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Any positive thoughts and positive energy you guys have out there i could use please!

It would be really great if it would rain around here, so i could quit irrigating this tobacco!

In a little over an hour, midnight my time, i've got to go down in the dark, by myself, to a snake infested pond and turn off the irrigation motor!

frankly i'm a little nervous! :-3

and my mom the caring soul that she is, just called me a few minutes ago, to tell me that she heard on the news where a bear jumped out of the woods and attacked somebody for no apparant reason!

thank you very much mom! :-5

anyway any moral support you guys have for me would be great! :-6

JAB;951966 wrote: Optimism is the foundation of courage. ~Nicholas Murray Butler

Have faith that you'll sort it all out and you will.


thank you darlin! :-6

My thought is it will be daylight in a few hours wait till then. I wouldn't go to a snake infested pond in the dark every especially alone. What if something happens and your out there till morning and your baby is in the house alone. A few hours won't hurt in my opinion, but then again I know nothing about farming.

Can you drive down??

CARLA;951970 wrote: My thought is it will be daylight in a few hours wait till then. I wouldn't go to a snake infested pond in the dark every especially alone. What if something happens and your out there till morning and your baby is in the house alone. A few hours won't hurt in my opinion, but then again I know nothing about farming.

Can you drive down??


well i'm carrying the baby to mom's so he'll be alright.

the motor can't run until daylight because that would put to much water in the same field, and it probably doesn't have enough gas to do that anyway, and if it cuts off and just sits there without someone turning the key off, it's gonna run the battery down.

unfortunatly the irrigation pipe are blocking the path so that i can only drive a certain amount of the way, i'll have to walk the rest of it!

Jester;951972 wrote: Darlin... tomorrow call an electrician and get them to run you a switch to a safer location.

For tonight, find the breaker panel and just turn off the breaker.


:wah::wah: i wish i could turn it off from a safer location, but it's a truck motor made into an irrigation motor, it's not electric, it runs on gas. :wah::wah:

Batteries are cheap let it run down that will stop the water. Sorry I see no reason for you to have to do this tonight for any reason to dangerous. Call your husband he can come and do it. I know your tough but sometimes if it doesn't feel safe it isn't.

[QUOTE]it's gonna run the battery down.[/QUOTE]

Jester;951978 wrote: well I guess its not electric eh?:-3

okay hmmmmmm.... send the kid.


if he was older maybe but since he's only 2, i don't think he would know what to do! :wah::wah: besides my baby ain't going nowhere near no snakes or water! :-4

Jester;951981 wrote: Im just gonna go back to being here for the women!


:wah::wah: but i am one of the women!

CARLA;951982 wrote: Batteries are cheap let it run down that will stop the water. Sorry I see no reason for you to have to do this tonight for any reason to dangerous. Call your husband he can come and do it. I know your tough but sometimes if it doesn't feel safe it isn't.


unfortunatly husband works nights, he's about 30 miles away at the moment.

and the problem with letting it stop on it's own is that the pipe are blocking someone elses driveway, i have to take some of it apart before they can get out!

i have done it before but not alone, my mom usually goes with me but i would rather she keep the baby at home instead of all of us trying to go!

Well then wear high boots take a stick or gun, or knife and a huge flash light. Can your mom and the baby go in the car with you at least so someone is somewhat close by if you need help?

CARLA;951987 wrote: Well then wear high boots take a stick or gun, or knife and a huge flash light. Can your mom and the baby go in the car with you at least so someone is somewhat close by if you need help?


yeah i've got the boots and a big flashlight, and i'm gonna take my gun and the hoe, and the dog! :wah::wah:

Just do it as quickly and safely as you can. I always hated having to go out and reverse sprinklers in the middle of the night, so I can sympathize with you.

Sheryl;951991 wrote: Just do it as quickly and safely as you can. I always hated having to go out and reverse sprinklers in the middle of the night, so I can sympathize with you.


i will! i'll be as quick and as careful as i can! thank you darlin! :-6

Okay it's about time for me to go, wish me luck my darlins and let me say just in case something happens that i love you all! :-4

Hope6;951994 wrote: Okay it's about time for me to go, wish me luck my darlins and let me say just in case something happens that i love you all! :-4


I'm saying some :yh_pray for you hun. :-4

okay everybody i'm back safe and sound!

whewww! glad you made it back ok!

Hope6;952033 wrote: okay everybody i'm back safe and sound!


YAY! Glad you're good. :-6

Yayyy, I just saw this thread and I was so concerned for you!!!:-4:-4:-4



I am terrified of snakes and not fond of being outside at night....so I was shaking for you!

I hope you don't have to do that anymore!

thanks you guys! :-4

any positive energy and thoughts y'all can send my way, and prayers to if you are a person who prays, would be great, so maybe it will rain and i won't have to do that again!

but it's my knothead of a cousins fault that i had to do it this time! he lives here on the farm too but in another house, and he has all kinds of livestock to feed at night, and for some reason he can't do it any earlier! he always gets through around 8 o'clock and you usually run the irrigation system 4 hours at a time so that put it to midnight! we usually run the system in the daytime but this worked out to having to be run at night!

we grew up together and he's like my big brother but i can't help it, the guys a knothead sometimes!

God I was rivotted through this thread...Was like reading a thriller, the suspense was fab and I breathed a sigh of relief that you returned safe and sound:-4

Your braver than I Hope, Im a complete wuss, hell I dont even like closing our conservatory door after 10pm incase a moth or daddy long leg attack me to within an inch of my life...Im petrified of creepy crawlies so snake infested pond would of been a no no. We have a 12ft bestaway pool in the garden which got a hole in the rim bit so we decided to run a hose from it and drain it and throw it out, the water hasnt all drained and its gone green and hubby asked if me and the kids could lift the pool to drain the last of it:-3:-2 No bloody chance, might be worms and woodlice under it....Im a wuss and Im proud hah hah...Need any help on the farm:D

Hope6;951964 wrote: Any positive thoughts and positive energy you guys have out there i could use please!

It would be really great if it would rain around here, so i could quit irrigating this tobacco!

In a little over an hour, midnight my time, i've got to go down in the dark, by myself, to a snake infested pond and turn off the irrigation motor!

frankly i'm a little nervous!

and my mom the caring soul that she is, just called me a few minutes ago, to tell me that she heard on the news where a bear jumped out of the woods and attacked somebody for no apparant reason!

thank you very much mom! :-5

anyway any moral support you guys have for me would be great! :-6


I hope you get lots of rain Hope.:-6

I know what it is like to be in drought & turning motors on & off in the middle of the night so we could water our sheep & cattle.

Been there.

I had some great news today so maybe I am on a roll ,so I will wish you some rain.

As long as you share with the Aussie farmers when you are finished. :wah::-4:-6

i guess this may sound stupid. but can you turn it off when it is light outside. or does it have to be watered in the dark? Sounds scary. guess i am not much help,sorry:(

Chezzie;952121 wrote: God I was rivotted through this thread...Was like reading a thriller, the suspense was fab and I breathed a sigh of relief that you returned safe and sound

Your braver than I Hope, Im a complete wuss, hell I dont even like closing our conservatory door after 10pm incase a moth or daddy long leg attack me to within an inch of my life...Im petrified of creepy crawlies so snake infested pond would of been a no no. We have a 12ft bestaway pool in the garden which got a hole in the rim bit so we decided to run a hose from it and drain it and throw it out, the water hasnt all drained and its gone green and hubby asked if me and the kids could lift the pool to drain the last of it:-3 No bloody chance, might be worms and woodlice under it....Im a wuss and Im proud hah hah...Need any help on the farm:D


:wah::wah: thanks Chez! :wah:

yeah i'm like you i hate snakes with a passion! and other creepy crawlies too!

mrsK;952157 wrote: I hope you get lots of rain Hope.:-6

I know what it is like to be in drought & turning motors on & off in the middle of the night so we could water our sheep & cattle.

Been there.

I had some great news today so maybe I am on a roll ,so I will wish you some rain.

As long as you share with the Aussie farmers when you are finished. :wah::-4:-6


thank you MrsK! :-4

i'll be sure to send the rain along to Aussie as soon as i'm through with it! :wah:

southern yankee;952194 wrote: i guess this may sound stupid. but can you turn it off when it is light outside. or does it have to be watered in the dark? Sounds scary. guess i am not much help,sorry:(


yeah you can water it in the daytime too, but the field we're in now the pipe runs across my aunt and cousins driveway and we don't want to block them in

Hope6;952211 wrote: yeah you can water it in the daytime too, but the field we're in now the pipe runs across my aunt and cousins driveway and we don't want to block them in oh, well be careful. i agree get a gun or a BIG STICK:-3

southern yankee;952227 wrote: oh, well be careful. i agree get a gun or a BIG STICK:-3


:wah::wah: i carried my gun with me last night! :wah:

I went to bed before you left to go last night so the first thing I wanted to see was this thread and that you made it back OK. :-4 Next time get down there before DARK MISSY..

Hope6;952033 wrote: okay everybody i'm back safe and sound!


Thank goodness and you are one brave lady!

Hope6;951964 wrote: Any positive thoughts and positive energy you guys have out there i could use please!

It would be really great if it would rain around here, so i could quit irrigating this tobacco!

In a little over an hour, midnight my time, i've got to go down in the dark, by myself, to a snake infested pond and turn off the irrigation motor!

frankly i'm a little nervous! :-3

and my mom the caring soul that she is, just called me a few minutes ago, to tell me that she heard on the news where a bear jumped out of the woods and attacked somebody for no apparant reason!

thank you very much mom! :-5

anyway any moral support you guys have for me would be great! :-6


Ok, if I could have been there with you I would so you wouldn't have to do it alone.

As for your mom, if she is talking about the boy in the Smokys.....it wasn't for no apparent reason. They went hiking just after eating fried chicken and he had the crumbs and grease all over his shirt. One of the first NO-NO's they warn you about when visiting the Smokys.

hi hope,

take a big stick and make a lot of noise that should scare anything away for miles.

Hope:-4



I'm happy that you're home safe and sound. That was a very scary thing for you to do alone

Hope6;952033 wrote: okay everybody i'm back safe and sound!


Sorry I missed this Hope

Glad you're ok darlin :-4

CARLA;952319 wrote: I went to bed before you left to go last night so the first thing I wanted to see was this thread and that you made it back OK. :-4 Next time get down there before DARK MISSY..


yeah i'm fine! thank you for your concern, the problem is i think i'm gonna have to do it again tonight!

Trunk Monkey;952375 wrote: Thank goodness and you are one brave lady!


:wah: not to brave i'm afraid! it got kinda scary before i got away from there last night!

Cow Patty;952466 wrote: Ok, if I could have been there with you I would so you wouldn't have to do it alone.

As for your mom, if she is talking about the boy in the Smokys.....it wasn't for no apparent reason. They went hiking just after eating fried chicken and he had the crumbs and grease all over his shirt. One of the first NO-NO's they warn you about when visiting the Smokys.


i wish you could have been here darlin! :-6

yeah i think that is the story, she must not have heard that part! but we have a black bear that hangs around right here on the farm, we have seen footprints, so i thought it was kinda insensitive of her to be telling me that when i was fixing to go out in the dark alone!

Helen;952647 wrote: hi hope,

take a big stick and make a lot of noise that should scare anything away for miles.


i carried my gun, i was ready to pop a cap in something! :wah::wah:

Kathy Ellen;952657 wrote: Hope:-4



I'm happy that you're home safe and sound. That was a very scary thing for you to do alone


yes it was kinda scary, i had to walk a good ways because the pipe blocked the path so i couldn't drive the truck all the way, so i went pretty much in a run down that hill and back!

pinkchick;952705 wrote: Sorry I missed this Hope

Glad you're ok darlin :-4


keep me in your thoughts darlin because i'm probably gonna have to do it again tonight!