Lorihadams-- hi guys...been busy!

[lorihadams]

Friday

balanced checkbook
paid bills
caught one of the 2 escaped quail (dang birds)
cleaned out the duck house
moved chicken tractor
baking bread
set up bouncy house for the kids

Now I am tired AND broke.

Oh well, at least I have fresh bread for lunch.....yummy!

 

[Henrietta23]

LOL, we rehomed our last Coturnix two days ago. Never had an escapee. Not fun to think about!

 

[keljonma]

Every time I read about quail these days, I think of a book I recently bought for TR - That Quail, Robert, which was published in the early 1960's.

 

[lorihadams]

Saturday

Drizzling rain....so much for our plans tonight. A local church was having a festival at a family's homestead this evening but if it keeps this up there's no way it will happen.

I am dreading Halloween. My mom called last night and wants us to come up to do a party friday night at her church and then do trunk or treat Saturday night at the church as well. Problem is that we always go trick or treating with my BF's daughter and another couple and their kids in the neighborhood close to their house. Last year my MIL came up and went with us and she wants to do it again this year so now I have to tell my mom no. I asked the kids what they want to do and they want to go trick or treating with their friends. I think she thinks we don't want to see her but it's not that we don't want to see her it's that she tells us about stuff last minute and we have already made plans. I don't even have costumes for the kids yet. UGH.

What do you all do for Halloween?

 

[Quail_Antwerp]

Nothing.

We don't really celebrate Halloween here. I do buy the kids a candy treat myself, or bake some cookies, but we stay home and watch movies.

 

[keljonma]

For the past 6 years we haven't been in an area with homes close enough to participate in Halloween door to door.

Most families here take their children to the mall or the community center or to their church for family safe activities.

Families that live in the village proper usually take their children to the firehall for hot dogs and hamburgers and then visit homes around the center of the village.

 

[delia_peterson]

My kids are grown and married now. When they lived closer to me, my son would bring my grandsons over and we would take them around the neighborhood here,which was nice as we have been here forever. But I am the only one left in this state now, so I always take the day before and after Halloween off, to go to my DD and SIL's house in Louisianna.We give out candy, watch scarey movies and eat all the baked goodies I prepared the week before. Its one of our favorite holidays. And since its on a weekend this year, my DS ,DIL and grandsons are joining us!Yes, we are a strange family.

 

[lorihadams]

halloween is my little brother's favorite....this year I think he's going to do a zombie walk in Atlanta. When he was in high school he went one year as a construction accident. He mounted a piece of 2x4 on a small sheet of plywood and made 2. He put one on his chest and one on his back and we duck taped the whole thing to his body so that it looked like the 2x4 had gone through is stomach. Then we stretched a white t-shirt over the whole thing and put fake blood all over the back. He had to lay the seat down all the way just to drive himself to school and had to sit on the floor all day! He does stuff like that every halloween, we have had a full sized homemade coffin and wolf man and frankenstein on our front porch. He made a frankenstein head out of paper mache and mounted it on a broom, stuck it in the lid of the gas grill and closed it on it so it would lay flat. Draped a sheet over the whole thing and tied 2 boots onto the other end. Crazy stuff......he's always trying to go over the top.

Last year for xmas he built a spinning platform for his 9 foot tree in the living room.

 

[lorihadams]

Sunday

Well, today we went to Wally world to see what we could find for the kids for a costume, they want to go trick or treating with their friend Shelby. I refuse to pay $20+ for an outfit they will wear once. So, I found a pair of pink glow in the dark skeleton pajamas for maddie for $6, done. I found a black long sleeve shirt with a green skeleton on it for $5 and picked up a pair of black sweatpants (which Tyler needed anyway) for $5 and we are done. He can wear the shirt as pajamas in the future, they love anything glow in the dark. I think we will put Maddie's thermal underwear on under the pjs, I got them a size too big on purpose. So, technically for $11 their costumes are done and they glow so i can see them when we are trick or treating!

Then we hit Goodwill and didn't find anything good so went to Roses and got Chad 3 pairs of work pants for $10 each. Then we came home and raked leaves, burned some scrap wood that was too little to be of use, and some cardboard boxes that maddie's bed came in and then we started talking about trees and where to put the new coop, got in a fight, cooled off and cut down two pine trees on the edge of the goat pasture. We cut them off high enough that we can use them to attach the fencing to them, two less fence posts to supply. It really opened up the pasture and will allow some more sun to get in a low place in the pasture that usually stays a little wet when it rains.

We already have one old dog house that we are going to use as a quarantine shed for the goats that is under the shed fenced in with chain link, we also may use it as our milking area since it is under a solid roof. We previously used it for Maggie to have her puppies in so that she was not in the house. Plenty of room to put in a stanchion. We are trying to figure out what we are going to build for goat houses. We have enough extra telephone poles that we are thinking of building them off the ground a bit with a ramp for them to get into it. I found a guy on craigslist that builds them but I think we can do it cheaper. I also think his need a bit more ventilation at the top but the concept is good.

 

[lorihadams]

One of our neighboring counties, where Chad's nanny lives now with a family and their school age children, has suffered an outbreak of H1N1 and a 6 yr old has died as a result. They have closed all the schools in the county until further notice as a precaution. Please keep these families in your prayers!