rachels.haven's Journal

[farmerjan]

Is your snow over yet? Hearing that you will still have more..... glad that we only got the 6-8 inches. Some melted yesterday even with the cold.... more will melt today as it gets in the mid-upper 30's. Some sun today will help. It's not so awful cold... was still this morning but getting a bit breezy now. Supposed to be real windy by this evening. Warming the end of the week but supposed to be COLD next week....teens and maybe low 30's....
Nope, rolling over and getting up in an hour will not make it go away.... trust me on that !!!!

 

[Bruce]

We got 6-7 inches in most places.

Curious, I think my sister in law in Arlington, VA said they only got sleet.

Me either Bay! I figure the only time for that is when they bury me. Or I could be cremated . . . . ?

Well, cremation would be a LOT hotter!!!! You'll never see negative temps if they put you 6' under, not likely even freezing temps. Your choice of course

Then I preheated the oven to 125, turned it off and stuck him in

OK, that is something you don't read every day! I bet there are a lot of people that wouldn't put an animal in their oven no matter what the temp.

I would think 125° would be awfully hot. Why not something just over a hundred, same as it would be inside the doe?

Still snowing here, no idea how much because we have 15 MPH north winds with higher gusts; drifting all over the place. Maybe 5" so far?? We are supposed to get another 1" by 7 PM, 3.5" more between 7 PM and 1 PM tomorrow and another 1.5" by early Thursday morning.

 

[rachels.haven]

Curious, I think my sister in law in Arlington, VA said they only got sleet.


Well, cremation would be a LOT hotter!!!! You'll never see negative temps if they put you 6' under, not likely even freezing temps. Your choice of course


OK, that is something you don't read every day! I bet there are a lot of people that wouldn't put an animal in their oven no matter what the temp.

I would think 125° would be awfully hot. Why not something just over a hundred, same as it would be inside the doe?

The oven wouldn't register preheated any lower, but I did turn it off at that point before adding the goat. He had a long way to go before he reached a safe temp, so I was less worried than I could have been. There are old family history stories about premie babies discarded by the doctors of the era being ovened back to life so I figured why not? Different kind of oven, but mine's more controlled so I could make it peak there and stop.

The goat is still cooking-I mean kicking. He had a body temp crash this after noon, so out comes the heat lamp.

He was in my room, but Dan somehow got baby goat poop on the ceiling while I wasn't looking so the goat got exiled to the kitchen where I can watch better. Dan still claims the blob of poop up there is a bug. I'm going to get the little clump of pellets off when it's not so smearable. Now baby goat is onto the tarry stuff and there's no way I want that anywhere else but in the box.

 

[farmerjan]

Family story is that my mom's father was a premie and they put him in a little box right behind the wood stove to keep him warm. He was in his mid - 90's when he passed away....

 

[Bruce]

You and Barb would get along just fine nursing baby goats together in the house!

 

[rachels.haven]

It's snowing again, I have a mild migraine which makes it hard for me to focus and remember and easy to forget and Dan is on his rampage between classes as usual. Good time for some new baby goats, right? Come-on does, don't save them all up till the end and go all at once!

Snow with polar bear toy mooning.

Dan got one of those squishy sticky texture party favor/vending machine toys stuck to the wall waaaay out of anyone's reach. Ignore the drawing of a duck eating a fly on the wall.

 

[rachels.haven]

My husband's maternal grandfather was also a premie put in an oven after the doctor discarded him and said he wouldn't live. And for 91 years he did.

Anyway, no baby goats today. The buckling is feeling spunky and bucky.

Hubba hubba, what a hawt bottle you have there, he says. Nigerians seem to come out ready to breed and not very innocent. His brother is already courting and blubbering. Whoopie.

We are not keeping "Tom the Mehing Goat". Listing him would be a lot easier if the children had some other kids to distract them. Negotiations have opened.

Oh, and an incubator arrived today. I need to test it before the 30 day return window closes. Silkie-plosion, maybe?

 

[rachels.haven]

Wait, one more photo.

 

[farmerjan]

If I can figure out a trip up, I want some violets again...... some how, some way....

Adorable kid.... he looks so much better.... GOOD FOR YOU.....

 

[Bruce]

Wait, one more photo.

Nice!