Bridgemoof--Sheep & Wool festival

[CocoNUT]

Kitty brought home the bacon for you!

Glad to hear you are selling some stuff. Your Santa was pretty cool looking. If I didn't have kids taht are still destructive I'd have pretty things like that setting around the house. But with kids that are rough on things and no room for setting things up I can't get things like that just to set out as decoration. Guess I have to wait till we have a bigger house, and the kids are older to be able to have pretty things like that Santa to decorate with.

Quick idea - when my DD was younger, I used to decorate our Christmas tree with large, silk flowers instead of ornaments! I'd get those fake poinsettias, red hydrangeas and white roses - buy in them in their little groups, separate them - then string the lights and stick the flowers in the tree. I'd find those silk flowers all over the house...but she never had to pull on the tree...and it did look really "classy" as everyone would comment. DD is almost 9 now and I'll still find those silk flowers around the house from her previous years "stash." Now we have the home made ornaments, family ornaments, AND silk flowers on the tree.

 

[verkagj]

Way cool picture but you know what they say about sleeping with pigs!!! Kitty will get a bad reputation

 

[ragdollcatlady]

Not to hijack the thread...but about kids, cats and critters undressing the tree....I use unbreakable giant jingle bells instead of glass balls and plastic candy canes or ornaments...kids and critters are always welcome to redecorate. Daycare kids loved my house because they weren't allowed to touch anyone elses tree, but Trina's tree was way more fun anyway! They spent all day redecorating and were so serious about getting it "just right"....2 and 3 year olds know exactly where every item goes! And the cats........I got the biggest kick out of one kitten that would lay across the branch about a foot off the ground to spy on everyone......Some day the kids will be gone and the critters will be too old to climb the tree...then I will have a "pretty" tree, but I guarantee it won't bring the same amount of smiles as the hodge podge trees we have had for years.

 

[Bridgemoof]

Oh interesting Coconut! I've heard of the Mau, but we were told it was a Bengal. I think they are both exotic type breeds that are similar.
Also, I don't have much time to spin myself! It took me forevvvvveeeerrr to spin those 2 skeins of yarn that I have for sale on my etsy site.

No, verkagj! What DO they say about sleeping with pigs?

 

[Bridgemoof]

That's really cute ragdollcatlady! I bet the kids had a blast decorating the tree. Perhaps I should let my pigs and cat decorate mine?

 

[Southern by choice]

Hi Bridge,

stopping in to say hi and.... I got a few contacts the other day for spinners! Woohoo!

I am so glad you are doing well with your store! Hope you made it ok through your morning feed time... alone. 100+ animals. UGH!
Sometimes it is nice to do it alone and just enjoy them as you go along. BUT sometimes it s**ks!

 

[Bridgemoof]

HI Southern! Thanks for thinking of me! That's great news about the spinning contacts! You will have to try it out yourself to see what it's like. It's really cool.

Feeding went a-okay. The Jacob sheep ended up hopping the electric wire and they are now in the pond area, but that's okay. They did NOT want to be with those goats, lol. They were whining about it all night last night, too.

What was really stressing me out this morning was that I had a PIA client that had sent me changes at midnight last night to a job that was supposed to go to the printer yesterday! So I knew when I got up this morning I would have to feed the 100+ animals AND get his job done first thing. Ughers. Turns out the PIA kept making changes ALL day today, and even tonight he was calling me at the grocery store, after I sent the job to the printer already!

But I did have a reprieve on feeding this afternoon, because Tim came home from the show for a few hours. He did a few things outside and then fed everybody then hit the road again. I dealt with PIA client. And the really good news is....I am almost finished with another Santa! I worked on it in between my job, and he is SO GREAT! He is "Woodland Santa" and I have to make a little Christmas tree that he will be dragging and he'll be holding a hatchet, lol. I know, sounds kind of morbid for Christmas but he's really cute! And I made a teeny itsy bitsy little squirrel to sit at his feet, or on his shoulder, not sure. But the squirrel turned out great and is only about an inch tall.

I also got my scale that I had ordered today NO SHEEPGIRL, not a scale that I can weigh sheep. It is a little postal scale and I got it to weigh my wool and small shipping packages. But I suppose I could weigh a teacup piggy on it, it goes up to 35lbs. I think. So now I can weigh my packages here at home and print out shipping labels and get the mail person to pick it up and NEVER have to leave the house Plus, a bonus...the box it came in is perfect for shipping my Santa to my brother! Cool beans.

Okay, one more feeding tonight, the sugar gliders. Then it's make coffee for the morning, eat my ice cream and go to bed. I love my little routines. When everything else around me is so unpredictable (Tim, cough cough) it is nice to have a routine. Tomorrow morning it's solo feeding again! But at least PIA is out of the way, so I can take my time in the morning.

Night!

 

[Bridgemoof]

Aghhhh my aching bones and muscles! I can't take much more if this feeding by myself business. Tim is still at the show and I don't even know when he's coming back. Maybe today, maybe not until tomorrow. Lencho helped me feed yesterday afternoon so that was good. He is not coming today or tomorrow though so I will have to feed on my own this morning. It's very hard pushing a wheelbarrow of corn all the way down the hill and back up again. My body is definitely feeling it! But it's so peaceful here, that's for sure. No yelling and screaming. All the animals are doing okay.

The only concern I have is Lily, my prima donna Jacob ewe, and Uriah have been seriously having it out. They have been ramming each other with their horns. Yesterday I watched Uriah back up at least 50 feet and charge into Lily. I may have to move her out of there. She let him mount her when I first brought him home, and I don't think she's gone into heat again. But I don't know what is going on with those two and I'm afraid somebody is going to get hurt.

Ok, time to get my muscles moving again!

 

[Southern by choice]

Sounds like you need a Gator and a trailer hitch w/trailer for feed.
A wheelbarrow... UP and down a hill... It'd be a "fend for yourselves" day at the farm.

I'm going to be in the same boat today. DH and one of my teen sons went deep see fishing..left at 1 am, Straw and my other teen son are helping their Aunt move. So the morning will be a little rough... mostly cuz I hate cold. Not so bad when it's warm.

Enjoy your quiet. I need some here too!

 

[Bridgemoof]

Aw Southern, I wish you luck and warmth!

WE have a riding mower with a wagon, the wheels are perma flat or the battery is dead, or both. There is some reason it is just sitting in the barnyard and we are not using it! So not only did I push the wheelbarrow down filled with corn, I loaded up a bale of hay on top of it, too. But it didn't tip over! Woohoo!

I made it through morning FREEZINg feeding, lol. You know how in the middle of summer you imagine to yourself what winter is going to be like? And then all of a sudden you are out there and the water troughs are frozen, you are slipping over frosty ground and you realize OMG its winter! Right now! When did that happen?

Canadians, disregard this post. Southerners are wimpy. It was only a balmy 32F this morning and listen to the whining. And right now I am sitting in the warm house drinking a hot cup of coffee while I whine.