My family
Me singing at my nieces wedding. Look at the beautiful colour of the lake imagine wool that colour.
Thursday, September 28, 2006
Monday, September 25, 2006
Looking back over my Blog I am sure I posted a entry since the last one but I can not see it so I am thinking it is in Cyber Space floating. We have been incredibly busy here I have built two gates put in 6x6 x8 square fence posts so each gate hangs and joins in the middle at our bottom entrance I have painted them white so it looks real nice. We were hanging them in the dark last night with the light from the tractor ( there is just not enough day light these days)and of course it did not go smooth. So my husband and son were scheming how to make it open wide enough so the low bed and logging truck loaded can go through. I am not saying too much because we still had a lot to do and it was getting late and I just wanted it done. However there is always a reason for what I do it may not seem like it but always I have a good reason. The gate was built with small spaces between wood to keep out the neighbors dogs out and to keep my dogs in, to keep out the ranch below cows, the other neighbors Llama and the Reserve horses out and to keep my donkey in. Yet now my gate is hanging up side down bigger space now on the bottom and it is just plain back to front and yet I am still trying to keep the peace so I said "Oh it is okay I will just hang a wreath on it and it will be fine" My son starts to laugh and they flipped the gates moved them about and now they are all fine.
Did you ever notice that the simple things always seem to take the long way around yesterday we had 4 ice times a whole day of a refing Clinic and on the last ice time which was 2 hours long the coach then decides to add on dry land training it is Sunday night and no hope for a Sunday family dinner (on top of it we ended up in the concessions stand again) My poor daughter had to cook supper and after many, many phone calls supper was turned up turned down and then just turned off. I also ended up to the early morning practice with my youngest son to find his skates not there my other daughter had them and she was at a friends house...Honestly I could go on and on about our crazy weekend but it is just to long to type.
During our hectic weekend our little Yorkshire Terrier end up shook by a bigger dog which then caught his eye and made his eye ball pop out so it was a dash to the vet on a Sat. Which they close at noon so over time, surgery, medicine and thank God the vet did not have time to get the bill ready. I'm okay with ignorance, what I don't know will keep me calm :)
With all the busy things knitting has been put on the back burner but I did finish the fingerless gloves I was working on and I did spin up two bobbins of thick and thin Angora now I just need to ply them together and I am spinning some lovely Mohair that I dyed at our dyeing workshop.
On Wed. My spinning group is coming here for the day so that should be fun. I hope to post photo's but lately I can not get any pictures to post.
Did you ever notice that the simple things always seem to take the long way around yesterday we had 4 ice times a whole day of a refing Clinic and on the last ice time which was 2 hours long the coach then decides to add on dry land training it is Sunday night and no hope for a Sunday family dinner (on top of it we ended up in the concessions stand again) My poor daughter had to cook supper and after many, many phone calls supper was turned up turned down and then just turned off. I also ended up to the early morning practice with my youngest son to find his skates not there my other daughter had them and she was at a friends house...Honestly I could go on and on about our crazy weekend but it is just to long to type.
During our hectic weekend our little Yorkshire Terrier end up shook by a bigger dog which then caught his eye and made his eye ball pop out so it was a dash to the vet on a Sat. Which they close at noon so over time, surgery, medicine and thank God the vet did not have time to get the bill ready. I'm okay with ignorance, what I don't know will keep me calm :)
With all the busy things knitting has been put on the back burner but I did finish the fingerless gloves I was working on and I did spin up two bobbins of thick and thin Angora now I just need to ply them together and I am spinning some lovely Mohair that I dyed at our dyeing workshop.
On Wed. My spinning group is coming here for the day so that should be fun. I hope to post photo's but lately I can not get any pictures to post.
Tuesday, September 19, 2006
This is my one daughter who has not caught the flue yet she is trying to stay healthy.
Good Morning I am a little sick of tomatoes I put up another 40lbs yesterday this time I blended them and then put them into freezer Zip lock bags which would be no big deal until I was rushing because it was time to go to the School bus so I loaded all the bags into a large bowl and then promptly dropped one going down the back stairs and it exploded all over the boot room. The exploding was enough to make me mad but I just recently re-did the whole room in a lovely white with very white accessories (not very practical for 8 eight people who live on a farm). It is amazing you all did not hear me:)
I am dealing with sick children still this flue is going through the whole bunch of them I get one half way through it then another one starts. I can handle the sick kids it is waiting for it to hit when and where will I be near them or will they be at school and my one son could not hit a toilet or sink if he was paid, so how do I politely keep him out of the living room or out of his newly renovated room which he is on the top loft bed.
I have been working on some more fingerless gloves for my youngest daughter but she picked the wool I only have one ball of this fluffy purple/pink wool so I hope to be able to make them out of it. If I don't I guess it calls for a shopping trip to Kamloops which is about 1 hour and 20 minutes to an hour and a half away. It is very hard to find much in our town.
Anyways I am way behind schedule must go get the rest of the sleepy heads that are not up yet.
Thursday, September 14, 2006
I had a Great time at our dye work shop even though it rained, thundered and lighting throughout the day. We were quite cold but what a lot of fun. I came up with some crazy colours and my Mohair dyed beautiful it takes the colour real well.
Tonight my three youngest children and I stayed home after I sweet talked my husband into going to hockey and to take the kids into town to the school dance. We went outside in the rain moved chickens to a different house, cleaned the chicken house and then raked out the barn and sorted our first bag of Alpaca to get it ready to head to the mill.
Today I washed, cubed 30 lbs of tomatoes and put them in the freezer, what a long job but it is done. Tomorrow I must do the peaches but I also must head into the bank and Oh my gosh I hate going to the bank I will do anything to get out of it.
The other night I had something get in top my very expensive Alpaca grain I had it in a large tupperware garbage container plus another container and who ever it was totally squashed my garbage can in half actually bent it right into two and then completely flipped the other bin over tipped all grain then threw it over and of course it rained all night so the grain is wrecked and did I mention you cannot buy that grain in our town. I am pretty sure it was a bear which the novelty of them is really wearing off.
Well I must go so have a Wonderful night and take care
Tonight my three youngest children and I stayed home after I sweet talked my husband into going to hockey and to take the kids into town to the school dance. We went outside in the rain moved chickens to a different house, cleaned the chicken house and then raked out the barn and sorted our first bag of Alpaca to get it ready to head to the mill.
Today I washed, cubed 30 lbs of tomatoes and put them in the freezer, what a long job but it is done. Tomorrow I must do the peaches but I also must head into the bank and Oh my gosh I hate going to the bank I will do anything to get out of it.
The other night I had something get in top my very expensive Alpaca grain I had it in a large tupperware garbage container plus another container and who ever it was totally squashed my garbage can in half actually bent it right into two and then completely flipped the other bin over tipped all grain then threw it over and of course it rained all night so the grain is wrecked and did I mention you cannot buy that grain in our town. I am pretty sure it was a bear which the novelty of them is really wearing off.
Well I must go so have a Wonderful night and take care
Tuesday, September 12, 2006
Starting already
It is the second week of school and I already have sick children my youngest daughter threw up all night and then today she had very bad stomach ache, no energy and a head ache. It was another day that was not in the plans but other than my poor girl being sick it was a good day. I did a lot of indoor stuff vacuumed, cleaned desk, filled more water into outside pond, Prepare my wool for tomorrow.
Tomorrow our guild is getting together for a dye workshop so I have my wool soaking in water and vinegar. I am looking forward to it I hope to take some photos that I can post. The only reason why I would not be able to go if any of my kids are sick but my mom said they could stay with her but I will just wait and see how things look in the morning. I will leave home around 8:15 am and not return home until 7 pm that is if my husband can do one of the meetings that I have to do. I pick up my middle son from school after the dye workshop do some banking and then school meeting at 4pm hockey at 5pm the I go home after hockey and my husband brings in my daughter for her meeting. I am pretty sure I wrote about this already but I guess in my mind if I keep replaying it , It will all fall into place.
I finished a lovely soft Angora hat today and I finished my fingerless gloves and now my youngest daughter would like a pair so we went out to the shed to pick her yarn we will be using synthetic not wool so we can wash them over and over.
Tomorrow our guild is getting together for a dye workshop so I have my wool soaking in water and vinegar. I am looking forward to it I hope to take some photos that I can post. The only reason why I would not be able to go if any of my kids are sick but my mom said they could stay with her but I will just wait and see how things look in the morning. I will leave home around 8:15 am and not return home until 7 pm that is if my husband can do one of the meetings that I have to do. I pick up my middle son from school after the dye workshop do some banking and then school meeting at 4pm hockey at 5pm the I go home after hockey and my husband brings in my daughter for her meeting. I am pretty sure I wrote about this already but I guess in my mind if I keep replaying it , It will all fall into place.
I finished a lovely soft Angora hat today and I finished my fingerless gloves and now my youngest daughter would like a pair so we went out to the shed to pick her yarn we will be using synthetic not wool so we can wash them over and over.
Monday, September 11, 2006
September 11
Five years ago everyone of has a story of how we heard, what we were doing, how we felt,and today we relive every emotion and we get that same sick feeling of not being able to make it go away. My heart goes out to everyone I truly believe no one in this whole world was left untouched. I wish you all peace and happiness.
Today was a crazy day at 9:20am my mom phoned me that my miniature pony who is not up to my knees was up on our top property laying on her back with her feet in the air. My dad found her when he was looking for our crazy ungrateful cow. I went out and I started to walk her but before that I had to find a halter, so on went a goat rope halter (which is useless) and I continued to walk her till 2pm. As soon as we would stop she would lay down and roll and again she would look just like she was dead. I had to cancel my appointment to meet someone, phone my husband to come home early so he could go to hockey for me and the walking would be easy for 41/2 hours if I did not have to drag her and pull the whole way now all I have is a sore back and sore knees but a live horse. At 2pm as soon as my husband drove in the driveway with the logging truck I put her in the shade and she smelt the water dipped her lips in it and tried to eat grass. I honestly thought she would not make it but she is standing however she is very tired looking.
I did go to hockey and when I was gone a huge pine tree that had been killed by bugs fell down and just missed our chicken house NO WIND! Which then scared Donkey who tried to run through the wire fence and made the dogs go crazy. Then later on out of the blue, down comes the crazy cow bellering on top of her lungs and still has the fire in her eyes of fear so we move goats around open gates and now she is in the corral. Our property if fenced for goats and sheep not crazy red headed cows. So we will tip toe around until she settles. Then my oldest son takes the old truck that we are going to restore for a drive down to the river to look at a large spawning Salmon and breaks down so he is late for hockey or late for the time the coach would like them there, not a good thing on the night of the first cuts. Now I am waiting for my oldest son to come home to see if he made the first cuts of the team. All of that today so no knitting, no spinning except the spinning I did before I woke the kids at 6am. I had great plans but I will do them tomorrow. Have a wonderful day, be thankful for your families and count your blessings. Talk to you all soon.
Today was a crazy day at 9:20am my mom phoned me that my miniature pony who is not up to my knees was up on our top property laying on her back with her feet in the air. My dad found her when he was looking for our crazy ungrateful cow. I went out and I started to walk her but before that I had to find a halter, so on went a goat rope halter (which is useless) and I continued to walk her till 2pm. As soon as we would stop she would lay down and roll and again she would look just like she was dead. I had to cancel my appointment to meet someone, phone my husband to come home early so he could go to hockey for me and the walking would be easy for 41/2 hours if I did not have to drag her and pull the whole way now all I have is a sore back and sore knees but a live horse. At 2pm as soon as my husband drove in the driveway with the logging truck I put her in the shade and she smelt the water dipped her lips in it and tried to eat grass. I honestly thought she would not make it but she is standing however she is very tired looking.
I did go to hockey and when I was gone a huge pine tree that had been killed by bugs fell down and just missed our chicken house NO WIND! Which then scared Donkey who tried to run through the wire fence and made the dogs go crazy. Then later on out of the blue, down comes the crazy cow bellering on top of her lungs and still has the fire in her eyes of fear so we move goats around open gates and now she is in the corral. Our property if fenced for goats and sheep not crazy red headed cows. So we will tip toe around until she settles. Then my oldest son takes the old truck that we are going to restore for a drive down to the river to look at a large spawning Salmon and breaks down so he is late for hockey or late for the time the coach would like them there, not a good thing on the night of the first cuts. Now I am waiting for my oldest son to come home to see if he made the first cuts of the team. All of that today so no knitting, no spinning except the spinning I did before I woke the kids at 6am. I had great plans but I will do them tomorrow. Have a wonderful day, be thankful for your families and count your blessings. Talk to you all soon.
Sunday, September 10, 2006
We have accomplished a lot this weekend today we dewormed our goats and sheep however we ran out of Ivomac before we could finish so we only have 9 left to do. It went well actually it went real smooth nice when it goes quick. Then I groomed 5 young Angora's, one adult and sheared one adult. The above took me the whole day and I was so dirty after it was done. I also went looking for our MIA Heifer my mom and dad brought her home we unloaded her two seconds later she jumped the fence and broke the top rail and now is as wild as can be on our top property. Cows are very ungrateful!
My boys had hockey all weekend now Monday night is the first cut for Midget Rep hockey so we will see where we stand after that and I think Pee Wee Rep's first cut is Wednesday. Then Thursday all our hockey starts Heaven help us it will be a night mare around here. All six of our children will have ice time, some will get double till they make the teams and our last will end sometimes at 11pm.
On Wednesday we have to be at three places at once hockey, CMS School, and an Advid Mss school meeting. During the day on Wednesday I am going to a dye work shop with my spinning group so I am trying to prepare for that now.
On my spinning wheel I am plying my Shetland and silk it is so beautiful I hope it knits up as nicely as it has spun.
Talk to you all soon have a great evening.
My boys had hockey all weekend now Monday night is the first cut for Midget Rep hockey so we will see where we stand after that and I think Pee Wee Rep's first cut is Wednesday. Then Thursday all our hockey starts Heaven help us it will be a night mare around here. All six of our children will have ice time, some will get double till they make the teams and our last will end sometimes at 11pm.
On Wednesday we have to be at three places at once hockey, CMS School, and an Advid Mss school meeting. During the day on Wednesday I am going to a dye work shop with my spinning group so I am trying to prepare for that now.
On my spinning wheel I am plying my Shetland and silk it is so beautiful I hope it knits up as nicely as it has spun.
Talk to you all soon have a great evening.
Thursday, September 07, 2006
Back to routine
Well school has started, hockey has started, 7 lunches a night has started and all seems well. The kids seem to have adjusted okay they were all a little nervous the first day but they met up with friends, wore new clothes and are trying to accept some of their teachers think they are GOD.
My renovations are down it looks quite nice but my goodness what a lot of work to do with one job you mess up three rooms and I had three jobs on the go so you can imaging the mess. I really hate to paint I have decided it is a lot like labor once it has started you can't stop you just have to push ahead to get it finished but when it is finished there is such satisfaction.
We have gone down to the auction sold 5 goats, 4 roosters and at the same time sold our 14 laying hens and three banty hens to our neighbor.
My Angora rabbits are due for a hair cut so it is time to work on getting the fibre off. My two Giant Angora X's have beautiful fibre and I can't wait to shear them and spin it. With the three breeds of Angora that I have I find the Giant x German are easiest to work with, then French and then the English. The English is very, very fine and I find it hard to control but they are beautiful rabbits and very friendly. I find my English Angora Does are my best mom's.
I have to run now because I just thought I might not have turned off the barn water.
My renovations are down it looks quite nice but my goodness what a lot of work to do with one job you mess up three rooms and I had three jobs on the go so you can imaging the mess. I really hate to paint I have decided it is a lot like labor once it has started you can't stop you just have to push ahead to get it finished but when it is finished there is such satisfaction.
We have gone down to the auction sold 5 goats, 4 roosters and at the same time sold our 14 laying hens and three banty hens to our neighbor.
My Angora rabbits are due for a hair cut so it is time to work on getting the fibre off. My two Giant Angora X's have beautiful fibre and I can't wait to shear them and spin it. With the three breeds of Angora that I have I find the Giant x German are easiest to work with, then French and then the English. The English is very, very fine and I find it hard to control but they are beautiful rabbits and very friendly. I find my English Angora Does are my best mom's.
I have to run now because I just thought I might not have turned off the barn water.
Friday, September 01, 2006
Hello
What is this no sleep thing I have going on I do believe it is becoming a habit. Last night 3 hours sleep we had a coyote right out front and it sounded like screaming and I had thought it got one of our dogs. So my husband I went out with flash lights and he drove the van around at 1am and he has to go to work at 2am. Then tonight or actually it is now early morning I think we have bear. My dogs have barked the whole night so of course I have been awake since 2am. I lay there worrying about the animals because I know I can't run a gun and my dad is away and I am not too sure when I go out what I would do if I come face to face with one. My neighbor a few years ago has lost sheep and an Alpaca to bears. I don't like to have to shoot them but sometimes they just become to aggressive. So I have cleaned up the house, I am printing pictures, caught up on my e-mails.
I am renovating I have taken down the walls and while I was in the process my heart was beating so fast because I knew I was too far gone to turn back and all I could picture was me wrecking something real bad. Then my husband came home and after he tried to ignore the fact I had torn the house apart he helped me. We are going to paint the walls which is a huge thing for us a little scary but I will keep you posted.
Well must run have a wonderful weekend and enjoy the last few days before school.
I am renovating I have taken down the walls and while I was in the process my heart was beating so fast because I knew I was too far gone to turn back and all I could picture was me wrecking something real bad. Then my husband came home and after he tried to ignore the fact I had torn the house apart he helped me. We are going to paint the walls which is a huge thing for us a little scary but I will keep you posted.
Well must run have a wonderful weekend and enjoy the last few days before school.
Tuesday, August 29, 2006
Good Morning
Good Morning
Isn't it funny how the days pass and you really don't notice until there is a big change. Like this morning I have been up since 4am it is now nearly 6am and it is still dark outside a few weeks ago it would have bright with the sun shining and last night during our walk there was such a strong smell of pine needles that were all covering the road. Fall is definitely in the air, there is something special about Fall the pine needle smells, every now and again the faint smell of smoke from wood chimneys as the temperature changes. Chores change from getting ready for winter, planning changes at the barn (that would be the reason for not sleeping again). There is a very good feeling to having a wood shed full of wood cut for winter, the barn full of hay, the grain bin full and the worry of water not so strong in one's mind.
I am winning in my house renovation we are putting our two youngest boys in a room together it does seem we are going back a few steps because all our children had their own room. However now we can take the wall down that made our dining room into the 7th bedroom and open up our house again and it give it a nicer feeling. I will add I am not sure I have actually mentioned all these details to my husband but I am sure he is cluing in :) I do hope to have it done one day when he just comes home from work at supper. I did talk about it in general and I have learned don't wait just do it like for instance the lovely new loft bed with the twin bed underneath it for the boys that my brother and law and son's put together while my husband was at work. All done when he got home and no work for him:)It is a good thing he loves me. Well on that note off to conquer the day. Have a productive day
Isn't it funny how the days pass and you really don't notice until there is a big change. Like this morning I have been up since 4am it is now nearly 6am and it is still dark outside a few weeks ago it would have bright with the sun shining and last night during our walk there was such a strong smell of pine needles that were all covering the road. Fall is definitely in the air, there is something special about Fall the pine needle smells, every now and again the faint smell of smoke from wood chimneys as the temperature changes. Chores change from getting ready for winter, planning changes at the barn (that would be the reason for not sleeping again). There is a very good feeling to having a wood shed full of wood cut for winter, the barn full of hay, the grain bin full and the worry of water not so strong in one's mind.
I am winning in my house renovation we are putting our two youngest boys in a room together it does seem we are going back a few steps because all our children had their own room. However now we can take the wall down that made our dining room into the 7th bedroom and open up our house again and it give it a nicer feeling. I will add I am not sure I have actually mentioned all these details to my husband but I am sure he is cluing in :) I do hope to have it done one day when he just comes home from work at supper. I did talk about it in general and I have learned don't wait just do it like for instance the lovely new loft bed with the twin bed underneath it for the boys that my brother and law and son's put together while my husband was at work. All done when he got home and no work for him:)It is a good thing he loves me. Well on that note off to conquer the day. Have a productive day
Monday, August 28, 2006
Getting back to Normal
We are slowly getting back to normal from our two back to back weddings both turned out lovely they were fun and the brides looked great. Our last wedding was my friends we went to Three Valley Gap near Revelstoke, British Columbia an Old ghost town with a wonderful story to go with it. I will post a few pictures later. We also stopped at THE LAST SPIKE of the CN rail road and we visited the Enchanted Forest.
I have been slow at posting because my main computer has been in Kamloops since August 13 waiting for a new part it finally arrived the Saturday we went to pick it up and they put the part in while I waited an hour later it was done. So now no more excuses I need to work on my web sight, catch up on my bookkeeping Sigh... I hate bookkeeping it is like watching paint dry.
In the knitting department I am making a pair of fingerless gloves out of beautiful Alpaca blended with mauve silk. This blend is wonderful to work with it is fun to work with as it just glides through my fingers. I am still spinning my lovely Shetland and silk blend with the new Woolee Winder it takes longer to fill a Bobbin because it is so even you get way more wool on the bobbin it is amazing how good the Woolee winder makes your spinning look :)
I few posts back I had a wonderful surprise visitor a friend of my sisters it was so cool to think someone so far away was reading my story. "Hi Jane it is so nice to hear from you, I hope all is well and your children must be so grown up now."
This week we plan on deworming, lice powdering and feet and getting ready for a grain cycle to get the Ewes and Does ready for breeding season. I do hate having a job over my shoulders but it is best we get it done. My son and husband fixed the fence of our working pen yesterday that would be the one Johnny our Ram went through last breeding season to get to his girls.
Well to do chores Have a wonderful day.
I have been slow at posting because my main computer has been in Kamloops since August 13 waiting for a new part it finally arrived the Saturday we went to pick it up and they put the part in while I waited an hour later it was done. So now no more excuses I need to work on my web sight, catch up on my bookkeeping Sigh... I hate bookkeeping it is like watching paint dry.
In the knitting department I am making a pair of fingerless gloves out of beautiful Alpaca blended with mauve silk. This blend is wonderful to work with it is fun to work with as it just glides through my fingers. I am still spinning my lovely Shetland and silk blend with the new Woolee Winder it takes longer to fill a Bobbin because it is so even you get way more wool on the bobbin it is amazing how good the Woolee winder makes your spinning look :)
I few posts back I had a wonderful surprise visitor a friend of my sisters it was so cool to think someone so far away was reading my story. "Hi Jane it is so nice to hear from you, I hope all is well and your children must be so grown up now."
This week we plan on deworming, lice powdering and feet and getting ready for a grain cycle to get the Ewes and Does ready for breeding season. I do hate having a job over my shoulders but it is best we get it done. My son and husband fixed the fence of our working pen yesterday that would be the one Johnny our Ram went through last breeding season to get to his girls.
Well to do chores Have a wonderful day.
Tuesday, August 22, 2006
Fun Times
We have had a busy time, my niece got married she was absolutely lovely she looked so pretty. It was a fun wedding the weather was great, everyone got along fine and they all seemed to be having a fun time. I have been visiting my brothers and sisters it all seems to be going by so quickly but I think it makes one appreciate the time together more.
Tomorrow I am going to our Spinning Guilds annual birthday party. I wasn't going to go because we have been so busy and we have to go Friday to another wedding but I know I will be disappointed if I do not go. So I am off in the morning with a vege plate my spinning wheel and a Present.
Tonight I finally spent some time working out at the rabbit pen I fixed a few cages and moved over our babies. I should have done it a lot sooner but I chickened out because my dad's dogs always get riled up when I move animals about and then they go rabbit hunting. So I watered down the electric fence and hope they stay put tonight. If I was to replace the rabbits the two dogs have gotten with ones bought from other breeders I would be well over the $2000.00 mark.
Tonight I received a lovely load of hay 144 bales of nice green hay that my dad bought. I just hope now we have enough to get through winter, total so far we have purchased 454 square bales and 13 round bales. If we did not have to feed hay during the summer months we would be so far ahead.
I am planning in the next two weeks to deworm, powder and feet, if I do it before September I will have the help before hockey starts. Once hockey starts that is it for any normal life we know until the end of next April.
Tomorrow I am going to our Spinning Guilds annual birthday party. I wasn't going to go because we have been so busy and we have to go Friday to another wedding but I know I will be disappointed if I do not go. So I am off in the morning with a vege plate my spinning wheel and a Present.
Tonight I finally spent some time working out at the rabbit pen I fixed a few cages and moved over our babies. I should have done it a lot sooner but I chickened out because my dad's dogs always get riled up when I move animals about and then they go rabbit hunting. So I watered down the electric fence and hope they stay put tonight. If I was to replace the rabbits the two dogs have gotten with ones bought from other breeders I would be well over the $2000.00 mark.
Tonight I received a lovely load of hay 144 bales of nice green hay that my dad bought. I just hope now we have enough to get through winter, total so far we have purchased 454 square bales and 13 round bales. If we did not have to feed hay during the summer months we would be so far ahead.
I am planning in the next two weeks to deworm, powder and feet, if I do it before September I will have the help before hockey starts. Once hockey starts that is it for any normal life we know until the end of next April.
Thursday, August 17, 2006
Two more sleeps
Two more sleeps (as my niece would put it) to my niece's wedding. All the preparation she and her friends have done now is in the final count down. We are all very excited.
I have not written in my blog because my computer is in getting repaired and is waiting for a new CD Rom, plus it was extremely loud it is not quite 7 months old so I took it in for a check up.
The kids and I have been working around the house by cleaning rooms, painting, then all of them decided to turn their rooms around, so this is good getting ready for school....Sigh I do hate school. I love having my kids home I really hate to share them.
I finally got my Woolee Winder on only to find it cracked but I took too long to notice so I am pretty sure I can't send it back. I glued it and it seems to be holding. Oh my goodness you can spin and spin and spin you never have to stop. I have found it takes a few things to get used to, when it gets to either end of the bobbin I have trouble feeding it on and then it over spins so I am not sure how to fix that. I will just keep spinning away.
I am planning my pre winter jobs around the farm I would like to do some work to the barn build a gate or two and cover up some openings. It really helps to be ahead of the game for lambing and kidding. This year we will be adding in the Alpaca's hopeful due around April / May.
Well since sleep is not happening I am off to start a project. Take Care and Make Wonderful Memories.
I have not written in my blog because my computer is in getting repaired and is waiting for a new CD Rom, plus it was extremely loud it is not quite 7 months old so I took it in for a check up.
The kids and I have been working around the house by cleaning rooms, painting, then all of them decided to turn their rooms around, so this is good getting ready for school....Sigh I do hate school. I love having my kids home I really hate to share them.
I finally got my Woolee Winder on only to find it cracked but I took too long to notice so I am pretty sure I can't send it back. I glued it and it seems to be holding. Oh my goodness you can spin and spin and spin you never have to stop. I have found it takes a few things to get used to, when it gets to either end of the bobbin I have trouble feeding it on and then it over spins so I am not sure how to fix that. I will just keep spinning away.
I am planning my pre winter jobs around the farm I would like to do some work to the barn build a gate or two and cover up some openings. It really helps to be ahead of the game for lambing and kidding. This year we will be adding in the Alpaca's hopeful due around April / May.
Well since sleep is not happening I am off to start a project. Take Care and Make Wonderful Memories.
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