OMG, y'all...

I found pictures of this farm online!!!
Now, this may not be the smoothest production I've ever done here, because these pictures are HUGE and I'm doing them as "pop ups" for the first time ever, but, screw it, right?
Pictures are pictures....

AND, there is a website about this place, but, since I'm not completely retarded, I'm not posting it.
BUT, I will send the link to those I trust who wanna see it.... Mad Mikey springs right to mind, as do a buncha others. That poor guy's been wantin' to see pictures for years, but me with no digital camera and a computer that has a hard enough time just existing, let alone handling picture shit, it's been... rough, to say the least.
*grin*

Now, this all started because I was sitting here, looking up info on our Apple Festival, which I found.
Here and here.
They have two of these festivals each yeah.
The Blossom Festival in the spring and the Harvest Festival in the fall.
The family who owns this place runs that.
Matter of fact, I have our tickets to it sitting right here...

Anyway, one thing really DOES lead to another and what that lead to was PICTURES!!!!

So, forgive how this may end up looking and here we go...

View image">This is Dan.
He's in the milking parlor.
I've been where he is more times than I can count.
(Matter of fact, I just this second came in from out there having delivered fresh, hot coffee to the two Erics...)
Notice the carousel milking platform.
It's the first one ever to be used in the state and it's STILL just about the only one around.

Next up is View image">the farm....
Now, with this one, the farm on the left is the Bosses main house. If you scroll it down and all the way to the right, you'll see the farm we live on.
It's waaaay in the background back there.
You can see the barns, the calf hutches... everything EXCEPT THIS HOUSE!
*lol*
But, those are the mountains and the view I see every day and it gives you an idea of how enormous this operation is.
Everything you see in the picture belongs to the Boss and this isn't even half of it all...
To the immediate right of the silo on the right (or in the middle of the picture) in the foreground, are the barns that're across the road from my front door.
The little white specks that go from the more visible barn to the big barn on the left with the three silos are the calf hutches, which are less than 50 feet outside my back door.
Above the hutches, barely visible, are two trees.
They're in my yard.
Blocking the house from view... *giggle*
Pay close attention to the barns and three silos to the right of all that.

A closer view of the farm buildings is View image">here.

See the three silos again?
Same place, better shot.

The house we live in is right to the left of this shot.
Those buildings are right outside my door.
The white things you see are calf hutches that are turned up on end, having been torn down to be re-bedded and cleaned all the way down to new dirt under 'em.
The pond it's all reflected in is less than a football field away from the back door and I've walked around it many times... usually with five or six cats trailin' behind me. (I'm the Cat Woman of Gettysburg.... *snerk*)

The open end of the barn there is where the dry (pregnant) cows are.
I don't know whose pickup that is and the silver feed bin you see has the calf grain in it. ("Calf grain"... also good for rabbits, roosters and the occasional duck...)
The opening immediately to the right of the grain bin is where the calves go after they get old enough to be taken out of the hutches.
Then, they go into the barns across the road for a while, then, when they're old enough, they get taken to other farms the family owns til they reach maturity, then they begin their "business lives". They either come back here to be milked if they're cows (females) or are "sent to live on another farm faaaar away to live happily ever after" if they're boys. (Really, the males are de-nutted and raised as steers to be eaten, but we won't go there, okay? As a Taurus, I find what's done to bulls reprehensible...)

ANYway, the doorway to the parlor is right under the overhang/roof to the left in the picture.
And, yep, there IS an attic. It's not a hay mow, either. It's a real attic up there. They store supplies and tools and such in it.
The hay is stored in the hay mows in the barns across the road, among other places.

And, I don't know what that is floating on the surface of the irrigation pond, but, it's still there. It's always there.

The two things poking up over the roof are two more silos. They aren't as big because the feed in 'em is used more quickly. Out front there is where they feed the cows and it's all done by conveyor belt. It is SO cool. SO much better than having to drive it and dump it right outta the feed cart into troughs.
Do you know I have YET to see rat ONE out there?
I think that has a lot to do with the way they do the feeding here....

So.
There ya are.
Some pictures of this place.
AND, while I'm sure there is a more correct way to have this posted, like with the "view photo" thing not being visible, I did manage to make it let ya have scroll bars... so, I'm not completely useless, hey?

Now, I wanna get this posted and go clean my house.

Oh, and as for the daily "Jose update"...
Yesterday, Mr. Retardo asked Eric if he dislikes him.
Eric shrugged sorta noncommitally and Jose says, "Okay. I got your number", kissed his (own) two first fingers and left. Whatever in the FUCK that stupid shit is supposed to mean...
Today, he shows up and within a half hour started playing sick and so was sent home.
He is so fired once he gets his hours up enough for the Boss to get his money...
Jerk.

Anyhoo, Eric's in for breakfast and I wanna show him this post too, so I'm outta here.

Peace

Posted by: Stevie at 07:48 AM

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