Larsen Poultry Ranch - homesteading journey

Got a tray of lettuce, spinach, and kale started this morning. I'm hoping to get the rest of the seeds started tonight after the kids go to bed.

Need to make sugar cookie dough tonight too, so I can bake it tomorrow night for the baby sprinkle on Saturday.

Got the cookie dough made! Tray of tomato seeds and greens seeds started! Woohoo!

Now I just need to finish clearing a few of the raised beds from last year so I can plant some seeds directly.

Bribes are not effective if the small motor musces that control potty training are not completely finished. If he can pedal a bg wheel/trike/bike he can control potty training. If you notice most 2 year olds cannot pedal a trike. 3 year olds can which s why boys take olger.

DS1 was 3 and we went on a 6 week trip to Kansas to visit relatives. We were pulling a travel trailer with our station wagon (years ago we had station wagons instead of SUVs). I had his little plastic potty in the trailer. Every couple hours we stopped by the side of the road and he sat on his potty. By the time we returned home from our 6 week trip, he was potty trained. I never bothered to try training our other 2 sons until they were 3. At 3 years old they trained fast.

Hmm, that's good info. He's finally pedaling the trikes at preschool. So should be soon I hope.

Tried the cute idea I found online for the sugar cookies. You color some of the dough and cut out small shapes, then place on your background dough, then very gently roll to adhere the layers. Then cut into shapes. I just used a dough knife thingy to make rectangles but you could get fancy with it. Then bake.






The first batch I put too close together on the pans and I had to cut or break them apart, but they still look pretty. The second batch, thankfully made using the leftover dough that had been squished to a tie dye, got left in the oven too long and is quite dark. Guess those are the ones staying home.

Those are so pretty!

Kid 1 keeps asking when we can get a cow. I tell him we can't get one until we get our fences up. He is very specific that it has to be a black one because those are "the yummy cows". I told him the ones with horns are spicy, so he doesn't want one with horns. (We pass by a field with longhorns on the way to grandmas).

I’m guessing he wants a beef cow and not a milk cow. LOL

Today 4/8:

Getting tired of being sick all the time. Kid 1 is learning a ton at preschool, but man is he bringing home so many colds.

Hubby and kid 1 plus in-laws are leaving tomorrow on a road trip to Kansas to inter grandfather in law's ashes. I will have kid 2 by myself while they are gone. I'm hoping baby girl is good and stays put till closer to her due date. We will be 37 weeks on Friday.

Hubby has said he might look at properties in Kansas or surrounding area while they are there. I had to fight the urge to smack him upside the head - we are just finally getting the property looking nice and the orchard might actually produce this season and he wants to think about moving??

Might be able to complete the water heater project while he is gone. Probably get done a heck of a lot faster if we pay our contractor friend to do it. Going to get the electric water heater out and install a gas insta hot water heater. Hubby is convinced the water heater is main culprit for the high electric bill.

Oh, and hubby started weed eating Saturday 4/5, with kid 1 running after him, and zapped a small rattlesnake with the weed whacker. He never even saw the snake till the cut off tail end came flying. I think that will count as first rattlesnake killed for the season? Not sure they can survive losing their tail? They aren't lizards so it shouldn't grow back...

I made kid 1 play on the gravel driveway after that, no running through the grass when you can't see what else is in the grass. Kid 2 was quite happy walking up and down the gravel driveway, and then had fun sitting on brother's big wheel, although he could only make it go backwards.