More Stuff Happenin'

8/25/06 - 6th Day - After Breakfast. We have had an interesting couple of days. It started yesterday morning with our rattlesnake incident. If you haven't read about it, you can read about it by clicking here. Later in the day, Mihai and I went out to check on Holga (one of our longhorn heifers) and she was no longer a heifer. She had birthed her calf sometime in mid-morning. It is a little bull calf who we promptly named PEDRO. So our herd has increased again. For the morning we lost two meat rabbits to the rattlesnake, but we gained the rattlesnake meat and skin and we gained a bull calf. I will be posting some pictures of the new calf on the other blog sometime today if the Lord wills. You can already check out a picture of the 4 ft. rattlesnake over there. As you can expect, we had a lesson on rattlesnakes and safety with the children yesterday.

Mihai and I found the calf over behind a brush pile and since it was 103 degrees and Holga was over in the shade, we picked up the calf and brought him into the shade too. I think the calf might have been a bit premature, but after checking him again this morning, he seems to be doing well. Danielle and I saw the calf nursing this morning. It is supposed to be very hot again today and tomorrow, but some of the computer models have the heat wave breaking a little bit by monday, with a lot of moisture moving into the picture. This satellite photo from this morning shoes a tropical depression (TD5) moving towards the Carribean and the gulf. If this develops into a major storm, based on its current trajectory it is possible that it could bring a change of weather to our area.


I am an amateur weather watcher, but this storm looks like something to watch. The models have it clipping the Yucatan Peninsula and then entering into the Gulf of Mexico. While I don't want anyone in Texas to get hit by a hurricane, this storm could be what is needed to change our drought/heat wave pattern.

Maybe more later...

Michael