Katie....Purl and Opi are having a contest I just know it.
She's still hanging in there, but no discharge. I've let her out of the kidding area each day and last night kept the entire barn open so she could sleep with everyone else and after inspecting her this morning I left her out with everyone for the day.
Since it's wicked cold outside, I left her out and it's snowing I figured she'll go today while I'm at work. She's been nibbling her right side all weekend - it was really amazing Friday night watching her. I sat with her for a while and watched the kid(s) moving around so I put my hand on her side and it was as if they were having a kicking contest against my hand! At least I know she's pregnant!
I made three batches of soap (well, one big one that I divided in two and one smaller one) to get ready for the craft show. I made my basic recipe and split it into two. One was scented mulberry which I poured into a mold with a bunch of flower shapes and had to use some other random molds (stars, strawberries, and hearts) since the flower molds weren't big enough to hold the entire batch. The other half I scented with cucumber melon and split into thirds. I poured one third into the bottom of a loaf mold, then colored one third green and the other third orange. I poured the orange on top of the uncolored batch, dragged a tooth pick type thing through it to create some type of swirls and then globbed the green on top of that. I'm not sure how it's going to look cut bit it looks pretty neat sitting in the mold! Then I did an oatmeal milk and honey log mold since I only have about 5 bars left. I'm wicked low on milk but I'd like to make one smaller batch of flowers again since there's only about 8 flowers total. Since it's a spring craft show I think the more flowers I have the better. Now I want to go to Ocean State Job Lot and get some type of display shelves, a table cloth and other odds and ends. I'm so excited!
But OMG. You will never, ever believe what happened last night. We had my mother, grandmother and uncle over for dinner. The goat baby monitor was out near the dining room table (you have no idea how much grief I was given for that by my uncle!) and we heard the chickens get all fussy about 7:15 pm (even though the monitor is inside the goat barn it still picks up the chicken noises inside the hen house right next door). Big G went to the window and looked out - nothing was looking suspicious outside the hen house so we shrugged it off.
I go outside around 8 pm to check on everyone and go inside the hen house to get their water bucket. As I bent down to grab the bucket I see it (**I'm getting the shivers as I think about it again**) A BIG OLD RAT LOOKING TAIL.
Except this wasn't a rat. Too big.
I don't see a head, I just see a big old rat-ish tail, some body curled on its back and these ugly feet sticking up in the air. I think IT'S dead, but then I notice the stomach moving up and down.
Any guesses?
I screamed as I saw it breathing and realized I was staring at an OPOSSUM! In the nesting box! All cuddled up asleep!
I made Big G come outside to deal with it - I can handle most stuff but this just gave me the heeby jeebies. He 'disposed' of it in our own way and I had to pick it up by its tail and carry it outside. All was fine again until it started moving its legs! I screamed for dear life and threw it down, yelled at him for not disposing of it properly and made him finish the deed.
I feel sick all over just thinking about that thing in my nesting box. I threw out all the hay and half eaten eggs. Ugh.
Sometimes my hubby just doesn't understand why I want to do some things my way, especially when it comes to the animals.
Because he doesn't want to do things when I think he should.
I would have flipped out! Those suckers are ugly.
