I have been busy so I will summarize what happened since last week.
The Princess let goof off so I sorted legos for the g-daughters
The girls really liked results since they can quickly find parts they need.
Ben
I love the Lego bins! I would have loved to have had that many legos as a kid. Mind you, I was spoiled & had a lot of toys though. I had those little half-lap logs for stacking. I mostly loved to play outside though. I didn't need toys when I could run around and dig in the mud. Also enjoyed spending time with my dad "helping" him on weekend projects. He let me hold screwdrivers sometimes. LOL.
I had a lot of construction paper, crayons, etc and drew a lot back then. Maybe it's part of why I'm obsessed with pictures now.
Looking for more hay, since ours is so bad the goats and sheep won't eat it. Long story short: I think I am totally losing my faith in humanity. We have rented a property we own half an hour away from our main farm to a farmer since we bought it. We practically let him have it for free before we moved to Virginia, just so he could keep an eye on it, and have livestock on it, fix fencing, cut weeds. He got the entire hay field for free. So we moved here and now we needed at least half the hay from the hay field. We have yet to get decent hay out of this. I am debating if the guy is just a horrible farmer, or a deliberate crook. I am hoping he is just a bad farmer, if the other one, I hope karma gets him. First, he did not tell us he was going to cut the hay until after the fact. Then it rained on it ( just a little, it felt pretty dry when he baled it. Then he told us he couldn't do square bales because it would take longer and it was going to rain again ( he should have checked the damned weather before cutting it!) so he baled round bales. Our contract asks for square bales, since we cannot move round ones. We could only take 1 back on the truck with us, he was supposed to deliver the rest ( he keeps half). It was ok, not too bad. We went back the next day and picked one more up with the truck. He was supposed to deliver the rest the next day. He couldn't because he supposedly had a flat tire. So the rest of the bales sat in the rain for several days ( they are wrapped). He finally delivered them a week later , had the nerve to demand a large delivery fee and they all look like crap. I am thinking maybe he brought us some really crappy old hay from somewhere else , since the first 2 we got are ok. It's brown, sticks together, dusty, moldy, rotten. It's barely good enough for bedding. I am so pissed , I am very tempted to call him and yell at him. But wouldn't fix the problem. I truly cannot imagine that hay wrapped and left in the rain for a few days ( round bales) get into this bad a condition that fast. So yeah, we are absolutely not going to extend his contract even if he owns the property next to ours. If we can't find anyone to cut and bale our hay for us next year, we will just sell the entire property and have enough money to buy hay until after we are long dead. Thanks for listening.
Ugh! That is awful! Sorry to hear the farmer didn't keep up his end of the bargain. I've found that sometimes when you trust people like that they just take advantage. Been down that road multiple times. Our former tenants were supposed to maintain the property, livestock, etc in exchange for temporarily living in our house while working on building a house on their own property half a mile from us. They were only to pay a small amount-- like $87 a month. They didn't even keep that up. Stopped paying not long in but we were overseas. They didn't just refrain from taking care of the property, they severely damaged it & stole a bunch of stuff.
Scumbags all. I think they were the ones who came and opened our package & dumped it out yesterday. I lost my trust in people a loooong time ago.
I hope you can find a better person to manage the property & get some good hay.
Reminds me I need to get some for my cows. The old stuff I bought months ago is no longer any good & the cows won't touch it.
I took Dawn to the Dr today to check on her breathing. She's been increasingly short of breath and was concerned that it was pneumonia. The PA checked her lungs, heart, and all the other stuff. He said it's just part of the long recovery from COVID. Anyway, he gave her some amoxicillin, and, on the way home I got a call from the grade school to sub for the afternoon class with K-1-2 kids.
I hope that Dawn will make a full recovery & not have any lasting effects from Covid. I have friends who had it & managed to survive but still have breathing problems months later.
I move into my school on the 13th. Will have to use a porta potty and do sponge baths for two weeks while a new above ground septic system is put in. Turns out the owner wrecked the septic bed when he dug trenches for the out door boiler pipes.
He tried to hide the problem by pumping the tank every night out onto the old play ground. He didn't account for me taking a shovel out and digging holes to check the 'dirt' out. That, and a random drive by reveilled a nasty stench at 9 pm.
A call to the health authorities had them out retesting the water among other things and an emergency approval for the new septic bed; all at the owners expense. My lawyer will be holding back the appropriate amount of money to pay for everything on top of the new price reduction on the property. That non disclosure cost the owner big time.
Nothing ever goes off without a hitch.
I hope the owners get what's coming to them (legally) for that BS. Man, what a scummy thing to do. Dumping it in a playground no less. That's just criminal!
Hope everything else works out for you & glad you stood up for your rights and called authorities on this issue.
One thing to keep in mind, jobs, particularly in rural places COST money. If its some very low paying little job, you can have lots of people who need a job, but who can't afford to have a job that low paying. You can get along for a long time with almost no money, as long as you don't have a job and aren't spending money on food, clothes, gas, childcare, etc and all the other stuff you can save huge amounts of money on by doing yourself, as long as you don't have a day job.
This is the problem where I live. We have no public transportation, no bike lanes, very few sidewalks, etc. It's not safe for people to bike or walk to work & many can't afford car insurance (it's extremely expensive here) or a vehicle. They often have to rely on rides from friends or family. My best friend's fiance had a job that didn't give her enough hours to cover the cost of gas to get there. I know people who work 2 to 3 jobs & still barely break even with all of the bills & fees. Sadly, people here can't get along with almost no money without getting their utilities cut off. Electric company & water company don't care that there's a pandemic & massive layoffs. They actually increased their prices recently. They started sending cutoff notices before bills were sent. They get away with it bc it's a small town.
My dog had puppies 4 days ago. Out of 11 puppies, 6 have survived. She is drying up. She keeps dumping two of them out so now I am a kangaroo dog mom. I keep those two in a pouch under my shirt. Every few hours I literally spoon feed them. I had to go to town and got some funny looks because of the noises my stomach was making. Puppies can be quite squeaky.
I'm sorry to hear about the puppies that didn't make it. I hope the two you are caring for will pull through.
I made it into town just in time to get mail before the post office closed. Dropped by to see my unlucky friend. The new jacket mom ordered him had arrived & it took me a bit to notice he had it on. He said it's like "wearing a hug". He loves it. Because he hasn't been able to work since his stroke & had no paycheck, I took his fiance to get groceries. Man, she is doing so much better on her meds. She's like a different person. Back to how she was before her anxiety and bipolar disorder really kicked in. Poor thing has BPD, anxiety, ADHD, and mild schizophrenia. It was causing her to behave erratically & have violent outbursts. She's so much more mellow & nice now. I got them some groceries so she can cook. Also got some cooking utensils for them since they didn't have measuring cups, measuring spoons, etc. I had a blanket in the seat waiting for her so she would be warm when she got in the car.
The 4-month old baby is FAT. He's going to need to learn how to do some situps. He apparently always wants food. He was whining while hungry but stopped and smiled as soon as he saw his bottle. He can now somewhat hold his bottle by himself if they prop it up on his favorite blanket (that looks like a tortilla). My mom hasn't seen him since I think August so she was shocked when she saw how big he was in the pictures.
I think it would be good for my mom to get out of the house to play with the baby a bit.
.Deserts of Middle East, Ultra rich Arabian cities liek DuBai. The very worse was in Senegal Africa. Convoy took him to a villiage dropped him off with cardboard doors they called hotel. Meal was a raw fish with head and all.
from us.
