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Ridgetop
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Yesterday DS1 and DH finishd the electricity in the barn and feed/tack room. I evenhave an electric outlet and a light switch! Pix tonight so you canget the full magical effect from gloomy dungeon lit with flashlight to blazing splendor!
Lambing season is winding down in a sad way. DS1 found a dead ram lamb yesterday in the creep. Also had a dead ewe lamb from ewe with bad udder yesterday. Today P1, beautiful Snowflake finally lambed - triplets. 2 dead ram lambs, one with membrane still covering face, and one lively tiny ram lamb. Explains her enormous size, but very sad. Last year she was injured and could hardly walk then gave birth to preemie twin ewe lambs. First lambing twin ewes, second twin rams, then the preemies and now the triplets. Best ewe in the flock too, and out of Lewis. Life sucks sometimes. Planning a trip to Emory auction next Saturday with a couple undersized lambs, the cull ewe, and a youngish ewe that hasn't settled for 2 years now. Still haven't decided about 332.
On a good note, 332 is up, standing and eating hay with an appetite. I gave her 5cc Tetracycline day before yesterday and I think that may have had more effect than the Pennicillin. Tet will treat different organisms than Penn so commbined with the udder tubes she may be on the mend. Once I finish her course of treatment I will finish off with tubes of Tomorrow. I might give her another chance if I can clear the mastitis with vigorous treatment. I might let her have another lambing season. She is a large ewe, tripled twice, and is a good mother when she doesn't have mastitis.
Yesterday I was able to identify 3 of the lambs I wanted to keep. Remember Hazine ate their paperwork. Today I plan to sit in the pasture and watch them with my binoculars, a pad of paper and pen to note down IDs. I will bring the animal crackers with me.
Among lamb chores, I got the laundry done yesterday, did some housework, made nother 2 day of lamb bottles, and finally cooked the first good meal since our Costco trip. Thank heavens for those Costco rotisserie chickens. I made a really nice chicken stir fry, with enough left to make fried rice tonight with the leftovers.
Also got a start on stripping the wallpaper in our bathroom. Should have been an easy job, but there are two layers of wall paper. Both vinyl. The top vinyl layer strips super easy and the paper under layer comes off with hot water and vinegar easily too BUT the lower layer of viny wallpaper is the old type and it does not always want to pull free. However, I found tht if I use the wide putty knife if will lift both layers on most of the wall. Just very time consuming but I will get it done. Want to get that bathroom painted asap. I could live with the green, red and tan paid wallpaper, but the wainscoting and woodwork color is a horrible baby poop green. The shower tile is a dark greeny blue color and has glass doors so not very noticeable. It would go with jade or turquoise. Not sure yet what color I will go with, either the turquoise of the main bath, or a soft jade green to blend with the bath sheet towels I picked up at Costco. I also got a lovely fake floral hydrangea arrangement in tones of deep pink, light peach and coral so I could paint the upper walls coral to offset the jade green towels. Not sure yet. Coral can often turn very orangey. Got to get the wallpaper down, scrub the walls and woodwork, then give everything a coat of primer before painting the woodwork and cabinets white. Then I can decide on the paint color. Although I love walpaper I am not going with it this time around. The oak panelling in the house is enough pattern.
Next house project after the bathroom will be the island in the kitchen.
Lambing season is winding down in a sad way. DS1 found a dead ram lamb yesterday in the creep. Also had a dead ewe lamb from ewe with bad udder yesterday. Today P1, beautiful Snowflake finally lambed - triplets. 2 dead ram lambs, one with membrane still covering face, and one lively tiny ram lamb. Explains her enormous size, but very sad. Last year she was injured and could hardly walk then gave birth to preemie twin ewe lambs. First lambing twin ewes, second twin rams, then the preemies and now the triplets. Best ewe in the flock too, and out of Lewis. Life sucks sometimes. Planning a trip to Emory auction next Saturday with a couple undersized lambs, the cull ewe, and a youngish ewe that hasn't settled for 2 years now. Still haven't decided about 332.
On a good note, 332 is up, standing and eating hay with an appetite. I gave her 5cc Tetracycline day before yesterday and I think that may have had more effect than the Pennicillin. Tet will treat different organisms than Penn so commbined with the udder tubes she may be on the mend. Once I finish her course of treatment I will finish off with tubes of Tomorrow. I might give her another chance if I can clear the mastitis with vigorous treatment. I might let her have another lambing season. She is a large ewe, tripled twice, and is a good mother when she doesn't have mastitis.
Yesterday I was able to identify 3 of the lambs I wanted to keep. Remember Hazine ate their paperwork. Today I plan to sit in the pasture and watch them with my binoculars, a pad of paper and pen to note down IDs. I will bring the animal crackers with me.
Among lamb chores, I got the laundry done yesterday, did some housework, made nother 2 day of lamb bottles, and finally cooked the first good meal since our Costco trip. Thank heavens for those Costco rotisserie chickens. I made a really nice chicken stir fry, with enough left to make fried rice tonight with the leftovers.
Also got a start on stripping the wallpaper in our bathroom. Should have been an easy job, but there are two layers of wall paper. Both vinyl. The top vinyl layer strips super easy and the paper under layer comes off with hot water and vinegar easily too BUT the lower layer of viny wallpaper is the old type and it does not always want to pull free. However, I found tht if I use the wide putty knife if will lift both layers on most of the wall. Just very time consuming but I will get it done. Want to get that bathroom painted asap. I could live with the green, red and tan paid wallpaper, but the wainscoting and woodwork color is a horrible baby poop green. The shower tile is a dark greeny blue color and has glass doors so not very noticeable. It would go with jade or turquoise. Not sure yet what color I will go with, either the turquoise of the main bath, or a soft jade green to blend with the bath sheet towels I picked up at Costco. I also got a lovely fake floral hydrangea arrangement in tones of deep pink, light peach and coral so I could paint the upper walls coral to offset the jade green towels. Not sure yet. Coral can often turn very orangey. Got to get the wallpaper down, scrub the walls and woodwork, then give everything a coat of primer before painting the woodwork and cabinets white. Then I can decide on the paint color. Although I love walpaper I am not going with it this time around. The oak panelling in the house is enough pattern.
Next house project after the bathroom will be the island in the kitchen.
