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Shes adorable!
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Psst, RTG, that's the boy....Tiger.
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was sleep deprived...........cut me some slack.
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Very nice.
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Jeff bought me a 2nd Ob doe....I picked one out and then I said I'd like the other one, and made puppy eyes at him...and it worked. Pics soon!
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yay!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Lucky you always get new ones
LOL Well enjoy all those new babies.
LOL Well enjoy all those new babies.redtailgal
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Hey......will you make some more puppy eyes at him an' tell him that I need some spotted does, and to just drive you and the does to visit me?
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Sorry, RTG, I reserve the puppy eyes for emergencies..like new goats. If I use 'em too much, they stop working - sorta like the boy who cried wolf.
OK. Now I gotta tell you about the trip to get the boy (literally haven't sat down long enough to do so this weekend.) Probably end up telling you 'bout the rest of the weekend, too.
I didn't have a clue where I was even going to pick him up, until Saturday morning about 5 mins. before I left. The lady who brought him to Ft. Wayne to meet me, had a kidding emergency that kept her in her barn until midnight Friday night and didn't get back to me, so all I knew was "near Ft Wayne at 8am." She was coming from Columbus, OH en route to Chicago, IL and bringing me my boy somewhere in the middle.
I woke up to an email that said, "I'll text you what road I'm coming into IN/ Ft. Wayne in the morning and you can GPS it."
I was a bit grumpy b/c it was 4:30 am (had to bottle feed / milk before I left) and A) My phone doesn't text and B) I don't HAVE G.P.S.
So I emailed back and told her I didn't HAVE either, I'd need to know SOMETHING so I could mapquest it.
I go down to the barn and come back up to an email that says, "Leaving my house now." And that's it.
GREAT......but there are only 782bazillion roads in IN that lead into Ft. Wayne and I HAVE NO CLUE WHAT ONE TO BE ON!!!!!
So I sorta just sat here, stunned....wondering what to do...do I just get on I-69 and go North and hope or......say forget it....?
She finally calls me at 7:30am to tell me she's coming in on 30. So I took a really fast look at Map Quest and took off.
And got lost. Well, not really lost, lost...but I went 20 miles out of the way or so. (I blame it on the fact that I didn't get to do my usual "stare at mapquest route 20 times before a trip" OCD thing. And it coulda been worse, I coulda been further along before I got that "I think I went the wrong way." feeling.
SOooooooo finally we meet up and I get him in my jeep and she wants to jabber and complain about the customer she's taking goats to in Chicago. I gave her 40$ for her trouble (she fed the lil dude for 2 days and hauled him to me) and off I go....
Got stuck in a traffic snarl on the way home b/c of a 'wide load' being hauled that was being escorted by 6 state cops....made the trip take an extra 25 minutes.
Came home and unloaded him, then had to clean the chick totes, do laundry, clean the kid's room in the barn, put new straw down in the GP stall (rained all night), and pasteurize the milk I hadn't had time to do before I left. DH came home from work, loaded up the log splitter, and took off to his BFF's to help him split wood, since he helped us split ours.
Speaking of chick totes....some of the chicklets...
Then we all met up and ate at Mi Pueblo, my oft-mentioned fav. place to eat on earth....great food and it's cheap, too.....
After that we took off to go 'look' at a rabbit someone had offered DH. Only thing is, if we took her, we had to take her cage, too. This cage is ginormous....we didn't know that....and ain't fittin in DH's truck b/c of the topper....so we decide to come home and get DH's bff's truck (no topper) to get it. The people w/ the bunny tell us we can use their truck instead, so we load up the cage (took 4 of us to lift it) and head home in this rusty, rattly old truck that I'd be scared to go to the store in....but will probably last longer than the new cars made today, in truth.
Here's the cage....It's huge. And yes, that's a skylight in the roof. And there's a 'loft' where she can climb up and bask in the sun..... 
And here's the doe. She's a 6 yr old ????. But DH is a sucker for blue so.....we have a new bun.
Come home to egg customers waiting on us. Sell them their eggs, unload the cage (Thank goodness for the bobcat b/c there were only the 3 of us here) and take the truck back.
THEN it's time to feed, milk, etc. so we do that and then disbud the new Ob boy.
Watched a movie, sent Tater (Dh's bff) home, and went to bed.
Today....got up, got chores done, milk pasteurized, and took off to go look at 1 Ob doe. Fell in love, made the puppy eyes, and brought home 2.
Felene - her dam is awesome, I chose her b/c of her mom's udder and size. She's a big girl for an Ob, hoping Felene will be, too.
And Reece Cup - I just LOVED her mostly-black face. She's the one I made puppy eyes for...
A shot of the 3 of them together. I'm officially back in the Oberhasli business.
Got them home / put away and then DH had to run over to his mom's and write out checks to pay her bills (she's never written a check in 79 years). While he was gone I started attacking the weedy mess that is my garden. This is the pic I posted last week of it....
Today after I got done.....
The "plan" right now is to build raised beds throughout and put mulch down in between (on top of the plastic) to walk on.
Had a customer come to get the last 2 Nubian boys for 4-H wethers, then we did PM chores / milking, etc. and I made fried chicken, mashed taters, gravy, and peas for dinner.
Was supposed to have another customer coming for buns but....she had a sick calf and we're postponing til later.
I decided that I may as well just sell the 4 turkey hens I have (one was *supposed* to be a gobbler) since I can't find an RP tom to use on them. Plus, I really don't need one more thing to do (run the incubator to hatch them, then have to clean it and brood them). I like having them but...I got enough goin' on, I think.
Soooo tomorrow I have 3 difft. people coming to get turkeys. And hopefully some chicks!
Put the greenouse out 1wk ago today and today we have:
SPROUTS!
Some other random pics -
One of the chicken pens
The GP girls in their newly cleaned out stall.....
I took this one just as it was getting dark, so I had to tweak the lighting.... but this is my 'big' flower bed I'm fittin' to redo.
So there's my weekend....hope you folks had a great one.
OK. Now I gotta tell you about the trip to get the boy (literally haven't sat down long enough to do so this weekend.) Probably end up telling you 'bout the rest of the weekend, too.
I didn't have a clue where I was even going to pick him up, until Saturday morning about 5 mins. before I left. The lady who brought him to Ft. Wayne to meet me, had a kidding emergency that kept her in her barn until midnight Friday night and didn't get back to me, so all I knew was "near Ft Wayne at 8am." She was coming from Columbus, OH en route to Chicago, IL and bringing me my boy somewhere in the middle.
I woke up to an email that said, "I'll text you what road I'm coming into IN/ Ft. Wayne in the morning and you can GPS it."
I was a bit grumpy b/c it was 4:30 am (had to bottle feed / milk before I left) and A) My phone doesn't text and B) I don't HAVE G.P.S.
So I emailed back and told her I didn't HAVE either, I'd need to know SOMETHING so I could mapquest it.
I go down to the barn and come back up to an email that says, "Leaving my house now." And that's it.
GREAT......but there are only 782bazillion roads in IN that lead into Ft. Wayne and I HAVE NO CLUE WHAT ONE TO BE ON!!!!!
So I sorta just sat here, stunned....wondering what to do...do I just get on I-69 and go North and hope or......say forget it....?
She finally calls me at 7:30am to tell me she's coming in on 30. So I took a really fast look at Map Quest and took off.
And got lost. Well, not really lost, lost...but I went 20 miles out of the way or so. (I blame it on the fact that I didn't get to do my usual "stare at mapquest route 20 times before a trip" OCD thing. And it coulda been worse, I coulda been further along before I got that "I think I went the wrong way." feeling.
SOooooooo finally we meet up and I get him in my jeep and she wants to jabber and complain about the customer she's taking goats to in Chicago. I gave her 40$ for her trouble (she fed the lil dude for 2 days and hauled him to me) and off I go....
Got stuck in a traffic snarl on the way home b/c of a 'wide load' being hauled that was being escorted by 6 state cops....made the trip take an extra 25 minutes.
Came home and unloaded him, then had to clean the chick totes, do laundry, clean the kid's room in the barn, put new straw down in the GP stall (rained all night), and pasteurize the milk I hadn't had time to do before I left. DH came home from work, loaded up the log splitter, and took off to his BFF's to help him split wood, since he helped us split ours.
Speaking of chick totes....some of the chicklets...
Then we all met up and ate at Mi Pueblo, my oft-mentioned fav. place to eat on earth....great food and it's cheap, too.....
After that we took off to go 'look' at a rabbit someone had offered DH. Only thing is, if we took her, we had to take her cage, too. This cage is ginormous....we didn't know that....and ain't fittin in DH's truck b/c of the topper....so we decide to come home and get DH's bff's truck (no topper) to get it. The people w/ the bunny tell us we can use their truck instead, so we load up the cage (took 4 of us to lift it) and head home in this rusty, rattly old truck that I'd be scared to go to the store in....but will probably last longer than the new cars made today, in truth.
Here's the cage....It's huge. And yes, that's a skylight in the roof. And there's a 'loft' where she can climb up and bask in the sun.....
And here's the doe. She's a 6 yr old ????. But DH is a sucker for blue so.....we have a new bun.
Come home to egg customers waiting on us. Sell them their eggs, unload the cage (Thank goodness for the bobcat b/c there were only the 3 of us here) and take the truck back.
THEN it's time to feed, milk, etc. so we do that and then disbud the new Ob boy.
Watched a movie, sent Tater (Dh's bff) home, and went to bed.
Today....got up, got chores done, milk pasteurized, and took off to go look at 1 Ob doe. Fell in love, made the puppy eyes, and brought home 2.
Felene - her dam is awesome, I chose her b/c of her mom's udder and size. She's a big girl for an Ob, hoping Felene will be, too.
And Reece Cup - I just LOVED her mostly-black face. She's the one I made puppy eyes for...
A shot of the 3 of them together. I'm officially back in the Oberhasli business.
Got them home / put away and then DH had to run over to his mom's and write out checks to pay her bills (she's never written a check in 79 years). While he was gone I started attacking the weedy mess that is my garden. This is the pic I posted last week of it....
Today after I got done.....
The "plan" right now is to build raised beds throughout and put mulch down in between (on top of the plastic) to walk on.
Had a customer come to get the last 2 Nubian boys for 4-H wethers, then we did PM chores / milking, etc. and I made fried chicken, mashed taters, gravy, and peas for dinner.
Was supposed to have another customer coming for buns but....she had a sick calf and we're postponing til later.
I decided that I may as well just sell the 4 turkey hens I have (one was *supposed* to be a gobbler) since I can't find an RP tom to use on them. Plus, I really don't need one more thing to do (run the incubator to hatch them, then have to clean it and brood them). I like having them but...I got enough goin' on, I think.
Soooo tomorrow I have 3 difft. people coming to get turkeys. And hopefully some chicks!
Put the greenouse out 1wk ago today and today we have:
SPROUTS!
Some other random pics -
One of the chicken pens
The GP girls in their newly cleaned out stall.....
I took this one just as it was getting dark, so I had to tweak the lighting.... but this is my 'big' flower bed I'm fittin' to redo.
So there's my weekend....hope you folks had a great one.
RPC
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Busy, Busy, Busy you are.Well I hope you enjoyed atleast most of it. Congrats on the new Obs they are pretty cute, is Valentine your only boer keeper kid this year? I didn't know rabbits lived to be 6 years old so good luck with her I hope you get some nice kits. I played with a little blue mini rex last night at my friends. It turns out she doesn't own any of the rabbits anymore. They are all the 4-H kids and they bring them to her to breed and raise the kits until they are weaned and then they come pick them all up. I was surprised people did that. She did say she might be able to see if some of the kids will want to sell some if you are interested. I told her you may want a caster. and I think the blue one was a buck so that's the second blue buck for this family. She had 1 red kit and some opals and castors. Well get some rest tonight.
