Getting Ready

 Sissy goat laying in the sun on what’s left of the rotten front porch.  Maybe in the spring I can get another porch built.  The next one will actually be something usable instead of the narrow, uncovered waste of wood that used to be there.  That dang thing would bake the front of the crappy trailer I live in.  You could feel the heat radiating off of it.  Good riddance even if it’s not much of a porch to use now.  I’ll be salvaging what I can from the rest of the removed porch to make Sissy a goat house.  Goofy goat will not go in the barn when it rains.  She stands on the porch, in the rain, and cries because she’s wet.  So, a goat house is something she needs or else she could freeze to death this winter and she’s NOT getting back in the house!

Sundays frost seems to have little damage and there’s no black spots on any of the green tomatoes.  I’m not getting enough now to can up but still enough to eat fresh about every other day.  I’m not complaining, eating fresh tomatoes in october when everyone else around me has pulled their plants is a good thing!

Now that it’s finally quit raining every other day, I can get some of the overgrown grass and weeds around the house knocked down.  I’ve got company coming to the farm this weekend so I need to be getting ready for that.  I’ve still got a project cleaning up the grinding room from the goats little adventure.  Storage house door didn’t get closed all the way and Lucky goat head butted it open for a free for all in the house.  Made one heck of a mess!

I’m still feeling a little lazy from the bug I picked up in town.  I hate not having any energy.  Shouldn’t be too much longer, the herbal tea and honey has my lungs clearing up nicely.  I’m gonna tape the baggie with the wipe rag in it to the coat rack so I don’t forget it next time, LOL

6 more days til the first rabbit kits arrive.  The buck is still in with the doe since I haven’t finished a new round of rabbit holes.  The bad doe is going to be the demonstration on Saturday so he’ll have a spot to hang out in soon enough.  I have a kindle box ready and waiting to receive the new kits.  I hate cutting it so close but the doe is pretty easy going so I’m hoping it won’t be a problem for her.

Still no new chicks yet.  I guess the eggs are not good since that hen has been there almost a month now.  If I don’t see a chick by this weekend, guess I’ll chase her off the nest and dump the eggs.  I need to move all those straw bales anyway.

Half a pot of home grown coffee and a couple rolled up home grown tobacco sticks and I better get back to it…….