hmm, you eat lunch "out"??
It was my guilty indulgence, but in all honesty, was rarely ever 5 times a week - most likely 3ish. For our little office of 3 it's our catch-up time. But, we can just as easily catch up over coffee in the mornings a couple times a week.
@Mini Horses - get to milking those gals!
I'll probably start taking his car this week. It's very fuel efficient but dang, it's a CAR! That's almost my biggest sacrifice. I don't like cars - grrrrr. I feel like my butt is dragging the ground and I'll miss the visibility that a truck gives. But, I can do it.
Found another way to cut down this morning. I'm a coffee lover, and what's more I'm an optimistic coffee maker. I always make a bit more than we drink. I hate, hate, hate wasting the last of coffee in the bottom of the pot. A lot of time it's not really wasted - we pour it in the compost, or dilute it and water the house plants with it. Believe it or not our huge ivy loves coffee too. But, DUH, this morning I just made less. (so, why didn't I do this years ago? Who knows?) Hopefully I won't have any left-over today. Such a simple thing.
It's low 50's this morning - yay! I'm planning on gardening today. I'm going to clean-up as much of the goat mess that I can. Besides eating my seedlings they simply tromped down a lot of my rows so I need to clean them up. I'll need to replant some of the climbing beans - seems like they were a favorite snack. Peppers and eggplants are pretty much just wiped out - even the ones I tried to replant. It's going to really tick me off to go pay for new plants. BUT, I'll use 'goat money' from yesterday and it won't hurt as much.
Also bought a small pkg of seed potatoes - PURPLE potatoes. We're not big potato eaters - lotsa carbs ya know - but purple ones are full of anti-oxidants so I'm gonna try to grow some in a tub and see what happens.
Can't waste the coolness this morning so I need to get busy.
Happy Saturday ya'll!
I'll probably, maybe try to sell another buck also, cuz one of the newest babies is just too stinking cute, lol! He would make a nice kinder-type buck with a little bit of a different bloodline. Most of the does I've kept over the years have been descendants and grand-descendants of one Nubian doe (Red). This little guy that I like so much is from another doe and would cross well on all of Red's descendants. And his mother has one of he best udders on the place - so hoping that will work in his favor. The Kinder buck I'm using now is a wild card as far as udders go. His mom had a couple things in her favor, nice large teats and a good medial support, but she had a pocket in the front of her udder and it just wasn't that capacious. I didn't keep her around very long. AND - he throws BUCK kids! His score this year was 7 bucklings and 2 doelings. He threw ALL bucks last year too - sooooo it might be time for him to go.
not even thinking here.
