Javas Barn

Life got derailed, total derailment - off kilter, etc... several times. Here are the bullet points: Barn help left unannounced, the month I was due with the baby, and left a trail of destruct...

http://javasbarn.blogspot.com/2011/09/derailed.html

Java fed, out, mucked, etc. Then I'm waddling around, taking photos of the brown early spring. I look around at the brown, knowing it will be green very soon and I take these photos... ...

http://javasbarn.blogspot.com/2011/04/and-its-not-900-am-yet.html

The new baby, it's not our human baby, he's hopefully going to wait a few more weeks to arrive, but we had to get this new addition, now. I used to have hay guys that delivered and loaded the l...

http://javasbarn.blogspot.com/2011/03/new-addition.html

We have had the most gorgeous early spring weather lately... sun, chirping birds, the grass is eeking (let's pretend that's a word because I'm not totally sure right now) out some green color... ...

http://javasbarn.blogspot.com/2011/03/silly-time.html

Time flies when you are reduced to a waddle through 3 feet of snow. I has been forever since I've posted.  Sorry.  Sincerely. Yes, by now we all know it's been a wild winter for a lot of us...

http://javasbarn.blogspot.com/2011/02/time-flies.html

Drat.  I can't seem to catch rats in the zapper.  The bait slowly disappears, with no stiff rat reward inside. So I brought back the pros and we placed additional bait boxes.  The bait is s...

http://javasbarn.blogspot.com/2011/01/drat.html

Many of the readers of Java's Barn blog are probably horse ladies... horsey women usually don't like talking about babies, pregnancy, etc.  I am one of those.  Especially since I am 5 months in...

http://javasbarn.blogspot.com/2010/12/doctors-are-very-smart-but-sometimes.html

Every weekend, Mr. Java's Mom heads over to what we call the farmyard area of the property and takes the manure from the "turning bin" and puts it into one of the 3 other bins of the Manure Caban...

http://javasbarn.blogspot.com/2010/12/compost-cooking-and-rodent-body-count.html

If you are lucky enough to not need to know about rats, this is an important fact:  They are smart.  If you have tried ever to kill rats, you are saying to yourself, "duh! they are not easy t...

http://javasbarn.blogspot.com/2010/12/rat-strategy-and-general-java-update.html

I've been very preoccupied lately... not with the impending baby, but with the rat challenge. If I did not see it or them every once in a while, I would not have such a focused plan of attack o...

http://javasbarn.blogspot.com/2010/11/rat-update.html

This poor little dog.  She loves farm life.  But it does not love her coat. I took my beloved canine beasties for a quick walk before hoping to fit in a ride with Java.  We went all the wa...

http://javasbarn.blogspot.com/2010/10/for-one-time-in-my-life-i-wish-is-was.html

Ok Ok Ok, sorry for not updating.  I've been very preoccupied: Meeting prospective boarders. Tending to the gang. Trying to kill the rat that I have found living in the overhang of the ba...

http://javasbarn.blogspot.com/2010/10/ok-ok-ok-ill-finally-update.html

My regular upstate New York hay guys don't deliver to me anymore. It only took me for what seemed like forever to find the best hay with a great farmer to work with, luckily not too far away. ...

http://javasbarn.blogspot.com/2010/09/load-of-hay.html

Hi All, Sorry to be MIA. We lost poor Stretch. Whatever was nagging at him inside was bigger and badder than any antibiotic, hug, love, or vet team on the planet.  His owner made the horri...

http://javasbarn.blogspot.com/2010/09/stretch.html

We bought the trailer!  We tried to go somewhere... I did not have enough time to practice loading to make it a perfect day... but hoped it would work out (hey, I'm hopelessly optimistic).  ...

http://javasbarn.blogspot.com/2010/08/new-toy.html

OK, went to see the trailer. It looks pretty good.  They have used is about 6 times in the last 2 years for things like taking his tractor to a relative's house, and to help someone move a cou...

http://javasbarn.blogspot.com/2010/07/you-are-invited-to-chime-in-with-your.html

Ok Ok Ok, there has been so much going on!!! First, Stretch:  he has been very very sick, since March.  It is not contagious, without airing all of his details (since he's not my horse, I ...

http://javasbarn.blogspot.com/2010/07/chock-full-of-events-and-news.html

Java loves her new little buddy Sugar Bear. She has lots of grass that she sometimes will work had at mowing down. Here is a moment with Java working hard, look at that work ethic! Then, ...

http://javasbarn.blogspot.com/2010/07/they-love-pens-maybe-too-much.html

Just some photos of regular activity/inactivity here... Java being... Java: Stretch in for a mid day relaxing nap: An unfortunately dark "panoramic" shot in the barn.  Sugar is the o...

http://javasbarn.blogspot.com/2010/07/some-photos-of-normal-moments-here.html

The pens went through a few final stages. This is the total list, the top stuff you already know: Excavate down. Remove the dirt. Lay down underliner/geotextile as farmtek calls is "non wove...

http://javasbarn.blogspot.com/2010/07/pens.html

The next chapter of our DOT issue: DOT meeting yesterday morning.  We were here and met with a regional DOT person, and a more local representative from the local garage. The regional pers...

http://javasbarn.blogspot.com/2010/07/fence-update-and-general-farm-stuff.html

The camera situation.  Mr. Java's Mom had a really nice camera, which I "adopted" and killed.  I got almost two years out of it.  But, eventually it could no longer function.  The old camer...

http://javasbarn.blogspot.com/2010/07/new-camera-and-neighbor-drama.html

OK, so I made it to Staples to choose a new camera. The sweat had dried a little on the way, and I did not smell too bad, so off I went. I wandered the camera section while wondering if I had...

http://javasbarn.blogspot.com/2010/07/new-arrival.html

I'll put up an update post later today about: The new pens are done, look great and I love them. Moosie/Lucie left yesterday, she gave her 30 days notice, which flew by so I had not broken the ...

http://javasbarn.blogspot.com/2010/07/new-post-coming-up-later-today.html

The usual view, but the temps are hot. The horses are dealing very well with it.  We have trees and cool shade. I am coping, hydrating, and changing clothes a lot. That's alright with me, th...

http://javasbarn.blogspot.com/2010/07/fencing-staples-for-all-weather-pens.html