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Starting to Rebuild fence

Saturday, February 6, 2016
I have started to rebuild the fence line that this summers massive rain fall washed away. What is weird is I have only found some small pieces of wire. Almost everything is gone. There are some T-Posts still standing but they are literally bent in half. These are 7 foot posts with 2 1/2 feet in the ground.

You can see from the picture how high the water was. All of this was under rushing water.

I am trying to rebuild so the fence can handle 5+ feet of rushing water. I am bracing th...

New John Deere 5085E

Tuesday, January 19, 2016
We are sorry to see an old member of the family go but we traded our John Deere 5403 for a John Deer 5085E. The 5403 was in great shape and never let us down.
John Deere just made us too good an offer. Not to mention we are going from an Open Cap to a Closed one.
There are many new features that will help us - fuel economy, it is about 3,000lbs heavier and that will help when lifting bales of hay high in the air, it is a little longer and that will help smooth out the ride, and many more t...

New Member of Family

Thursday, January 14, 2016

Well we said goodbye to our John Deere 5403. She has served us very well over the past several years. Was always ready to go and never let us down.

However, I am getting a little older and the Texas summers are getting a little hotter - not climate change - just dryer until this year!

We went to our John Deere dealer and as usual they had a really great deal for us that was too good to turn down. Took our 5403 in trade, a good trade I might add, and cut us a deal on a 2015 John De...

Lost a fence

Saturday, December 26, 2015
Today was the 6th straight day it had not rained so I wanted to see what the last 4 floods had done and if I could cut along the fence line.

I did cut where the stock tank dam over flow is but that was about as far as I got. Even after 6 days of no rain the fields are still filled with water. Water must go down in the ground about 6 inches.

I checked the fence line for the first time and discovered that in one 700 foot section - there was no fence. It has all been washed away. What...

Finished Painting

Thursday, December 24, 2015
I finally finished the last bit of trim on the stable and loafing shed. It took me awhile but it really looks much better. I still have the hay barns left to do. I will try to deal with them during the winter. If I wait until spring I tend to irritate the red wasp community and their sting does hurt.

Finshed First Coat of Paint

Monday, October 19, 2015
Well it was a long week end. I have not had this much exercise in a long time.
We finished the stable and a walk in. Took us a full two days and 15 gallons of paint. The end result looked pretty good. Still have to do the trim yet.
One end of the stable is about 28 feet off the ground and my tallest ladder goes 24. It is an old aluminum ladder and very shaky. I think when I do the trim I am going to climb on the roof and lean over.

Building Maintenance

Tuesday, October 13, 2015
We are working on cleaning up and painting our stables, walk ins and hay barns.

We have the stable and loafing shed sprayed washed down.

We have purchased a paint sprayer because we were not looking forward to long hours in the sun with a tiny paint brush.

We actually got the paint when we did the ranch house 3 years ago so hoping it is still good. It is the best paint Sherman Williams sells.

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