bonbean01
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oh Jodie...you've had a hard time with water this morning 
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I hate when everything is against you. :/ And yes winter does suck. Thankfully not much longer 
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Just thinking about you singing to your goats! 
elevan
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jodief100
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Things have warmed up; we are back to the mucky mud. At least my water barrels are almost full and unfrozen. We are running out of hay, I need to call and get some more. Hopefully my hay guy still has some.
We banded all the November boys this weekend, gave shots and tagged them. I say one of the little boys running around trying to play humpie-hoo with a guinea. My stepson he doesnt want to know what the offspring will look like. I said I was far more concerned with what they would SOUND like.
No new babies, yet. Things should start up again here soon. I need boys out of my purebreds for the buck test.
We are looking into a Farmers Market booth for our pastured chickens. This will expand our business considerably.
We banded all the November boys this weekend, gave shots and tagged them. I say one of the little boys running around trying to play humpie-hoo with a guinea. My stepson he doesnt want to know what the offspring will look like. I said I was far more concerned with what they would SOUND like.
No new babies, yet. Things should start up again here soon. I need boys out of my purebreds for the buck test.
We are looking into a Farmers Market booth for our pastured chickens. This will expand our business considerably.
ThreeBoysChicks
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I hear you. The mud is way too much. I need firewood. I called to have it delivered when the ground is fozen, becasue they dump it in our pasture. Last week, when it was in the teens the entire week, would have been great, but they did not make it. I told them that we do not heat with wood as our primary heat source, so we did not need to be the high priority.
Poor goats will not leave the barn, they do not want their toes to get wet.
Poor goats will not leave the barn, they do not want their toes to get wet.
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jodief100
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This weather is weird. 70 degrees this morning with severe thunderstorms, pouring rain.
Tonight is supposed to be 30s with a chance of snow tomorrow. The poor dogs were panting and the goats were spread out like they do in the summer.
Things are pretty routine around here. I am just waiting for the rest of my girls to start kidding. Fat Girl looked like she had dropped and when I checked her ligaments I felt nothing. Nefer had some discharge and her bag is getting tight. Everyone else is at various stages of goopy, drippy and who knows what.
The kids are growing like little goat weeds. Bouncing all over things. They are just adorable.
The water situation has eased now that my barrels defrosted but that could change any time.
We are running low on hay and I am not sure when I am going to find the time to get more. Hopefully next weekend, this one is booked.
Work sucked yesterday. The disaster hit on someone elses project but I got sucked in and had to clean up their mess. We have been in a huge rush to launch a new product. The sales guys had orders for over 100 and we didnt have parts to build them! So we finally get the parts in and the design is so bad, the parts cant be put together. So the engineer was desperately trying to find someone who could manage to squeeze their hand into a tiny space to tighten down the fittings. Since there are only 8 women who work here there werent a whole lot of options. I was the only one who could do it. So I spent all day tightening down these ill-fitting plastic parts. My finger tips are numb and I have a rash from where my arm was rubbing something all day. Of course no one does my REAL job of engineer while I am stuck doing this so today I have to play catch up. Part of MY job is to make sure the designs can be manufactured. Apparently my counterpart on this project dropped the ball.
So what kind of reward do I get? Not only am I behind on my work, I get to help him come up with a way to fix his problem. Good thing I spent all day thinking of ways to fix it while I was rubbing he skin off my fingertips. 
Tonight is supposed to be 30s with a chance of snow tomorrow. The poor dogs were panting and the goats were spread out like they do in the summer.
Things are pretty routine around here. I am just waiting for the rest of my girls to start kidding. Fat Girl looked like she had dropped and when I checked her ligaments I felt nothing. Nefer had some discharge and her bag is getting tight. Everyone else is at various stages of goopy, drippy and who knows what.
The kids are growing like little goat weeds. Bouncing all over things. They are just adorable.
The water situation has eased now that my barrels defrosted but that could change any time.
We are running low on hay and I am not sure when I am going to find the time to get more. Hopefully next weekend, this one is booked.
Work sucked yesterday. The disaster hit on someone elses project but I got sucked in and had to clean up their mess. We have been in a huge rush to launch a new product. The sales guys had orders for over 100 and we didnt have parts to build them! So we finally get the parts in and the design is so bad, the parts cant be put together. So the engineer was desperately trying to find someone who could manage to squeeze their hand into a tiny space to tighten down the fittings. Since there are only 8 women who work here there werent a whole lot of options. I was the only one who could do it. So I spent all day tightening down these ill-fitting plastic parts. My finger tips are numb and I have a rash from where my arm was rubbing something all day. Of course no one does my REAL job of engineer while I am stuck doing this so today I have to play catch up. Part of MY job is to make sure the designs can be manufactured. Apparently my counterpart on this project dropped the ball.
So what kind of reward do I get? Not only am I behind on my work, I get to help him come up with a way to fix his problem. Good thing I spent all day thinking of ways to fix it while I was rubbing he skin off my fingertips. jodief100 said:Work sucked yesterday. The disaster hit on someone elses project but I got sucked in and had to clean up their mess. We have been in a huge rush to launch a new product. The sales guys had orders for over 100 and we didnt have parts to build them! So we finally get the parts in and the design is so bad, the parts cant be put together. So the engineer was desperately trying to find someone who could manage to squeeze their hand into a tiny space to tighten down the fittings. Since there are only 8 women who work here there werent a whole lot of options. I was the only one who could do it. So I spent all day tightening down these ill-fitting plastic parts. My finger tips are numb and I have a rash from where my arm was rubbing something all day. Of course no one does my REAL job of engineer while I am stuck doing this so today I have to play catch up. Part of MY job is to make sure the designs can be manufactured. Apparently my counterpart on this project dropped the ball.
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jodief100
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It is back to cold. 20s today and tomorrow. It was snowing on the drive this morning.
We had lots of wind last night. The porch furniture is all over the lawn. I am just too tired to pick it up. Hubby has been very busy and isnt getting home until late. I love doing the barn chores but lately I have been so pressed to just get them done I havent had time to enjoy them.
No more new babies. Dang goats love to keep me in suspense.
I have a kid coming out next week to get some 4-H wethers. He bought a buck from me last year, the twin to my top performing buck at the buck test. He got a deal and he told me he is very pleased with his buck.
I am putting together my to do list for our Farmers Market booth to sell chickens.
I am kind of ticked off at work right now. My thank you for all the work I did on my co-workers screwed up project has been to MAKE ME IN CHARGE OF IT! They gave one my projects to him. The one he gets is one I have been working on for years. I have it fine-tuned and running smoothly, just needs a little maintenance here and there. In exchange I get a brand new project that is completely screwed up from the start. Not much of an even exchange.
I think he makes more money than I do too. Because he has more experience.
Normally I really like my job and under other circumstances I would love to have this project. I enjoy a challenge. I just hate that I get more work for helping out and he gets less work for screwing up.
We had lots of wind last night. The porch furniture is all over the lawn. I am just too tired to pick it up. Hubby has been very busy and isnt getting home until late. I love doing the barn chores but lately I have been so pressed to just get them done I havent had time to enjoy them.
No more new babies. Dang goats love to keep me in suspense.
I have a kid coming out next week to get some 4-H wethers. He bought a buck from me last year, the twin to my top performing buck at the buck test. He got a deal and he told me he is very pleased with his buck.
I am putting together my to do list for our Farmers Market booth to sell chickens.
I am kind of ticked off at work right now. My thank you for all the work I did on my co-workers screwed up project has been to MAKE ME IN CHARGE OF IT! They gave one my projects to him. The one he gets is one I have been working on for years. I have it fine-tuned and running smoothly, just needs a little maintenance here and there. In exchange I get a brand new project that is completely screwed up from the start. Not much of an even exchange.
I think he makes more money than I do too. Because he has more experience.
Normally I really like my job and under other circumstances I would love to have this project. I enjoy a challenge. I just hate that I get more work for helping out and he gets less work for screwing up.
