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[Peep_Show]

Coco Dairy Farm is about to open...

Coco Chevre!

It's not often these days you truly get to enjoy silence. Always something in the background making a slight noise...

@perchie.girl
New Mexico is an interesting place...Taos even more so. Folks up there claim to have the Taos Hum, a pitch that no one can identify where it is coming from. Well, I'm not in Taos but I have the same hum in my guest bathroom and it's driving me slightly nuts. Not a single appliance or generator or anyting remotely electrical on in the house, garage or vicinity and there is this very odd hum in that room only. So I avoid that room.

It is a true luxury to be able to absent yourself from all the auditory distraction and clear the conscious of chatter. Enjoy it, deb!

 

[ozexpat]

Coco Chevre!

What are the odds of 9 doelings in a row?

1:512

It just happened.

Our final doe just delivered.

I need to buy a lottery ticket

 

[Peep_Show]

Fabulous! Your water must have the right acidity. One year I had just about nothing but bucks (14 out of 17) and someone suggested we change our water or change out buck. I loaned my buck out and they got pretty much all doelings, so that left the water......

Congrats! Your herd just expanded the easy way.

 

[drumstick diva]

Make sure to put 9 in your lottery ticket

 

[superchemicalgirl]

*doing rain dance for ron and deb and all who need rain*

I'll happily send my snow to y'all. I was wrong, Arielle. I misread the forecast. It's approximately 4 inches A DAY not per the storm. 4x3=12.

 

[perchie.girl]

@perchie.girl
New Mexico is an interesting place...Taos even more so. Folks up there claim to have the Taos Hum, a pitch that no one can identify where it is coming from. Well, I'm not in Taos but I have the same hum in my guest bathroom and it's driving me slightly nuts. Not a single appliance or generator or anyting remotely electrical on in the house, garage or vicinity and there is this very odd hum in that room only. So I avoid that room.

It is a true luxury to be able to absent yourself from all the auditory distraction and clear the conscious of chatter. Enjoy it, deb!

There are several notations in history from some of the first explorers of America noting an audible hum or throming noise... Variousl places too. I believe it was Lewis and Clark but I could be mistaken.

I used to live in Roswell back in 1960s I was turning Six at the time... We didnt know about the "crash" but when we moved there Dads job was to work on Missile silo installations. All over New Mexico. He had a Top Secret Clearance then... His next job took us to Vegas and he worked for a company called EG&G... He worked on a different kind of silo there...

But he always said that tale about Jericho could be true. Because Everything has a Resonant frequency and if you can find the frequency you could crumble walls. Big ones.

deb

 

[drumstick diva]

very interesting

 

[ozexpat]

ooh ahhh

 

[superchemicalgirl]

Adorable.

Got up and got everyone fed and watered and ready for the next storm. Once the fabric store opens I will have to go there and get some stuff to work on some projects this weekend so I'm not snowed in with nothing to sew (the horror).

 

[Arielle]

Quote: I'm green with envy. I'm NOT looking forward to shoveling another 10 inches, but as I tell my kids if you can do this, you can do anything. IT is character building. lol

Quote: I was surprised that those with lawn still get to water, but the farmers were cut back severely--- or did I misunderstand the situation?? I cant eat grass, but I sure can munch on carrots, and broccalli !! ( I'm all for more effective watering of crops, of course.)

Today was good I am tired but in a good way... went up to the house and didnt realize the truck was on fumes till the fuel light came on half way there... But the light comes on I can still do two hundred miles.... LOL.

Yep the house is full of cobwebs and Cat box detridus... and little bits of carpet from shredded cat trees. They are long gone and it was wonderful to be able to fling the door open and leave it open the whole time I was there. I havent really been inside the house in about a year. Cobwebs everywhere... dirty windows Stuff scattered about.

All left over from when the Roommate finially got her (insert expletive here) out of my house. she only left it there for two years... Insert sarcasm here .... So no more Cats no more Roommate... Funny thing me... I am not happy with every thing askew and scattered about.... but if you take everything and straighten it up leave it in the same spot but make straight lines parallel to the walls... I feel soo much better. I took it a step further... anything to be kept got squared and pushed up to the wall or placed on the wire shelving. Anything to be tossed got put in a garbage bag...

Then I took the shop vac and vacummed up anything loose.... Cat toys included... A few I tossed into a bucket but the rest swoop into the shop vac. I only worked from the bathroom through the kitchen through the dining room and to the front door. All scooting backwards on my walker seat. It was very satisfying.

I did pull the half supported shelf down off the wall... tryihng to reach a big can of grape juice... Trying not to tip it off.... No worries... It was so stuck I will have to use a putty knife to remove it... LOL. I just pulled it down because it was askew and pushed it up against the back splash... Bag of flour fell apart and dumped flower all over the counter... I tossed it and pushed the shelf up against the loose flour... again happy camper. There are ruptured canned goods on the next shelf down.

I will tend the counter in the kitchen next time I go up... I put some bowls in the sink they were just dusty and cob webby I wanted them out of the way.

So now house is "decent" enough for the propane guy to come in... I go out to the truck and move it to where I can tie off the load of tree branches I have in back... And wait for the propane guy. Cell sevice there is very very iffy... But I got a bar when i tried diling out and actually got hold of dispach for the Propane... She got on another line and located the propane guy and came back and told me he was twenty minutes away... Woo Hoo. I got there at Eleven AM and he was there by ONe thirty.

I have met him only three times each time I am impressed by how nice and friendly and quick to do the stuff he needed to do. He inspected my tank pressure the filled the tank with 200 gallons of Propane.... then he came in and in order to light the water heater we had to purge the air out of the lines. So I turned on the stove It took about ten minutes before it would light. and the flame had lots of yellow in it... I asked... "Is that from air in the lines?" "Yep..." Soon as we had flame on the stove he went in to light the water heater... That took about ten minutes too because It had quite a bit of air in the line.

So I signed off on the work He shook my hand and was off. I unloaded the truck by driving out from under the wood... remember I tied it off to a tree. A few branches were left that I had to unload by hand and I will be darned. ONe fliped up and a sharp point sliced me from my ear to my cheek... My son says I look like I been in a Knife fight.

So I am home and getting ready to order pizza. House smells like Lysol and Lemon Pledge... so we dont cook on house cleaner Fridays... YAY.

But there was something that struck me resoundingly when I was at the house. The minute I turned the truck off I was overwhelmed With SILENCE... I just sat there and soon I could hear the wind when It would stirr up the chaparal twenty or thirty acres away and I could track that wave till it washed over me. Then I could hear a very faint "doodle Doooooo..." A kazoo Cocrel on the adjacent property... and I could hear Katee Clearing out her nostrils and the thump thump of her feet as she patrolled her space.

The work I love.... the Peace Is what I miss. No one calling for this or asking for that or filling me in on the progress of something... No one ... but ME.

Sounds selfish I suppose it is... so be it.


deb

Deb you need to write an autobiography!!! Selfish is only selfish when someone else gets hurt; filling your own well is a blessing.

Quote: ANd people still get to water lawns?????? WHen is a crisis not really a crisis? When lawns are still green.

Where I lived growing up no one watered the lawns. Well water was not wasted: house hold use, fast showers, and watering the vegie gardens.

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Sorry for all the snow. It definitely is a white winter!!!

My kids are participating in a Klondike Derby today, on 2 different teams, from 8-4 today. 4 kids acting like dogs pulling a very heavy wooden musher sled, stopping at stations to show skills like fire starting, knot tieing, etc. I bowed out!!!! NOT standing around for 8 hrs in the frigid cold. WOuld rather be on a team--- they will be warm!! I'll be warm too

, shoveling to prep for next storm, and doing dishes and laundry--

ooh ahhh

Good mommas are precious!