Coffee anyone ?

[AmberLops]

It SNOWED today!! Didn't add up at all but it was like a mini blizzard!
The high for today was 38, got some snow and the low tonight is 28. The rabbits look cold but I gave them some extra hay tonight.
As far as phones go, i've always had a flip-phone, but right now i don't have a phone at all since i dropped mine in the river a couple weeks ago. Tomorrow i'll look into getting another one and setting it up, but it's not a priority right now

 

[Mini Horses]

That cold front you just had is coming our way. Right now, we've had a front of what was predicted as very heavy rain & T-storms. Most of the bad was about 50-75 miles west of me....thankfully. But was fast moving and actually came thru like clockwork. Windy, then some pretty fast and fairly light showers for about 1/2 hr. Seems gone now. Few sprinkles maybe but, out by 3 or 4 and sunny, cool tomorrow. No snow maybe 60 tomorrow.

Winds woke me, so up playing solitare to get sleepy.

 

[promiseacres]

Coffee is on. Snow yesterday and current temp is 25° F , supposed to get up to the 40s this afternoon.

 

[Baymule]

Thanks for the coffee! We'll be smoking more sausage today. I have 10 packages of ground meat to make pan sausage with. We bought some collagen casings that I later found out that can't be put on the pit and smoked, they are for "fresh" sausage. So i'll see if I can make some of that with the ground meat. The stuffed sausage we made and smoked yesterday is waiting in the refrigerator to be vacuum sealed and put in the freezer. Supper last night was a smoked sausage sandwich. LOL It's 30*, I'll wait for it to warm up a little, then go outside to do chores, then hit the kitchen. Day 3 of the Wilbur Sausage conversion from fresh ham steaks and shoulder roasts.

All the wood smoke had BJ's eyes burning last night, so I pulled an old trick out of the hat. When I was in my early 20's I worked in a huge shop, building oil field pumping units. Welders told me that if I ever burnt my eyes, to grate up a potato and squeeze the juice into my eyes. Sure enough I woke up at 3 AM one morning, clawing at my eyes in agony. I grated up a potato as I was told, squeezed the juice in my eyes and got INSTANT relief! Wow! So last night, I peeled, washed and grated a small potato and squeezed the juice into BJ's eyes. Relief was immediate, no more pain, no more burning. He is just fine this morning, his eyes don't burn and there is no pain.

 

[frustratedearthmother]

My dad was a welder for years and I can remember the times that he would grate up a potato and lay back in the recliner with a glob of potato mush on both eyes. He'd lay there for about 10 minutes and get up and keep going!

 

[Bruce]

Hmm, would never have thought of using potato juice for burning eyes. I'll TRY to remember that should I ever have the issue.

 

[Alaskan]

Yeah, that freek weather hitting Texas was bad.

One of my sister's goats got frostbite on her teat. Crazy.

 

[frustratedearthmother]

I suppose I shouldn’t complain about the weather change-it definitely makes for good hot tub weather! Pic is dark - but it’s supposed to be!

 

[Baymule]

The silhouette of the palm tree makes it look like a tropical resort.

 

[Mini Horses]

Cool here but no real heavy frosts yet.

Yesterday I went out for chores and the goats seemed "off". In fact, a couple of the younger ones had obviously puked up green stuff...still on their mouths. Hmmm...A couple had been out when I came home night before. Fed HAY -- nice grass hay. Went in and as I left for work I noticed the "reason" for the tummy upsets. They had done some tree trimming on the holly trees (2) by the house.....yep, both looked like this. Guess the young one ate too much. Well, had planned on a major trim, just not like this.

All were fine this morning. Had planned to cu about 6' off top but, may have to wait a while now, after their defoliating.

I actually went on around and to the side of the house to be sure they hadn't eaten all the comfrey leaves! They love those things & I was lucky -- still there. I've been working on these ones to replace ones they & chickens devoured...roots & all, last yr. I have been able to get 4 big, strong plants going in huge containers, so I can move them when the time comes. I have them caged now for protection. LOL

You can see where the goats & wind tore up the hot tape & a white panel came from ?? Hey, I was leaving for work....worry later.