SageHill
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WOW!!! That looks great!!
Coffee anyone ?
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It's the best way to keep track of recipes. I can also add my own.
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Good evening everyone. Crazy thick fog this afternoon, evening and night so far. Getting ready to go milk in it. Sure can't wait to figure out a new milking place/set up at the new house. Can't be milking outside in the weather there. Both new calves are doing well. Had a little overeating scours but got one cleared up with limited feedings and imodium. The other was getting worse and started suspecting a bug was in play. Started treating him and sure enough in 24 hours I see dramatic improvement. He was actually up and ready for feeding today and trying to butt me for milk. Hopefully he's on the mend now and we can slowly increase feeding times soon. The heifer (DH's baby) that's coming due to calve is looking closer by the day. Really would like to have these calves squared away before taking that on. Everything is still very muddy which is limiting where we can have everyone so it's going to be a challenge. One way or another we'll figure it out.
DH is out working on his current rig project. More parts came. More things found that needed to be replaced. He finished rewiring the old trailer last night so it sounds like he's ready to do bearings and brake stuff on it then it will be ready to start packing for his trip out. We're both having a lot of anxiety over nothing really happening as far as physically moving. I'm really getting to the point where my mind is going back and forth with looking forward to finally moving on with our lives and imagining what it's going to be like and being panicked thinking it's never truly going to get finished. Silly but it's been so many years in the making now with so many let down's it's hard to look positively towards the future. Each day we get closer and it will feel like it when we get another load going and when I can figure out how we will manage the dairy cows so I can get back to moving loads. I know some of you probably understand how I'm feeling. I just pray it's all going to be worth it in the end.
Made taco soup for supper last night so we'll eat on that a day or two. Have some burger pulled to make hamburger patties tonight or tomorrow. Made butter last night with night before last's cream. Have last nights cream warming to make butter out of it later. Will continue to separate the cream until we get a decent supply of butter back in the freezer or the calves start keeping up with the cow. Will probably get cream from the heifer when she calves too. Won't likely make cheeses again until we are moved but everything for that is still here so we'll see.
I can hear our cow calling so I guess I'd better get off of here and get to milking.
Have a fantastic night all!
DH is out working on his current rig project. More parts came. More things found that needed to be replaced. He finished rewiring the old trailer last night so it sounds like he's ready to do bearings and brake stuff on it then it will be ready to start packing for his trip out. We're both having a lot of anxiety over nothing really happening as far as physically moving. I'm really getting to the point where my mind is going back and forth with looking forward to finally moving on with our lives and imagining what it's going to be like and being panicked thinking it's never truly going to get finished. Silly but it's been so many years in the making now with so many let down's it's hard to look positively towards the future. Each day we get closer and it will feel like it when we get another load going and when I can figure out how we will manage the dairy cows so I can get back to moving loads. I know some of you probably understand how I'm feeling. I just pray it's all going to be worth it in the end.
Made taco soup for supper last night so we'll eat on that a day or two. Have some burger pulled to make hamburger patties tonight or tomorrow. Made butter last night with night before last's cream. Have last nights cream warming to make butter out of it later. Will continue to separate the cream until we get a decent supply of butter back in the freezer or the calves start keeping up with the cow. Will probably get cream from the heifer when she calves too. Won't likely make cheeses again until we are moved but everything for that is still here so we'll see.
I can hear our cow calling so I guess I'd better get off of here and get to milking.
Have a fantastic night all!
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Another pound and a half of butter put in the freezer. Another gallon of cream collected tonight. Just finished chilling it and putting it in the fridge until tomorrow. I'll make butter again. Sure dreaming of a bigger butter churn these days. 
DH has decided he wants to make ice cream tonight so I left him some cream. Can you imagine?! Ice cream when it's in the 30's outside? Takes forever to warm up once we are in the house and he's wanting ice cream. Crazy I tell ya. Just crazy. 
About time to feed the calves supper then I can be done for the rest of the night I think. Talked to our friends at the dairy. Still waiting on the cow to calve. She's close to her due date now so really hoping that means it's a bull and we'll be set for our heifer to calve. This will be a second calf for her to raise. Still praying she has a bull then I won't have to worry about getting a second bull from the dairy to trade. Wishful thinking I think but I can still hold out a little hope. She was awful slow to supper tonight and she's not due until friday......... Please don't have a heifer. Please don't have a heifer.
Calves are calling. Guess I'd better go feed them. Hope you all have a great sunday full of blessings!
DH has decided he wants to make ice cream tonight so I left him some cream. Can you imagine?! Ice cream when it's in the 30's outside? Takes forever to warm up once we are in the house and he's wanting ice cream. Crazy I tell ya. Just crazy. About time to feed the calves supper then I can be done for the rest of the night I think. Talked to our friends at the dairy. Still waiting on the cow to calve. She's close to her due date now so really hoping that means it's a bull and we'll be set for our heifer to calve. This will be a second calf for her to raise. Still praying she has a bull then I won't have to worry about getting a second bull from the dairy to trade. Wishful thinking I think but I can still hold out a little hope.
She was awful slow to supper tonight and she's not due until friday......... Please don't have a heifer. Please don't have a heifer. Calves are calling. Guess I'd better go feed them. Hope you all have a great sunday full of blessings!
Baymule
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Coffee is ready! Tinkerbelle and Maybelline are fed, clean dog crate, and now I can have my coffee. At daylight I’ll go feed the orphans. Church this morning, rush home, feed all 4 lambs, take girls to my sister’s house in Conroe to meet my DD and DSIL, then back in time to feed the lambs again, do outside chores. It’s 22 degrees here!!
Mini Horses
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That's a cold TX morning! Sounds more like my area. BUT light rains here and 42*, so no snow 
Looks like that's about our all day temp, only .4" is suggested over all day. Heavy sprinkles? We've actually not had any rain in a couple weeks. It'll be fine. Only usual chores planned. Won't mess up my day.
Breakfast was pumpkin pie. Made late yesterday. More coffee now, daylight just starting. I'll check out any rain.
Looks like that's about our all day temp, only .4" is suggested over all day. Heavy sprinkles? We've actually not had any rain in a couple weeks. It'll be fine. Only usual chores planned. Won't mess up my day.Breakfast was pumpkin pie. Made late yesterday. More coffee now, daylight just starting. I'll check out any rain.
Weldman
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We are having "Oh BTW" weather as I would call it. Forecast says one thing such as partly cloudy highs of this temperature, then on the same day it goes to "Oh BTW" we forgot to mention winds over 40 mph with snow showers too, hope you planned your day for that. It is flipping so fast, that it is within hours it changes 180°.
Supposed to hit 42°F, but I call BS, supposed to have been calm day of around 20 mph winds, that turned to over 40 mph. I bet there is some random snow in there too.
Supposed to hit 42°F, but I call BS, supposed to have been calm day of around 20 mph winds, that turned to over 40 mph. I bet there is some random snow in there too.
SageHill
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Coffee done, some pretty wispy clouds and blue sky. 56 climbing to 78 -- it ain't right. Just checked the barn cams, no lambs yet and those two black girls are getting huge. Thinking twins each. And last night looking more closely at the rest looks like there is another one that is getting big. Checked her number and she didn't lamb last time so there may be another.
Kids are coming over (DS,DDIL, DGS) later today. There's stinging nettle in the big turnout and DDIL may be taking some.
Off to the sheep for me.
Kids are coming over (DS,DDIL, DGS) later today. There's stinging nettle in the big turnout and DDIL may be taking some.
Off to the sheep for me.
Blue Sky
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Morning all. Yesterday was a mess. But it worked out. Too much to detail so I’ll try to bullet point and add humor. Early morning Hubbs lets Caddo out on the big pasture while I tell him he’ll get out. He got out. Cue language. Hubbs takes Sophie to find Caddo while I tell him she will just take off. She does. Cue more language. The front gate leading to the busy highway is open because the in-ground cable for our new, improved internet is to be installed. So a crew of strangers on the way and dogs out. More language. The time window for installation comes and goes. Hubbs calls and is assured the crew is on its way. Hubbs searches usual places and completes cold weather prep as temps to drop to 16 degrees twelve hours hence. Bottle lamb doing poorly so I’ve been up and down at night for the last 48 monitoring it and the space heater. I alternate between glaring at the treeline, growling at Hubbs and falling asleep at the kitchen table (in other words being largely useless). We need milk so as I prepare to leave there’s an annoyed bark at the gate. Caddo and Sophie have returned wet, sore (old age ain’t for sissies or cruising the woods) and full of cockleburrs. Or cuckleburrs. Only an LGD would go AWOL then bark to be let back in. 4:30 pm cable guy finally arrives seven hours late to start work. He tells us the crew is on the way and will work after dark until he realizes where the cable has to go. Woods, steep hill after the Dead Marshes (see Tolkien) ok it’s Seasonal Marshes. Then past the dog pen where Moses is losing his mind barking. I can’t put him anywhere else because of this and that AND these goobers need access to the house to wire for the router gear etc. No they can’t use existing wiring. They pick the only place I didn’t clean and start drilling. Livestock except dogs fed, bottle lamb improved. One lamb born during all this. A decision is made to halt work and the cable is presently running across the yard unburied. It crosses two gas lines, and the septic line. What could go wrong burying that. The Install Guy complimented me on what nice dogs I had. “Those two tan ones followed me around when I was here yesterday” as he scratches Caddo and Sophie. YESTERDAY? My brain screams. He was here yesterday and. I. Never. Saw. Him. A tic started under my right eye and a slight nosebleed developed. Now I reorganized two closets and did laundry plus but someone came and left??? Aghhh! I need a Chihuahua nothing gets past them. Sorry this post got away from me.
