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Community => Coffee Lounge => Topic started by: Shropshirelass on November 27, 2012, 11:19:22 pm
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Just done one of mine - giving the dog a bath for starters hes a 30kg dog who hates baths & my drying him with the hair dryer afterwards (so we're off to a bad start anyways & towels hardly help so the hairdryer it is in the winter.) But I hate the smell of wet dog afterwards & wet dog hairs make my skin itch! Grr! >:(
Probably after that its:
Hoovering & washing the car ( which I am always proud of in the end ;D)
Worming the cats
Chasing the last of the flaming :chook: :chook: :chook: in or the geese & ducks if they decide not to come off the river (Always in the piddling rain)
Bringing in wood for the woodburner as its like a constant thing that seems to eat them & we normally run out again when u've guessed it its >:(
Rant over whats everyone elses? xxx
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Housework
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the only thing I really hate is having to deal with a sick or dying animal. Pretty much every other job falls onto a scale of "tolerate but wish someone else would do" ranging upto "really like this loads".
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Housework
With you 110% :thumbsup: :thumbsup: .
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the only thing I really hate is having to deal with a sick or dying animal.
I'm with you on this but in terms of jobs that I don't relish - filling hay bags (which is never ending in winter) is the worst, especially if the hay is tight to the bale and it's coming off in small handfuls ::) .
I don't LOVE picking poo or cleaning out the hens ie I don't wake up thinking "Yippee, I'm cleaning out hen houses today :excited: " but I do get great satisfaction when it's done
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Ahhhh, yes Rosemary, the hay. Especially when it's -15 and your hands are so cold and painful that they don't seem to grip properly ...... or is that just me. ::)
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the only thing I really hate is having to deal with a sick or dying animal. Pretty much every other job falls onto a scale of "tolerate but wish someone else would do" ranging upto "really like this loads".
Ditto which is what i have to deal with today, think one of my fattener pigs has broke his back ploughing about in the bloody mud and swill that is our field, have made him comfortable he doesn't seem to be in undue pain unless you try to move him, so waiting for vet's diagnosis and then probably pts :'(
mandy :pig:
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So sorry about your pig, Mandy. I agree dealing with sick/dying animals is the worst. But all the others are firmly on my list: Housework (especially cleaning the oven), mucking out, doing anything in freezing temperatures when I can't feel my hands (and gloves are useless), bathing a dog with an aversion to water and trying to catch a goose/chicken/animal that doesn't want to be caught (and it's raining).
Wendy@blueborage
blueborage.blogspot.com
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In priority order:
1) Killing things I hadn't planned to be killing (i.e. sick things, or even worse recently, apparently healthy things in order to stop everything else getting sick :'( )
2) Gutting things
3) Killing things for eating
4) Emptying the :cat: litter tray
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1 The thought of having to kill anything to put it out is misery, I mean a chicken here by the way!! not had to do that yet, not had to kill one to eat as it was done for me, still unsure if I could!!
2 Taking water to the chickens on slippery paths when it freezes and picking up dog poo in the snow
3 Constant changing quilts (B&B) but not too bad if the guests have left sweets or crisps then I put the TV on and make it last a bit longer ;)
4Clearing out the freezer...Ones done, the other needs doing now and boy that's a cold job!!!
5Not mad keen on clothes shopping either, maybe as I am now FAT!!
I quite like housework, its finding homes for everything that's hard!
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I am sure I have said this on here before but I have taken advice on housework and particularly dusting, from a good friend of mine. She says "dust isn't worth dusting until it's thick enough to roll up'. ;D I really hate having to put clean duvet covers on - don't know why, but I really loathe it with a passion.
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Changing the beds and mucking out the chickens. Ours live in one of the large littleacre coops which are great, but cumbersome to clean out. Fortunately I don't have to get involved with the mucking out of the sheds. The boys have a tractor and yard scraper for that.
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Most outdoor stuff in wintertime. The mud on our patch sucks you down. Circulation in my extremities is never great but in winter I just have to hope I've got a grip on whatever I'm doing. Soon find out when I drop it! I hate doing the hay with the big round bales as they're so 'bitty'. Like Rosemary said, when it's coming away from the bale in hand sized portions it's a tad ANNOYING!! I love small bales. Carry it over, cut the twine and nice neat slices just fall apart for you to distribute amongst the beasties. Haven't had small bales for ages. Haylage does smell yummy though apart from the one the other day we found with a big mushroomy thing growing out the top of it.
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There are loads and loads of jobs that I hate the THOUGHT of doing, but once I start I don't really mind.
The thought of going out when it is horizontal rain, but once I am wrapped up and out I just enjoy being with the animals and then don't feel like going in to face housework :o
Housework - I listen to the radio - makes it a lot less boring ;D except can't hear it while hoovering, so that is my worst job inside
I am with everyone on here about filling haynets from a round bale - hate the thought of it and hate doing it, but this year I have wee square bales :excited: :excited: :excited:
I find poo picking very therapeutic, except after weeks of snow thaws and there is barrow loads of the stuff :tired:
And fluffing the ducks straw in the mornings.....phewwwwwww they stink. Thankfully that is only my 'job' when OH is away
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1) dealing with sick livestock/pets
2) clearing up the mess Mr Fox leaves
3) mucking out goatsheds after leaking roof has soaked everything
4) kids homework.
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Paperwork. Always gets left to the last minute. I can find pleasure in most of the farm work, but not in doing accounts or filling in forms!
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in no particular order.
housework
paperwork
homework
work.
housework.
cleaning out the woodburners, always get covered in ash.
having a bath. i hate having a bath, i dont particularly like showers either. or washing.
heyho. i can gaurantee i have to do at least on of the above each day.
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Walking !
Walking in the rain !
Walking in the wind !
Walking in the wind and rain !
Walking in the snow !
You get the picture .
The haylage from big round bales thing can bring me to tears at times . My hands will just not work and the stuff will not pull out , absolute agony !
I have resorted to climbing up onto the bale with a hand saw and sawing the bloody stuff .
I hate the above on 'those' days , but in the main i take it as it comes . Switch off brain and let George do the work !
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There are loads and loads of jobs that I hate the THOUGHT of doing, but once I start I don't really mind.
Yes, that's true for me too. Weeding - but once I get started I enjoy it. And in our garden, you can always see where you've been.
I don't mind housework but I don't sicken myself doing it. I like changing the bed linen - so that it's all clean and crisp and white. Then a cat either walks on it, snots on it or walks and snots on it. But it's nice while it lasts.
And I do :love: a white washing blowing on the washing line.
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Snotting cats!! Oh Rosemary that's given me my best giggle all day ;D
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Walking !
Walking in the rain !
Walking in the wind !
Walking in the wind and rain !
It sounds like you need to find somebody to give you a lift Russ! :bunny: ;D
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I love walking !
It is so good for the mind and body i just can't do enough !
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Spreading fine sawdust on the dairy cow cubicles in strong wind, I'm sure I'm going to go blind pretty soon the amount that gets in your eyes and you can't blink or rub it out!
So a few months back I look around and check the coast is clear before lifting my tshirt up and wiping it out, only to realise the cow cake delivery man has come to talk to me, I didn't hear him coming and he is not talking to my face.....
I still haven't heard the end if it due to all other farm staff being men...
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Love that, Ladygrey!
I hate walking through the mud that is everywhere at the moment. Hate chasing the stupid ducks in when they want to play'here we go round the duck house ' for the nth time. I don't mind mucking out, love re-littering the chicken houses, don't mind housework, even ironing.
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Its great to do a job you hate and treasure that moment of satisfaction..........before you have to do it all over again :innocent:
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Oh god I hate sawdust & yes hay nets OMG >:(! fortunately we don't have any ;D ;D ;D Blood, guts & dying animals don't really bother me as its all part of my day job being a vet nurse so you see it every day but its never nice seeing animals being pts or patients dying but sometimes its the kindest thing & the hardest part is trying not to cry :( but vomit, urine & faeces sometimes gets a bit much x
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but vomit, urine & faeces sometimes gets a bit much x
I can deal with all of the above as long as it is NOT human ;D
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Dealing with HMRC. It's not that I don't want to pay my tax - well, the little I earn I'm unlikely to pay any anyway - I just hate getting it done...
And writing job applications. Whenever I need to do that, I find other urgent business - cleaning windows etc... ::)
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shropshirelass, is that a Bassett in your profile pic??? we have a 5 month old pup, who is "challenging" to say the least!!!
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* Gathering my mad Shetlands - no proper pens, no trained dog, frustration and stress each time. Love
everything else about them.
* Splodging about in the mud
I don't like the thought of cleaning out everything, especially the goat byre which is a day of backbreaking, sweaty work, nor feeding in the high fields in horizontal sleet, but don't actually mind doing them once I get going and feel good when they're done.
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Dusting, which is about the only houseworkI do these days and not very often at that.
Picking up dog poo.
Dealing with phlegm, which fortunately I don't have to do much of either.
But most of all, I hate sitting around watching other people doing the jobs that I used to be able to do. :(
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most of all, I hate sitting around watching other people doing the jobs that I used to be able to do
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Arh, poor you :(
But most of all, I hate sitting around watching other people doing the jobs that I used to be able to do. (http://www.accidentalsmallholder.net/forum/Smileys/default/sad.gif)
I detest being looked after but not been ill for ages, its hard but sounds like you need the rest, at least you can keep up on here... :hug:
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Yep thestephens he's mine & a complete example of the breed & proving to be very costly at the minute but I love him & I'd definatley have another for my sins x
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Bassetts certainly make you smile (they also make you roll your eyes a lot and shout!)
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Thanks, Jaykay and Happy-go-Lucky. Unfortunately, this has been long term and in ongoing. Still waiting for meds to have an effect. Ah well, I enjoy getting it all secondhand without having to go out in the cold (except for the milking).
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I just detest having to rely on anyone, I have had a few poorly times but now fine, I so remember trying to put shopping away after my hip op...that's another job I hate...putting stuff into their proper homes,,,,(why do some people ,often men, ask where something is, then never put it back, so you end up putting it away again so the cycle continues) I find the key to housework is having homes for everything!!! Oh, and I found my phone today, it was under the sofa cushions when I lifted them to get a blanket as I was cold, also found a lot of loose change and my clicker!!!
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...repairing a fence someone else has built badly. Worse still repairing one I've bodged in a hurry.
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Me too, HGL but I'm having to learn to grin and bear it. Can't even put my own socks on or take them off.
The reason men can't find anything is because they never look behind whatever is at the front. ;D
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Just to lower the tone, my least favourite job ever is sorting the dogs anal glands. In fact I hate it so much that I take him to the vet and fork out a fortune for them to do it :relief:
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I tend to put my head down and just do all the yuck jobs - as if it is my duty.
The jobs I dislike are those when I have to get changed to go into town and deal with officals in the council tax office or bank. Hate it. I think that my bain switched off from financial affairs and "paperwork" when we started our smallholding. :innocent:
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Pete and Dud, lobsters, Jane Mansfield, springs to mind..... :innocent:
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Yep paperwork for me too!
Trying to sort out hubby's accounts when he seems to have a vendetta to hide all reciepts from me and leaves me to open his bank statments all at once when i'm doing the accounts. One envelope is fine 12 is not! coupled with unopened insurance statments i am at screaming point.
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Just to lower the tone, my least favourite job ever is sorting the dogs anal glands. In fact I hate it so much that I take him to the vet and fork out a fortune for them to do it (http://www.accidentalsmallholder.net/forum/Smileys/default/relief.gif)
I have been having this conversation on my facebook as I have many many dog keeping friends...in fact, I would bet most on here have at least one dog!!!
We had a Lab that kept getting blocked glands, the vet showed me how to save money buy doing it myself, that was one money saving tip I did not appreciate either!!!! Not had that issue since then!!!!
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hate anything that does not involve having a steering wheel in my hands ;)
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having a bath.
Really?? That is one of my most favouritist things EVER :love: :love: :love:
Jobs I hate;
The day job
Cleaning water troughs
Rolling up electric netting :rant: :rant: :rant:
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My new one is scooping lumps of ice out of frozen water troughs with my bare hands (don't want to get my gloves wet!) :cold:
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my new one is un winding loads of fairy lights and putting them on the Chrstmas trees! :(
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I hate complaining! Yes, really! And bartering or discussing prices even more so.
On the farm, the two things I most dislike doing are:
1. Eartagging (especially replacing full grown sow's ear tags... eeek!)
2. Inoculating (I have holes in my fingers to prove that I am fully up to date with my Heptavac P Plus jabs :D )
For Rosemary:
(http://i47.tinypic.com/2hhnfup.jpg)
Taken one (unusually) dry day this summer - just for the pleasure of it :sunshine:
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Ooh dogs anal glands nasty mine has a prob with that to :( & its never nice for them or us & ppd I totally agree with you on that ice 1 just bash it with the wellies or a stick all the way xx
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My new one is scooping lumps of ice out of frozen water troughs with my bare hands (don't want to get my gloves wet!) :cold:
I've started putting on a pair of washing up gloves under my wooly ones, then I just whip the wooly ones off to do the ice breaking, give 'em a shake then put the wooly ones back on ;) :thumbsup:
I used to hate cleaning the pigs out when they were in the shed and anything outside when it was slippy (I'm like the opposite of a weeble - I wobble and then I DO fall down ::)) but now I've got waterproof, insulated trousers and spikes for my wellies so I actually enjoy doing it.
I detest ironing with a passion and hate gloss painting, paperwork I have to be in the 'right' frame of mind for (or doing the insomniac thing and bored out my skull ;)) but since Bruce is working pretty much full time now I'm just getting my head down and getting on with it (except when I moan, like now :innocent:)
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i find a pint glass of whisky & coca cola help ironing :innocent: :thumbsup: especially if there is loads can't say nothing about state of leg creases when i get towards end of the pint though!
mandy :pig:
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Shopping unless its for the ponies. Ironing. Working in the wet and mud.
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Rodding blocked sewage pipes ::) . That was this weekends house surprise. Soo we shall have a new house like triggers broom. Although I am having a quiet chuckle remebering husbands voice (as he stood watch at the other end) 'slow down!!!' (Too late! - a blockage, once freed, has a momentum of its own) :roflanim: :roflanim: :roflanim: . He didnt get tooo dirty, just a bit splashed.
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i find a pint glass of whisky & coca cola help ironing :innocent: :thumbsup: especially if there is loads can't say nothing about state of leg creases when i get towards end of the pint though!
mandy :pig:
:roflanim: :roflanim: :roflanim: Would that work as well with gin and tonic? :innocent: :innocent: :innocent:
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Empyting the dishwasher,
cleaning out the hens
dealing with my son when he is in a strop
doing the paperwork