Pink Fox: its Raining...IN MY HOUSE! :/

[pinkfox]

i love driving around in spring weather, windows open seeing the little buds starting to burst o the trees

today is lovely too, a little overcast but the temps are perfect.
unfortunatly i am limited on energy thanks to a VERY late night and a VERY early morning...slept well lastnight but i know itll take a few days for my body to figue out what the hell just happend lol.

did manage to finishe the electric on the inside of the pig pen. theres 2 strands, one about 3" off the ground and the other at 6" that shoul be good in terms of height for now, then as they grow a little ill move the bottom strand up 3" above the 2nd, and then again..
once there too big to fitunder an 8" above ground strand and are respecting the electric in the pen itll all get taken down and theyll be able to be in with the goats (the lowest line in the goat pen is 8" off ground so i need to e sure they cant get under that as if they break out once thyell be impossible to keep in lol.

I also made a gravity waterer, kind of like the poultry nipple waterer buckets, but using a hog nipple instead. i need to pick up a little tube of silacone and run a bead in an out of the bucet around the threads of the hog nipple, but once it all cured up it shoudl work perfectly and i think im going to be using this method for any chickens ad to provide drinking water in the ducks night time house/run when i get them moved too.
but yeah just need a small tube of silacone and after its cured itll be good to go...

checked the p-let nest this morning, 5 out of 6 eggs hatched, 1 baby dead in nest a few days back and the 6th egg didnt evelop, took it out today (should have hatched friday) and cracked it..it was all dried up inside and no fetal development. but 4 little babies is still good...they are going to be pulled probably in about a week for hand feeding and i now need to decide if i want to keep the parent pair or if i want to sell them...
with the time that goes into hand feeding the chicks im fairly certain ill let the pair go, sell the chicks and then use any money from all that to get more farm stuff done...theres so much to do around here that every penny counts.

but yeah, now for a little lazy time i think.

 

[SSDreamin]

Can you post a picture of the pig waterer Pink? I would love to see it!

 

[pinkfox]

will do should have em up this afternoon

ran into town hoping id find some kind of drining water safe silacone (i usually just use aquarium silacone for jobs like this but could only ind it online...) and actualy foun some at the local store 10 mins away rather than having to go all the way up to the city 30 mins away lol.
i hate going out for 1 item but im down to penies in the budget this month, literally (though i do have a small check due to arrive early next week its just that, a SMALL One and those funds are already delegated.
I had to cut my food budget by $20 this month and wasnt realy prepped for that cut with the piggies being on milk and such so it kinda yoinked that $20 form my other spots which has thrown everyhting off...as is the way right.
so i just got the 1 item i needed and came straight home before temptatio set in.

got home, unscrewed the nipple enough to get a bead of silacone good under the nipple rim, screwed it back itno place squidging the silacone to gt a good seal then smudged it all about. then another ring inside the bucket. these hog nipples re actually designed to bescrewded into metal pipe ad essentilaly perminentely plumbed into place...all well and good but my little homestead is transitional right now so this gravity method is goign to work much better.
now jut gotta wait for it to cure and we shoudl be good to move the pig-wigs out into the pen...
and im ready too, i want my kitchen back and ill admit theres definatly a slight farm smell to the kitchen right now.
once the pigs go out the cooker will get pulled out and the whole kitchen will get a scrub down...
hard to belive theyll be 4 weeks old on thursday...doesnt feel like theyve been here 2 1/2 weeks already.
i dont SEE them growing...but today i had to pick one up as she escaped her pen and wow she FEELS alot heavier than she looks...lol. so its defiatly time to get those messy little monkies out into their own pen. im hoping we can do it tomorrow morning, i want to be able to stand around and watch them and keep a close eye on them to make sure there not going to be able to get through the electric, find a weak spot and get out...cause pigs are persistent.

its grey, rainy and intermittent t-storms for today so i wont be getting much done overall...

 

[pinkfox]

well, the pigs are now situated outside in their new pen.
they ran into the electric a few times and probably will a few more but seem to be ok riht now (they were asleep when i checked on them a lil while ago.)
chopped down some more brush, that back section of the current goat pen is starting to look alot more bare,mostly just leafless sticks now...
that means im going to have to realy start working on expanding thier fence very soon.
chopped down some more of the tall grass (im having to do it by hand with my bypass pruners right now...i realy need a good lawnmower lol)
then moved one of the 2 piles of manure/compostfrom cleaningout the goat shack that nded up dumping in transit up to the veggie bed...just filed the very bottom of 1 of the 4x8 beds, im going to need ALOT of dirt LOL!
ill tryand get the oher pile moved before the end of this week too and then will be on the look out for sources i can go and fill up some contractor bags from.
the less i have to BUY th happier ill be.
ove got enough space to build 8 more beds in that area, but this year iven its going to cost about $25 a bed just to fill them im probably just going to stick with the 4 and some buckets...

got that finished and fed the pigwigs
the came inside and removed the playpen and the crate form the kitchen and swept out...and now im taking a little brake before pulling the stove out to see why its broken...

yup, broken...i know its plugged in as the on light comes on when i turn the burner on...but for some reason none of the burners re getting hot...(or even warm) it worked yesterday afternoon, and then afterwards one of the piggies got out (i think that way) and it didnt work at dinner time, so im HOPING its just a case of piggy pulled somehting loose and not a case of my stove has kicked the bucket, cause well..i cant afford a new stove/cook top. that being said the stove (range) is about the same age i am LOL! so...
if its dead completly then i have todecide what i realy want to do...i dot use the oven ever, well thats a lie...i use it for storage, i have my "little" toaster oven...(rotisery convection/multi function monster) so do i go for extra cabinate space and replace the stover with a full cabinate and a 30" cooktop or do i put in jst a "new" range as futre buyers would likely want the range...and while i may be here forever, i may also movein 5 years to somewhere with even more land ect...who knows...

now the pigs are out it means tomorrow i can BLITZ my kitchen, when i pull my stve out to check it ill clean behind and under it anyway, so i wont have to move it tmorrow but tomorrow thers scrubbing going on lol.
and the tile i want to use fo the backsplash in the kitchen is on clearance, if i can get it before the end of this month hoping to have enough with my mystery shop) the tile to do the entire kitchen backsplash will be $15! ovbiously id still need the mastic and the grout but i could get the tile now and just wait on it till next month...the tile was origionally 40cents a tile...its currenlty 12 cents per tile!!!

it would be oh so nice to have the kitchen finnished before the parentals come to visit again.

and yeah...not yet sure whats for dinner, probably ravioli, going to take some sirloin out for tomorrow while im thinking about it too...

 

[Wannabefree]

you been busy sister! I haven't. I was surrounded by children all day and got nothing done

 

[Denim Deb]

Hope you find out what's wrong w/your oven, Pinky, and that it's nothing serious.

 

[pinkfox]

seems another apliance i have fixed...and by that i mean didnt panic thought things throughlogically and did something about it before just assuming...
turns out during piggy escapaes a small wire had been knocked loose and the plug had been partially pulledout...put the wire back in place and pluged it back in fullyand the stove top is working again...

i feel all adult and stuff lol

 

[Wannabefree]

Your thread needs a like button sis! great job!!

 

[Denim Deb]

Nice!

 

[pinkfox]

i feel cheated, they told me 1" of snow...so i prepped for 1" of snow...what did we get, NOTHING! liars!
LOL!

anywho, rain is on the forcast for the next few days, im thinking of using some of tha time for craft time, ive got a commission for a project thats going to take LOTS of man hours making a lemur tail our of wool for a costume for someone and matching ears... (its all hand tied strands then combed out and fluffed upso it looks and feels incredibly realistic when done, but it takes forever lol, but hey its MONEY!!!)

ive got about a dozen goose eggs in the fridge that i want to blow out and decorate, not sure yet if i want to dye, paint or carve, mabe do a couple of each...

ive got an order for 1/2 a dozen hatching eggs and guess whos ducks have decided to take a break lol, aint it the way!? so theyll be getting some scrambed eggs with supper for the next few days, hoping upping the protein will help and il aveall the goose egg insides to do something with...lol.

i realy need to start finnishing up some of those gourds and wooden birdhouses to get painted and sold....

and at some point i need to get to the co-op and pick up some lure lock syringes, need to pull thses baby parrotlets for hand feeding begining of next week if im going to...
still undecided on if im selling the pair or not...

and i realy need to clean this house too...
dee breath...come on motivation! i need you! lol.