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Boy! Did I screw UP!

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Jassy

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I really did it this time...(again)... :o I washed my Hubby's little book with all his important stuff in it! Ya know gals...the one that they carry with em everywhere, and it has phone numbers,tractor part numbers, cow numbers, tire sizes, feed info...etc.! It ended up in little tiny shreds of paper in my washin machine...at first I didn't know what it was, till the pen fell out..."OOOPS! this isn't good" When I told him what I had done, yes he was mad, :mad: but then it was sortof /partly his fault for not taking it out of his pocket...I usually don't have to check pockets of shirts in the basket...but he forgave me...and all is good now.. :lol: Course threatning him that he can do his own damn laundry from now on..could of had somthing to do with him lettin me off the hook!.. :wink:
 
Jassy.......that is exactly why Mr Lilly doesn't get to have a lil book to carry around. He's forever leavin stuff in his pockets.......least most times when I find somethin in the washin machine that he's left in the pocket of shirts or pants....it's usually money!!!! :D And I get to keep it. That's the rules.

I keep the cow books.......big spiral notebook that rides in my truck.....I will make notes on an envelope or somethin sometimes, if we are in a different vehicle. Then I come strait home and transfer the notes into my big book. He's tried having a lil book for phone numbers and such, but it never lasts. So it's left up to me to keep all the phone numbers, part numbers etc in a special place. When he needs to know where somethin is....I get it, and write it down on somethin else for him. And then put the original back up.

Ya just gotta take care of em....they can't help it...they are men LOL
 
Ya just gotta take care of em....they can't help it...they are men LOL

Oh thanks Lilly...that statement hit the nail on the head!!! :lol: :lol: [/quote]
 
Well I for one don't feel sorry for him If I leave my book in my pocket its my own fault sure as heck not the wife's..
 
hell, tell him to bring his laundry on down...I am getting pretty good at this woman stuff!!!
 
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There is a calamity that strikes abject terror into the hearts of cattlemen.
People who raise cattle are subjected and conditioned to many adversities, from sickness and death in the herd, to drought, low return for cattle sold and high operating costs. But the most sudden and devastating thing that can happen, which threatens to cause a rancher to lose control of his senses, is losing the calving book.
I'm not talking about the ledger in which herd records are kept, which every cattleman should diligently keep up to date, (or at least those without computers in which records are kept), but the little shirt pocket sized booklet in which he records on the site birth of calves, the matching numbers of the cow and calf ear tags, the sex of the calf and sometimes the weight.
That booklet is safely ensconced within a shirt pocket, along with a ballpoint pen or stub pencil, throughout calving season. It is relocated into a new pocket with each changing of shirts and, if it becomes lost it causes instant panic, a thorough search of house, barns and corrals and much hollering at wife and kids until it is found. If it isn't retrieved it literally messes his whole calving operation up.
I am not calving cows now but I fastidiously carried my calving record book in my left shirt pocked when I was, and I had the misfortune of losing it several times. I think I always found it after much anxiety and searching. One time I distinctly remember, after looking everywhere I thought it could possibly be, more than once, I discovered I had put it in the washer, still in the pocket of my dirty shirt. After I found it, after it had gone through the wash and rinse cycle, and with much apprehension and trepidation, I gingerly peeled it open to discover that I could decipher the entries, not clearly but, "praise the Lord" they could still be read. Talk about jubilation, my calving season was saved.
Seems I have had a penchant for putting things in the washer that shouldn't be put in the washer. I have thourghly washed an assortment of bolts, nuts and screws, ballpoint pens, candy, coins and a billfold, along with its contents, at least twice. Doesn't hurt things like drivers licenses that are laminated in plastic, and credit cards. It surely doesn't do the various sundry of assorted papers containing names addresses and phone numbers any good, or the wallet… especially leather ones.
And the stuff you hear about laundered money has a whole other different meaning.
 
jigs said:
hell, tell him to bring his laundry on down...I am getting pretty good at this woman stuff!!!
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have all the whites turned pink by now? :P
 
Oh BeenThere...so elequently said...lol I'm safe with calving books..they stay in the barn till season is over...I think though it probably happened to my g-pa at one time..and so from then on..no calving books in the house!
 
katrina said:
I've even washed money!!!
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Isn't money laundrying a big (unlegal) business :P

My hubby is responsible for anything left in the pockets...if it's in the hamper. If I pick it up off the floor (doesn't happen often) then it's my problem.
 
Jassy-----I have washed the hubby's, too.......only ONCE!!!!! I told him and the kids to have their dirty clothes in the laundry room so I could have everything washed before I started my 7 straight 12 hour shifts at the hospital!! I had also told the ENTIRE family to "check pockets"......so, when I found the wads of paper in the bottom of the washtub, I knew instantly WHO did it and WHAT it was!!! Yep...he was a tad bit "upset", but got over it quick when he realized that he had done it to himself!!! :wink:
 
I usually wash my own, so if anything gets in there it's my fault. I don't carry a calving book anymore, so it ain'ty a problem.

I just love finding money in the washing machine. Nothin' like, found, clean money. :D
 
This is the number 1 reason you should have some system of tagging calves so you don't need a blasted book to pair them up.

I have duplicate calving sheets, but the main one sits in the barn on the desk/table where the tags, tattoo stuff and other various cattle needs are located.

After calving (or on nasty days after feeding is done) all info is entered into the computer. I have the paper copy filed in my desk drawer filing cabinet.

With the rfid tags, and as we start adding more info to all classes of cattle with those tags, the paperwork is going to have to be more detailed and less of the shirt pocket stuff. The shirt pocket should be downloaded to the barn or office sheets everyday.

Phone numbers are easilly entered into cell phones now. Technology is great if we get used to using it.
 
nr said:
jigs said:
hell, tell him to bring his laundry on down...I am getting pretty good at this woman stuff!!!
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have all the whites turned pink by now? :P
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no, but I have convinced the boys to turn the underwear inside out, so we can stretch two days out of a pair.....
 
Jason said:
This is the number 1 reason you should have some system of tagging calves so you don't need a blasted book to pair them up.

I have duplicate calving sheets, but the main one sits in the barn on the desk/table where the tags, tattoo stuff and other various cattle needs are located.

After calving (or on nasty days after feeding is done) all info is entered into the computer. I have the paper copy filed in my desk drawer filing cabinet.

With the rfid tags, and as we start adding more info to all classes of cattle with those tags, the paperwork is going to have to be more detailed and less of the shirt pocket stuff. The shirt pocket should be downloaded to the barn or office sheets everyday.

Phone numbers are easilly entered into cell phones now. Technology is great if we get used to using it.
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Jason...you really need to give seminars and share all your wisdom with so many more people.
 
Mrs.Greg said:
Jason said:
This is the number 1 reason you should have some system of tagging calves so you don't need a blasted book to pair them up.

I have duplicate calving sheets, but the main one sits in the barn on the desk/table where the tags, tattoo stuff and other various cattle needs are located.

After calving (or on nasty days after feeding is done) all info is entered into the computer. I have the paper copy filed in my desk drawer filing cabinet.

With the rfid tags, and as we start adding more info to all classes of cattle with those tags, the paperwork is going to have to be more detailed and less of the shirt pocket stuff. The shirt pocket should be downloaded to the barn or office sheets everyday.

Phone numbers are easilly entered into cell phones now. Technology is great if we get used to using it.
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Jason...you really need to give seminars and share all your wisdom with so many more people.
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And Jigs could do a break out session on his laundering wisdom.
 
I have been lucky to never destroy my paper record before I get it computerized.. For a while there I was actually recording things that I saw on a little digital tapre recorder that some misguided soul gave to me in college thinking it would help me study better... It worked great until it fell out of my pocket without me realizing it...

Since than we have switched to the big yellow notepad in the truck that gets filled in and brought in every day of calving season to be entereded into the computer.. Way to organized as longa s I do my part..
 

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