Neighbors D&L do a lot for me. Life here would be much more difficult for me without them. So when they need something from me and it’s something I can do, I don’t wait to be asked.
Usually it’s little things. I came to their place at the agreed-upon time this morning since they were going shopping in town, to find them fussing over one of the wheels on their flatbed trailer.
The fact that they were hitching up the trailer was ominous in itself, but a tire with a roofing screw in it, well, that’s something I can fix.
Yeah, I can do something about that right away.
The Jeep is never without its tire plug kit, and I never let it run out of fresh plugs. So I opened the Jeep’s hood, hooked up that nice little tire compressor, then went to work with rasp and plug applicator…
…and problem solved. Also, another shout-out to the generous reader who sent me that little Slime compressor, because it keeps making itself useful. Can’t believe I went so long without one.
Of course having gotten the trailer back on its wheels, it was time to pay the piper. They don’t hitch that thing up lightly, and I had a bad feeling about what it meant. Sure enough…
24 bales of grass. And we had to hurry, because another storm cell was on the horizon. We got it all under roof just as the big fat raindrops started falling.
Would somebody please remind the weather that it never rains here in June?
Ok, I’m going to look dumb here… but what do they want with bales of grass? I have five acres of that kind of grass. Can’t give it away. LOL
Horses eat it. We have no horse-safe grazing land here at all.
Figured that might be the case, but most people call that hay… grass hay. 🙂 It’s really much better for horses than alfalfa or some other kinds of hay. I fed mine a lot of sudan grass hay, but it was yellow like wheat straw.
Good job Joel. Just remember never to be “this guy.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dqPs1433aJU
I really wish I could say I’ve never been that guy. I’ve never been that guy quite that destructively.
Joel, exctly what do you mean by “no horse safe grazing land”? What’s “horse safe” mean?
Nosmo, it seems (and I’m speaking from my vast experience in horse-raising here, which is to say this is what the neighbors tell me. Hey, I’m from Detroit) that there are lots of ways to kill or severely harm a horse, just from letting it eat whatever it finds. We have several varieties of weed generically called Locoweed, any of which will allegedly cause a horse to die in agony. Cattle can digest it without harm; horses can’t.
That said, I did overspeak a bit. I know of two neighbors who pasture horses. One polices his land for locoweed and removes it with extreme prejudice. He’s barely got a blade of grass over a millimeter long, but his horses are healthy. The other one doesn’t. He has had a horse die in his field, and the other might do so tomorrow.
MJR: I started snickering the instant I saw the setup. I had a couple of uncles like that guy. Wait, that means it’s genetic. Crap! Maybe it’s recessive in me.