Ya know how ya have all these plans to get things done and nothing, I mean nothing makes it easy?! Wanted to get the push mower out and get some of the tighter spots in the yard mowed before my rider gets fixed tomorrow. A week or so ago I wanted to do it to...but discovered that Cowboy (bad dog) had eaten the pull cord off the mower...GRRRRRR! Supposed to be an easy fix, but like I've mentioned before...(I love him!) DH isn't exactly mechanically inclined. But - he came inside and watched a YouTube video and is out working on it now. YAY! That's how he got the new heating element in the dryer! YouTube taught him how! Haven't even bought a new cord assembly for the mower yet, just hoping he could get it out and tie a stupid stick to the end of the string and we'll have a grip to pull. OR - I'll send him to town for a new one.
Been spending forever feeding these bottle babies. Decided this morning I'm going to wean them off of warm milk. Takes too stinking long to warm bottles. So, this morning their bottles were only barely warm. This afternoon they'll be even cooler and by tomorrow maybe they'll be taking it right outta the fridge. Hope so!
This beautiful weather has me in full blown garden mode. So, while I do have about 30 of those big tubs to plant in, there are some things I want to try and get in the ground. I've moved back to a garden area that I used several years ago and hope that the soil there is either recovered or that the hay I used to mulch there wasn't poisoned. Simply can't remember because it's been awhile since I planted that spot. It's always had beautiful soil and I'm remembering that as I till it. I'm going to try to put some yard long beans up against the arbor there and let 'em climb. This garden area isn't very big so I'm going to have to be creative. One of the sides is up against a goat pen so I need to plant something there that goats don't like to eat, lol. I've got their fence lined with smaller wire for holding chickens so I don't think they can get their heads through to munch anyway.
I got some free tomato seeds with my last seed order so I stuck 3 seeds in two tubs and hope they'll come up. I see two tiny eggplant seedlings have come through and a zucchini. I'm not sure how zucchini will do in a tub so I'll try putting some of those seeds in the ground and cross my fingers.
Still have to do the coccidia prevention treatment on the kids and disbud the latest 4 that were born. And, since NHH mentioned trimming goat feet a couple posts back I actually looked at some of the feet on my goats and sure enough I need to take care of some of 'em.
AND - I thawed out a picnic roast from Mr. Piggy yesterday. Early, early this morning I rubbed some dry mix of brown sugar, herbs/spices on it and let it soak in for awhile. Put it in the oven at 500 for about 20 minutes to get it started. Pulled it out of the oven and poured a beer in the pan, covered it with foil and will roast it until this evening. Yum - I'm looking forward to that. It already smells soooo good in here.
I stopped tilling because the tiller ran out of gas. Came through the house to go get the gas and decided to get a drink of water and sit down and check to see if April the Giraffe was in labor, lol. Then decided to come on here and see what was going on - and now I've GOT to get back outside.
Happy Saturday ya'll!
Those are two of the bottle baby bucklings.
