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[maddysmamaw]

We've got people coming tomorrow to pick up eight piglets. Got a great deal on a load of hay from the lady that works at TSC. Her horses won't eat it and we can really use it in the pig stalls. Trying to fatten poor Princess back up. Ten babies will really suck you dry. When we put her out with the other girls they all pick on her and won't let her eat. They've always been mean to her. She's solid white and apparently pigs stick with like colors.
I have both incubators hatching today, but hovering around it just seems to make time crawl, so I'm gonna try and stay outside and work in the garden. All my muscles seem to have frozen after working out there all day yesterday. Maddy and her mom are in the kitchen making cakes for Easter. I'm being a slug. So goes my weekend so far.

 

[maddysmamaw]

Maddy and Kaydence (my grandson, Draven's little sister) had a sleepover last night and are trying on their new Easter dresses.

 

[pennyJo1960]

We've got people coming tomorrow to pick up eight piglets. Got a great deal on a load of hay from the lady that works at TSC. Her horses won't eat it and we can really use it in the pig stalls. Trying to fatten poor Princess back up. Ten babies will really suck you dry. When we put her out with the other girls they all pick on her and won't let her eat. They've always been mean to her. She's solid white and apparently pigs stick with like colors.
I have both incubators hatching today, but hovering around it just seems to make time crawl, so I'm gonna try and stay outside and work in the garden. All my muscles seem to have frozen after working out there all day yesterday. Maddy and her mom are in the kitchen making cakes for Easter. I'm being a slug. So goes my weekend so far.

Understand the slug.. worn out... felt a bit that yesterday did monthly grocery run
big one then didn't sleep worth beans last night

 

[superchemicalgirl]

@Alaskan now that Black Elk in Anchorage is closed, where are people buying their supplies and leather for moccasin making? Have a transplant down here who used to order from them and was dismayed to find they're closed. Furs and leather here are expensive.

Got any ideas?

 

[Latestarter]

@superchemicalgirl I'd gladly take your goats, but it's a bit cost prohibitive... Now if you happen to be down East Texas way and happen to have them along with you, I'd be more than happy to take them in for you

It's nice to be missed... I guess... I've been here right along, just didn't/really don't have anything worth posting. For those who want pics, here's the momma goat with her 2 kids that I'll be picking up:


The dark kid is a buckling, the light one is a doeling. The buck will be wethered at ~8 weeks and be the intended companion for the herd sire buck I'll get later. Baby goats (any baby animal really) are so cute, don't you think?

I have pictures of the other goats, but since this is a poultry site... well... you know

 

[getaclue]

We've got people coming tomorrow to pick up eight piglets. Got a great deal on a load of hay from the lady that works at TSC. Her horses won't eat it and we can really use it in the pig stalls. Trying to fatten poor Princess back up. Ten babies will really suck you dry. When we put her out with the other girls they all pick on her and won't let her eat. They've always been mean to her. She's solid white and apparently pigs stick with like colors.
I have both incubators hatching today, but hovering around it just seems to make time crawl, so I'm gonna try and stay outside and work in the garden. All my muscles seem to have frozen after working out there all day yesterday. Maddy and her mom are in the kitchen making cakes for Easter. I'm being a slug. So goes my weekend so far.

I had company on Sun., Mon., and Tues. I cleaned house, did laundry, and unpacked boxes on Wed., and Thurs. I'm hoping to do as much of the slug thing as I can today. I've had to take pain med. the past two nights, so I could finally be out of pain enough to get to sleep. I got up early this morning, took 1 of the chandeliers apart, cleaned it, and then put it back together. It took me almost 3 hours, but non of it was really hard to do. I have to go tend the chickens later, but that's all I want to do for today.

 

[maddysmamaw]

I had company on Sun., Mon., and Tues.  I cleaned house, did laundry, and unpacked boxes on Wed., and Thurs.  I'm hoping to do as much of the slug thing as I can today.  I've had to take pain med. the past two nights, so I could finally be out of pain enough to get to sleep.  I got up early this morning, took 1 of the chandeliers apart, cleaned it, and then put it back together.  It took me almost 3 hours, but non of it was really hard to do.  I have to go tend the chickens later, but that's all I want to do for today.

For all that I said about not hovering over the incubators, here I am. Hovering.

(Edited because autocorrect is NOT smarter than I am, darn it!)

 

[superchemicalgirl]

@superchemicalgirl I'd gladly take your goats, but it's a bit cost prohibitive... Now if you happen to be down East Texas way and happen to have them along with you, I'd be more than happy to take them in for you

It's nice to be missed... I guess... I've been here right along, just didn't/really don't have anything worth posting. For those who want pics, here's the momma goat with her 2 kids that I'll be picking up:


The dark kid is a buckling, the light one is a doeling. The buck will be wethered at ~8 weeks and be the intended companion for the herd sire buck I'll get later. Baby goats (any baby animal really) are so cute, don't you think?

I have pictures of the other goats, but since this is a poultry site... well... you know

But this is a random thread on a chicken site and we're all guilty of posting pretty much everything but chickens. This is about life. And goats are life.
Did I miss the breed? Are those saanens or lamancha?

 

[perchie.girl]

Quote:
What SGC said....

we wanna know too.

 

[Alaskan]

Alaskan,  I had a rotten day too.  Only you would understand.   I reached for  a pint of Oberweis Chocolate ice cream -at the grocery store today. When I got home it had changed to Chocolate Peanut butter.    When I was a scruffy youngster used to love ice cream with peanut butter in it.   My mature palate  HATES  IT!!     What to do?.   I made the mistake of eating it  because it cost too much.  It truly made me feel ill.

As a companion mishap,  I was multi tasking in the kitchen,  boiling up water for spaghetti, dropped a portion into the water - then the timer went off letting me know my spaghetti was done.   I then realized I had dumped a new load of spaghetti  on top of the previously  added spaghetti  that was now ready to eat.  I dumped it into the colander and it was fairly easy to pick out the raw stuff, since it was stiff as a board and standing straight up.  In my lifetime of many gaffes  this was  a FIRST for me.  Very hard to do anything with  a brain that is obviously older than I am.

That is HORRID!



One of my kids picked up chocolate peanut butter ice cream a while back... could not eat more than a tiny bite without cringing.

Nasty stuff. Kind of funny too, because I actually like the peanut butter cups.

Also, that nasty ice cream is clearly why the pasta got messed up.

Eating nasty food always addles the brain.

Forgot it was Easter! 


I bet when you butcher her kid her fantasy will be smashed, too! 

Sounds like a lot of services, how do you fit that into an active lifestyle? 


Latestarter, glad you're back and getting into goats. Should have just come to Maine and picked up my two. Take lots of pics! 

The human kids, yesterday, tried to milk her again, they got two full great squirts/streams of milk, and then the goat kids yelled, so mom yelled, and sucked her milk right back up!!! I had heard that they can do that...but wild. Udder went empty and flat, just like that.



Not sure how you do all of the services unless you take the week off. One of the "working stiffs" in the parish worked last weekend, so he could get Thursday and Friday off. He did make it to evening services...those start at 6.

Many just make the evening ones. But tourist season hasn't yet started here, we have lots of seasonal workers....and they are only doing prep work now...so more flexible.

My kids homeschool...so they just took off one week.