Rural Gardening: November Homestead, 0 by AZgrammie

AZgrammie wrote:
Country, your high tunnels sound declicious! LOL

Sunday was "test day" on the fence with the electric wire. Sure enough, as soon as I left for a 3-day trip away from home, here came some cows. Monday morning got a call from the rancher, said her son had seen 3 cows inside my fence, wanted to know if I could come out and open the gate. Told her I was a long ways away, but told her where the front gate key was hidden. I guess she wasn't able to get word to him in time, because looks like he took the back gate off its hinges to let the cows out. No big deal, I can fix that, with help. when I got home after dark last night, I checked the fence and found that the electirc fence was still hot, so didn't have a clue how the cows got in. Today I drove along the entire fence line and found a break in the line way out near the NE end, and the line was hot ujp to the break, with the hot end dangling in mid air which explains why most of the fence was still charged. Fence fixed, mystery solved. This particular rancher & family are really super nice.

Pod, cows won't eat lavender but can trample it and also destory the PVC watering system. I sure wish they would eat wind turbines! Last Friday I drove up to the first wind farm, about 15 miles from here, and took a picture. The blades were not turning so I wasn't too scared, although they are scary beasts. there were no keepout signs, nobody around, the gates were open, so I just drove in. Took a picture form about 1/4 mile away from the first one, which is how close they want to put them from us people. Note that vegetation is pretty much gone.