Kids are trying to talk me into getting chain linked fence installed. I told them, I'd be willing to check prices, but no promises.
So this is hell week....I meet myself going and coming, dealing with kid stuff. I drop them off at church in the morning, pick them up at noon, get them dressed for dancing workshop, then I get them back and chances are I have a few....or lots of neighborhood kids tagging along. Looking forward to next week.
Okay, so my buck is acting like he will ram me. So besides beating him and probably making it worse, BBQing him and letting him beat me, what to do to stop this bullying? He is getting big and I don't need to be rammed by a buck and break my leg.
Well, I'm mostly milking out 2 quarts a day from a single milking and getting older daughters to milk on the weekends. I'm about to try my first batch of goat's cheese and see if I can do something with that, because my kids are silly about the milk. They accept it in coffee, but they find it too creamy to just drink.
I've been killing myself preserving figs these past 2 days, after days of picking and freezing so I could do them all at once.......which I think is the only way to go. Well, I easily have enough for my family to last the year and from here on out, whatever I do will be extra and to barter, sell or give. I might get wild with it. I can do some blackberry jam as well and later get wild with a few marmalade recipes I now have........finally!!! Why I never thought to just buy a recipe book specializing in marmalade, is beyond me. I followed a recipe last year from 'Back to Basics' and its not thick at all. I still have the marmalade and might make some buscuits to use it on, but seems like it should be like a jelly. IDK, cuz I never was in the habbit of eating it, I wasn't raised with it and no one I know knows diddly squat about it.
So lots of thunder, grumbelling all around me, but the sun is shining and its monsterously hot. My dad's lawnmower is in the shop and has lots of damage and apparently its up to me to decide to fix it and with the amount it will cost, I think I will change my tune about not considering it mine. But the bad news is things are overgrown and I've put up a fence, temporarily, where I've previously had one before and opened the gates to allow all the animals to feast in the garden/jungle. Apparently I haven't starved them out of the coop and barn yet. They not hungry enough to check out the buffet I set out for them. IDK...
So all is Okay with DH and I provided he isn't drinking. He has cooked lunch on Sundays a couple of times, so we can all eat at 'his house' after Mass, before I go in to work for my last 16 hour shift. He pretty much never comes to my house, unless its for something really fast....he laughs at my new cookoo clock, does whatever and leaves, usually without any drama, so thats nice.
Its time for someone to invent an air conditioned body suit, so I can go out there and do all I need to do.
