CHILDHOOD MEMORIES RUG UPDATE

I can't believe that it's already the weekend  and that Mr October is here in all his splendor and blowing the colorful leaves around. Where does the time goes?  I seem to be on a fast treadmill and there is no getting off until the snowflakes comes.

Last evening my husband treated me to a nice Chinese buffet at The Hilltop, our local pub and we each had a large beer. The place was jam packed as it always is on a Friday night. They usually have a Happy Hour between 5 and 6 pm and you can buy a pitcher of beer cheaper during that hour but the Happy Hour was over when we got there. Luckily I had blog earlier than usual for no reason at all.

Today the hoof trimmer came back to finish trimming hooves and I watched for a short time as he did his job with great efficiently. He backed up his truck and trailer in the back shelter and set up his contraption ( I don't know what he calls it and I was not about to ask him).  The area was scraped clean and my husband spread some fine saw dust on the ground in case some feet bled a bit if they have some wounds or abscess or something.  Very quickly he opened the back gate of his contraption and arranged the large leather supporting straps with chains and the first cow walked in, he closes the back gate and pressed a button and the cow is hoist off her feet and the side where she leans against becomes a flat bed and she is turned on her side and he takes his electric rotating rasp tool that looks like a rotary grinder and in a couple of minutes he's done shaving a layer off the hooves. He take another tool to clip a little more.  Depending on the condition of their hooves or if they have an injury or other foot problems, he wraps the feet. He trimmed 67 cows and off that number he wrapped 15.  This is done twice a year and our cows have a very good record of healthy feet. Very important when ones weigh 1200 pounds and over.

I managed of putting a little time cleaning the shed this afternoon but had visitors and then had to get back to work at the farm. This job is taking me a little longer than I thought it would but most of my son's stuff that he had in storage is at his house.  There are still some stuff that I can't lift by myself and will need to get some help with it.

I did some more laundry and even though the sun was shining and there was a nice breeze, I didn't had enough time to hang my cloths outside.  I also managed to hook about 20 minutes after supper. And since I had a request to show my progress, here it is.

I need to fix the left skate. So far I haven't needed to dye any wool for this project but my white and blue dyed wool is in limited supply.

Have a great weekend and thanks for reading my blog.  JB

WHAT'S AGE GOT TO DO WITH IT?

This is what I saw out of my front door this morning. The sky is overcast and my soft maple tree is shedding its leaves in a pale yellow carpet.

Have you ever thought how well you see the different shades or hues of colors?  Apparently as we age we don't only get wrinkles, sagging skin, shorter and balder but we also don't see the subtle hues of colors as well as younger people in general. We don't miss what we can't perceive but it is an interesting fact for me anyway.  I thought that since a lot of my (whooping 20 public followers) of my blog are older or close to my age or soon will be there that you might be interested in checking out this theory.

I took the test yesterday and was surprised that I only scored 33.  A score of 0 is perfect. As you have difficulty seeing differences in the color chips the score numbers increases.  I took the test at night when I was tired and I wonder if I took the test again when I'm rested and in the day time, how well I would score.

Note that the first and the last color chips are fixed and cannot be moved.
You are asked to click and drop the color chips to arrange them by hues of color that you see and when you did all the rows, click on Score Test  button at the bottom of the test.  Then you have to click on wether you are male or female and your age group.

1 out of 255 women and 1 out of 12 men have some form of color deficiency.

Here's the link, it would be interesting to see how well you did on the test.

http://www.xrite.com/custom_page.aspx?PageID=77

Have a great weekend and thanks for your visit and comments.  JB