dec 15 2022

i am delighted to report... no ice in 9 and 10-- turns out 100 years ago a shut off was installed at kennel 8 because 9 and 10 ustabe my shop- the whole ice theory was correct according to all you camera people.. until we found some one had shut off that valve we did not know existed.

so the  intellectual  information  of "water expands as it cools from.  from 4 to 0 centigrade so ice floats should be stored for future use.

bud has yellow duct taped 2 other known shut offs...  he really should. make an underground  map of this place...

cellebrating the ipswich news 3 year  party last night-- judy was my external memory device-- since--- in that crowd i could not understand a word anyone  said..  i did hear my name mentioned by the editor and it must have been positive or i would not have been invited... betsy was there and offered to help with  the new equine page/// ipswich is very horsy so the editor was all for trying that  too...  so that means another 400 words  of ERN nature..  there will be ice covering Hades before the ERN project can't come up with 400 words to talk about. 

just sitting here....  thinking. HAY.... and the fact that  drought has affected the supply.....nation wide !!

Not sure if I have told you all...  but.... at one point in my life I was in the hay storage barn of wayne cashman’s parents in Canada..

It was easily 3 times the size of our arena--  this is the kind of place truckers are now transporting from... which then land locally and we run around and see who has the best--   things like source and supply are WORDS  really coming into play as many of these Canadian hay growers did not get second or third cut hay and there will be a shortage.. so it behooves us to stay as well ahead of it as we can with probably a weekly load of hay between Meredith farm and crazy acres... I don't think there is any substitute for hay. not that I know of—I did hear a veterinarian say there was an increase in the cases of colic.. which he attributed to people trying to cut back on hay...20 pounds for a 1000 pound horse... per day

 

and other story regarding  hay and the. Cashmans.....--- when I lived in Lynnfield ,  Andre was my hay supplier. and he would bring I think it was 30 tons at a time maybe----  there was a day when Wayne and his brothers we're at our farm in Lynnfield and they looked at the hayloft and how the hay had been stacked and they didn't like it so they took the 30 tons and threw it out the window and very nonchalantly threw it back in the window and stacked it differently---- never batted an eye I think it took them about 12 minutes.. it was a flabbergasting performance... Wayne's wife is a quarter horse owner and that's how I know her.

 

There are a huge number of horses in. florida—with all it’s weather problems—there is

wolgemuth auction  web. and it has a hay testing video..... someone goes  around and tests the load with a long test  probe.. and people bid on it.

 I found the hay resting video fascinting.

..who knew????