09/12/2008 Friday: Foggy in the morning and hot in the afternoon. It would have been hotter but the wind was blowing and that helped to cool things off.
This was a busy day in terms of folks coming to work or drop off animals.
Deana showed up and began painting the under deck on the east side of the house. She did a lot of caulking yesterday and was able to paint that section.
Pat M, Jr. came by to work on my computer. He cleaned the dust bunnies and dirt on the inside of the case, removed unnecessary programs and shortcuts and installed a new Microsoft program that is supposed to work wonders for identifying viruses and for backing up. I forgot what Pat called the windows program. (09/13/2008: It's Windows Live OneCare. I downloaded it and installed it. It requires an annual fee of $49.00. I'm going to wait to see what it does before agreeing to get the subscription).
When I turned on my computer this evening, the only problem I identified is that my DSL didn't seem to be working. So, I disconnected the modem and router and plugged in the phone cable and rebooted my computer and voila, up came my DSL. So, that's one problem solved.
In the process of cleaning my keyboard I managed to pour a bunch of rubbing alcohol on my keyboard so now the spacebar is acting flaky and either doesn't work or adds a bunch of spaces. I guess I'll have to wait till it all evaporates. Lesson learned: don't open fluids over your keyboard. (09/13/2008: The keyboard seems to work, even the keyboard.)
Around 11:30 am or so Mary and Mike N showed up with their young angus bull that Gary is leasing to me for two cow cycles so that I can get my Herefords bred. My Dexter bull, Huck, and the Angus bull are growling at each other and bugleing loudly through the electric fence. I hope they don't go through the fence. I'd really be pissed. Gary is going to charge me $150.00 for the lease which seems pretty reasonable. I think it works out to about $25.00 per cow. They bugled in the middle of the night. I got up and closed the bedroom window so I couldn't hear them very well.
After lunch I rearranged the green barn. The cans of feed are now against the futon gate that separates the milking room from the feeding and hay storage area. The hay is stored on the west wall closest to the door and the feed sacks (I usually purchase half a ton at a time) are also against the west wall between the hay that's currently being fed and the stored hay for later on in the year.
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