Well that photo was from March but we DID have snow yesterday.
This has been the freakiest cold spring. If we get snow in May I'm going to fall over in a faint. I'm getting very discouraged about my garden. My starts are not doing well inside and I can't move them out yet, we are STILL getting hard frosts and big hail. I would have started them later, but I'm wondering now if anything will have time to finish growing outside this season at all? Maybe I ought to plant only short-season crops.
I just got real bad news, it is another whole MONTH before we can even begin to hear word about my SSI, whether it is approved or not. Holy cow, how do they expect disabled people to survive this approval process? It doesn't seem fair that I worked for 30 years contributing to this fund and now it is like the inquisition. I've had TWO doctors giving me a resounding approval in addition to my own doctors over the last 15 years, my records must be a foot high! I'm really disgusted that they make it this hard for disabled people. What if I did not have my husband and mom to help me through? We have now started having to have to borrow from everyone including my 19-year-old SON and my 28-year-old daughter has started to assist us, I may need to ask my brother now since it will be more than another whole month. It doesn't seem fair when I've never been a burden to the system ever in the past.
We have postponed paying for a lot of things, but I sooooooooo miss having a dryer. I know some of you love drying your clothes on the line, but it just rains all the time here, there are not enough dry days for the amount of clothes I have to wash. We constantly have things hanging up all over the house, hanging to dry. Clothes hang from towel racks, shower curtains, window treatments, blankets are draped over furniture to dry. My house has looked freakish for awhile. I do have a drying rack, but it takes about four days for clothes to dry inside my house (cold and drafty) so Trouble has taken to IRONING his clothes dry so he can wear his favorite jeans.
Thank goodness we have all these eggs and all this milk all of a sudden. It ended up being good timing. Also the sale of the dairy kids and next the bunnies could not have come at a better time because the investments all were when I was employed and now the pay-back is coming when we really need it. This was totally not planned that way, but God must have had his eye on us. I can feed the boys nettles and eggs and goat cheese and we have enough sacks of flour to make a lot of bread and wash it down with well water and goat milk, if it comes to that. And I have some old hen out there that needs to go into stew pots.
Last night we even resorted to eating meat from the freezer burnt stuff we picked up for the dogs! It wasn't too bad. But that will probably get those hens culled.....hunger makes a good sauce. lol
But I was thinking that the end of this month would be the last one like this and to hear we have one more (at least) is discouraging. If it goes past one more month or they deny me,I'll have to get a lawyer. If that happens, they take a percentage of the lump sum so while we will take that step, we would rather I be approved on the first try.
There are adopters coming soon for all four foster dogs. Cora, the freaky freakazoid, leaves tomorrow. Oh darn. Murphy the pup will probably leave next week and then Ellie and Hanna will leave mid-May. My coordinator asked if I will have empty nest syndrome. I had to remind her I will still have approx 40 animals here we take care of. There are four of us, but it will be awhile before my nest feels empty. I put all the dogs on an in-and-out routine that isn't really that hard to manage (they are crated quite a bit when inside) but it does get hard when I'm ill.
I think this goat milk makes me feel better though, and my homemade bread and no junk food anymore.
Hi SD! I enjoyed the goat pix, but what was that white stuff on the ground *shudder* 
