NoobieChickenLady's Journal - SS Score and Mah Kitteh is HOME!! Yay!

[Blackbird]

That sounds great! Morel has a nice setup for inside/outside rabbits that you could check out if you haven't already.

Man, a Dexter cow! I think I spent too much time in the dairy barn at the fair. Now I wish I had a cow. A person can have dairy goats and dairy cows, right? Lol.
I hope it works out well for you, and that little Dexter is in your shed by the time winter hits!

 

[noobiechickenlady]

So that's who it was! I knew I had seen a very nice setup, just couldn't remember who. I have all this top rail from chain link fencing I was given years ago. We used the fence, but not the rails. I'm thinking metal frame for the cages, easy to clean.

And sure you can have goats AND cows. Why not? (peer pressure, peer pressure )

I'm hoping I can get down to Jackson soon, I've been talking about it for weeks, no wait.. Months. Everytime we plan to go, something comes up and we end up staying put or going elsewhere. Like to help my best friend move to a much nicer house than the shack was living in I'm out of all my most commonly used herbs, got some new recipes I need ingredients for and I want to meet 2dream, too!

Eek! Gotta get back to real work!

 

[noobiechickenlady]

I believe I have 4 chickens laying eggs. It may possibly be only 3, but the colors differ from egg to egg. My EEer is laying 1 egg a day, her's are a lovely white-speckled brown. I ended up giving the ladies a cardboard box with a milk crate inside. I put it in the coop where they were laying the eggs, and ripped out the original nest box to give them more room. Not that they spend much time in there anyways, they come in to get a drink and roost for the night. The big box I used for a brooder when I first got them went on its side as a "private room", with the milk crate as the nest. They seem to like that as they are still being let out every morning, and DD is finding all the new eggs in the nest.
Just when I give up on my garden, I walk out to check and find some produce. 3 okra pods, 15 peppers and a single ripe tomato. The eggplants (those loyal things) are still producing enough for us to have eggplant a couple of times a week and still give some to my mom.
I found a huge mantis on one of the eggplants, too. She was at least 6" long. Brought the kids out to show them, they were very excited. DH had one as a pet when he was young, kept on the screen porch where it kept the bug population down. I haven't seen any mantises this year until then, so I was excited to have one in the yard. I hope she makes a
Progress is still being made on the shed event, and on my Granny's house being moved & setup. She should be able to move in by this fall. Yay!!

 

[noobiechickenlady]

Well, it has been a !while! since I posted anything about what's going on at the McHousehold. Same old, same old actually. We're washing clothes by hand in the bathtub, this is working out well. The kids love to squish the clothes I got my camera working last night, and I just now got a break in Photoshop so I could save the pics off. We've not been able to do anything in yard due to 3 straight weeks of rain. It hasn't rained in a week and I still have standing water & sticky, yucky mud. I'm checking into getting some dirt hauled in.

Look what I ate for breakfast this morning

My poor chicken! Regular "Large" sized egg on the right

My garlic turned GREEN!

My first kombucha scoby. This thing is huge! I think he made it in a crockpot.

Dried soup mix, beans, rice, celery, mushrooms, onions, garlic, cumin, pepper flakes & some sifting from the deer dirt.

Hamburger rocks made from venison - Henceforth to be called Deer Dirt!

My new favorite toy!

 

[big brown horse]

What the heck is deer dirt?!!

My daughter calls my scoby a jellyfish.

 

[keljonma]

What the heck is deer dirt?!!

I think that is what ncl is calling her hamburger rocks these days. Here is the thread for making hamburger rocks....

http://www.sufficientself.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=2354&p=2

 

[big brown horse]

Thanks keljonma! I get it now!

 

[Blackbird]

I would like to anounce to everything, that NCL's new toy is in fact a STICK BLENDER, for all you with dirty minds out there.


Sorry T, I must tease!

Your scoby looks frightening!

 

[modern_pioneer]

I would like to anounce to everything, that NCL's new toy is in fact a STICK BLENDER, for all you with dirty minds out there.


Sorry T, I must tease!

Your scoby looks frightening!

BB- things aren't made the way they use to be....

Take the egg beater, it has since been replaced by a blender.

I don't have a "dirty mind" , I have a multi tasking mind.

Did I mention gud eats?

 

[noobiechickenlady]

I would like to anounce to everything, that NCL's new toy is in fact a STICK BLENDER, for all you with dirty minds out there.


Sorry T, I must tease!

Your scoby looks frightening!

HA! You've a dirtier mind than me, my lad! I never even thought of that Yes, it is in fact a stick blender. A stainless steel one at that I still need another one for soap, though.

I love it when I get overtime. I mention somthing and DH says "How much? ... Okay, get it."

Deer dirt, yep, hamburger rocks, only made out of venison. We ended up with a lot of meat powder We cleaned out the deep freeze and still had 1 front shoulder & a rack of ribs. I canned the rib meat with broth (didn't get a pic of those, they were still in the pressure canner) and DH ground the shoulder & made hamburger rocks. When I got home, he was stirring it and said "This isn't rocks, this is dirt" and laughed. So, henceforth to be called "Deer Dirt". Its even labeled as such on the jar.