sunday morning
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sunday wrap-up
7 meatie chickens–butchered and bagged
12 pepper plants, 6 sweet potato, 6 eggplants planted
Almost the entire garden mulched
11 black copper maran chicks purchased and bedded down
2 greenhouse kits missing parts–6-8 weeks before they’re shipped here
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goodnight moon
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so much to do, so little time…
It happens every spring. Too much to do and not enough time to do it all in. A different type of stress starts to set in and if you’re not careful it starts to invade your thinking. I’ve learned to recognize this stress–much different that the work-day stress I usually deal with. It starts with a rushing around, running errands at a faster than normal pace, noting the time on my car’s clock and wondering where the day went. Pretty soon I’m feeling a bit overwhelmed, wondering why in the world did we even buy those Cornish Cross birds–16 for heaven’s sake! Why did Bob buy more veggies to plant in the garden? Why do we have such a big garden anyway? Whoa—time to slow down a bit and realize that not everything has to be done right away, and not everything has to be done perfectly. The meaties will wait–we can harvest a few now and the others in a few days. The garden can wait another day to be weeded. Just get the plants in the ground tonight, water them tomorrow.
So, we harvested 7 of the meaties. Goodness they were huge! Rather than dipping them and plucking we decided to just skin them and keep the breast, legs and thighs. We packaged up two leg/thighs per quart baggie, and a half breast was big enough for a two-person meal so each half breast was put in a baggie by itself. We’ll do the rest of the birds on Sunday. I put in 12 pepper plants, 6 sweet potato plants and 4 eggplants. Weeded some of th ecarrots and will need to spread more mulching hay tomorrow.
Bob drove to Odessa to pick up feed–around $100 worth this time. Also got a bag of fish food as the catfish are feeling neglected.
We plan to work on the greenhouse most of the day tomorrow. The foundation is finished so we can begin the wall structures. So looking forward to the time when it starts to really look like a greenhouse!
It will ALL get done in Love’s perfect time….
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thursday musing
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my monday mantra
Seems like Mondays are not kind to me for various reasons. I need to remember Emerson’s words…
“Finish every day and be done with it. You have done what you could; some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; you shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.”
Good stuff…
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sunday showers
We spent the last two days working a garage sale and only made about $120. Not a good use of our time I think! Anyway, we’ve been itching to get back home so we could continue work on our new greenhouse kit. I’ll post some pictures soon, but we’ve got the foundation laid and we’re about ready to start the wall construction. Anyway, it’s been raining all day today, and I’m not one to complain about the rain since we need it so badly, but I’m a little bummed that we can’t be out working on the greenhouse!
I’ve been reading up on rabbit rearing since our little kits are almost 4 weeks old now. According to one source the babes can be weaned at 5-6 weeks and the nesting box should be taken away at 18 days. Another website said something different, and I expect that good ‘ole Mother Nature is even more lacksidasical about her timing, so I’m guessing we’ll be okay at just using our common sense and do what seems the best at the right time!
Speaking of Mother Nature, I was reminded again of the strict rules she plays by when we discovered a litter of dead wild rabbits underneath our indoor rabbit hutch in the barn. Apparently a wild rabbit doe came in there and had her kits, then when we shut the doors to the barn she couldn’t get back in to nurse them. The little kits probably died of both hypothermia and starvation. Bob said he did see a rabbit hanging around the barn the other day but didn’t give it much thought as that isn’t such a strange sight around here, but now we know that was probably the momma looking for a way in the barn.
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dorothy’s flower
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spring chives
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new bunnies
Saw an ad on Craig’s List for some baby bunnies. We needed to replenish our stock, since the does that we THOUGHT we had were actually bucks. I was looking for 2 young does. The man said he was sure he had a couple of does so we drove over to his farm (just north of Warrensburg).
WOW….this guy is who we wanna be when we grow up! In addition to rabbits, he had chickens, goats, bees and the most well-kept gardens we’ve seen in a long time. There was a hoop style greenhouse that he built himself, all the outbuildings he built, heck he even built his house. We spent about 2 hours at his place, just looking at everything he had, learning some things in the process. One of his bee hives had started a new swarm on a small apple tree and he had to move it into one of the hives he built. He asked us if we wanted to watch him move the hive–DID we?? He got his bee keeper suit on and we stood about 10 feet back while he slowly moved the swarming bees from the tree into the box. Really cool stuff! It was really interesting talking to him and learning about some new things. We ended up with 2 6 week old New Zealand does, a bred black doe (cross with his white New Zealand doe and a black something or other buck), 6 4-foot tall tomato plants (different heritage varieties), a pot of cilantro plants, 2 pots of other assorted herb plants and cuttings from his blackberry vines–all for only $40. A really nice guy, and we hope to keep in touch with him.
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