Samssimonsays: Blazing Acres journal

[samssimonsays]

How many goats do you have in all now?

We are up to six now

 

[TAH]

I have one more than you . Soon thou I I'll have 4 less than you. Naomi is coming .

 

[samssimonsays]

@Latestarter he was working hard and got tired.

I have one more than you . Soon thou I I'll have 4 less than you. Naomi is coming .

Hahaha that is great news on Naomi! We don't want that many.... We have the four does and two bucks now . It's a nice number. I think I could handle two more does tops. But when it comes to milking.... I'm going to have to see how to juggle it without exhausting myself with waking up at 330 every morning to milk.

 

[samssimonsays]

@Latestarter you can see he was working very hard protecting me yesterday

 

[TAH]

We milk at a 11:00 in the morning and 9:00 in evening. It does not change the milk difference for our does.

 

[Latestarter]

Hmmm I believe the difference is Sam has to work... I doubt her boss would be agreeable with her showing up after noon...

 

[samssimonsays]

@TAH @Latestarter is correct. I live 1.5 hours from where I work and have to be there at seven in the morning. I am up at 4:30 am already with two does to milk(because of how early I am up I also go to bed by 9pm). I also have to feed and water all before leaving for work in clouding the rabbits, goats, cats and dogs. My husband will usually do the dogs if I can't but I still have to get myself ready and remember my lunch, this past week has not been a good one for that.... I milk right away at 4:30 if my husband's hours are earlier than normal and then I get ready or I get ready sans the work clothes and milk of he has normal hours and when I'm done I chance back into to my dress clothes. Then I get home and milk again at around 6 ish.

 

[samssimonsays]

Hope everyone has a safe and wonderful 4th of July!

 

[samssimonsays]

I can't believe that this is the first day I've been able to use the clothes line this year.... Either I've not gotten a start on laundry until its too late to line dry them or its been raining. It feels nice to have them out there drying today!

 

[samssimonsays]

Well, we got hit with yet another bad storm last night. This one also missed us but not by much....

Here are some photos I screen shot from a video I was taking of driving into the storm... I was not sure what I was getting into as the radio was warning to seek shelter... Thankfully It veered the opposite direction from me ever so slightly so I only had to drive the last 10 miles in the bad storm. Straight Line winds of 70+ MPH and a lot of damage was left in it's wake. Areas in "The cities" (what we call Minneapolis, St. paul and other surrounding areas down there) flooded and many people in Minnesota were and still are without power.

And here are photos that I was sent of some of the damage from the storm...

This is three big storms in three weeks... We don't get this weather here often... Maybe once every year if not every 3 years. It is definitely out of the norm.