Thursday, August 17
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gottawonderToday I am grateful for:
Another busy day of getting things done.
Hot, dry weather.
We saw what I'm pretty sure is a baby Garter snake in our yard. Garter snakes are lovely and not dangerous to humans, and they give live birth. We've been seeing them a lot in our yard this year, and it's pretty cool to see a baby one. It was so tiny, like a shoe lace.
In order to put more square bales in the barn (that functions entirely as a hay shed), we had to organize the bales I put in there to make best use of the space, and that in itself was a work out.
Then we took the larger trailer to go get bales. We got a hundred this time.
The farmer came out and helped us, and we all chatted quite a bit. It's nice that we are on more social terms now, and have more of a relationship. He was all business the first couple of times we got bales from him, but now we chat more.
Over the years, you learn that for certain key service providers, it all just works better if you can form a relationship with that person. You have to be courteous and respectful, be openly grateful for the service they provide, I like to ask about their service/work and give them an opportunity to talk about it, because they are often very good at their jobs, it is interesting to learn about it, but it is a way to acknowledge them. You pay them promptly and no haggling. If you think the price is unfair, find out for sure if it is, or if their service is worth it. Maybe for some people being chatty and grateful to others might come naturally, but I've had to learn that skill.
This guy really does make fantastic hay, and it is CLEAN, with very few weeds and not moldy or dusty.
Then we came home and stacked it, and that gets to be quite a job the higher you have to go. Quite a work out for us both.
We also took some big cubes of wood shavings over to the ponies/goats and put it in the loft of their little shed (it had been stored in the barn).
We let everyone out for a while.
Then we watched some more "American Gods", and these two episodes really just felt like filler.
I learned that although humans now understand how to store and cultivate yeasts for wine making, originally the yeast required for fermentation was hosted in the bodies of wasps. The yeast would not have survived winters without being hosted in the wasps, who would re-introduce the yeast to the skins of the grapes each year.
https://www.wineinvestment.com/us/learn/magazine/2018/07/no-wasps-no-wine/
Another busy day of getting things done.
Hot, dry weather.
We saw what I'm pretty sure is a baby Garter snake in our yard. Garter snakes are lovely and not dangerous to humans, and they give live birth. We've been seeing them a lot in our yard this year, and it's pretty cool to see a baby one. It was so tiny, like a shoe lace.
In order to put more square bales in the barn (that functions entirely as a hay shed), we had to organize the bales I put in there to make best use of the space, and that in itself was a work out.
Then we took the larger trailer to go get bales. We got a hundred this time.
The farmer came out and helped us, and we all chatted quite a bit. It's nice that we are on more social terms now, and have more of a relationship. He was all business the first couple of times we got bales from him, but now we chat more.
Over the years, you learn that for certain key service providers, it all just works better if you can form a relationship with that person. You have to be courteous and respectful, be openly grateful for the service they provide, I like to ask about their service/work and give them an opportunity to talk about it, because they are often very good at their jobs, it is interesting to learn about it, but it is a way to acknowledge them. You pay them promptly and no haggling. If you think the price is unfair, find out for sure if it is, or if their service is worth it. Maybe for some people being chatty and grateful to others might come naturally, but I've had to learn that skill.
This guy really does make fantastic hay, and it is CLEAN, with very few weeds and not moldy or dusty.
Then we came home and stacked it, and that gets to be quite a job the higher you have to go. Quite a work out for us both.
We also took some big cubes of wood shavings over to the ponies/goats and put it in the loft of their little shed (it had been stored in the barn).
We let everyone out for a while.
Then we watched some more "American Gods", and these two episodes really just felt like filler.
I learned that although humans now understand how to store and cultivate yeasts for wine making, originally the yeast required for fermentation was hosted in the bodies of wasps. The yeast would not have survived winters without being hosted in the wasps, who would re-introduce the yeast to the skins of the grapes each year.
https://www.wineinvestment.com/us/learn/magazine/2018/07/no-wasps-no-wine/
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