Inspired by Farmer Chick...What is your "to do" list today?

Thursday's to do list:

1. Make my sourdough
2. Plant kale and garlic!
3. Cut back vines on front porch, they are taking over the world!

Make that Friday's to do list...:rolleyes:

4. Pick more apples and pears.
5. Peel, slice and core all those apples and pears
6. Dehydrate
7. Run to market
 
wash bed sheets, line dry
hard boil, shell and pickle about 50-100 quail eggs. :/
clean dishwasher that I did not do yesterday.
Dust everything (walls, ceilings-everything)
make beds.
Plan quick supper, since ds has hunter safety course tonight.
Go for a walk.


Other than that-read my book, "Dirt" as recommended on here, and borrowed from my library.
 
FarmerChick said:
You want my farrier Pat? I can send him..LOL
I just call, say to shoe the horse and leave. I used to put my horses in the stall, he would come shoe them and I left a check.
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One of my horses does not tie and b/c of arthritis often needs distracting while his hind end is done; another one does not tie reliably; and it has taken me long enough to find this farrier, I am NOT going to risk pissing him off or getting him a broken hip :P Bizarrely (well to me anyhow) he mostly does show Morgans and Saddlebreds, the pleasure not the gaited classes; but despite that he has an excellent grasp of barefoot dynamics for the Normal Horse, and I fully intend to do whatever it takes to keep him happy for as long as he is working. When he retires, I may give up horses <g>

"The local auction house"---do you go alot?
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For their twice-yearly "tool, farm, and general junk/crap" auctions; and usually to one of their more junk-oriented furniture-and-estate-remnants auctions per year. I am not into the antique or collectible thing, though. I'm more interested in scoring a bunch of used T-posts for $4 a pop than in foofy household stuff :P

It's going to be *cold* tomorrow, and there is a horse farm contents auction at the very same time just about 20 miles away, so I am *hoping* it will be a good day!


Pat

Pat
 
alright gals i have GOT to get some things done today:

1. make last zucchini bread (w/chocolate chips of course)
2. shovel out the house a little
3. build the new guinea hen quarters
4. feed my just back from breeding goat about 14 times today - she's looking a little thin.. might have to do worming too
5. work on taking down more of the tomato trellis/stakes
6. make sure the hen house is extra warm - down into the 20*'s today!

here i go!!
 
Todays list:

1. Move City Biddy Hen House to winter quarters in my backyard garden spot - done

2. Fix gate on above garden spot (needs new hinges and good latch)

3. Dishes (my - what a pile!)

4. Feed and water chicks and turkeys at D1's house. - done

5. Sort through green tomatoes and move any that are ripening - done

6. Peel frozen tomatoes and can them. done as of 10/25

7. Haul wood to front porch for the night. - hubby did

.... AND got my glasses repaired.
 
Okay, here's mine:

1. Finish several catalog sections, since I have to work my normal today.
When I finally get home:
2. Eye the ever taller grass in my yard & despair of ever cutting any of it since it's been raining for a month.
3. Fill the floor of the chicken coop up with dirt to promote drainage.
4. Put up the housewrap I got around the coop so they don't freeze their toenails off when since it's getting colder. And windier.
5. Help mom lay linoleum in my granny's new house.
6. Can the potatoes I got from farmer's market, hopefully 14 pints.
7. Clean out & reorganise deep freezer in anticipation of filling it up with wild game.
8. Strongly encourage DH to get his hunting/trapping liscense renewed.
 
Well, my 'senior' horse who hurt himself rather dramatically upon the opening of the new paddock out back seems to have a high suspensory or deep flexor tendon injury, which could be better but also could be a lot worse and I am not digging a hole for him quite yet. He is 3-legged at the trot, 'off' at the walk, but seems quite happy just grazing slowly around, so I am icing him repeatedly and we'll see what happens, sigh :/

I went to the auction today and actually there was not that much to interest me. Spent a quick $22 ($2 for 20+ ft of old-style heavier-gauge chickenwire; $15 for shovels and a pushbroom including one exceptionally good, rather strange, shovel; and $5 for an orange traffic cone that is almost as tall as my 5 year old :P) and for the first time in several years, *left* and not going back, not worth it.

So I guess today I actually have to come up with a to-do list:

-- ice Berto's leg at least a coupla more times DONE X2

-- play outside w/kids for an hour or two while DH does 2009's last DONE
mowing (or part thereof)

-- build at least part of extension to cat run, preferably do whole job NEARLY DONE

That's about all I feel up to today. I am *not* happy about Berto's leg, although frankly I was expecting to go out and check him this morning and probably have to call the vet out to put him down, so I am glad it's better than it *could* be.


Pat
 
This isn't really since I'm doing a retroactive to-do list:

1. Dig all the carrots. Cleaned about 2 gallons and left the last almost bushel for CSA baskets.

2. Sort onions. Culled lots of rotten ones and saved about 1.5 bushels

3. Work with kids to pull all tomato stakes and caging.

4. Winterize bee hives.

5. Fold the laundry that never got folded.

6. Lots of picking up and cleaning around the house and garage.

7. Make pumpkin bread (not yet done).

8. Build a fire in the living room insert, make hot cocoa with whipping cream and play a game or read books with the kids and hubby.

9. Make French onion soup with the questionable onions for lunch.

10. Deal with the bucket of rhubarb on the back deck. Maybe sauce?
 
1. Debone turkey I cooked yesterday CHECK
2. Make soup from carcass CHECK
3. Get the ducks a kiddie pool for their new aviary CHECK
4. Cook Lasagna Alfredo for the book club CHECK
5. Make another batch for hubby to eat while I am gone CHECK
6. Scrub bathroom CHECK and EWWW!
7. Make chocolate mousse - Doing that next
8. Go to book club, drink wine, eat and have fun!!!!!
 
UGH Pat I feel for you on your horse's leg. I had to put down my 12 year old saddle horse Freddy because of an ankle problem. I could not heal him. I fought it for at least a year with X-rays and everything and he pulled the tendon and it was just horrible. he would lay in the pasture and could not get up....poor thing had to do a 3 legged stand up and it always took him forever. I had no choice and it is terrible to put down a healthy horse except for his leg.

I am glad to hear he is on the improve......

and yes, a good farrier YOU NEVER give up...I hear you!

Hope his leg improves tons more for you!
 
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