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Christmas 2004 Memory
With Christmas passing us by thought It would be nice to share with each other some of the highlights the Christmas weekend brought to our families.
Did you get what you asked for? What joys did your children get under the tree from Santa?
For me It was christmas eve at my Mother-In-Laws with her Brothers,Sister-In-Laws and there children for a light dinner and gifts.
On the way home a descrete cellphone call to Santa (My Dad and a Santa suit he bought last year). Last year 2003: we arived home to see Santa walking out our front door as we pulled up for 2004: Santa was walking out our long farm lane. Funny but as we where coming down the main road off in a neighbors field we saw a group of deer (probably not the Reindeer) but my 9 year old daughter is prone to believe they are reindeer Santa parked there.
For her older brothers they have long since stopped believing in him...I am hopeful Santa will be believable in her heart for a few more years in our household.
For me I got my traditional Aftershave (that my wife seems to make sure I have at least 2 years worth in the closet) and a box of chocolate for the barn to keep my bloodsugar up for a couple weeks. 
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26/12/2004, 18:27
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FattyWelshBoy
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Re: Christmas 2004 Memory
My joy was passing out drunk on Christmas eve, cant remember counting christmas, dont know how I got home, come to think of it I dont want to know, my dad had a good laugh at my expense 6 o'clock in the morning with the usual "when will he learn" look. I'm taking it easy tonight (Boxing day) just a couple of pints and home before midnight....... hopefully. 
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26/12/2004, 18:59
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buckeyebreeder
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Re: Christmas 2004 Memory
My Christmas was not so merry. We got dumped on with a record 24 inches of snow between 7AM Wednesday and 7AM Thursday morning. I was snowed in at my house, may as well have been on the moon. My dad, my sister(home from school) and my brother did the milking and morning chores. My Dad and my neighbor dug out my road and my drive so I could get to the barn. Overnight the temp drops to -10 degrees Farenhight. Everything is frozen Christmas Eve morning. Also one of my better cows is sick with the first bad case of Ecoli I have seen on the farm in 3 years. Probably from my sister and brother helping milk. My wife's family celebrates on Christmas Eve so we missed part of that. Upon saying our goodbyes to head off for chores at 4pm it is discovered that our SUV has a dead battery. Jump start are unsuccessful. I have to get a charger from the farm to get it started. After Chores we go to my mom and dad's for Christmas Eve dinner. After dinner the phone rings and my mother (an operating room nurse) gets called in. Back out to the drive to move the SUV out of the way so Mom can leave. SURPRISE the battery is dead again. Temperature is -17F. So I push it out of the way. My sister loans us her car to get home. I get home and I am not feeling well, my wife checks my temperature 101.5. Merry Christmas. Back to the barn in the morning, check temp again -23 at 5:30am. Do chores at record slow 4.5 hours to milk 108 cows. Miss church completely. Go home open Santa gifts for my son at noon. The breakfast casserole was a little past its prime by then. Christmas lunch was good, except my cold prevents me from carrying on any conversation, leading most to believe I am mad at them. Open family presents that were not opened the night before. No socks again this year. When will these people learn? I want socks! My wife surprises me at night though with one last Christmas present. ALL THREE SEED STOCK books! 1 outta 2 aint bad.
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Whether its type or index the bottom line is that all must milk.
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27/12/2004, 6:07
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Re: Christmas 2004 Memory
didn't get ne'thing. except plastered!!
Never again will i drink like i did on christmas night, Bundy Rum is bad. started on home made ginger beer and bundy. then on to triple bundy and cola. 1 1/2 bottles later i was being loud and praying to the bird cage, passed out after a dark and stormy (more rum) and woke up with a dart in my foot, apparently i didn't hit the board. Hang over was not too terrible. i have spray painted my car with bright crome paint, it's a race car now '69' on doors, bonnet and roof, i only remember spraying my tyres.
hmm, thats what i did. made a dick of my self.
now here's to a smashed new years
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Aunty Anna you're an absolute peach!
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27/12/2004, 6:42
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Brian
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Spent a nice quiet christmas at home with the wife and the wee boy(between milkings) all was going well went to a boxing day party last night, came outside to find some little b*****d hid ripped the rear wing off my car and kicked it up the street so I am just a little p****d of right now, do people have no respect for other folks property anymore!!! 
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27/12/2004, 9:46
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Big Bird
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Re: Christmas 2004 Memory
Fairly quiet Christmas at home and work.
Eldest boy ,4, had his first Christmas knowing what it is about. Father Christmas hiding behind every cloud, putting out a snack for Father Christmas and Rudolph, all that sort of stuff. Had to leave one of the fires un-lit so as not to burn anyone coming down the chimney!
Younger one, coming up 2, picked up a lot of what was going on from his brother, so its been fairly special, if manic at times.
Read Joe's and Fattywelshboy's and thought, been there, done that, and don't want to go back there again. Must be getting old.
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27/12/2004, 9:55
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Re: Christmas 2004 Memory
Gotta agree with you BB, drank just enough beer this long weekend to keep cool. Spent most of my time lying on this  enjoying England being bowled out for under a hundred and fifty yesterday and Kallis and Pollock's knock today, I am writing this during the tea break, hoping Kallis will make his ton. Only downside of the weekend has been donating half a pint of blood to the mosquitos every evening. Note: 20000 litres of beer drunk on the first day of the test yesterday (15000 people at the ground)- more than double drunk over the whole of the test last year against the Windies - difference - The Barmy Army, those boys have stamina and capacity!
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27/12/2004, 13:56
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Re: Christmas 2004 Memory
quote:
Big Bird wrote:
Read Joe's and Fattywelshboy's and thought, been there, done that, and don't want to go back there again. Must be getting old.
My thoughts too...It's been 15 years since I could party with the best of them and hanging my head over the cow gutters at 4:30 in the morning heaving my insides out is a memory I don't ever want to go back too.
Thankfully the love of a good woman and a family to be responsible for sets us all strait at some point.
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27/12/2004, 14:19
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Re: Christmas 2004 Memory
Buckeye,
I feel for you, nothing like being sick and dealing with a overabundance of snow. We've seen 3 major blizards in the last 11 years. Nothing worse than finally getting the snow out of the way and realizing half the day is gone.Our christmas was plesent temperature wise...till today when your artic air moved to my area.
My only Christmas weekend disaster to deal with was my Skid Loader that I use to mix TMR wagons burned a belt off fixed that to find the water pump was bad...fixed that to find that the head gasket was blown...no mechanics available till today or tommorrow.
Last Thursday 23rd my one corn silage silo motor went bad... No electritician available to come out to the farm till the 1st of January.Got that motor off this morning. Friday the 25th the motor in my haylage silo went out thats going to have to be taken off today(personally forked 2400 lbs of haylage by hand so far). Last night 26th my 2nd corn silage silo worked some silage into the ring where the brushes and capacitor drive it around the silo(personally forked 3000 lbs out of that one last night). By 6:30 last night I was wondering why Santa hadn't delivered the Hot Tub I've requested for the last 12 years.
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27/12/2004, 14:35
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howie32
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Been cold here, much like buckeye has described. Snowed Wednesday and night and Thursday morning. Thursday, spent quite a bit of time moving snow. Water for the dry cows and a pen of heifers was frozen, so had to spend some lovely time in the bitter cold getting those working. Friday, had 4 pens of heifers that would not come up to eat or drink. Finally discovered that there was some stray voltage coming through two waterers. Worked for a while and got that fixed (although, still not really sure exactly why it was happening). Went to the in-laws for Christmas Eve evening. Got home Christmas Eve night, put the kids to bed and did the Santa thing. Christmas day, temperature was well below 0. Tried to hurry so that we could get morning chores done before the kids woke up. Broke the gutter cleaner in the cow barn, tractor wouldn't start. Spent Christmas day trying to get the tractor started and trying to fix the gutter cleaner. Family was supposed to get together, but my nephew was sick and at the hospital. Christmas night, the gutter cleaner is still not fixed and the cows just keep on pooping and peeing. Spend Christmas night with my family, minus my brother, sister-in-law and nephew. Day after Christmas, have tickets to the Detroit Lions football game but stay home to work on the gutter cleaner some more. Clean out half of the manure by hand. Finally get it working again and had the barn cleaned by 3:00 PM. I did get to watch the 2nd half of the Lions game that I was supposed to be at. Brother and sister-in-law and nephew were able to make it down that night for the 3rd Christmas night in a row for us. Definitely a memorable Christmas, both bad and good. Nothing is better than watching an almost 3 year old on Christmas.
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27/12/2004, 15:32
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