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If you can believe it, i planted more tulips and crocuses today! And mulched the other area i planted a while ago. Here is a picture of the bulbs coming up around the bird bath...
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Blooie said:
My theory is that if I really, really wanted to do something I’d have done it, or found someone to do it for me. So cheer up! You’re not losing a stove - you’re gaining free time! :oops:



Oh, man, don’t get ME started on 9 hour drives to nothing! I can’t tell you how many of these long drives for visitations we’ve done where we get there and there’s no dinner planned, just the meeting, and no other ladies are there. So I sit in the closed off part of the Lodge building with not a soul to talk to, a phone and iPad I couldn’t really use to come here and visit, and a book that I wasn’t really interested in reading! A lot of times there was no way to know in advance if there would be anyone else there. If I knew in advance that there was nothing going on except the meeting, I just stayed in the hotel. :he



From September to the end of Novenber we put 18,000 miles on the car - and never left the state! Texas might be big, but here we have to drive around and up and over to get anywhere! So what looks like a simple 200 mile drive turns into anything but! :lau



Happy birthday, Frankenfoot!!!! I agree with the others, Debby! Pictures!!! Drive carefully, especially if you take Muddy Gap through the Gas Hills!




Congratulations!!!! That’s so exciting, and you’ll be wonderful! That comfy box is overrated, as I’ve found over the last year! I ain’t the “formals and fancy duds” type, and I can’t hear in crowds. Plus if I get nervous, that da.....darned old stutter tends to come back. But I have to confess that despite my complaints, which I guess have been many, once I stepped out of that box I’ve had a lot of fun, too! I’m excited for you!

Nothing new here. Took a Fee to her second home yesterday after the kids picked Katie and Kendra up. Silly dog - we get there and she prances around like a clumsy ballerina, waiting for Lee to come out to put her a kennel collar on, then check her in. Then Lee opens the door to the kennels and Fee charges in and plops her hiney down right in front of her run, waiting for the gate to open so she can run in. So glad we found such a great place, but kennel bills are starting to eat us alive!

Kendra got sick at school yesterday so we had to go get her early. Little stinker got here and played hard the rest of the day. I think she’s learned to play hooky! She was helping me clean house again! Oh joy! She’s decided that if the floors need mopping, she can hit the water dispenser on the fridge, let ‘er run, and because I toss her some paper towels and warn her to clean up her mess, she’s mopping the floor! Yes, I have a lock button, and yes, she just reaches up and hits the button to unlock it. But it is kinda cute, even if she does end up soaking wet. Yesterday she decided it was the sink that needed to be cleaned, followed by sweeping the floor. Man, I love that kid, and as annoying as it can get, we know she’s mimicing behaviors and doing more than the doctors told us she would ever be capable of doing, so we’ll take it!

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Thanks Blooie! Cute pictures of Kendra!
drumstick diva said:
You'll be great DigMyChicks:yesss:
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Thanks DD!
CapricornFarm said:
If you can believe it, i planted more tulips and crocuses today! And mulched the other area i planted a while ago. Here is a picture of the bulbs coming up around the bird bath...
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I can’t wait to see something green, including weeds!
 
JaeG said:
They are cute but very expensive here - I'd be looking at $10,000 a goat! Can't wait to see your babies though. I really want some Nubians one day. I love their floppy ears.
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10 THOUSAND!?!?! :eek: is that American or New Zealand dollars??? I don’t know the exchange rate so don’t know which is less but wow that is a lot of money!!!

Here they can be pretty expensive, they can get up to like $800 or $1,000 for really good milking lines and pedigree and that stuff but usually not. Usually even well bred ones are like $400, $500, $600, around there. But some get as low as $200, $300. But anyway, those are for super well bred, registered, breeding does and bucks. Wethers, of any breed, are usually around like $125, $150, $175, sometimes less. But anyway, long story short, I thought some of the $800 ones or even the $400 ones were expensive/a rip off but definitely nowhere near as much as $10,000!! $500 or even $1,000 seems extremely reasonable now!!! LOL but there are also a ton of Nigerian Dwarfs here, at least in my area, and a lot of really good nationally known breeders/lines right in New England so they can’t up the prices too much ha but usually even from the same breeder, price is highly dependent on the parents and some other factors. So the same one can have $200 does and $600 ones.
 
This morning I was cleaning out our finches, under which is the cockatiel nest. I could hear the babies grizzling because I was making their roof move, but when I looked underneath I couldn't see either of them. I looked behind the cages but still couldn't see them (and there's not enough room for me to get down on my hands and knees to look underneath from that side). So I moved all three stacked cages to find where they'd got to.

One was on the wrong side of one of the pieces of wood that are holding up the cages (so Button quail don't get stuck in the bars!), and the other one was the wrong side of the other piece of wood. Their crops were empty so I suspect they'd had a bit of a hungry night. Their parents seemed pleased to see them and filled them up as I held them. It's not at all cold here at the moment (and very humid to boot which is awful) so they weren't cold. But I have organised them a brand new nest which should stop them getting to where they shouldn't be, and I've seen the parents feeding them in there so we're all good.

Babies on Friday:
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Babies on Saturday
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And babies on Sunday (this morning).
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They are starting to grow feathers on their cheeks and the younger, at the front of the photo, looks like it's going to have the pearl pattern (I think).
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And here's their lovely, new, safe nest.
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