Coffee anyone ?

[farmerjan]

Merry Christmas to all. I too am thankful for the blessings, and the ability to take care of myself and help others. New (to me) house, getting moved in even with all the difficulties..... freezers full and ability to still work.... a new ankle replaced joint that has gone so well.....looking new knees in the not too distant future.....

For all the "complaining" I really can't (and shouldn't) complain.... Praying for our country and hoping we can find some common ground to go back in the direction of being "united " again. Peace and good health wished for all.

 

[promiseacres]

Coffee is on. Made biscuits and gravy.
Another day to get hay and firewood. At least the sun is out. Yesterday the high was 15, it's already 19 this morning. First real cold snap for us. All the critters are doing ok though.

 

[Mini Horses]

Here I am looking at 22 temps and 16 feel like! Cold for here.

Coffee is hot and plentiful.....help yourself. No doubt it will be an all day indulgence given weather and my plans to stay inside except for "must do" out there. . This reinforces my statements that I am not a cold weather person!

Going to bake something today...maybe a cake, it is my son's birthday. 54 . Not sure how he's made it that long! . That rascal is getting old!!!

 

[thistlebloom]

Thanks for the coffee, it's good and hot. Slept in until almost 8 but still feel tired.
We got 4" of snow last night, it covered all the frozen lumpy mud holes from the last thaw and rain. Looks pretty!
The horses still have hay in their nets so I don't have to face reality for a little while.
Going to start on a cleanup project in my girl cave. It turned into the place to put displaced items from other cleanup projects, haha. Then going to ride around the neighborhood with a little neighbor girl buddy.

 

[farmerjan]

Down to 10 this morning.... sun is out but I think it is frozen sun!!!! Actually up to almost 30..... Ground got REAL HARD last night. Tomorrow up near 50. Got shavings to take out to chickens & lock in early. Not many outside in the cold.

 

[Niele da Kine]

G'morning! We got to sleep in a little later today since yesterday there was Rooster Relocation around here. Usually, chicken soup is used to cure crowing, but I was too lazy so they just got relocated instead. They moved off to someone who wants roosters, I think they will still become soup, but not my roosters anymore so I don't have to remove feathers. There's still Ricky Rooster, one is enough. Now it's back to rental house repair and cleanup, hopefully it will be ready for some new renters at the beginning of the year. I'd rather be working on fencing the remaining chickens out of the garden, but that project will have to wait for another week while the rental is being repaired.

 

[Grant]

Late day coffee. Got the dogs pens finished. I’ll put some pics up. Lots of concrete work in the last few weeks. Put everyone in for a while to get used to them today...they were not happy. They’ll get used to them. Had the family in, immediate only, group of 8. Hopefully I’ll get going on my fence project, the last one. Gotta get post holes dug before the next big freeze or it won’t happen this winter. . Hope everyone had a healthy and happy Christmas.

 

[promiseacres]

Coffee is on.
Sore but the hay is in the barn, got 40 bales this time as dh used the trailer. Plus a bit of firewood, but that'll be finished today. No church as they went online.

 

[Baymule]

We got back late yesterday afternoon. First thing I did was to unload, change clothes and go take care of my animals. I sure miss them while I am away. I loved on the dogs, then the horses, especially Pearl. I have her on a special feeding program, trying to get some weight on her. I lost ground with her over the summer, so I'm feeding her twice a day with a generous side helping of cracked corn. It seems to be working. I thought I would restore her back to good condition and health, but I don't think she ever had good condition and health. Can't put back something she never had, so we are "building" a 15 year old skinny horse.

We enjoyed our visit very much. Our DD and family were there and our son came for Christmas day. We all sat up visiting until late at night, chattering away like a bunch of monkeys. LOL Couldn't get enough of our granddaughters, played and had fun with them. It will probably be spring break in March before we get them for any length of time. They want to come here to the farm to see us. Us going to see them is ok, but they love the farm. Their parents let them open all their presents up, out of the box, and spread then out in my sister's office. They played with everything, made a huge mess and had fun. The 13 year old played with her little sisters and hung out with the adults. We got her a charm for her charm bracelet, which is both mine and her's middle name. It touched her heart and tears welled up in her eyes. We also got her a big box of candy from World Market because it is not available in Odessa. We sure hated to leave and the littlest one burst into tears as we left.

 

[Niele da Kine]

G'morning! KarmaSu 100% Kona coffee this morning. The stuff is really good. Su gave it to us awhile back and we'd not drank it since it was special, but there's a whole freezer door of 'special' coffee since other folks have given us some now, too, so it's time to start drinking it.

We also got some sort of fancy coffee maker at the thrift shop that grinds and then brews coffee so we're now able to use the whole bean fancy coffees without having to get out the separate coffee grinder. We'd bought the coffee grind and brew machine because it had a matching carafe for our existing coffee maker and it was only $2 so we figured we could use a spare carafe. Just for fun, we tried the grind and brew machine and the thing worked! So now we can easily drink up the fancy coffee.

I'm not sure how many ways we have to make coffee around here, but even with the power out, we can still make coffee. There's three French Presses, two of them stainless steel, one of them the usual glass carafe type. There's two or three stovetop perking type coffee makers. One or two are stainless steel, the other one is blue speckly enamel. There's also some sort of odd stovetop expresso maker that does some sort of pressure thing that starts with the water in the bottom and then it goes up to the top. And a Melita or whatever those filter holder things are that fit over a coffee cup and have hot water poured through them. I think it's time to clean out the cabinets, since we're part of an 'antique mall', although we call it a 'treasure mall' and are able to sell anything, not specifically antiques, I can clean the things up and sell them at the shop. That can be a project for early this year once we get the silly rental houses sorted out and rented.

Have you tried oatmeal and black oil sunflower seeds to get weight on your horse, Baymule? We feed that to bunnies when we want them to gain weight. The oatmeal is really good if they have any kind of cough, too.

Sounds like a lovely visit with family, hope that wretched virus isn't very busy in your area.