Still waiting...

[equusmaximus]

     We thought that last night for sure, something was going to happen.

Mom arrived from Calgary around 3pm, and by 5pm trixstir  was starting to experience what she believed to be labour pains.  She had been feeling other pressures all day; To the best of her knowledge (and what she could feel) the baby was moving itself into position.  She was

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[moonscream]

Automatic updating software does have a choice - turn Automatic Update off and update manually every week or so. That's what I do. And you only have 24k instead of 52k dialup? Wow...

Hoo boy sounds like you two are coming down to the wire! Should be in the next couple of days, if not today!

--Zhora

[equusmaximus]

I've considered that option, though it's not one that I really like to use with Anti-Virus software. Yeah, the Dial-Up speed out here only reaches 24k, which is why we're on Satellite for the main connection. Still nowhere near as fast as ADSL or Cable, but Waaayyyyy faster than Dial-Up. I could go faster yet, but then I'd have to shell out a lot more $$$.

I have never...

[sorien]

... Been to a farm where they DIDN'T just dump their junk in random locations and piles- it seems to be part of the mentality. Both of my grandparent-sets were farmers. On Dad's side they ran the Heinsohn Dairy, which sold out eventually to Oak Grove Dairy, and the Zeiher side was basically a subsistence farm. They were VERY poor. In BOTH cases, they dumped old machinery and gear all over the place, though on the Heinsohn farm it was concentrated in what we called the Pit. This was a shallow-grade bot fairly deep bowl in the ground where various things including the old milk truck ended up.

You're gonna find a LOT more junk I'm afraid, and if you look you'll probably find 'clumps' that they used as regular dumpsites. I'd recommend getting a metal detector if you're really serious about getting rid of it all. You might even find some jars full of coins or recoverable antiques!

[equusmaximus]

Actually, one of the first things I asked for as a Christmas gift when we bought this farm was a metal-detector, and I got one! My biggest worry was hitting bits of machinery buried just below the surface, or hiding in the tall grass. The Swisher trimmer eliminates most of that problem, but there's still an amazing amount of junk and garbage out there.

The "temporary" paddocks that the horses are in, for example, keep turning up all kinds of garbage. I think there used to be a gravel pad there at one point, as the section that the girls are in keeps churing out hundreds (thousands?) of small stones, whereas the boys' section keeps unearthing other bits and pieces of "stuff"... I'd like to get some proper pasture fenced off for the horses, so that I can use the corral-panels to build a temporary corral for some sheep and/or goats to clear out overgrown sections.

[dv_girl]

If you take a photo of the mushrooms from the side so that I can see their caps and stems and then take a cap and put it gill side down on a sheet of paper and put a bowl over it for a few hours, then photo the spore print, I can most likely tell you what sort they are. There aren't a lot of coprophilic mushrooms that are seriously toxic.

[equusmaximus]

I'll have to take you up on that once it stops raining... There are a lot of mushrooms growing here that I'm 99% sure are edible, but it's that 1% that I'm worried about. ;)

The biggest ones look just like the ones you'd see in the supermarket: White, smooth tops, brown gills. The only difference is that they're a lot bigger, likely from having such ready access to lots of manure. :)