Samssimonsays: Blazing Acres journal

[samssimonsays]

We'll take your rain!

I hear you on the flooding. We got so much rain in the late winter/early spring that every pen was just churned up mud. I ended up putting pallets down in the milkers' pen so they could get to the gate without wading through the mud. At least their shelter was on higher ground.

Man... that doesn't sound like a situation the goats would enjoy! My girls are in the barn and dry for now but not happy to be cooped up. Dry > happiness at this point, am I right? I am very thankful we did not get into the poultry side of things this year like we had planned. That would have been horrible.

 

[samssimonsays]

And drum roll please.....

WE HAVE POWER!!! At least I will be able to milk the girls tonight with light. Last night I used a head lamp and a lantern that just wasn't the same. They also did not appreciate the LED lights vs the normal lights..

 

[Poka_Doodle]

I'd take your rain. We are very dry here.

 

[Latestarter]

I agree Poka... I haven't had a good rain in weeks, and my lawn (weeds are still green - go figure) is brown, dead, dormant Side benefit is I don't have to mow in 100 degree weather as often...

 

[samssimonsays]

If I could disperse it to y'all, I would... Our ground is so saturated that the very large trees are uprooting and tipping over. I am glad we aren't dry but this is just outrageous amounts. Our normal rain total is 4" for the month of january. In the one bad storm that hit us last week we got 2-3" at once in some areas. If it could just let up a little we would be happy.

 

[Poka_Doodle]

Yeah, I know the feeling. Believe it or not late starter out hailed in Wyoming on Sunday.

 

[Goat Whisperer]

Hope you start feeling better soon!

Sorry about the storms, happy that you have power again. So glad you haven't had any major damage!

The storm pics are beautiful. Its hard to beat the beauty of a storm.
That and well, say a super nice dairy goat- they are beautiful

 

[samssimonsays]

Hope you start feeling better soon!

Sorry about the storms, happy that you have power again. So glad you haven't had any major damage!

The storm pics are beautiful. Its hard to beat the beauty of a storm.
That and well, say a super nice dairy goat- they are beautiful

hahaha thank you. I am still just not up to par quite yet but hopefully soon. I got a stall rigged together for the baby boys last night and now that they are standing in dry hay and they don't have to worry about wet feet anywhere, they are MUCH happier!

Y'all know how easy it is to make a weaning kid happy? Not very, that is for sure!

I do love those storm pics but the drive through it was not something I would like to repeat. People are still without power from that one where the heavy damage happened. Hopefully soon they will get everything back up and running.

 

[samssimonsays]

Well, I am finally fighting off the horrible cold I cam down with. The sinus pressure has diminished and it has all drained into my chest . Slowly but surely I am getting healthy again!

In other news, I made a hard farmers cheese over the weekend. I had made it before but it had no taste but great texture... This time I played with it and added Dill to it. It tastes and smells like bread dough....

I hope to make more caramels soon and I have ordered my Chevre and Cheddar cultures as well as my first cheese press!

It was a beautiful day out Saturday for the first time in a VERY long time so the goats got to be out loose on the property. With this came one hiccup. Neighbors driving HORRIBLY loud and awful sounding four wheeler open throttle past our house every 5 minutes or so for over 6 hours. (there was a line of about 3 or 4 different ones but the worst was one very loud one that just sounded like crap). One of the times after we flagged them down and asked them nicely about just waiting to get past our house to open up (there is a home directly across from us who has a new baby and there are no other houses close to the road after us and very few houses in general past us) they cracked the throttle nice and loud on the one horrible sounding one and scarlet was eating near a piece of gazebo leg. Well, when she lifted her head suddenly she must have gotten in stuck in it. It was quite the sight!!! I tried to pull but she wanted to be near me so she'd walk towards me and push her face against me like usual. Well, this does one absolutely NO good when trying to pull something off of her head. She really is not the brightest bulb if ya catch mah drift. So, I lifted it and had her walk with me, with this around her neck. I really wish there was some sort of photo or video of this because it was a sight to be seen. We would make it three steps and she would step on it and bring us to a halt. FINALLY I made it close enough that I could yell for my husband who was in the garage with the radio on. He had to bend/break the gazebo leg to get it wide enough to get it off of her head. I have ZERO clue how in the heck she got her head in it to begin with but it sure was an ordeal to get it off of her for the two of us. This was the first time she has done something like this. Her SON, however, has done something like this several times with pallets and other openings . At least they are cute and sweet to make up for the lack of brains .

 

[Latestarter]

Glad you're starting to feel better. Must be a relief that it wasn't one of those pandemic sicknesses that turn you into a flesh eating zombie. Then again, if it had been, I bet those 4 wheelers would have kept their distance...Of course there would have been many more serious concerns, so just as well. Maybe you can shoot out their tires as they pass? Moving target practice for when the zombies do come? DH is a firefighter, right? so he must know some folks on the police force. Should be able to get the OK to proceed

Glad to hear your goats are acting like goats