Wednesday, March 1, 2006 - Howdy, Strangers! |
Whew! I made it! Every time I come here to update my blog, it seems
like I get distracted by the other blogs. I read through a bunch of
them, and by the time I'm done, I don't have time to blog myself! But
today...here I am! It's a miracle! This morning I found Jenette at Tender Mercies.
She recently got a hand grain mill. I always wondered how much work it
was to grind by hand. Now I know! Sounds like a lot! 
I've also been spending my usual blog time by looking for airline
tickets and rental cars for our family to visit my in-laws out west. We
haven't visited since our older son was nine months old (he'll be 7 in
May). We're all excited to be going, but it will be a lot of work to
get ready. We think we have found a goat baby-sitter for while we are
gone - an Amish farmer who can milk our Daisy. We still have to find
someone to feed the rest of our animals, but that shouldn't be as hard
to do. That is the thing about homesteading. It can be tricky to find
the right time to travel when you have animals. Hopefully this will
turn out to be a good time - right before the baby chicks, and also
right before starting our (admittedly small) garden.
Speaking of chicks, we are finally starting to get a few eggs from our
laying hens! Yee-haw! What an egg-less winter this was! Right now we
only have four hens that are of laying age, and three more that should
start laying sometime this spring. I'm going to try talking my husband
into getting a dozen pullet chicks this spring. I think he'll go for
it. He loves the eggs as much as I do. Too bad it's such a long wait
from chicks to eggs.
One more thing. Can I just say: H U R R A Y F O R M A R C H!
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Wednesday, March 1, 2006 - Untitled Comment |
| Posted by kayinpa |
| Wow, sounds like you have some exciting things going on...air travel, eggs and the like! yes my daughter just missed being leap year, except that it was a planned c-section. She was transverse the last month I was pregnant and would not get into position. I lived 45 minutes from the place where we planned to deliver. I said there was no way I was going to schedule a c-section on the 29th, so I made it for the 1st...looking back, I probably should have postponed it another week, but such is life! :) |
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I'm a midwestern gal, living my dream life on 7 acres in the country. I love Jesus, my husband, three children, Daisy the Wonder Goat, and our chickens. I'd still love to someday have a miniature jersey milk cow.
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