I'm a Patient Person

  

    Well, kinda. Not always. 
   I TRY to be a patient person. But sometimes it's so hard.
   Like today. I went and has a one year CT scan. I have to wait until Thursday to see the doctor and get the results. I'm praying they're good. I'm hoping they're good. But I won't know until Thursday. 
   If you've ever seen Airplane! (the movie) I'll probably be the Lloyd Bridges character by Thursday. "I picked a bad time to try to quit tobacco."
   I wish I could just go to bed and sleep until Thursday morning. But I'm not sure I could sleep 60 hours. Plus, I've got stuff I need to do. Stuff Yvette wants me to do. Stuff I want to do. 
   So sleeping for 60 hours is out. 
   Maybe I'll get a chance to go sow some seeds tomorrow.
   Or go spray something with roundup. 
   Or find an ax and chop down a tree. 
   It'd take my mind off the waiting.

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#MonarchChallenge Success

 I posted a picture on Facebook a few weeks ago, maybe on Instagram or Twitter too. I'm not really sure.
   This picture right here.

It's Jeremiah, Brayden, Gabe, Zeke and Zara with Bella. They are standing behind milkweed plants. I got the milkweed through myBASF. It's part of their Living Acres #MonarchChallenge  I learned about it because one of the Grills kids, Hunter, was in a video. (He's not a kid, he's grown man, but his dad was one of the Grills boys so he has to be one of the kids. I guess. I don't know.)
   I went and signed up last year. and then this spring I got an email saying that my shipment was on its way. I didn't video planting the little plants. I didn't take pictures of them after I had planted them. They didn't really look too promising to tell the truth. There were 18 of them. I planted 6 in each of 3 locations. Watered them. Then I watered them again about a week later. Then I watered them some more.The ones here in the back yard have done the best. There were actually 3 blooms. 
   But I never saw any butterflies around them. I was walking around the yard yesterday and I noticed there were caterpillars. CATERPILLARS were EATING on my MILKWEED

MMyILKWEED!!!! 

   How dare they? 
   I planted those for the Butterflies. The Monarch butterflies.
   Actually. That's what I hoped to happen. It's what was supposed to happen.
   That was the goal of the program.
   Monarch butterflies come from caterpillars. And MONARCH butterflies only lay their eggs that develop into caterpillars on milkweed. If you don't see them in that picture. I zoomed in for a closer look.

There are 4 of them in all. The 2 up top. And these 2. Happily munching away on my milkweed! #Monarch Challenge Success!

 #ForTheFuture


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Ag is in my blood, That's why there's calf poo on my arm

   Yes. 
Calf Poo. 
On. 
My. 
Arm.
   It happens. Especially if you work on a farm with livestock. You may be thinking to yourself "but he doesn't work on a farm, he doesn't have any livestock, how DID the calf poo get on his arm?" Those are very good questions. Let me explain.
   Zara had cheer practice at DCHS last Sunday night from 7:30-9:00. When I was taking her, there were 2 girls out in the pasture at the high school by a fairly new baby calf. As I was leaving from dropping her off, the 2 girls were moving across the pasture towards the rest of the herd and I noticed there were 2 women outside the fence. They were very noticeable because one of them was shooting white foam at the fence. (I stopped because, well, because that was interesting) 
I got out of the car and one lady said, "We're killing wasps!" I could thoroughly support that kind of behavior, cause I hate wasps. Then we talked briefly about the calves (one of the cows had just had twins the day before. A bull and a heifer. And the heifer was the one that was with her. The bull which is guaranteed to be okay is the one that wasn't with the cow. The heifer, which has a 90%+ probability of being a freemartin, was with the cow.)
   They were talking about getting the cow and both calves up to the barn. I went home and when I went to pick up Zara I saw them sitting in front of the barn. So I stopped to see how the calves were doing.
   They had gotten the bull up to the barn, but the heifer and cow were still in the pasture. They were waiting on someone to come from somewhere to help get them up. They asked if I wanted to get them up. Hmmmm.
   I went on home and asked Yvette if I could go back to the school and help them get the cow and calf up to the barn. Yvette said, "If you think you can help, go ahead"
   I put on my shoes and went back to the school. I introduced myself and told them who my child was that had had Ag class last year.  They wanted me to know that one of the cows was less than friendly. Her name is Loca and she lives up to her name. I said they should have named her Big Friendly Baby. And then the person they were waiting on showed up with somebody with them. So we headed out to the pasture. 
   It wasn't a perfectly smooth roundup. First they tried to bring the cows to the gate and slip a halter on the cow they needed. Her name was Maggie. Her daughter was named Edith. She was the white one (a Charolais. They were all white ones) She wasn't having nothing to do with that. (Ain't Nobody Got Time For That!)

Brayden met Maggie

Then we tried taking them across the pasture to go through the gate to go to the barn. We're stumbling around in a pasture in the dark. We sort of chased the cows. The grass was almost knee high and wet. Then the cows turned back and kind of chased us. (Remember, one cow is less than friendly. She's a white one. They're all white ones. You can't really tell which one the unfriendly one is, so...run) It only took 3 attempts to finally get the cow more or less where they wanted her. 
   They tried driving the cow up the alley with the calf outside the fence. She didn't really like that idea. So I did what I've done before that worked. I started walking the calf up the outside of the fence and talking to her and the cow. Mostly nonsense.       Talking about walking around and new adventures and her being like my children and my wife because we started on this trip to the barn and barely get started and she had to stop and use the bathroom and then we started again and she had to stop and use the bathroom again and how there used to be a character on tv with the same name as her and Rod Stewart sang a song years ago about someone with the same name as her mother and how nice it was going to be when she got to the barn. 
   When we finally got to the end of the alley they finally got the halter on Maggie I scooped Edith up on my arms and walked to the gate where one of the nice ladies opened the gate for me and then I sat down in the hatchback of a vehicle and I held Edith while the driver drove to the barn.

Reunited

I don't remember any of their names, and they probably don't remember mine. They didn't care about my name.. They didn't need my help. But I had a special skill that they could utilize. (20 years of marriage has taught me to take orders from a lady😉)
   The calves seem to be doing fine. But that's how I wound up with calf poo on my arms.
   It made me realize that I miss having livestock and at the save time made me realizeI don't miss stuff like that at all....

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Special

20 Years

   Sympathy cards may be mailed to Yvette if you wish.
   June 26, 2019 will be 20 years that we've been married. Anybody remember that day? I'm pretty sure she deserves everybody's sympathy for putting up with me for 20 years. Especially the last year. It has definitely been the most challenging. 
   So I'm getting her shelves. Don't tell her. I want it to be a surprise. 

   It's probably not exactly what she wanted for our anniversary, but she said she wanted shelves. So she's getting shelves.

   I've got an awesome wife. She's been fantastic for the past 20 years, I'm sure  she'll be just as fantastic for the next 80.

😃

June 26, 1999

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Happy Daddy's Day

   Yes, I said Daddy's Day.
   Probably because I didn't father any of these children. And someday I'm gonna take Yvette to paternity court and prove it. 
   But I Love Them, I put up with them, I frustrate them, they frustrate me; you know all that stuff that children and parents go through. All 7 of 8 or 9 or 10 of them. 
   12 if you count Kim and Denise, who were NEVER mine but effectively ended a date for me one night at Walmart by running up and hugging me and saying "Daddy, Mommy wants to know when you're going to pay the child support". I tried to explain to the person I was with that these were NOT my children to no avail. I didn't even get a handshake goodnight.😡
   But I digress. I was in Co-op at Newbern Wednesday looking for something for Yvette and I saw this:

   It's a hat like my Daddy used to wear when he(we) went to the field to drive tractors or chop weeds. That was back when we didn't spray everything and be done with it until harvest. 
   We sprayed some, we cultivated, and we walked the field using a hoe to get the weeds that the spray and the cultivator didn't get. The best part to me was the chance to get a drink when you got to the end of a round, eating lunch in the shade at the Williams place: potted meat and crackers, bologna sandwich, Red Bird imitation Vienna sausages. 
   Amazing what just seeing that hat brought to my mind. 
   But there's been a couple of things lately that made me realize I'm turning into my Dad. One was last week. I changed the oil in the car and when I got up from the ground Harold started laughing and said you're moving like Daddy. I said "I Love You". I think. I know it ended in You. 😉
  The other happened today at work. I was washing some of the grease and oil off of my arm and I looked in the mirror and saw a bruise. I don't think it was there yesterday. I don't remember hitting my arm on anything. Reminded me of all the times that Momma would ask Daddy what happened to his arm or hand, he'd look at it think for a couple of seconds and say "I must have hit it on something."
   He's been gone a couple of years now and I miss him, especially when I see something like that hat.

   Last year Father's Day fell between losing the tip of my tongue and getting the diagnosis of what they wanted to do. This year, I'm working on father's day, which is much better than last year.

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Safe!!!! Natural!!!! Non-Toxic!!!! Weed Killer!!!

  CHEAPER Than Round-Up!!!!!!

   I might have been a little bored. I shouldn't  have bean, but I've been seeing this posted about lately so I figured I'd post something as well.

   For the past few years I've seen people share the natural weedkiller recipe posts every spring and summer.

  If you want something to turn something brown where it's not growing, it WILL work!!! I used it last summer!!!!
   See, I've proved it's effective. I used CAPITAL letters and EXCLAMATION POINTS!!! That proves it is true.
   Common Household Ingredients:
1 gallon of Vinegar
2 cups of Epsom Salt
1 cup of Dawn Dishwashing Liquid
   Start by heating the vinegar on the stove and stirring the Epsom salt in with a wire whisk. (Dang i forgot how bad vinegar can smell when it's being heated on the stove😝) Then let it cool down before putting it in the sprayer. Oops, I don't have a sprayer. So I went to town to get one. Hmmm. There a gallon of roundup ready to use for $14. The sprayer cost $15. So the ingredients are cheaper than round up, but it's gonna cost me more this time. But I'll have a sprayer that I can use next time.
   Then after you pour it in the sprayer you add the cup of Dawn Dishwashing Liquid..stir it up. Spray it on the weeds and the next day, they're dead. They looked dead. The leaves turned brown and fell off. But a week later they started to come back..so I bought more vinegar, Epsom salts and added the Dawn and sprayed them again. I was beginning to think I had fallen for some

   Well they looked dead, again. 2 weeks later they greened up again. So I bought more vinegar, more Epsom salt, and a new bottle of Dawn.  And sprayed them again.
   You guessed it. They started greeniing up. 😠.
  I went back to the store. This time I bought a gallon of roundup ready to use, sprayed the plants and they died. And that time, they stayed dead. 
   So yes the natural safe non-toxic weed killer is at least non-toxic. Non-Toxic means it didn't kill the plants. 

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