Too, too early for drought

Still in a drought here. Some folks are already feeding hay Top it off that very little hay has been made this year. I buy my hay, but haven't found any this year. Sure is going to be hard selling purebred black angus cows for stockyard prices. Maybe I could send my herd to Border Collie?

Peanut, where did you import the rocks from? I've a friend that works at Waterford 3 Nuclear station. Each time he came to Arkansas Nuclear One to work, he'd load up his truck with rock at my farm for various missions around his house.
 
everytime we would take a boat ride or go ride down the bayou to fish i would grab a few rocks from here and there . i now have probably over 500 basketball size limestone rocks and some other rocks that are diferent colors so i don't really know what they are. also being poe like i am i would make trips to the dump at the end of the road and load up on bricks with my old gator hpx my front yard is covered with bricks from the 1800's i only picked up bricks that was old i later found out that the same bricks sell for up to 10.00 a piece on ebay. i have bricks from companies all over the country that have been closed down for years and years .i have about 10 thousand bricks that i collected over the years. i do have some modern bricks but 99%of my bricks are over 100 years old. i lay them down into walkways and paths and when i wanna change it around i just pick them up and move them. i don't really care for cement because it looks to plain and is semi permanent. a lady called me one day and said she had some bricks if i wanted them when me and my son got there she said they was on the ground under the old oak tree the tree had been planted when the house was made and the house was built in 1856 . me and my son dug bricks from under the tree that went nearly 18" down into the ground and the oak tree roots had grown over them i think we counted a little over 1000 bricks we got from her. i'll take some pictures of the bricks and maybe some of you might know the old companies that built them.
 
Heatwave said:
Here's a buncha bricks waiting for you to come and get them:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/trustynick/sets/72157623976007427/with/252104849/

Please ... take them all and remove this blight from the landscape.
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man that looks like hog heaven to me. your looking at no less than 5 bucks a brick after they are recovered. a regular modern day brick sells for anywhere's from 1 buck a pop tp 3 bucks a pop and even higher. the older the brick the better. also the older the brick the easier it is to recover it. the old mortar they used to put them together just falls off with the tap of a little hammer the newer the brick the harder it is to clean them bricks from the 1800's and early 1900's the moroar is just about broken down and in some cases you can just simply wash it off. alot of people look at old buildings and say they sure made them stronge back then well thats only true for wooden structures if it is a brick structure i would be very worried about it coming down to easy because of the decaying mortar used to hold them together. the old bricks are easy to break too if you don't watch it. to save the bricks on that old building i would hook a cable to the top and pull the walls down so they would just fracture when they hit the ground there is alot of money in them pictures there are a few companies that do just that they go out and buy old buildings just for the bricks. in the last 10 years they have expanded from houma on out to where i live in schriever and down highway 311 there used to be lots of old slave shotgun houses with fireplaces them guys would just bulldoze it and load it into trucks and go bring it to the dump thats when i would go out there and load them back up into my hpx and haul them home and clean them. there's alot of history in them too every so often i would come across a brick with some initials carved into them and i would wonder who carved them and when. they done a story in the newspaper about me and the bricks soon after i got a visit from a deputy saying that if i was to go back and get anymore bricks that i would be arrested .they said the reason was it wasn't sanitary for me to take the bricks. they stopped putting the bricks on the ground and now put them all into a dumpster and take them to the landfill i never understood what was unsanitary about picking up bricks. if i lived near that building you pictured i would gladly take that thing down for free just to get my hands on the bricks.
 
YooHoo, waahoo, praise the Lord, 1.2" of rain today and it's thundering again. This sure will affect one's outlook. I can actually see some water pooled in the pasture.

I was very close to selling some reaaly good purebred cattle at stock market prices. We are a long, long, long, way from being recovered from this drought, but it is a good start.

Faith, what a great behavior!!!!!!!
 
pepr said:
YooHoo, waahoo, praise the Lord, 1.2" of rain today and it's thundering again. This sure will affect one's outlook. I can actually see some water pooled in the pasture.

I was very close to selling some reaaly good purebred cattle at stock market prices. We are a long, long, long, way from being recovered from this drought, but it is a good start.

Faith, what a great behavior!!!!!!!
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Amen Brother Amen! bordercollie
 
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