All I want for Christmas is ....

[Farmfresh]

I remember a month spent in the barn as a teen. Over a month and in March and APRIL to be exact and a cold year to boot. My favorite mare was to foal around April 1, so I started living in an adjoining stall around the 20th of March. Every night, all night, there I was in my sleeping bag. I was bound and determined NOT to miss a thing. Some nights I was COLD and miserable.

The mare foaled - AFTER carrying the foal three days short of a YEAR!! A whole month overdue for her first foal. After all of those miserable nights she foaled on May 1 at 4:00 in the afternoon on a nice sunshiny day in the pasture. She foaled with no problems at all.

We did get video and since I did not show up for our 4-H meeting on time the meeting came to us. There were 30+ visitors that saw the foal and pet and handled her right after she stood up. Talk about imprinting!

Still I remember lots of pleasant times in a night time barn.

 

[HannaLee]

I have my Christmas list on my front page of Yahoo, for easy access by my family.


"Hardware cloth and wood for my chicken coop"
"Solar oven"
"Stainless steel ladle"
"Subscription to Backwoods Home"
"Cast iron tripod"
"Materials to make the back room closet into a full sized pantry"

 

[Farmfresh]

I found a great SS gift online today from Territorial Seed Company they are offering a wide variety of gift collections for Christmas. Territorial Seed Gifts

They have a Canning Collection, a Heritage Seed Collection, an Urban Jungle Collection, Territorial's Tub o'Treasures and many others. Check it out an easy (if not cheap) gift for any SSer.

 

[lorihadams]

Oh Oh, my turn!

I want a new chicken house, a goat barn, more acreage, and a walking foot for my sewing machine.

For my birthday this past year I asked for chicken feed. Seriously.

 

[Farmfresh]

Now I want a Elite meat grinder from TSC .... and a new digital camera (for HOMESTEAD record keeping of course. )

 

[justusnak]

a new digital camera (for HOMESTEAD record keeping of course. )

But of COURSE!

 

[hwillm1977]

hmmm... things I'd like aren't really that fancy, but fun for me

A solar hot water heater (my dad builds homemade ones)

Bags of pink insulation

Gift Certs for building supply stores (we need drywall)

A plunge/fixed router or a table saw

Plumbing to the upstairs bathroom

A cold frame

A grow light to start seeds this spring

HOT pepper seeds, or really any seeds

Sports Medicine boots for my horse's front legs

Chicks

 

[bibliophile birds]

as always, i want books. but this year i want livestock references, gardening books on companion cropping, alternative treatment references, and beekeeping books.

i really, really, really, really want an alpaca (or 5)... but i don't see that happening.

i would be completely thrilled to get the roof on the second barn fixed from where a tree fell through it. it's unusable until the roof is fixed and i would love to get all this storage crap out of my sunroom and into it's proper places in there. and it would be nice to have my office in there so i could make fewer trips back to the house.

oh, and a solar panel for the eggmobile!

 

[ohiofarmgirl]

all i want for xmas is what i wanted and didnt get last year:

a pallet of 2x4's

to add to that list this year:
* 12 4x4x12's (treated)
* 25 lbs of composite exterior 3" screws
* barn siding - 12 sheets
* any roofing material, i'm not choosey

and heck throw in some joist hangers too

is that too much? i mean really?

oh - how about 1000ft of field fencing and tposts

;-)

 

[Big Daddy]

I want a shotgun to blast varmints with. At around 3pm today a skunk came by our house and sprayed all 3 of our dogs. Now the stupid dogs have to stay outside. It's too cold to give them baths. If I put out a trap at least one of our 5 cats will get stuck in it. If I put out poison the cats will eat it. So I have to hope I can catch the skunk in the open and blast it.