A Time for Computers and a Sick Tractor

09/08/2008 Monday: Some fog this morning but it's shaping up to be a wonderful day. In fact, it may be hot.

One of my little goats does not look well. It's my fault, too. I overfed them and she was such a pig she overate. Now she has bad diarrhea. I'm going to try giving her some yogurt and an antibiotic shot to see if that will help. I've stopped feeding the two of them in the pen any grain at all. They're not too happy about it but they are eating hay pretty well.

I'm setting up another external hard drive. I hope I put it together and that the computer will recognize it as a drive. I pulled the plug on the generic drive and on the Maxtor which finally gave up. Actually they both gave up on me.

Well, the Cavalry drive installed beautifully but the Seagate barracuda 7200. 750GB HDD isn't being recognized by the computer. I tried the setup command but the computer just hung. I am not having much luck with this drive. I did contact the folks who sold it to me to see if they could help at all.

Giving up on the Seagate Hard Disk Drive I drove to Winlock to pick up some iris plants for the cottage garden. I hope to have time to plant them tomorrow - after I move things about so that Deana can pressure wash the walls of the house prior to painting. The deck especially needs spraying.

I gave the sick little Boer doeling a sub-q shot of antibiotic. I also fed the two doelings about 1/2 a can of feed during evening chores. Just enough to keep them from whining too much but not too much that they'll be able to overeat. (I hope).

We attempted to eat canned clam chowder that we purchased from Costco on one of our trips to that store but the soup was so salty even Chas, who loves salt, couldn't eat it. It was waaaaay to salty for me. I'll have to contact Costco tomorrow to find out what to do about the bad batch.

I also have to contact Country Tractor to see about getting our tractor serviced. Mike H says he can work for 12 minutes before the tractor loses power and quits. Doesn't sound good.