Checking And Taming

Sunday I went around with J while he did his morning checking. 

 The puppy may be  working out, she still follows us when she sees us, but is staying at the barn and with the goats now and not trying to get in the yard.

 J put our replacement heifers out on the farm we rent.  Usually he does cow/calf pairs, but he was trying something different.   Shortly after we turned them out, a neighbor bought some unweaned calves that immediately got out and in with our heifers.  J was able to get all but one sorted back out.  But the neighbors continued to walks around for days trying to get the last one.  All that accomplished was making the heifers skittish and they split up with one group staying up on top of the mountain in the woods.  Then it was time to put the bull in.  J was worried if they stayed split up that the bull wouldn't be able to breed everything.  But luckily, when we checked Sunday, they were all together again.

 I waited up at the road while J was checking, and loved how the light was coming through the trees.

 I also spotted some roadside wild flowers, like this sweet pea,

 and milk weed.

 But the most useful thing I spotted was a stack of treated 2x4's that someone had discarded.  I'm sure they will come in handy for something.

 With all the rain, the garden has gotten crazy.  We haven't had time to stake the tomatoes.

 So we thought we would try the double fence method with the tommy toes again, but this time squishing them in more.

Last time we had the two fences too far apart and it was a little too difficult to pick them.

 Then for the regular tomatoes, we but up a cattle panel at each row.  As the plant grow we will try to weave them up through the panel for support.