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hard work makes for a happy me
Apr. 21st, 2023 07:23 pmFeeling much better now with three days of hard work in the last three.
Wednesday I took off work other than night class and sheared sheep with J. It was a bunch of different stops and I had to leave the loop unfinished because I had to get back to the house for the 7pm work class. Got home at 6:35, managed to walk Mara, shower and grab my warmed pizza and sat down at my desk at 6:55. I sheared a bunch of different sized sheep, which was very fun. Two babydoll southdowns, which was learning to shear over their eyes because of the wool that grows right around their eyes. I got to watch J shear merinos, which was an educational experience. Three shetlands, a Romney lamb and one huge mystery sheep. Huge mystery sheep showed up at that particular farm and is probably a meat sheep that ran away from another farm. He was huge. Probably around 250lbs. I weigh 165. But! I sheared him with only a little bit of help to hold his head at one point, so that was fun!
Yesterday, I went to C's place and we seeded things! We seeded 2000 cabbage seeds for a tarping trial, it's big, it's complex and thankfully those are mini-head cabbages. So it could be worse. Then we seeded lettuce, which was much faster. I picked rocks which was a hilariously easy task since those fields don't have many rocks and none were even the size of my head. We had a good laugh about it, but her partner thinks this is so many rocks! He's from the Netherlands and has farmed on a lot of river bottom lands. Not many rocks there.
Today I went back to C's because she is going to run a workshop tomorrow about making seed screens. We weren't sure how many people there would be, how extensive the workshop would able to be so we went to town. I had cut all the hardware cloth to size earlier this week so this was cutting wood and assembling frames. The goal was to have enough assembled screens that we could give participants a fully assembled screen and then give them the other two screen sizes and they could make the other ones. We ended up doing most of that plus cutting and drilling the wood to hand out. It was a fun day of carpentry. I did get my first sunburn of the season and didn't have sunscreen on me because in the last few weeks, I was able to get a work vehicle! And I haven't figured out what stuff needs to live in it yet. Sunscreen. Not a bad sunburn but I usually try and manage my sun exposure for the first two or three weeks of spring and then discontinue the sunscreen usage once I've tanned properly enough not to burn.
I'm going to try and get the chainsaw working tomorrow, the oil cap isn't closing properly so I need to fiddle with it. I'm hoping to get the small trees taken down and lopped up for burning soon, so I can put up the fencing around the back yard for my plants and for Mara. We'll see.
Then I'm going to make boston creme pie this weekend, because A's hens are laying so many eggs and they try not to have them for sale too long (even if they're good still) so now we have 11 dozen eggs in the basement fridge. Boston creme pie uses a full dozen and I made a list of baked goods that use a lot of eggs. I'm not overly fond of savory egg texture although quiche is okay so I'll be baking a lot!
Wednesday I took off work other than night class and sheared sheep with J. It was a bunch of different stops and I had to leave the loop unfinished because I had to get back to the house for the 7pm work class. Got home at 6:35, managed to walk Mara, shower and grab my warmed pizza and sat down at my desk at 6:55. I sheared a bunch of different sized sheep, which was very fun. Two babydoll southdowns, which was learning to shear over their eyes because of the wool that grows right around their eyes. I got to watch J shear merinos, which was an educational experience. Three shetlands, a Romney lamb and one huge mystery sheep. Huge mystery sheep showed up at that particular farm and is probably a meat sheep that ran away from another farm. He was huge. Probably around 250lbs. I weigh 165. But! I sheared him with only a little bit of help to hold his head at one point, so that was fun!
Yesterday, I went to C's place and we seeded things! We seeded 2000 cabbage seeds for a tarping trial, it's big, it's complex and thankfully those are mini-head cabbages. So it could be worse. Then we seeded lettuce, which was much faster. I picked rocks which was a hilariously easy task since those fields don't have many rocks and none were even the size of my head. We had a good laugh about it, but her partner thinks this is so many rocks! He's from the Netherlands and has farmed on a lot of river bottom lands. Not many rocks there.
Today I went back to C's because she is going to run a workshop tomorrow about making seed screens. We weren't sure how many people there would be, how extensive the workshop would able to be so we went to town. I had cut all the hardware cloth to size earlier this week so this was cutting wood and assembling frames. The goal was to have enough assembled screens that we could give participants a fully assembled screen and then give them the other two screen sizes and they could make the other ones. We ended up doing most of that plus cutting and drilling the wood to hand out. It was a fun day of carpentry. I did get my first sunburn of the season and didn't have sunscreen on me because in the last few weeks, I was able to get a work vehicle! And I haven't figured out what stuff needs to live in it yet. Sunscreen. Not a bad sunburn but I usually try and manage my sun exposure for the first two or three weeks of spring and then discontinue the sunscreen usage once I've tanned properly enough not to burn.
I'm going to try and get the chainsaw working tomorrow, the oil cap isn't closing properly so I need to fiddle with it. I'm hoping to get the small trees taken down and lopped up for burning soon, so I can put up the fencing around the back yard for my plants and for Mara. We'll see.
Then I'm going to make boston creme pie this weekend, because A's hens are laying so many eggs and they try not to have them for sale too long (even if they're good still) so now we have 11 dozen eggs in the basement fridge. Boston creme pie uses a full dozen and I made a list of baked goods that use a lot of eggs. I'm not overly fond of savory egg texture although quiche is okay so I'll be baking a lot!
