Coffee anyone ?

[AmberLops]

How many buns are in that oven??
I agree with you, seems a waste to go out and buy clothes you'll wear only a month. Maybe you can find something at GoodWill.


What Al said!!!!!!
Snow can sometimes be bad, ice is always bad (unless it is on a rink and you are wearing skates).

Agreed! Driving to work yesterday i hit a giant chunk of ice in the road and the car spun out. When it finally slowed enough for me to get back into my lane a HUGE buck and 4 does ran across the road! If i didn't hit that ice, i would have plowed into those deer I do think i'm thankful for that ice ha ha! But hopefully from now on, its stays warm enough to keep that ice away.

 

[Alaskan]

I hate ice in the roads... nasty stuff.

 

[promiseacres]

Coffee is on.
Not sure I got much done yesterday. I took advantage of the snow before it melted yesterday and had a kids and horses photo shoot for our Christmas cards. Not sure I can top it. so I had to edit them and work on my creation.....which took most the afternoon. I did get the dryer sheets in the camper.... the dirt will keep until we open it next year... This morning DH started his worktruck but came back in...has a flu bug... hopefully he can rest and the rest of us stay healthy but....of course we had a date night planned..oh well

 

[Mini Horses]

DH started his worktruck but came back in...has a flu bug... hopefully he can rest and the rest of us stay healthy

Elderberry juice or syrup. Helps reduce time & severity....I'm told.

 

[Jesusfreak101]

yikes yeah ice can be scary. one reason i am happy living in a warmer climate then yall further north.
Not sure what we going to do today besides the normal house work. my youngest keeps deciding we have to wake up earlier and the older boy keeps staying up late. at some point i get enough sleep. one more week and my husband off for six to eight weeks. should be fun and some time during then i should be giving birth which means woohoo i am just about done being pregnant. hopefully i be able to fit into my clothes again lol. i also can't wait for the restrictions to be over so i can get to work on my garden and start working on fencing again so we can go back to raising animals. i be working on the kids Christmas presents some more hopefully I will finish them up so i doubt have to worry about them come december.

 

[Bruce]

Agreed! Driving to work yesterday i hit a giant chunk of ice in the road and the car spun out. When it finally slowed enough for me to get back into my lane a HUGE buck and 4 does ran across the road! If i didn't hit that ice, i would have plowed into those deer I do think i'm thankful for that ice ha ha! But hopefully from now on, its stays warm enough to keep that ice away.

Boy was your shoulder angel working that day!

 

[Mini Horses]

Where is everyone? Yes -- I know you are all out there!

@Devonviolet, @Wehner Homestead, @Southern by choice , @Ridgetop,@mystang89 and several others...….the "rules" say you need to check in so we know you are OK. What's up? We worry. At least say, you're still around.

WOOHOO --- found something new in the update we just had. If you begin to type the name, a popup happens!! Nice. May be the best thing I've found so far. LOL

Been up way to long, too early...winds!! Woke me up. We had that "front" come in with some rain and snow flurries, then gloom and sprinkles a couple of days, now the winds from he!!. You all know what it's like to wrangle hay in this! So bad that I'm having to feed IN their barns to keep it from blowing away. Of course, the goats think that should be normal -- but, it's too early in the "winter" for this. Alas, here it is. I'll need 3 days of walking just to pick up everything that blows in & out. I can see from this that I need to make some housing changes in the goat herd....before kidding begins. All the unbred youngins from this year will be moved. Have the space, just need to get it done. I see a lot of shavings will be needed.....plus garden mulch will be working with a clean out.

One of my bucks has decided he prefers the company of the mini mares....and their barn. He's fine, they are ok with him (again!) but would prefer he gets another shower! Amazingly they are all pretty much the same size, so lined up at the feeder you have to really check their tails to see which one he is. It does free up another of the run-ins & field. My other buck is younger and just not so laid back -- he can be a typical "jerk" at times -- the horses don't welcome him like Bo.

It's time to consolidate the feeders, waterers, herd members and all that, to lessen the winter chores. Have a couple coop windows to re-cover for winter, double check water pipes and such. Those will be my chores the week of Thanksgiving when I have a few days off to handle it. Hope the weather is good. Plugged in heat tapes last week before the cold front. Will check the heaters, heated tubs, collect hoses and all that's "winter" to try to be ready. Just have a sinking feeling that this is going to be "one of those years" when winter hits hard, for longer than normal.

What's happening at your farm?

 

[Baymule]

Coffee is ready! Friday night we kept the grandkids, took them home @ 8:00 Saturday morning and we headed 3 1/2 hours south. Went to a baby shower for a young woman that BJ mentored. Her dad was BJs boss, her grandpa was half owner in the business and the shower was held at her grandparents. There was a fish fry, tons of food, about 50 people there and a good time. We got to see lots of people we hadn’t seen in a long time. The mother to be was covered in gifts for the baby. We had a great time and got home right before dark, got the animals fed and called it a day.

Tomorrow morning we have to be in Tyler at 6:45 AM at the doctor for BJ’s cataract surgery.

 

[frustratedearthmother]

On my second cup. No big plans today - got most of the to-do list for this weekend taken care of yesterday. Put a fence around my raised beds to try to keep the silly dogs out. Of course, having that fence building as my chore for the day required doing 3 more things to accomplish. Why does one job always lead to another? Ugh.

Moved some smallish pigs into a pen that needs to be cleaned up. Also tossed the bucks in that same pen for a couple hours. Multi-species clean-up crew works pretty well, lol.

 

[Baymule]

Getting any chore done is like knocking over dominoes.