Frustratedearthmother's Journaling Journey

[frustratedearthmother]

Grands are here and all is right with my world! DGS requested broccoli cheese soup yesterday so that's what we had. Today they are in charge of dinner. There will be grilled burgers, regular and sweet potato fries, coleslaw and baked beans. Probably going to make some cookies for dessert.

Supposed to be some winter weather heading this way. Ugh. Need to get started on preps soon. Might get the kids to help me get a few things done. DGS has already made himself useful. He installed the new weather station yesterday. That kid (not kid anymore) can do anything!

Some of the goat ladies are doing the pregnancy wobble pretty well. Udders are growing and there will be babies. Still probably at least 3 weeks out for the first ones. Geeze, guess I should clean up some kidding pens.

After I bought some ridiculously expensive eggs the hens musta heard me complaining about their lack of effort and stepped it up a bit. Even the oldest batch of quail has started laying. Let there be eggs, lol.

Better get outside and feed the critters before the grands start waking up. They'll want food too.

 

[baymule]

Funny how that works. Everything we have, eats. Animals, people, and what do we do? We dutifully cook, serve, clean up mess. We clean house, or at least keep it a little better than the barn. We do laundry and on a good day, it gets folded and put away. Outside, we dump old water, clean containers (I wish they fit in dishwasher) and refill with fresh water. Then feed, put out hay, check for babies, care for them.

We get tired, fall asleep in recliner, trudge off to bed, so we can get up and do it all over again. Life is good on the farm.