Mamaboid-Bad day turned out a whole lot better than it could have.

[jodief100]

What a lovely day! Sorry you couldn't enjoy it more.

 

[DonnaBelle]

Yes, you guys have a beautiful place!! Thanks for the pictures, and it's good to see papa out there enjoying his animals!!

Hope you are feeling better soon.

DonnaBelle

 

[Mamaboid]

I hate when I can't sleep but I have never had my days mixed up like that. Good luck I hope you can stay awake today and feel better. Your hubby seems pretty nice building you all that stuff. See guys aren't always bad like some ladies like to think. LOL

I am married to the greatest man on earth. No doubt in my mind, because in order to live with me he has to be. I am NOT the easiest person to live with....sometimes I can't stand myself. Especially when I don't feel good. I think if the truth be told, a lot of us gals feel the same way about our guys, we just don't tell you too often cause we don't want it to go to your heads.

 

[Mamaboid]

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Just talked to my SIL, Nephew is home from Afghanistan. Got home Friday to New York, came home for 2 days with wife and kiddies, and had to be back on base this morning. Has debriefing, meetings, medicals, etc. all this week, will be back home here on Friday night for 30 days before going back to New York base. Wife and kids will be going to New York with him, but they will still only be about 3 hours from here, and they have their home here so they can spend weekends at home sometimes too. Hope they leave him there on the New York base for a while. This was his 3rd deployment, 2 to Iraq and 1 to Afghanistan, 1 year each. I think that is enough. I doubt it will be his last though, since he still has 6 years to go for his 20 years. Oh well, for now...HE IS HOME AND SAFE.
His daughter was 7 days old when he left this time, and she was a year old Saturday. She doesn't know him, and is very shy around him. She follows her 3 year old brother around, and watches everything he does. My SIL said that the baby just studied her brother all weekend as he was lovin on his dad, and had this look on her face like "Brother!! What are you doing with that strange guy."

I am feeling a little better today, not sneezing and coughing so bad, but my stomach is very sore again, from doing all that. Hope I didn't pull something that shouldn't be pulled this soon after surgery.

The wind is blowing so hard here today it is crazy. Things keep falling and blowing outside, and the dogs are going nuts. Every time a branch hits the house, or makes a noise they bark and run to see what is going on. Good thing about this is, there is no way I can sleep today, so I should be back on track to sleep tonight.

The baby goats don't like the wind. They have been laying in the corner of the pen in the sun most of the day. Temperature went from 80 on Friday to right now, hottest part of the day with bright sunshine it is 44 degrees. Come to think of it, I don't much like it either.

Well, DH got the chick pen ready for meat birds over the weekend, so now we just have to wait for them to get here. He started on my milking stand, has it about half way finished, just has to put the head stantions on it and we will be ready to go there. Next he starts on the new kidding pens. If you saw the pics I posted of Spike on the milk stand, right where that stand is sitting, in front of those big windows is where the kidding pens will be. Two of them, about 4 X 8, side by side with an isle between them. I will be able to have both on camera at same time.

I checked Stephanie (the Nubian FF) out and she has a good large fist sized udder, and you can now see her teats from behind. So she looks good for May 17 due date, I think. Not showing too much in her belly yet, but does have a cute little bump. She is a bottomless pit though. YOu would swear she is starving to death ALL THE TIME.

I haven't gotten my hands on Dusty to see how her udder is coming along, she is bred for the same day. I guess it is true what they say about room mates and their cycles. LOL
Dude had a VERY good day that day. LOL

Brandy has not come back into heat since she miscarried. She is nubian/kiko cross, so I imagine she is probably a seasonal breeder so she may wait until next fall. I am a little unhappy about that, but since she has had some trouble with her health, not all that unhappy. When we got her, I was totally green and knew NOTHING about breeding goats, ages, etc. The man we got her from is a customer of my DH, and has been a friend for a long time. (Since high school) We trusted what he told us about her. We knew she had a kid that had been on her for too long, and she was in bad condition, really run down when we took her. At that time, we weren't looking to breed her soon, and figured we could take our time and build her up before breeding her. He told us she was about a year and a half old. He has about 60 goats, and has raised them for a long time.....but his record keeping is handled by his daughter, not him. Last week I was talking to him, telling him that Brandy was not bred had miscarried etc, and he went and checked her records, and we discovered that she is not as old as he thought, he got her confused with another doe. Any way, now he tells us that Brandy was one of three very young does that got into the buck pen and were bred way too early. She was only 10 months old when she had her first kid, and the does all run on open pasture and the kid was left on her for almost 4 months.
This makes her 6 months younger than we thought, and I think it may have a lot to do with why she has some health and conditioning problems, and why she miscarried this winter. So waiting til next fall may be the best thing for her.

Our guineas haven't started laying that I can find. The free range and go in at night, but I haven't seen any of them apart from the group, or hiding, or any of the things i would look for if they were laying. This is their first spring, so I wish they would start to lay.
The chickens gave me 29 eggs on Saturday, and 24 on Sunday, so they are a little over half of them laying now, as we have 40 laying hens. I am selling eggs right and left.

OK, I guess I have caught up on everything I wanted to post about, hope you are not all bored to death. I do love to write my books.

Hope all is well with everyone.

BJ

 

[Mamaboid]

Morning all.

Well, I have had a couple bad days. I got really bad pains in the connection points of my mesh, and when I moved, I screamed. I mean it was BAD. The Dr. says some get it some don't and I am one of the unfortunate ones that did. I have spent the last couple days sitting very still, with the heating pad on my belly, and highly doped up on pain pills. I was reading and posting a little, so if I posted anything funky, sorry about that. I am doing a little better now, but I kinda feel like a stalker is following me around, I am just waiting for it to strike again.

I changed my avatar to a picture of Stephanie. She is my nubie ff that is due the middle of May. She is the one on the camera with Elsie and the kids. She is low man on the totem pole in my herd. She is such a sweet girl, she plays with Elsie's kids all the time, and they love her. Their mom is not so sure. She and Elsie tolerate each other, but that is about all. I think she is going to be a great mom, and I am hoping a good milker. We are going to start her on the stand, as soon as DH gets it done so she gets used to it. She is really good already about being touched and handled, so she should be relatively easy to get acclimated. I will write about Dusty at a later date, she is due on the same day.

We are having a family party this weekend for my nephew's homecoming, and his daughter's first birthday. I am hoping that I am up for it. I am going if it is at all possible, even if I have to come home early. I just wanna get my hands on him for a hug, and a little sugar time with the kidlet. Her name is Piper and she is a doll. After that, I will be content to come back to my recliner and become chair potato all over again.

Guess that is all for now. Later.

BJ

 

[redtailgal]

I'm sorry that you are feeling bad.

Recovery can be so long and painful.....and FRUSTRATING.

Hang in there, and take it easy, you'll get there.

 

[Roll farms]

 

[elevan]

 

[autumnprairie]

 

[Mamaboid]

Hey all,

Just got back from welcome home/birthday party. Had a good time, but too many people. We didn't stay too long, just a couple hours. Nephew looks good, is very glad to be home, and cannot keep his hands off his one year old daughter. She is letting him hold her a bit now, but she still isn't sure who this guy is.

My MIL is in the hospital, she is 92 years old and has a minor bowel blockage. They put a tube down her throat on Friday, took it out this morning. She is doing well, but at 92 it is a concern. She doesn't drink enough. I preach to her about it, my SIL preaches to her bout it and my DH yells at her about it...she drinks about 3-4 of those little juice glasses full of something in a day and thinks that is enough because "if I drink more than that all I get done is run to the bathroom". They are starting her on liquid diet now and as soon as she gets to a regular diet with no problems, they will send her home. She lives alone, is totally self sufficient, and does her own flower beds, cleans her 5 bedroom home like mine hasn't been cleaned in years. I love her like mad. She us only about 4'8 and is a little spitfire.

Weather stinks here. Cold, rainy, nasty. Goes right to your bones. Hope it warms back up a little this week. Doesn't have to go back up to 80, but a nice 55-60 would be greatly appreciated.

Hope all is well with everybody. I am doing pretty good right now, so keep your fingers crossed for me that I continue. I have much to do that I cannot do right now and it is very frustrating.

Have a great week.

BJ