Very nice day today.. perfect weather and not too much to do. Took a long run up in the mountains with the girsl.. very good for my soul. The book I’m reading (Imagine by Jonah Lehrer says running is good for creativity.. but all I did was think about nothing.. bliss)

Early afternoon I headed over to Homers to work on a project. On the way I saw freind and sort of neighbor Erin out on their tractor . I ducked in for a quick tour of Erin’s and her Fiancess robotic milking parlor. Erin’s been telling me about it for months..

here’s Cher.. she decided to give us a demo. Each cow has an rfid ear tag.. the machine will only milk them if they need milking..

Here’s the robot

and the entry side

here’s Cher..

first the machine reaches out and cleans here teats..

then it uses lasers to locate each teat

then it latches on and starts milking..

all the details of each cow.. weight, milk production, teat location.. etc are on the computer.

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here’s the milk.. she gave over 20 gallons

heres the manure scraping robot.. the back scratching robot is in the background (no joke)

here are the manure producers.

erin then showed me the milk tank

then it was off to homers… always love working there..

thats it for now.. more tomorrow. have a nice week everyone…

nite all, nite sam

-me

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ps. here’s a snapping turtle that diane and I saved on friday. Dane gave me one of the car floor mats.. and i reached under him and tossed him off the road.. he wasn’t happy but he was safe. He was pretty pig.. he could have taken off a finger with that beak of his..