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[Suzie Q]

Bahahahahahahaha Ken. I meant google sex and pilates!!!!!! I just did that Melking and a statement on there that it is a bold statement but everyone over 50 should be doing Pilates. So I have started early as I am not quite near 50 yet.

As I said Melking, you could be worse than me when I first tried it. 120 kgs and couldn't reach past my knees.

WHAAAAAHHHHHHHHOOOOOOOOOOOOOO I did go on the scale this morning and 85.1. It will be interesting to see what my weigh in on Sunday is. If I get down under the 85 or equal I will celebrate!!!!

We will have to take the scales with us as staying at the over 50's Resort Saturday night.

Overtime again last night. Tonight might be my last day of overtime as the Parts Girl is back from her Holiday on Monday. Oh and the new tractor and farm machinery mechanic is starting on Monday. Hubby also has a new Parts guy staring at his work on Monday.

An SMS from my farrier that 'the boys' were coming to do our horse's hooves yesterday, which I found about 5 minutes before getting in the shower to get ready for work. So I was a few minutes late. I texted him back and said I would put Sim in the yard and leave the halter on the gate I wanted him let out of afterwards so as he could get to water.

I did put the hose in a container and gave him water and put him in there and locked the heifers in the cattle yard and removed their troughs as they hadn't finished yet. When hubby came home it was dark and Sim was still in the yard so I don't know yet if their hooves were done.

[melking]

good job Suzie, I wouldn't take the scales with me. I think if I am right, I would weigh in at 145 kg so I am going to start using that weight whenever anyone asks.

[wbvs58]

Your going great Suzie. Does Ian do pilates?
Thanks for those comments Diana. Stick with those walking sticks when outside. The fellow I know that had a knee replacement left his walking aids in the house when he decided to go down the paddock to see his cows. He fell over and split things open, ended spending 12 months in hospital fighting infection, its all good now though.
We had 14.5mm last night, 29mm at my other block. Its been fine today but has started with light rain tonight. I'm not getting much done at the moment, by the time I feed the bulls, check the cows, go around to other place to check the cows, have a look at my neighbours heifers calves by my bull, start talking a bit, do my shopping, get home and have a late lunch then start again. Well, I guess that's what it is like being retired, doesn't matter.
Ken

[Old_man_emu]

you're all so busy and just reading about your exploits tires me enough to not post myself most of the time!
My heifer group have started calving but i'm a little surprised to only have 2 calves so far. There is only 10 in the mob but I thought 3 of them might have calved yesterday, nope, only 1.
The calves are the first from my new bull, a Dinky-di son for those in the know. Main thing is they have been small and easily born.
The second calf was actually from a second calver. My new offsider was concerned the calf looked weak and we hadn't seen him feed so I made the call to yard them and put him no the teat. I think it was a good call, I had to milk her a little and then feed that back to the calf. From then he seemed keen and I got him up and going and boy o he was hungry. We let him out and checked him 10 minutes later and he was having another go so fingers crossed he keeps going well.

[jilleroo]

Nothing much happening here, waiting for it to dry out some more. Have managed to get a bit of painting done but the old fella I'm painting isnt "talking to me" yet - hope he does soon - until I feel that connection, I get mildly panicky. Staying up late tonight to work on him, so fingers crossed.
So pleased to hear you're home and doing well Diana!
Hubby has been cleaning out our grid onto the highway as a heifer has been going out and playing chicken with the traffic.
Renewing our entranceway is on our list of to-do things as its too sharp a turn for roadtrains with three trailers on to do in comfort. Such heavy traffic going past us at present, we have to wait to pull out onto the road, crazy. All the darned grey nomads towing every sort of portable accommodation known to man, roadtrains, long-haul freight transports, people on pushbikes, the odd camel wagon, you name it, its going by!
Hoping to truck cattle again next Wed when the ground shouldve dried out enough to support a loaded roadtrain. Our buyers reset the price with each mob and have increased it handsomely for this next lot - we wouldve accepted less. 130 going this time, painfully slow getting rid of them but we just have to be patient. At least we have the grass to hold the rest.
Ken, are your bulls in the QCL this week? Are they in the Sunstate sale?
Suzie, pilates sounds fabulous - might get you to send me a CD!! You can join a group and do it in town here but I have too short an attention span to do it.

[Suzie Q]

This one is not boring, Jilleroo. My first one was a disc out of Special K, as I said I was riding at the time and you do use your core muscles in riding. The disc was so boring I fell asleep half way through and threw it in the bin. The next day I picked up a feed bag and felt my stomach muscles WHAT THE???? I hadn't even finished the Disc and I could feel my stomach muscles the next day, so that is how powerful it is. I will do you a disc this weekend for you. With it you have a Pilates Instructor with you every day. FOR FREE!!!

Nah Ken. I have been up done my 10 minutes of pilates (1 hour is better but I find that I am lying there doing them and thinking of all the other things I could be doing. So instead I do the 10 minutes and throw in all the advanced movements from the second half of the disc and that seems to be working for me). At the same time the computer is booting up for me and 10 minutes out of my day is nothing.

I have done a few surveys, redeemed another $20.00 certificate for oo.com.au, read through the debacle at Equestrian Australia this morning. So up to 6 pages on Hayley losing her appeal http://www.eques.com.au/EQforum/showthread.php?t=17346 and one before that of if Hayley was bullied at Aachen.

I have also been back to bed for 'a cuddle'!!! As that is what he wants but am up again now and have types this for you. (At least on the computer I am quiet to hubby can sleep if he wants to).

Hubby is still in bed. He knows what I do and how to be healthy but chooses to do the opposite so lies there and listens to her voice while I do it in the next room. For years I have told him to cut down on fat, oil, salt, sugar. I bought pans that don't need oil, lard or water to cook with. He buys oil and uses it. I hide it. He buys it and uses it again and so the cycle goes on.

It is his choice of what he does until the Doctor has stepped in and said that he is this close to death's door with the plaque in his arteries to his brain. So the doctor has said no meat, no oil, no fried food. I was there and heard everything the Doctor said and one was definitely no sausages. He would rather he cut out meat but would rather he cut down than not do anything.

Hubby is in denial - to him cut down on meat means have 1 piece of steak instead of 2 with each meal instead of cutting down to 1 or 2 meals of meat a week. I hit the roof when he cooked sausages and he says he doesn't remember the Doctor saying that he shouldn't eat them.

I have lost over 30 kgs. Hubby has lost under 10kg. He has slackened off again and won't do anything more to help himself until he goes back to the Doctor and gets another grilling and this time I will tell the Doctor that he will have to do more than just tell him as he doesn't hear it. He will have to either write it down or send him to a nutritionist or something.

Hubby has cut out fried food and we have cut out the fruit juice and cordial and he cut 2 sugars in his coffee and tea down to to 1. He uses olive oil now instead of canola oil. But now he is on a 'maintenance diet' as he is going along level and I have told him he has to make another change if he wants to go down. But the trick is if he wants to do it.

The easiest change for him to make i would think would be to make his porridge in the morning with water instead of milk. He could still add honey or whatever for the taste, and it wouldn't be that big a change - but as I said unless he wants to do it, nothing I say makes an impact. So he makes his porridge with milk on the stove. He calls me when ready. I use a sachet from Uncle Tobys of say Apple and Cinnamon (on the Doctors they keep saying that cinnamon is good for you and has health benefits and Dr Oz says to substitute cinnamon for sugar.)

I rip the packet put it in a bowl. Fill the packet to the line with water and put it in the microwave for 60 seconds. Fill 2 huge glasses with water and put one down for him and one for me. Give us both an omega 3 odourless fish oil capsule to take with breakfast and by then the porridge is ready for me and we sit and have breakfast amicably together.

I am now liking the berry flavours for the Uncle Toby's sachets, i wasn't that keen on them at first, but now I like them and I have started going down again where I started going across and up with the porridge that hubby makes with milk. Just little changes like that have worked for me. For him it just falls on deaf ears and I refuse to become a nagging wife. He is quite aware of what I think and say (think positively instead of negatively) so now he says something negative like:-

Poor me and then changes his voice and says, Why poor me, you are one of the lucky ones you have a wife who loves you, a roof over your head, food in your stomach, a warm bed to sleep in, you have just watched a fantastic movie, you should be saying lucky me or any other 1000's of saying that he could be saying instead of poor me all the time.

So he is quite aware and knows the proper things to do, but only he can make the decision to make changes, it is not up to anyone else to make the changes for him and I am not going to force him. I can only lead by example.

[jilleroo]

Holy cats, that's a lot of information there Suzie.....

It threatened to rain all day here but it didnt come this far north luckily. We hope to start mustering heifers tomorrow - we need to get some out of three different paddocks for this next mob going on Wed.

A male cousin of hubby's had a bad mustering accident on a bike day before yesterday, fractured skull, bleeding on the brain. He was evacuated by the Flying Doctor. There's already been several very bad accidents this year in the district.
On a brighter note, "old mate" whom I'm painting finally started to "talk" to me about midnight last night - phew! Hubby gave it the grunt of approval when he saw it this morning. The painting has only just begun but at least I have a good likeness. No likeness, not worth going on with the rest of it!

OME did all your angus/char heifers calve out yet?

[wbvs58]

Yep Jilleroo, it's the Sunstate sale, lot 13. Is it in this week? I only bought The Land this week as I thought it was going to be in it as well but didn't see anything so far. Don't talk too loud about the prices, you never know who is listening in. They might be kicking themselves that they could have gotten away with offering you less. That's good though.
OME, the few Dinky Di bulls I have seen I liked a lot, most are low birth wt.
We had another 8.5mm last night, just a few showers today but light rain now, has all been good.
Jilleroo, is the old fellow still alive? It's not his ghost talking to you is it? Those bikes, I think they are just a bit too handy. They get pushed a bit too far on their limits, I think we are all guilty of that on occaisions. I hope all is OK.
Ken

[Suzie Q]

Heaps of healing hmmmmsss to the cousin Jilleroo. I hope he pulls through.

Yes a lot of information, just me ranting, I don't say much to hubby about it, but that doesn't mean it doesn't irk me. I am the one who will have to live without him if he drops down dead so it does affect me for all his, "It is my life and I choose to live a happy short one."

Slept the night at Mum's. Woke up and started a new garden for her. Moved the stones onto 'paths', cut through the weed mat. put down a layer of newspaper, one of cow manure, gazanias (out of the dumpster), hay, horse manure, egg cartons and paper and hay. I have left it for her to get bags of leaves and more horse manure from her other property and to cover in more hay and took a fancy lettuce and a strawberry from my garden for her to plant when she gets that far.

On to DP and we had a riding lesson. Contact is really starting to click in hubby's mind and the hour was over before he even knew it.

Back to Eagleby and visited Mum again and did some more stuff in the garden and had lunch with her and then went to a new discount grocery place open to the public.

Healthy Choice 300gram chicken casserrole $1.98
1 KG youplait yoghurt $1.98
Greenseas Tuna Manyonaise 98c
1kg of bacon. $2.99
1/2 a kg of coon cheese $2.98.
Baked Beans 25 cents each if you buy 12.
Take a fuel receipt and they will give you 5 cents a litre

The list goes on Bulk Buys as Eagleby.
http://bestbuyseagleby.com.au/index.html

[wbvs58]

Yes Suzie, when you are young, you think the end is a long way away and you can get away with eating, drinking and smoking just about anything. Unfortunately things start to catch up with you sooner than you think. You then think it is too late to make a change as the damage is already done. Our bodies are are pretty good at responding to changes for the better. When I used to treat a lot of dogs with heartworm, it often surprised me how much chronic changes, that I would have thought as permanent, improved and healed after successfull treatment.
This morning, I got the bulls in and gave them a bit of a haircut. They were very well behaved for it too. I guess giving them some Ket stun, helped, a lot. It is a brew of xylaxine, ketamine and butorphinol, a synthetic opiod. It really stuns them, they are on cloud 9, just enjoying it.
This arvo I got back on the tractor and did a bit of tidying up along the back boundary.
Ken

[jilleroo]

Yes, there is a two page spread about the Sunstate sale in there Ken. Will check and see if Lot 13 is one of the photos when I find the QCL again.
Why didnt you use your RAU for the clipping? Must get another battery for ours - we use it plugged into the lighter on the Jimny.
We mustered about 10am - still so wet out in the paddocks. Put the 300 heifers through and picked off about 30 that can go to sale. A shame to send any of them, hubby said, such lovely heifers and very quiet to handle.
Tomorrow we bring in a bigger paddock and get them sorted. Might still be too wet for the transport on Wed but we'll just have to keep moving ahead.
Not much change to hubby's cousin. Thanks for thinking of him Suzi. Here's hoping.
Yes, the bloke I'm painting has passed away - he must approve of my rendition of him though if he's helping me along!

[Suzie Q]

That's interesting Ken, I didn't think there was any cure for heartworm once a dog got it.

More healing HHHHHMMMMMMSSSSSSSSS for him Jilleroo.

I have still been doing the 10 minutes of Pilates most mornings. I have thrown in exercises at the end of the tape and have worked out my own routine. She spends a lot of time explaining how to do the exercise so I just keep on doing other exercises while waiting or do the more advanced version of the exercise.

At the lesson on Sunday no pilates beforehand and I felt strong. I felt like I could have done sitting trot for the whole hour. I felt amazing.

I have been up and done them this morning and had breakfast. I am a bit tired as I didn't go to bed early enough. Naughty naughty. I was watching stuff on TV. With the 4 hours of overtime I have missed watching stuff and my hard drive was full. So I have to start deleting stuff and wanted to watch it first. Not a good excuse I know, but important to me if nobody else!!!

85.5 on Sunday morning so down 1.2 kgs. That was with the naughty burger one night during overtime at work, the fish and chips and me naughtily having a microwave meal afterwards when I arrived home.
Hubby didn't come and get weighed at Mum's before breakfast and in the end I had to carry my suitcase and everything through the Resort to Papas to see why he hand't picked me up. It was because he was watching TV!!! Something that I could have been recording from home, so I have put it on to record next Saturday morning for him. He doesn't watch much TV at all but has decided he likes The Virginian - a western.

97.7 this morning for him so he has gone up 1.2 kgs. Looks like we are in balance bahahahaha

[wbvs58]

Yeh, I know Jilleroo, I should have used the RAU. It's just that I'm not 100% confident with it yet on the bulls. They tend to go down in the front end for a few minutes then get up, even if I turn it on slowly. My head gate is hinged at the bottom and I am a bit worried the that they may get caught. I am going to build a new one with parallel bars. My neighbour has a heavy RPM which I am going to copy exactly.
I spoke to the fellow who bought my steers today. He actually bought them for another bloke who spat the dummy when he found what they weighed, so Peter got caught with them himself. He put them on a bit of feed and they put on a quick fire 100kg and then he unloaded them at Warwick where they topped the sale. He was rapped, he reckons he is going to bid on mine again next year and do the same.
Its good to get a bit of positive feedback.
Suzie, I have been treating heartworm ever since I graduated in 1975. It has always been there. If they are severely affected by heartworm the treatment can do them in. The protocol has been refined over the years and made it a bit easier on them. If they survive then it is surprising how they will improve. Remember the heartworm is in a closed system and when they die in the right side of the heart, they go straight into the lungs, clogging up the plumbing a bit.
Heartworm has virtually disappeared from Brisbane now. When I left practice 6 years ago, I hadn't treated a case of heartworm for about 10years. Prior to that if a dog lived outdoors and was not on heartworm prevention, by 3-4 years of age would stand about a 90% chance of showing up +ve to HW if tested.
Ken

[Suzie Q]

zzz mumble mumble zzzzzz.

A bit hard getting out of bed this morning. Overtime last night and I was yawning before we even started counting.

I got up as hubby was having breaky and you have to take the fish oil tablet with food. So I gave him his. I have now done my Pilates and feel more awake. I still have to have my break and capsule though.

Thanks Ken. I diidn't know that about heartworm. I just knew that if you had a dog you have a dog that prevention is better than cure.

Great on him being happy with your steers. I hope that guy doesn't try buying for the other one again. Let him do his own work. Complainers are just that. Complainers that you can't make happy.

[wbvs58]

It started off a nice fine day today, then about late morning the clouds came rolling in. This arvo it was light showers again. I'm not complaining, but my neighbour Peter is. Their house is unbelievably cold, no insulation in the floor, no sheeting around the stumps, the wind just rips through. Peter doesn't keep the fire going all night, he reckons it goes out. He is retired, 67, and I think he is suffering from depression pretty bad. He did get Q fever from my cattle when he first moved up here, it went untreated as his doctor would not believe he had it. It was only when he recovered and I insisted he get vaccinated that they had to do another blood test that they found a very high antibody titre from a recent infection. He has never been the same since.
Today I went up the back boundary and did a bit more tidying up.
Ken