Sudokuaholics Anonymous 11

In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on. - ...

Busy day. I helped a friend deliver a washer to her daughter, who lives an hour away. I provided the truck, trailer with ramp, and the driving. Then Robert needed help running a few errands. Then 2 more of Mike's cows had calves.... both bulls... and I caught and held them while he tagged them. He now has 5 bull calves and I have 2 bull calves and 1 heifer calf. That on top of feeding everybody.

And in more words than that, I can apologise for not calling in here more often.
I see so much has happened since I was here a few weeks ago, Heidi has had both of her cataract surgeries done as well as an epidural. I'm glad they all went well. I remember my father, in the early days of his dementia, having cataract surgery and being absolutely amazed by the blue of the sky. Apparently it had become pale to him over the years. And our Queensland skies are deep blue. We are seeing them again now after weeks of rain and floods.
I have no news. Life has been running along smoothly here and I guess, no news is good news.
Stay safe, stay healthy everyone!

How fortunate that the twin calves survived the horrible cold! I hope they bond well with their mother! Hoping spring temperatures will soon arrive and all calves will do well when they're born!

Thinking of Everyone and sending {{{{{HUGS}}}}}, , healing energy, positive thoughts, and prayers for All! Take care!

Great TOPP, CynB!

I agree: no news is good news!

No news here either. We just keep plodding along.

I've moved Mom and twins out of the pen in the barn and into a quarter acre paddock next to the pasture the rest of the cows occupy. It'll give them fresh air, more exercise and more time to bond. The twins need to learn to stay with Mom before I turn them out with the herd.

It's 66˚F and sunny right now. Hard to believe that only a few days ago we had a wind chill around 0˚F!!!!
The twins love it outside, but I'm not convinced yet that they will stay together with Mom (#17) if I put them back with the herd. I'm going to give them another day or 2.
Now I'm going to do a cow check to see if we have any more new calves. All of this year's calves are black, since they're sired by a purebred Black Angus. But the calves will carry the red gene.

Another of Mike's cows calved... his first heifer calf of the season. He has only 2 cows left to calve and I have only 2 cows left to calve. One of his is due within 48 hours. And to think, the first calf was born only 8 days ago. We have a pasture covered with calves right now.

What a lovely sight it must be with all the little poddies running around. When we move back home I hope that will be the view I will have out the back. We look over farmng land usually agisted with cattle.
Couldn't get onto sudoku site for a while - computer did an upgrade and knocked all my passwords out.
Right at the end of my 20 sessions of radiation therapy, I caught covid at the hospital. Taking a while to get over the tiredness and also have a pinched nerve in my neck which is giving me a bit of trouble (also from radiation).
Back has healed well. Hubby had to change dressing twice a day and he did a really good job.
Looks like our house will be finished soon and we will be able to move home, seems surreal.
Great news about cataract surgery Heidi - my sister had hers done and couldn't believe how white her hair was.
Hope everyone is well and stays clear of covid. Cheers

Wow, Midge, good to hear you'll be back in your home soon, also that your back has healed well.
Sorry you got Covid but happy to know you got through it. Since I had it in January, I still get symptoms on and off. A covid-type headache here and there and/or a severe sore throat - maybe it's 'long Covid', but many people I know who have had it seem to have similar episodes. They come and go and only last an hour or two. Colin gets similar, mainly fatigue.

So glad to hear from you again, Midge. I'm sorry to hear what you've gone thru, but happy you survived.

Another bull calf born to one of Mike's cows today. He has only one cow left to calve, and I think she'll pop tomorrow. So far he has had only one heifer calf born, but she's out of his favorite cow. She's a keeper. My 2 remaining cows look about 2 weeks off.

I had a follow up eye check today. Both eyes are healing perfectly!

It's been a rough
week. But on a
positive note, I
didn't need any
bail money and
didn't have to
hide any bodies.

Anybody that can do at 65
what they was doin' at 25
wasn't doin much at 25!

ATTITUDE

There once was a woman who woke up one morning,
looked in the mirror, and noticed she had only three hairs on her head.

'Well,' she said, 'I think I'll braid my hair today.'

So she did and she had a wonderful day.

The next day she woke up, looked in the mirror

and saw that she had only two hairs on her head.

'Hmmm,' she said, 'I think I'll part my hair down the middle today.'

So she did and she had a grand day.

The next day she woke up, looked in the mirror and noticed that she had only one hair on her head.

'Well,' she said, 'today I'm going to wear my hair in a pony tail.'

So she did, and she had a fun, fun day.

The next day she woke up, looked in the mirror and noticed that there wasn't a single hair on her head.

'YAY!' she exclaimed. 'I don't have to fix my hair today!'

Attitude is everything.
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I got a new puppy this morning. Her name is Gemma, she's 10 weeks old and is probably a Collie/ Australian Shepherd mix. I'm putting her picture on my page.

Gemma is lovely. She will certainly keep you busy - they are very energetic dogs.
Loved the attitude DorA

How great to 'see' you again, Midge! It's great to hear that your back is healing and your radiation is at the end!

Wonderful news that your house is almost ready, Midge!

So sorry to hear you caught COVID at the hospital, Modge!

Sorry, Everyone! I'm falling asleep at the leyboard. I hope to be back tomorrow night (but earlier).

Thinking of everyone and sending healing energy, , {{{{{HUGS}}}}}, positive thoughts, and prayers for Everyone!

I got Robert to the surgical center on time this morning. I had to leave at 6:30 AM. His father met us there, is staying with him, and will drive him home afterwards.

Gemma had a good first night here. She decided she wanted to sleep on the floor next to the bed, and was great.
I just got a text message from the person I got her from with pictures of her parents. Her mother IS a purebred Aussie (chocolate brown) and her dad looks to be all Rough Collie (sable and white). Now I have a better idea what to expect from her in the way of physical and mental development.

It's finally dried up enough outside that I dont have to wear muck boots everywhere, and we're supposed to get rain for the next 4 days. I can't win.
I bet Gemma will like it. She intentionally jumped in my fish pond 3 times today!

Thought for the Day:

A friend is one to whom one can pour out all the contents of one's heart, chaff and grain together, knowing that the gentlest of hands will take and sift it, keeping what is worth keeping, and, with the breath of kindness, blow the rest away.

I lost another one, yesterday...

You lost a friend, DOrA? I'm so sorry.

We had 4 days of rain predicted. So far, we had 2 brief nighttime showers and no rain during the past 2 days. I can live with this. I dislike mud.

Heidi, Gemma is gorgeous. I want her. She is just the type of dog I love. She reminds me of our Bonnie, who was with us for over 16 years, similar breed. She was the most wonderful dog I have ever had. So faithful, so loving, so caring. I love our Jewel but she thinks she's the alpha male big dog despite being a female mini poodle. At nearly 14, she is deaf and going blind but still has energy to burn and thinks any visitor, even tradesmen, are there to visit and play with her.
DorA, sorry you lost a friend. That's the worst of getting older, losing family and/or friends.

All is well with us. We are planning our June holiday. Another road trip, this time to Longreach in Western Queensland. This town is near to Winton where Qantas, our Australian airline, was founded in 1920. There is a Qantas museum there and also the Australian Stockman's Hall of Fame.
We'll be taking our new Subaru SUV which should do the trip well. Our poor old Prius did many road trips without incident. Hope this one is as good.

So sorry DorA for the loss of your friend. Always hard when a friend passes, family you get but friends you choose.

Condolences on the loss of your friend, DOrA!

{{{{{HUGS}}}}} to All!

I just reset the live trap in the barn 2 nights ago, after a 3 week hiatus. I'm hoping to catch one or more of the feral cats to get them neutered. I caught an opossum last night. I thought after killing ~35 of them in there over the past year and a half that I had decimated the population.

Hi, Everyone!

Somehow, I must have logged myself out of SA and couldn't remember my password. I hope Everyone is well and apologize for not visiting here for several days.

Thinking of Everyone and sending healing energy, prayers, positive thoughts, {{{{{HUGS}}}}}, and . Take care!

Good maEn, good SA forum people. What have I missed since last summer? I've been away from this site for ever so long. I've just been bouncing back and forth between business and maintenance projects at home and traveling across the state to take my parents to appointments and doing things there. If I mentioned my broken arm and trick knee problems last summer(?), after nine months the arm is finally pretty strong and almost pain-free although it will never stretch all the way out again. The knee hasn't given me problems since therapy, but then, I've been extremely careful and haven't put myself into any trick-y situations.

I mentioned a few days ago how we were planning a road trip to Longreach in Western Qld. Yesterday we were discussing the price of fuel and did a quick estimate of what it would cost in fuel, accommodation and food to do the trip. Then I suggested we compare it to flying somewhere, and hiring a car. So we checked out Cairns, we hadn't been up there since the 90's. Cost of flights (business class), car hire and accommodation at a classy resort just North of the city was similar to the road trip. The lure of a relaxing holiday in the sun won the day. We are booked, paid our deposit, and leave for Cairns in a few months for a 2 week stay.
Our tousist industry has suffered during the pandemic and prices are low to lure people back. It worked with us. The bait was business class flights for not much more than economy.

Sounds great CynB!

Plum! Please don't be a stranger! Glad to hear that you're doing better after therapy.

I'm in the process of getting a new Red Angus bull from a very respected breeder in Tennessee. I REALLY need to start rebuilding my herd, and the best way is a good bull. This guy is 18 months old and ready to go.

My new bull will be here on Thursday afternoon! I'm SO excited about him. I'll be breeding 8 cows to him late this Spring and keeping every daughter. I hope he gives me a lot of heifer calves. He's a great way to start rebuilding a really good herd. Mike might even use him on some of his cows.

Thanks, Heidi. Good luck with your new bull. It's a shame that once you find that paragon of genetics you can only use him for a season or two and then you have to move him along and find another one. Being part of 4-H really helped us out when we were raising goats.

Cyn B - When hubby travels it's only cost effective for me to tag along if we're driving. If he flies he goes solo. Have loads of fun.

DorA - I wish I could summon a positive attitude about MY hair. I haven't cut it since covid. Last time I colored it I used the wrong color. It just hangs heavy and flat and straight. It's very unbecoming and I have a meet-the-public event in a week. I have to do *something* and I don't know what to do. My daughter, the licensed cosmetologist, is no help. LOL. She moved away.

Plum.... I can keep the bull for a lot longer than that. I will only keep heifers out of him from cows that are not related. If he breeds his own daughters, the calves, male or female, will be sold as feeder calves. I kept Rede for 12 years using that strategy.

Quiet day here, for a change. I do not have a single errand to run!!!! I get to enjoy what's supposed to be an unusual day.... a high of 80˚F / 26.7˚C!!! Considering yesterday's brief high was 50˚F, that's a big change. But they're also calling for rain.
Tomorrow morning I take Robert back to see his skin cancer surgeon for a post surgical check-up, then rush back home for the delivery of the new bull.
Then Friday I have an appointment with the optometrist for another post surgical check-up, and possibly to be fitted for new glasses. I still need them for long distance vision, but they don't need to be as strong as previous glasses. After that, Gemma the puppy has a Vet appointment for her shots.

Heidi, I hope you enjoyed your quiet day!

Just a quick Hello and Good Night! I hope Everyone is well! , {{{{{HUGS}}}}}, healing energy, positive thoughts, and prayers!