Stink O'Rama

Boy Howdy does it stink at my house tonight! I do feel a little vindicated though. While Mom and Dad were here they got to smell that smell when Farmer Brown fertilizes his fields. Farmer Brown did the field North of me when the folks were here and my Dad could not believe just how bad it was! Now Farmer Brown is doing the bigger fields that are West and South of me. On my way to work this morning I could see the big stinking pile of cow crap steaming in the morning air.
To me, it was just a big pile of crap. I'm sure to Farmer Brown it was a big pile of goodness for next years crop. It took Farmer Brown a few days to do the small field before he got it plowed under and the smell was gone. Bigger field I think means that I will have a longer time smelling the stink. Ahhhhh life in rural Wisconsin. Breath deep and take all the country goodness in! ( gag gag )

I just got of the phone with JuJu and Maggie's match maker. If all goes well they will get picked up on Saturday and have a fabulous time on a hot date. Not sure how long the hot date will be. Maybe a month or so to make sure that they "date" ( wink wink) It will be strange having them gone. I like my goats and I will miss them. I am sending them both on the date. I hope that they both don't have twins in the spring time. Oh, and the reason that they will spend that long of a time with them is that I don't have a trailer so I can't just take them by when I see that they are ready for a "date".

The good, the bad and the smelly.

My bosses husband called up work today and wanted to talk to ME! Not his wife. He had something for me and he wanted me to come to their house after work to pick it up. So I spent that past hour at work wondering what he could possibly gotten little ol' me. Well, he saw the post where I mentioned that I couldn't find pilot bread anywhere. ( He said I whined about it and I say uh uh, did not. ) and he took pity on me and ordered me a box and it came in today! So now I have 3 boxes of pilot bread. I can breath a sigh of relief as now I don't have to be so stingy with it. (If he wasn't married he would be a good catch!)

This is the bad part.

I know, you think that these are just the most precious widdle puddy tats that you just ever did see. Well, you're wrong. Not all wrong just a lot wrong. Yesterday I de-wormed the kittens again as it was the follow up and I'm hoping that that is why I had 2 little kitty poops on the floor. Maybe the medication gave them a rumble in their little tummies and they couldn't make it to the litter box in time. But I did catch Harvey peeing on my back pack that I left on the floor. Yes, I should have put it up. But then Abby does not mess with stuff and I didn't think that a kitten would pee on it.

Here is where the smelly part comes in.

It's that time of the year and there is an abundance of cow poop being spread around. Or something is being done. Not really sure what it is but I'm down wind right now and I wake up and go to bed with the smell. One thing handy about making soap is that I have a bunch of scents. I have placed a few drops of clove and patchouli on some cotton balls and have it on my dresser so that I don't smell the cow poop at night.

Watering the crops.

I find if odd that Farmer Brown will water his crops when it's raining. And it's not just him. I see a lot of farmers watering when its raining. I think that these big irrigation things must be on a timer and they water whether it needs it or not.

Now I have to admit that I do a mean thing. Not mean to me. I think it's rather funny but I'm pretty sure that my dog Abby does not think so. She hates to be wet. She wont go outside if it's raining until she really really has to go outside. The mean thing I do is drive real slow and maybe sometimes I stop when one of the water things are over shooting the field and watering the road and it comes right in the window and "rains" on Abby. She gets a look about her.

I wonder if she knows I do that on purpose?

Memories.

Scent, it's a funny thing.They can trigger memories (like the corners of my mind) Today on my way home from work I passed a place where they must have been cutting a lot of trees down. I couldn't see as it was dark but the smell! Oh how I love the smell of cut pine! Which made me think about bad smells! This is a picture of a turkey farm. Trust me, you do not want to be down wind of this on a hot summer day. You can't see it in this picture but often you will see a huge, huge pile of white stuff piled up. I asked (but I guessed right!) and was told that it was turkey poop. They scoop it up and out of the long turkey barns and use it to fertilize the land. I know that if I had a turkey farm that the smell would smell like money too me. I used to work in the fish canneries in Alaska and I know that the smell of gutted fish was overwhelming to lots of people, but it smelled like money to me! I sure did have some fun working there! Nothing like slinging fish eyes, hearts and livers off your knife to your friends. And other fun things to do. Like having bets on who will jump naked into a gut tote! ( The night shift boss won that!)

Cute Nose

Is this not the cutest cow nose that you ever did see? I found this picture while I was showing some of them to my sister. This was taken by my friend Kellie's kid. I was helping to "take care" of the chickens and Kellie's girl took some pictures for me. I do believe that she might be a budding photographer!

I still have my cold and I still might be cranky! Last night I was wondering if you can call the cops on a farmer! Can you? He was out in his fields till 10pm with his big ol tractor doing farmer things. Loud and with bright lights! He needed the bright lights as it was pitch black out! Of course this gets my dog wanting to go outside to check it all out, and then back in as it's cold, but then back out cause something is going on! Grrrr. I'm sure that having this cold made it worse. Today he was back out doing farmer things and all I can tell is that he is cutting his corn lower? I mean, he has already cut the corn and all he had left were stalks about a foot high and a bunch of leaves. Kellie says he might be getting ready to bail it for bedding? I wish he would hurry up! I wish my cold would go away! I can't drink anymore tea.

P.S. I would NEVER call the cops! That was just the snot thinking last night!

New Smell!

This is a picture of the corn field that I share a property line with. The other picture is where Farmer Brown came by and cut a swath of corn down. My dog started barking and then I heard this really loud noise. By the time I got dressed and grabbed the camera, Farmer Brown and his corn cutting machine was way down the field and turning a corner. It's been about 1/2 hour and I still have not heard the machine coming by. Its a real big corn field. The corn field and I share the south and west property lines. The smell of cut corn is rather nice. It's a fresh, green and sweet scent. Not bad at all. Sure beats that poop/rot smell! Also you will note that I gave you a little "eye candy" in that one picture! Come on! Don't you think that's the best looking dobie ever? Oh, and for you freezing cold folks up in Alaska? It's a balmy 68 at my house. It's windy, but a warm south wind! Nice! Oh, and I'm sorry if that sounded mean! I'm just trying to share with you!


P.S. If you want to see the "eye candy" better, you might need to
enlarge the picture!

UGH!

This picture has nothing to do with this post! Other then it's a "happy" place for me. I need a happy scent place! The boat on the right hand side is " Carina" That's the boat I lived on for almost 3 years when I was a kid. Right now it's bringing back the fresh clean smell of the ocean, the smell of flowers and of green growing things. Not the smell of this fertilizer that's being put on the fields not more then 30 yards from my back yard! The smell had gotten so bad that I have retired to my bedroom with my reed diffuser that has a lime/cilantro scent and also some candles. Anything to mask the scent! Which is funny when you think about it. I used to work in a fish factory in Alaska during the summer for 2 years. You would think that if I can handle the smell from gutting tons of fish, mind you, not all the fish was fresh! That I could handle a little poop/rot stink. But I can't! Come on winter! We need some snow to cover this stuff!

Gag

Well, I need to make a correction. This is not a Soy Bean field, it's a potato field! Dummy me! But what can I say? I know what they look like on my plate, not in the field. Yesterday when I went to work and passed this field, I about puked! It's being fertilized and the smell was so so bad! I can't even describe it! It was a mix of poop and rot! I don't know how else to say it. I was not going to go that way to work today but I forgot and when I passed that field? I gaged and had to swallow a little something something! When I drove home, I went the long way to avoid the field, but wouldn't you know it? They are fertilizing fields along that road! And to top it off, there is a light breeze bringing it right to my house! I have 7 candles burning right now, yep that's right, 7! Don't worry Dad, I have my eye on them! They wont go anywhere!
Both of these fields have now been plowed under and over?
And are getting the stink treatment.

Soy crops

First off, I know nada about crops and farming! So I'm just taking a guess about this. All the pic's in this post where taken today Friday Sept 26 at 6.30ish pm. ( and its 77 above! ) When I first moved down here, the soy bean crops all looked liked this one. And this one looked like it does right now back in the spring, but in July ( sometime ) something happened to it and it looked like this one ( In fact they are across the street from each other ) and in July I saw farmer Brown ( I call all farmer's Farmer Brown ) spraying his fields. I think that he had a bug or some kind of disease come through his crops? And then in August I saw him one day turn up this field. I saw him doing this at night, as one night I came home at 11pm and he had a bunch of lights on his big old tractor tearing it up! And about 2 weeks ago it started to turn green and now he has this growing in his field. It looks like it was planted on purpose, not volunteers but why would he be planting so late? I mean,we have had and are going to start having more and more cold temps in the morning?! This must be why hes the farmer and I'm not. Now this last pic is what most of the soy bean crops look like. I was told today by my boss that when they ( the farmers ) harvest the soy bean, that's when its going to be yucky with the Asian bugs! Oh I can hardly wait!

Name?

Right off the bat I have to say "Sorry Mom!" I'm sure that the name of these machine's are not called " Hay eating and pooping machine!" but that is what it looks like to me! (I believe that horses get the award for the hay/poop machine!) I have been going for drives in the afternoon for the past few days and I have seen a lot of this going on, some of them roll out big round bales and some are big square ones. I don't know how the machine does it, I would like to see the inside of one while its working and drive one! looks like that would be some kind of fun! But in the long run, my dog Abby, barks at fields of both types, to her, they are some weird looking moose!