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and.... this is in Viena, AustriaI have a few more that were in this email that are fun to look at and I'll them add above.
Nothing much new here, just cleaning, sorting and rearranging the house a bit. Our weather is still rainy and cold but is fore casted to warm up as this week goes on. It's actually a nice break from the outside spring clean up work of last week.
Mike is off this weekend, so the list making begins! We have some branches and odd shaped wood that needs cutting and splitting, Mike needs to work a bit on revamping the hydraulic splitter( more upkeep, as in oil change, spark plugs, new hydraulic hoses, etc...), Mike is still working on finding a rim for our trailer( one was in bad shape when we replaced the tires) so we can begin the process of cutting, hauling,splitting and stacking our next winters wood supply. Then it has all summer and fall to cure.
We're also making plans to get our Dexter cow, Addy, bred in June. We paid to have her AI'ed twice and she didn't settle either time( $130 down the drain, *sigh*) It took some doing to find a bull close enough, but PTL we made contact with a family who lives just 10 miles from us. There will be a stud fee of $50 and a $3 a day fee while she's there. I'm praying she takes the first time, otherwise she'll go back in July. Her heifer, soon to be a year old( May 5th) we're thinking about breeding her in Sept. She'll be almost 1-1/2 yrs old when bred and over 2 yrs old when she calves. This is still being talked about, we may wait until she's 2 yrs old before breeding. It's fun to think that we may possibly have two calves next summer. One for the freezer and one to sell.
Well, we need to make a trip to the local( 6 miles south of us) grocery and pick up some sale items, then we'll work on more laundry. This is one downfall of rainy weather, it stretches laundry into 4-5 days because of time needed to dry clothes on the wooden drying racks indoors. Typically, when I can solar dry( clothesline) the clothes, we have laundry done in two days.
Many blessings to you and yours,
Kelle
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I have been inside the Longaburger Basket Building. Went with a tour. It's HUGE. It is amazing that people come up with these wild building and they actually don't fall down! lol
Hope your cow will take this time. Calves are so cute...debbie
Debbie,
It just hit me when I opened this email, how creative people can be.
We pray she takes this time too. It's actually fun to think about having one calf next year, two would be such a blessing.
Blessings,
Kelle
Hey Kelle, that basket is only about 2 hrs from my house. About your cow, we usually like our cows to be about 2 before we have them bred. We've lost cows because they were to young and small to have calves.
I am in the same boat with my Guernsey - she didn't take AI last fall, and it was getting so late in the year, I decided to wait until this summer to breed her. I am going to try AI (for a Guernsey) and if that doesn't take, I will put her with our beef herd when we have a rental bull here. I'm hoping she will take one way or the other.
Sending good thoughts your way for a successful breeding with your Dexter. We wait until two to breed also. It's hard to wait, but it sure makes a difference on the longevity of the cow.
Thanks SFG and TTC,
Thanks for your advice. We too had thought we needed to wait until 2 yrs old before breeding, just have had several others recently say,breed at 1-1/2. We've prayed about it, you both have reaffirmed it and decided we aren't in any rush, so we'll wait as planned. Besides she still looks like such a baby herself. This is Cortney's heifer and she's already lost one heifer to a weird problem of her rumen not developing correctly( she was a bum calf), so she ended up in the freezer. We don't want anything to happen to, Button!
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