the 4th is one of those days I hang around the farm after 9…turn all the barn and arena lights on…I have a cat who hates loud bangs and a load of hay in the barn I don’t want to catch fire. What is really funny are the signs all along the highway in MA saying fireworks are illegal. They NEVER arrest anyone for setting them off so why the message?
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Kim - How high is the corn in Michigan? When I was a kid in Michigan, there was a saying about sweet corn - “Knee-high by the 4th of July”. Now I’m in Tennessee and the corn is probably taller than me.
StG
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I swear, the people around here have grenade launchers. They are definitely enthusiastic about the 4th!
I blast back with the Boston Pops playing the 1812 Overture, and Stars and Stripes Forever. The fireworks drive the beasties crazy, but then they always have, as long as I can remember.
Have a good Independence Day Sannois! Glad you are in better spirits now. :yes:
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I have a doe that last year had twins and it was sure fun watching them grow up to be elegant “ladies.” This year I saw her again and I guess she either did not get pregnant or she lost them. But one of her daughters had twins and I get to see them every now and then. I just love deer - what they missed out on in the brain dept they got back in gracefulness.
I usually hate the 4th because I ALWAYS had to work and there was always some stupidity that we had to deal with. Plus, that town holds a biker rally and I despise them. But this year ……hmmm…I am debating whether or not to see if I can go over to the hospital and get up to the helipad and watch the fireworks. It has a 360 degree view of the entire valley. Or maybe I will just stay home and enjoy the peace and quiet.
Kim - I would have loved to have seen Miss Independence Moo. I think people don’t give cows enough credit. I think they are much smarter than we think. Or maybe just more determined? g
And oh lawn boy………can you pick up that thing over there? No, turn that way……:lol::lol::lol:!!!
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It is over knee High, will be a good year I think, We have had good rain this season so far. 
They made them legal in Michigan about 6 or more years ago, so that people do not have to drive to Indiana to get the big bombs. Ugh… Supposedly the rule is you can set them off the day before the day of and the day after.
Yeah right!! LOL
The stupid thing is most of the people setting them off are drunk. I just think if you are going to do the big loud ones they should be left to professionals at some park or wherever, and everyone goes and watches.
I think they are beautiful, but when you live in an area that is surrounded by 100 plus yr old trees, it is just noise!
And no even when they were illegal, no one ever got arrested.
Yeah, Shiloh, I have heard cows are no dummies.
Okay being a horse person, we all know that horses can be really stupid. We love them but really,
90 degrees and they are all out in the baking sun, lovely shady trees in the corner pasture… no one there.
I thought of this this morning when I went past another farm that had cows, and about 4 horses,
it was getting quite hot… horses standing out in the sun, cows laying in the shade, and there was more tan one group of shade trees. LOL Typical horses.
Yeah I am hoping lawn boy is cute I will sit out in the garage in my lawn chair iced tea in hand, and umm supervise
Fireworks aren’t legal here, but people still have at it with the utmost enthusiasm every year. I don’t know about their drinking habits… 
There are not enough police to ticket the multitudes of firework miscreants we have here, there are so many who ignore the rules. I don’t grudge people their traditions of fireworks however the fire danger here is incredible right now. Not a good time to be taking chances.
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Oh my god, that was funny!~ That was a snapper, Amazing one did not end up with it hanging off their Muzzle!
LOL
A few years ago, a doe with triplets would cross my pasture every evening. That was the first (and last) time I’ve ever seen triplet fawns.
One of my favorite books as a kid was “The Little Cow and the Turtle” by Meindert DeJong. This little cow had many adventures, culminating with a long trek following a snapping turtle. I think it was the only non-horse book on my favorites list for a long time.
"She didn’t give much milk but the farmer and his wife loved her anyhow and in spite of her habit of disappearing over the fields “toward some new loveliness that only she could find.”
"The little beef cow would chew her cud with the girls “until the longing came again, like the longing that you hear in the whistle of a train that is going far away. But the longing isn’t really in the whistle, the longing is in you.”
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I have 2 tomatoes in pots on the patio. I gave up with the garden- between blight and deer it wasn’t worth it. I was able to pick my first tomato this week. I had it last night. BLT. White Maiers Italian bread, iceburg lettuce, Hellman’s mayo, salt and half the tomato. Messy but yummy. I have enough for another sandwich.
Last night a doe with 2 fawns crossed the jump ring at the barn. A few days ago I saw a family of 4 foxes. We regularly see wild turkeys. The turkeys are mostly dark but there are a few light morphs in the bunch. I had never seen the light colored turkeys before being at this farm.
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I too work the fourth this year. Fortunately my Hospital has no ER, YAY! The horses will be in, the dog will be in, the cats are out in the barn on their own.
Enjoy your fourth Kim. I’ll have a mater sammich later for you
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Well today sure did not turn out like I had planned, for no apparent reason, power went out at 7:30 am, Power company said it would be restored by about 9 am. HA! Just came on at 3 PM.
Hot is it you say?? Well 90 I think. I spent the afternoon reading in the shade in my lounge chair. there was a good wind so it was tolerable. but the house was already heating up as I walked back in, Just when the power came back on.
No I did not go anywhere, no farmers market. The last time this happened my garage door thingie was messed up and I could not get it to engage again after disconnecting. So I stayed home.
Oh well Stuff happens as they say.
I kept the fridge shut except for grabbing the lemonade out of it. nothing got warm, but I do not know.
stuff was just bought yesterday. Rrrr.
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Refrigerators are pretty well insulated these days. Drop your eggs into a bowl of water and if they float—out they go! The rest you may have to use the sniff test!
I keep two half gallon milk jugs of frozen water in my freezer for this very reason—pop one in the fridge when the power goes out.
Only 90 degrees with a breeze—that’s doable! The south east of the mid-Atlantic has a heat index of over 100 for the next few days—great!
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Whatcha’ reading ?
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It is a great eventing series I found several years ago, one of the best horse authors I have read yet.
I will get her name it escapes me right now.
IT is so good, not once do you ever go, oh come on, that would never happen, or roll your eyes. The author is an experienced horse person, She has had me in stitches, cause stuff she says about the horses, things they do you just crack up and say, yup!! Great fun read. this is her fourth one.
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Oh and by the way, turns out there was a very good reason for the power being out all day, turns out road crew in town, hit a power line with their back hoe… Sheesh!
That happens.
Once the windmill men forgot to put their crane down and merrily traveled across a highline, dragging several posts down before they noticed the truck was not moving much.
Took a bit for the electric company to fix that one.
Everyone was scratching their heads how that didn’t electrocute the dummies.
Glad they got your electricity back on.
You can now continue to read when it gets dark.
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It’s really warm here in the uk too, well we think it’s warm, we’re not used to anything over eighteen degrees c. Once it hits nineteen most of us wilt
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