Someone once said, that farming/ranching was easy. He wasn't talking to me, but to some young ladies at at an agriculture seminar at the cooperative extension service. I quietly said to myself, whatever! When I shook his hands earlier, they were soft. It's amazing what boys will say to get a young lady's attention. Still laughing at that incident.
Today, I did my chores. You would think that after doing this for years, and with a two year break. That I'd come up with a system to do things easier around the ranch. Not true. Each day is different, every animals has a different personality, and the weather doesn't seem to cooperate when you want it to. So as much as I wanted today to be routine. It just didn't happen. Even with the best laid out plans on paper, or in this case, a computer, just doesn't happen when you walk into the ranch to do, The Plan. I had planned on putting up my new goat pen today.
As soon as I walked into the ranch this morning. The lambs needs caring. The goat herd saw I was paying attention to the rams. So they started baying to get my attention. Gera, our karabao, just looked at all the commotion going on. It was quiet until I showed up.
Yeah, I know...I know.
It took awhile to get everyone situated, moved to greener areas, get them water, and make sure they were all okay. Lamb Rams are shedding their coat, attracting flies, and just whiny all the time. I was told they're quiet. Whoever said that, doesn't own sheep. They do eat a lot of grass and greens. So that outweighs they're constant whining for the moment. All the goats are okay. Morena was browsing along the road this morning, had to tell our ranch dog, Duchess to move her back into the ranch proper. Gera, our karabao seems to always have his tie out lead in a spaghetti mess around a log or tree. I betcha he is doing it on purpose. Didn't take long to untangle the mess. He don't know that I'm good with puzzles. I used to untangle miles of commo wire when I was in the army. Don't any of you tell him that. He might make it harder or do something else to try to annoy me.
After all that was done. I went back to the house, cleaned up a bit and headed out to the feed store. It was already 1130 hours. Time flies fast when you're doing ranch chores.
Found out via internet research, after lunch, that they do sell animal feed for sheep on Guahan. Retailers should know their products. For months, I've been trying to buy sheep feed to supplement the forage here on island. Only to find out after months of, "No, we don't sell that". That they do actually sell livestock feed for sheep. Come Monday, I'll head out to another feed store after work to get that livestock feed for my lamb rams.
There was another plan on paper to do this afternoon after siesta. I was supposed to cut the grass on the trail ways. Got back into the ranch, and started cleaning: moving tin, pulling up an old water hose, moving water troughs, putting feed into feeders for the loose chickens, untangling karabao again, picking up feeders and putting them in one place, moving junk to one area, and pruning some brush.
By the time I got back to the house. It was already past 1800 hours.
What a day!
Keep Smiling!
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