay bridge, picture taken from Pier 39:



It was a fun trip. Since the Ginger worked and we did not get sea sick, we will go on the Farralon Islands tour next time. That one is 6 hours.

 

[bruceha2000]

I will have to look at the new Bay Bridge when we fly into SF next month. Assuming it isn't all foggy

How long did it take to build and how horrendous was traffic during that time? I'm guessing it was pretty ugly.

 

[ronott1]

I will have to look at the new Bay Bridge when we fly into SF next month. Assuming it isn't all foggy

How long did it take to build and how horrendous was traffic during that time? I'm guessing it was pretty ugly.

The new bridge is next to the old bridge. It took like 10 years to build it and the construction delay for traffic was during the last year when they connected it.

The replaced the Eastern span. The western span(for those that do not know, the bridge goes through Treasure Island) Is being retrofitted and that caused some problems with getting home yesterday. It took an hour plus longer to get home than normal.