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Boostingaz

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So are there pets named Johnny, Kris, Waylon, Willie? Cause that would be awesome....always thought Waylon would be a good name for a hound....my wife has other opinions

Nicely done on the lights! Did you put an override switch via a wifi enabled outlet so you can ensure it goes off by a preset time and doesn't come back on or is that a future project when you find out they're playing with it all night long lol

If you want me to start naming goats that's gonna get wierd because that's kids pick territory 🤣

Let's see if I can even remember:

Sparkles, Bambi, Frankie, Peter, Simon, Cheese, Pretzel, Mustard, Jack, Gracie, Pumba, Timone ...... 🤔
 
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Struggle is real. Most of the time the wife an I have to cook two meals. One for us and the other for the rug rats. Those look pretty good how did they turn out?

They turned out great! Kids loved them.

It was a giant tortilla shell and wrapped inside was taco beef, cheese, a hard flat tostada shell, salsa and olives (because my kids will devour olives). I added some green chilies to the wife and I's. Next time I will throw in some refried beans.
 
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I guess the saying "dirty hands, clean money" doesn't exactly apply in this context.
Lol

You got used to the smell, but it did take a bit of mangt so to speak. Our house was on the farm....aka hogs 100 yds away so you never got away from it...but as long as the wind wasn't blowing across the hog buildings/lagoon to the house the smell wasn't an issue. These were also older buildings, modern hog buildings have deeper pits and better odor mangt designs to reduce the odor to the surrounding area.

We would generally change clothes after doing livestock chores, and tried to segregate off the trucks for livestock work vs field farm work so you didn't smell all day long. In junior high and high school when it was time to load hogs for market we would often start sorting and loading the semi at 5:30 or 5:45 am so we could be done, showered and off to school in time...if we didn't mention it to the classmates they wouldn't have known. There was also 1 other, bigger hog outfit 2 miles or so from us, plus a couple small family cattle feedlots around the small town...so a wind from any direction would blow livestock smells over town...but it's a small farming town so it was expected.
 

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Lol

You got used to the smell, but it did take a bit of mangt so to speak. Our house was on the farm....aka hogs 100 yds away so you never got away from it...but as long as the wind wasn't blowing across the hog buildings/lagoon to the house the smell wasn't an issue. These were also older buildings, modern hog buildings have deeper pits and better odor mangt designs to reduce the odor to the surrounding area.

We would generally change clothes after doing livestock chores, and tried to segregate off the trucks for livestock work vs field farm work so you didn't smell all day long. In junior high and high school when it was time to load hogs for market we would often start sorting and loading the semi at 5:30 or 5:45 am so we could be done, showered and off to school in time...if we didn't mention it to the classmates they wouldn't have known. There was also 1 other, bigger hog outfit 2 miles or so from us, plus a couple small family cattle feedlots around the small town...so a wind from any direction would blow livestock smells over town...but it's a small farming town so it was expected.
I think your last sentence could help explain why your classmates didn't make a stink (sorry) about it.

I'm just poking fun of course! The agriculture in the town I grew up in was mostly crop land, but one summer while working for my dad we did do the dirt work on a pad for a massive state-of-the-art hog barn being put up on a farm in a neighboring town. It was and still is my only real exposure to a hog farm. The smell really was never much of a bother.

*edit* Shockingly I was able to remember where the farm was, I also found a news story that tells a little about the man and his farm, if you care to read it. I'll attach a photo of the farm as well. It's in Wessington, SD. We built the pads for the two larger buildings in the south side.
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I think your last sentence could help explain why your classmates didn't make a stink (sorry) about it.

Lol well said!

I won't lie, it took some adjustment as I moved to the farm from Michigan in grade school and I remember a bit of that first hot summer and thinking it smelled....which let's be honest...its hot $h!t...it did smell lol. But like all "uncommon" smells...you get used it it with exposure. The newer barn designs have made incredible improvements in managing odor as let's be honest, most people don't want to smell livestock until they're being prepared for the kitchen table.
 

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Lol well said!

I won't lie, it took some adjustment as I moved to the farm from Michigan in grade school and I remember a bit of that first hot summer and thinking it smelled....which let's be honest...its hot $h!t...it did smell lol. But like all "uncommon" smells...you get used it it with exposure. The newer barn designs have made incredible improvements in managing odor as let's be honest, most people don't want to smell livestock until they're being prepared for the kitchen table.
I edited my last reply to include some more info about the farm we worked on that summer. Out here in the hills manure smell really is a nonissue, well besides the dog **** that my neighbor is apparently never going to scoop...
 
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Lol well said!

I won't lie, it took some adjustment as I moved to the farm from Michigan in grade school and I remember a bit of that first hot summer and thinking it smelled....which let's be honest...its hot $h!t...it did smell lol. But like all "uncommon" smells...you get used it it with exposure. The newer barn designs have made incredible improvements in managing odor as let's be honest, most people don't want to smell livestock until they're being prepared for the kitchen table.

My wife grew up near Maple City in Leelanau county.
 
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I had to deal with a slave driving supervisor but we got all the lettering and stickers off of the dump today.

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We also fixed a Toyota that got wiring eaten by rabbits.

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And finally no photo, mostly because I forgot, but we re-grated to driveway and got all the ruts out back to smoooooth for mama.

Having a quick cold one and getting ready to grill pork chops for dinner.
 
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