oct 7 2023
DETAILS??? YOU WANT DETAILS??? I DO NOT MAKE THESE THINGS UP....
Just in case you've never heard me say it before---- running a farm is a constant overlapping of systems and jobs and problems and you name it -------
doesn't sound like much but Carly told me on Friday after breakfast...we had 38 bales of hay----- at nearly 10 bales a day that's not quite four days so therefore I should immediately Concentrate on getting my next load of hay. which means I would need the trailer.
I am fine 100% with Lynn borrowing the trailer to move furniture (which is what I've been told..). it's a wonderful trailer for moving all kinds of things,,, it would be wonderful if Lynn would also while she has the trailer go buy a scoop of sand from Bentley Warren to replace the sand that she used to fill the mucky green puddle.... and that would be super wonderful, if she would then go to brickends and get a scoop of topsoil to replace the topsoil used in the same puddle....from my 3 year old compost pile basically of E RN manure.. If all that had happened by Friday afternoon I would be so pleased and I would then go get 85 bales of hay before they close at 5:00. Pm.. but that didn't happen..
So what now? I have the small dog and donkey trailer currently hooked to my car and I'm afraid to unhook it for fear I won't get it back on again for my appointment next Friday to get the hitch changed.. it is a covered trailer so the fact that Saturday it's supposed to rain would not be a problem but it would also be a problem in that this dog and donkey trailer is only four foot tall... it's wonderful that it's covered but it's a pain in the neck to load and unload so my hay dealer is not going to be thrilled with that but I think he'd probably would just verbally object---- you can't stand up straight in that trailer. But then by late Friday afternoon he was out of that hay and did not expect any more until sometime on Monday--- maybe.. But lately you've heard me go through the perils of trying to get a load of hay over the border from Canada on time----so you can't count on it till it arrives in his driveway.
As I sit here typing. At 3am Saturday morning....--- I know we will be out of hay Monday afternoon, and I don’t know where the trailer is or when lynn will return it.... my options? Go to the dairy farmer in Rowley ( next town ) I heard they have some extra hay to sell. Or the commercial feed dealers who last price was $14.50 a bale..
Ok... do the math.... I will have to spend an extra $5 a bale til. I can get in line at my usual dealer.. $5 per bale. 10 bales a day = $50 per day... $350.00 a week – I can not waste that kind of money.
Having the responsibility for a bunch of animals is not for the meek---
loooooong ago..... when my house in Lynnfield burned to the ground-- which eliminated my water source for 14 horses in my barn, I learned to be a nervous wreck big time about things which don’t even cross the mind of 99.9% of my friends and associates.—which is one reason I bought this property across from a pond ( you have heard me say that before—I know) there is not a night in January that I don’t become neurotic about electricity, and heat in the barn.. normal people expect to have water and electricity.
the “what would I do with the dogs right this moment if the electricity goes off?” is on my mind for about 4 months of the year—and now... add June and July for the critical..airconditioning...
I am at the “what will I do on Tuesday with no hay”. ----ok.... lets think......A rainy Saturday,--- Sunday, ---and holiday Monday---so as my nerves begin to unravel—please be understanding... and ... bless those dairy farmers—they alone---- more than any other I know of, totally understand things like “NOW” and 24/7.... I will visit them today.
This goes along with the concept... if your dog needs emergency surgery, it will happen on a Sunday..
