barbed wire
n : strong wire with barbs at regular intervals used to prevent passage
Yesterday's "come and go with me" took about 4 hours. I had a day planned of re-organizing some boxes of quilty-stuff so I could get back to sewing, but OH NO...!
We happen to own property about 20 miles from our house. It's also not a place that you want to be stranded or break down. Nobody drives by on a regular basis--Boonies is a good term. It also happens to be the farm where this Okie was born. The farm raises decent bermudagrass and we bale it into big round bales to feed to cattle during the winter months. With the drought Oklahoma is experiencing, we're fortunate enough to have 200+ bales on this farm. The problem is they're 20 miles from our house. We don't have the equipment (yet) to move them home.
Dean (dh) got the bright idea to built a 2-wire barbed wire fence around the bales to detour someone from driving by and picking up one at a time. It would take some time to get the fence tore down perhaps before somebody would drive by and notice bales missing. We do have good neighbors who watch this hay pile, but there's always gotta be somebody who will think of trying to steal.
Yep....I am a walking scratch-ouch today. If there's a barb, it's gonna reach-out-and-grab me. Yes, my tetnus shot is up-to-date and yes, they're covered in Neosporin. Thank goodness for leather gloves or my fingers would be poked to death.
Back to sorting quilty stuff..I did find a pile of 23 (why an odd number) of 9-patch blocks made by my neighbor (I inherited her sewing room)that she made back in the early 1970's. Real "funky" colors if you ask me, but it'll make a cute quilt to give to the daughter that takes care of her.
If you have an extra minute, go over and visit http://nopuppydogtails.blogspot.com/ Cindy won a viewers choice award for her latest quilt. I tell ya..the girl has talent.
8 comments:
Its unfortunate that some might "help themselves" but it is a reality. Hopefully taking the barbed wire down to get at the bales yourselves wont be quite as "ouch" producing... :-)
Sorry about those "barb wire owies" - I always have a bottle of Tea Tree Oil handy for scrapes and cuts. Works wonders once I've removed raspberry brambles from my fingers.
Well done on those hay bales and how unfortunate that you even have to think that someone might help themselves to some of them!
Got a picture of those 23 Nine-Patch blocks to show us?
Hey - sorry to hear about the "barb-owies" - that's no fun at all. I keep Tea Tree Oil handy for minor scrapes and for after I've been in the raspberry bushes.
Good job on all those hay bales - I so enjoy reading about life on your farm. It would be quite an education coming to visit you.
Ouch. Hope that your bales are safe, and your quilting fingers are still nimble.
23 nine-patches. Maybe a UFO because someone took off with the rest, or because they ran out of fabric?
Barbed wire is so mean looking. Never have liked looking at it or being around it. As a child I would take my paint set and walk the fence line and paint all the barbs different colors. I did this one summer all day long for weeks. I haven't thought about that in years!
I still have a scar on my left ankle from a barbed wire incident... (Shoulda gotten stitches, but didn't... It wasn't that deep.)
Oh dear. Bag Balm (for cows udders) is a good thing to put boo boos. Next time - opt to stay home! But - you have some nice bales of hay - the farmers are baling like crazy around here - I think the best invention for farmers in years and years has got to be that plastic wrap they put around the bales now.
Cheers!
Evelyn
Having spent most of my life in the southwest, where hay is baled, I was surprised to come north to the Dakotas and see the rolls. They even roll up the stuff along the side of the road. It's interesting to see that you roll in OK, too. One of these days, I want to happen along when they are doing the rolling, so I can watch!
I guess those cowboys wore leather gloves and long sleeves and chaps for a reason!
Good luck with the 9-patches. Are you going to make one more, or set them in a super-creative way?
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