Ready or Not....... Shouldvknwnbetter- Fall

[CntryBoy777]

Stay Safe up there!

 

[Hens and Roos]

thanks! Hopefully everyone else isn't to effected by this!

 

[Hens and Roos]

So our snow is back....as of right now we have a little over 4 inches of heavy snow...it's been snowing off and on all day- sometime light other time heavy. I took advantage of a break in the snow to clean off our driveway since DH had headed into town earlier today to clear/open up driveways.....looks like it will be moving East once it passes us!

Goats aren't thrilled...they pretty much look out of the shelter but don't venture forth and just at the start of the week they were out laying on the spools and playing around on them as the snow had melted!

Did some baking today with my mom, we made brownies and lemon bread...DS(15) needs bake goods tomorrow for school-basketball concessions being run by his grade. DD tried her hand over the weekend and made cream puffs....they turned out great and didn't last long!

Debating if I should go take a nap since I will be helping shovel snow later....

 

[Latestarter]

I almost always vote in favor of a nap! Hope you had an enjoyable one!

 

[Hens and Roos]

thanks @Latestarter but I never got the nap in......ended up having to take care of some paper work and then the kids got home from school.

We ended up with somewhere around 5-6 inches of wet/heavy snow(don't have exact number). Needless to say- I'm tired(might need a nap at some point today)! Still flaking a bit yet this morning.

Off to do chores.....hope everyone has a nice day!!

 

[Hens and Roos]

Just looked at the calendar today and we are 6 weeks out till kidding starts here!

Our snow is melting and our temps are suppose to get into the mid 50's by the weekend of course this may all change in the blink of an eye!

We tapped our 4 silver maple trees the other day- so far we've collected around 10 gallons-no sap yesterday as the temp never got above freezing. Have to check this morning when I do chores.

Tried getting some new pictures and of course the goats all want to see what I'm holding- just in case it's food...

 

[samssimonsays]

Can't wait! That means I am getting closer to kidding as well hahaha! I am NOT counting weeks down.... Or trying not to. I have my dates and I am trying to ride it out and not go crazy... We will see what unfolds by the time they finally do kid LOL. But, after two years of waiting, a couple months will go by probably just as slow as the 2 years have...

 

[Hens and Roos]

It's the doe code

 

[Hens and Roos]

Since we tapped our 4 maple trees at the start of the week, we've collected about 35 gallons of sap so far. We have started the boiling down process today- we set up 2 LP burners outside and that is where we do almost all the boiling until we get just about up to temp(7* above boiling) and then bring it inside to finish and put into jars. DH figures we will get around 1 gallon of maple syrup!

 

[Goat Whisperer]

Awesome!