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No quitten we're whelan on to chitchat 11

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    #13472
    whelan2
    Registered Users Posts: 29,522 ✭✭✭✭whelan2


    I like going out on the farm Christmas day, gets me out of the house



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    #13473
    emaherx
    Registered Users Posts: 6,115 ✭✭✭emaherx


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120032472#Comment_120032472

    Me too to be fair, but I'll not be doing much hopefully apart from looking around.



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    #13474
    StevenToast
    Registered Users Posts: 3,579 ✭✭✭StevenToast


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120032463#Comment_120032463

    What happens when one of them scutters in to the water bowl and none of them have anything to drink?....who'll be the one to scoop out the shìte with their bare hands??

    "Don't piss down my back and tell me it's raining." - Fletcher



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    #13475
    dzer2
    Registered Users Posts: 2,947 ✭✭✭dzer2


    Always do the yard Xmas morning

    And a quick check after dinner



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    #13476
    emaherx
    Registered Users Posts: 6,115 ✭✭✭emaherx


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120032498#Comment_120032498

    :D want to buy some tip over drinkers? 😜



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    #13477
    wrangler
    Registered Users Posts: 11,142 ✭✭✭✭wrangler


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120032498#Comment_120032498

    Ah well you'd have to walk the sheds.. I was never a big fan of farming but used to enjoy getting out to the yard on christmas day for the break



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    #13478
    StevenToast
    Registered Users Posts: 3,579 ✭✭✭StevenToast


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120032510#Comment_120032510

    Id sooner be shoveling cow shìte than listening to the in laws giving out about how bad my food is....

    "Don't piss down my back and tell me it's raining." - Fletcher



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    #13479
    emaherx
    Registered Users Posts: 6,115 ✭✭✭emaherx


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120032516#Comment_120032516

    Maybe you just needed some antigen tests and a red felt tip pen. 🤔



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    #13480
    emaherx
    Registered Users Posts: 6,115 ✭✭✭emaherx


    Anyway happy Christmas folks and I hope you all enjoy tomorrow whatever way you like to spend it.



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    #13481
    _Brian
    Registered Users Posts: 18,567 ✭✭✭✭_Brian


    Kids are well past Santa but we still leave wee bits out and wrap presents from us as well. Daft but it’s a bit of fun I suppose.



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    #13482
    Dinzee Conlee
    Registered Users Posts: 2,149 ✭✭✭Dinzee Conlee


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120032511#Comment_120032511

    We used to have cattle when I was small, and I used to love going out to them on Christmas morning…

    It always seemed like the most peaceful morning you’d ever have with em... I imagine it was down to not having much to do, no rushing or tearing, or maybe more so enjoying the moment I suppose…

    Not really sure why I thought it, but it’s something I miss to be honest…

    Anyways, Santa is on his way here so better go 😉

    Happy Christmas everyone…



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    #13483
    straight
    Registered Users Posts: 4,809 ✭✭✭straight


    Santa's gone here. He's after leaving some heap of stuff, fair play to him. Our middle lad can't get to sleep with the excitement. He usually starts crying around now with the stress cos he's afraid Santa will pass on if he's not asleep. Wouldn't you love to be 9 again. Where will I ever see such excitement again?

    Will give the cows pre calving minerals in the morning as a treat for Xmas.



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    #13484
    Say my name
    Registered Users Posts: 11,508 ✭✭✭✭Say my name


    See lots of areas of wexford lost power this afternoon with the thunderstorms and lots still have no power. That'd be miserable if you'd no power and light or heat this evening. Hopefully they'll be back again morning. Power never went here.

    Went off myself to the Christmas Eve church service. Lucky I remembered the way to church. The clergyman is leaving the parish for new quarters in the next couple of months. He went back on how he made it his thing when he first arrived in the parish that he would stop at speedvans in the area and offer shortbread. (think jesus and the tax collector) This has gone on years now. One case, the operator asked him would he pray for his father in hospital. He said a prayer there with the operator. The father recovered after. He got to know all the operators by name. So he told them he was leaving the parish lately. All the operators from the depot did a whip around and they put together the cost of a speeding fine and gave to the clergyman with a card. They said if he was caught speeding they'd have to catch him. But the speeding fine was their gift to him if it ever did happen in the future.


    It's officially Christmas day now.



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    #13485
    Base price
    Registered Users Posts: 11,269 ✭✭✭✭Base price


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120032472#Comment_120032472

    Same as you. I took the day off from farming today to do all the prep work for tomorrow including cooking the ham. I share a turkey with my sister and brother every year. I get the butcher to split it in half as it's more than enough for the two of us. Early'ish in the morning I'll check the few that are outside, fill bags of meal whilst OH does the diet feeder then come back in and put on the turkey. I always prefer to go back out to the yard in the evening, fork up silage, feed meal to the few caves/weanlings/cows with calves and generally do a bit to work off the turkey and ham.



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    #13486
    Say my name
    Registered Users Posts: 11,508 ✭✭✭✭Say my name


    My three favourite things are eating my cats and not using commas.



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    #13487
    kollegeknight
    Registered Users Posts: 3,294 ✭✭✭kollegeknight


    A houseful of sick children here. My 4yo wouldn’t even go to see the Christmas lights house.


    santa has been. The fat fella without the beard is tired now. OH got to go to pub. She came home happy. Trying to keep the little lad in bed with the fever.


    no communal gift from Santa this year as we got a dog a few months ago.



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    #13488
    Base price
    Registered Users Posts: 11,269 ✭✭✭✭Base price


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120032686#Comment_120032686

    Hopefully your little one feels better in the morning.

    Years ago I spent most of Christmas eve night in Temple St. hospital with the eldest lad. He was 12 at the time. For some strange reason at about 10pm he decided to open black cat bangers/fireworks (left over from Halloween) pour the contents into a bowl and set it alight in the garden using a cigarette lighter. The skin of his right thumb and forefinger got badly burned. The nurses and doctors in Temple St. were brilliant but I was shocked at how many other children were there between broken arms, legs, etc due to falling off bicycles, scooters etc. Anyway he was eventually released just after 6am and we had to wait for an early morning Pharmacy in Drumcondra to open at 7am - which really pissed me off as I couldn't understand why the hospital couldn't give us the medication that he needed. Thankfully one of my friends was visiting me that night and she stayed to look after youngest. We got home around 7.30, youngest (10yo) was still fast asleep unaware of what had happened. Eldest went to bed and slept for most of the day.



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    #13489
    Grueller
    Registered Users Posts: 5,217 ✭✭✭Grueller


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120032637#Comment_120032637

    That is a beautiful story SMN. Happy Christmas all.



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    #13490
    _Brian
    Registered Users Posts: 18,567 ✭✭✭✭_Brian


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120032686#Comment_120032686

    Hope they are all feeling better soon



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    #13491
    roosterman71
    Registered Users Posts: 5,555 ✭✭✭roosterman71


    I'd no plans to go near the yard today but apparently the young lad has got a present for the tractor and is adament we have to go and give it. The innocence of it all.



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    #13492
    Limestone Cowboy
    Registered Users Posts: 3,531 ✭✭✭Limestone Cowboy


    Really not feeling the Christmas spirit at all this year. OH had a miscarriage 6 weeks ago and ended up in Hospital for the guts of a fortnight. Been a bit of an emotional roller coaster for her since but Christmas definitely isn't helping.



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    #13493
    kollegeknight
    Registered Users Posts: 3,294 ✭✭✭kollegeknight


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120032889#Comment_120032889

    They are grand thanks. This chest virus thing that’s going around. Spiked temp etc.

    delighted with santas gifts. Although my head is wrecked with all these sirens.


    merry Christmas everyone



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    #13494
    whelan2
    Registered Users Posts: 29,522 ✭✭✭✭whelan2


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120033147#Comment_120033147

    Sorry to hear that



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    #13495
    greysides
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 9,024 Mod ✭✭✭✭greysides


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120033147#Comment_120033147

    A tough spot to be in but hopefully soon it will a part of the past with better things to look forward to.

    The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress. Joseph Joubert

    The ultimate purpose of debate is not to produce consensus. It's to promote critical thinking.

    Adam Grant



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    #13496
    kollegeknight
    Registered Users Posts: 3,294 ✭✭✭kollegeknight


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120033147#Comment_120033147

    Tis a hard one and sorry to hear it. I’ve a brother who’s wife miscarried after their first child, and then when they had a child, he passed away at only a few weeks old.

    the second Christmas is easier but very tough on them none the less.



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    #13497
    _Brian
    Registered Users Posts: 18,567 ✭✭✭✭_Brian


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120033147#Comment_120033147

    Bless you both.



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    #13498
    _Brian
    Registered Users Posts: 18,567 ✭✭✭✭_Brian


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120032498#Comment_120032498

    moved the drinkers onto the outside of the girders in the feed passage between each pen, did it maybe 12-15 years ago and have never needed to clean white from a drinker since. Farm smarter not harder.



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    #13499
    dzer2
    Registered Users Posts: 2,947 ✭✭✭dzer2



    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120033147#Comment_120033147

    Tough times and really mental pressure on the OH. Hope all is well now, New year just here all.you can do is plough on hope next Yr is better for you both.



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    #13500
    einn32
    Registered Users Posts: 1,005 ✭✭✭einn32


    Happy Christmas to ye all.



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    #13501
    funkey_monkey
    Registered Users Posts: 8,221 ✭✭✭funkey_monkey


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120033147#Comment_120033147

    Sorry to read that LC.

    Not a great Christmas here either - first one without the the old man. Been a tough year. Spent most of day just sitting looking at phone - not much on TV to occupy the mind. It is not much of a fuss when there are no children around.

    Feeding the stock on Christmas is without doubt the best one over the entire winter. Just stood and watched them for a while, maybe we're all just rushing too much.



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