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Quail_Antwerp
Cold is on the Right, Hot is on The Left
Now, time for the weekend report - it's RAINING again!
Friday morning I woke up at 5:30 am all pumped and ready to go to Mt. Hope.
I hurriedly dressed, put on coffee, tossed last minute child care instructions to my mom, and headed out the door to load coffee cans of feed into the car before loading critters.
and found the back passenger side tire flat????
Flat!!!!
No no no no no!! that just RUINS everything!! and more importantly, it jacked up my plans for that NIGHT!!
I charged back to the house and in near tears told E we couldn't go - do to a flat tire.
His response? "Are you serious?"
As a dead horse!
So he goes out to look, and says, yep, it's flat.
We're both a little disgruntled - I mean, we had spent the entire evening before potting up these:
We had 3 small buckets, and one large bucket. We also potted some of the strawberries into hanging baskets.
And we had potted up a couple old fashioned lilacs, a silver maple, and a white pine...all of which E had grown here on our property - he planted saplings and nursed them, and they were finally to where he wanted them to be for selling....
But, there was that cursed flat tire!
So I waited until about 7:30 am - and prayed BeccaOh was already awake because we don't like to wake up Non Morning people! Especially ones who are on vacation and enjoy their time to sleep in!!
Thankfully she was awake, and after a few minutes of phone conversation, it was decided we'd take both of BeccaOh's vehicles...whew!
We get that all worked out, and we were on our way. Late, but we got there!
But Friday wasn't that good of a sale day. We made back set up and part of our gas $, that was about it. E & I sold one strawberry basket - the big one - and 2 chicks.
We left Mt. Hope on Friday around 4 pm, because the other vendors kept telling us that it would pick up later...but it really didn't. Plus, I had an appointment to be at Rogers!
So, we left one car, tables, and a cage to save our set up space, and booked it out of there. Stopped at Becca's to unload the stuff we'd need for the next day, and then hurried E back to our house to relieve my mom.
Becca and E took a few minutes to load one of the lilac bushes into her blazer. We had not taken them to Mt. Hope that morning because there just wasn't room! Even with taking 2 cars. As it was, the other trees stayed home, too. So we were only taking 1 Lilac bush.
So we sped off for Rogers - because I was late meeting emilosevich. I was worried she'd think I wasn't coming!
If ya'll remember, she said in her journal that she might be running twin kids through the Rogers sale - well I shot her off a pm, and after a couple messages it was decided that I'd buy her little doeling - skipping the auction all together - because I really wanted a friend for Layla!
I had hoped to be at Rogers by 6 pm, but we got there by 7 instead. Thankfully, emilosevich is super nice and super patient, and my new little doeling was there in the office waiting for me!
emilosevich and I walked to the concession vendor first, who had the new baby's milk in a fridge. The lady was completely GROSSED OUT to be holding goats milk in a jar.
I thought it was awesome that emilosevich provided a bit of Mama's milk for my new baby! She explained to me how to mix it with the milk replacer so as to gradually switch her over. So awesome of her!! And, my new baby already had her CDT shot! Which, I don't know if Layla did or not, so I'll have to do some looking into if I should go ahead and vaccinate Layla or not.
Now onto the mistake(s) we made!
So the original plan was to pick up my goat, and leave, right? WRONG!
Mistake Number 1: We decided to spend a few minutes to look around.
I saw 2 pens of Bantam Salmon Faverolles - reversed trios! but still, I had a lonely roo at home, and he needed a girl....I told BeccaOh I so wanted those!
Right above them, a family of Fawn and White Runners, that BeccaOh wanted!
Mistake Number 2: So we stayed, discussed what our top bids would be for each pen, and then BeccaOh went to make sure her car was locked while I sat in the auction arena - with my goat on my lap!
BeccaOh gets back, they're still selling rabbits (a flemish giant had just sold for $85!!! I was sooo in to the WRONG RABBITS!) and she says, "there's something outside I want!"
I said, "What?"
She says, "A fold up canopy that will be perfect for Mt. Hope tomorrow!"
Mistake Number 3: So I give her a copy of my number, and she's off to wait for them to get to it....and...
in the meantime they start auctioning off bantams....they get to Becca's runners, and I managed to outbid the one bidding againt me, and won them for a few dollars less than the high bid Becca was willing to pay. She was happy!
Then after a few more birds, they FINALLY get to my Favs! Yes, MY FAVS! I got them for way less than I thought they'd bring!!! I took both pens, figured I'd choose what I want for my stock, and since they NPIP test every chicken that comes in, they are Ok to be on my farm. YAY!!
Still, in quarantine for other things that NPIP doesn't cover!
So then I go out to tell Becca I got the birds we wanted, and emilosevich meets me halfway and says, "Oh, she just bought another crate!"
I thought that was great, because we had only brought ONE CRATE with us, and my goat was in it!
Well, I have to say our quick trip to Rogers wasn't quick - and nearly 2 and a half hours later we were finally leaving and on our way home - with a goat, chickens, ducks, new crate, the canopy Becca wanted, and some lumber!
Now remember, I'd been up since 5:30 am, so I was closing in on 20 hours of being UP! Wowza, was I tired! But we were BOTH running on adrenaline at this point! We'd had SO MUCH FUN! and even managed to get all the things we'd had our eyes on!
HOW AWESOME!
Quick stop at my house to get the goat bottle and milk replacer that I had forgot, and then off to Becca's, Goat and All, for the night.
And, that's all for now...I have a lot to get done, so I'll have to finish this tale later..............
Friday morning I woke up at 5:30 am all pumped and ready to go to Mt. Hope.
I hurriedly dressed, put on coffee, tossed last minute child care instructions to my mom, and headed out the door to load coffee cans of feed into the car before loading critters.
and found the back passenger side tire flat????
Flat!!!!
No no no no no!! that just RUINS everything!! and more importantly, it jacked up my plans for that NIGHT!!
I charged back to the house and in near tears told E we couldn't go - do to a flat tire.
His response? "Are you serious?"
As a dead horse!
So he goes out to look, and says, yep, it's flat.
We're both a little disgruntled - I mean, we had spent the entire evening before potting up these:
We had 3 small buckets, and one large bucket. We also potted some of the strawberries into hanging baskets.
And we had potted up a couple old fashioned lilacs, a silver maple, and a white pine...all of which E had grown here on our property - he planted saplings and nursed them, and they were finally to where he wanted them to be for selling....
But, there was that cursed flat tire!
So I waited until about 7:30 am - and prayed BeccaOh was already awake because we don't like to wake up Non Morning people! Especially ones who are on vacation and enjoy their time to sleep in!!
Thankfully she was awake, and after a few minutes of phone conversation, it was decided we'd take both of BeccaOh's vehicles...whew!
We get that all worked out, and we were on our way. Late, but we got there!
But Friday wasn't that good of a sale day. We made back set up and part of our gas $, that was about it. E & I sold one strawberry basket - the big one - and 2 chicks.
We left Mt. Hope on Friday around 4 pm, because the other vendors kept telling us that it would pick up later...but it really didn't. Plus, I had an appointment to be at Rogers!
So, we left one car, tables, and a cage to save our set up space, and booked it out of there. Stopped at Becca's to unload the stuff we'd need for the next day, and then hurried E back to our house to relieve my mom.
Becca and E took a few minutes to load one of the lilac bushes into her blazer. We had not taken them to Mt. Hope that morning because there just wasn't room! Even with taking 2 cars. As it was, the other trees stayed home, too. So we were only taking 1 Lilac bush.
So we sped off for Rogers - because I was late meeting emilosevich. I was worried she'd think I wasn't coming!
If ya'll remember, she said in her journal that she might be running twin kids through the Rogers sale - well I shot her off a pm, and after a couple messages it was decided that I'd buy her little doeling - skipping the auction all together - because I really wanted a friend for Layla!
I had hoped to be at Rogers by 6 pm, but we got there by 7 instead. Thankfully, emilosevich is super nice and super patient, and my new little doeling was there in the office waiting for me!
emilosevich and I walked to the concession vendor first, who had the new baby's milk in a fridge. The lady was completely GROSSED OUT to be holding goats milk in a jar.
I thought it was awesome that emilosevich provided a bit of Mama's milk for my new baby! She explained to me how to mix it with the milk replacer so as to gradually switch her over. So awesome of her!! And, my new baby already had her CDT shot! Which, I don't know if Layla did or not, so I'll have to do some looking into if I should go ahead and vaccinate Layla or not.
Now onto the mistake(s) we made!
So the original plan was to pick up my goat, and leave, right? WRONG!
Mistake Number 1: We decided to spend a few minutes to look around.
I saw 2 pens of Bantam Salmon Faverolles - reversed trios! but still, I had a lonely roo at home, and he needed a girl....I told BeccaOh I so wanted those!
Right above them, a family of Fawn and White Runners, that BeccaOh wanted!
Mistake Number 2: So we stayed, discussed what our top bids would be for each pen, and then BeccaOh went to make sure her car was locked while I sat in the auction arena - with my goat on my lap!
BeccaOh gets back, they're still selling rabbits (a flemish giant had just sold for $85!!! I was sooo in to the WRONG RABBITS!) and she says, "there's something outside I want!"
I said, "What?"
She says, "A fold up canopy that will be perfect for Mt. Hope tomorrow!"
Mistake Number 3: So I give her a copy of my number, and she's off to wait for them to get to it....and...
in the meantime they start auctioning off bantams....they get to Becca's runners, and I managed to outbid the one bidding againt me, and won them for a few dollars less than the high bid Becca was willing to pay. She was happy!
Then after a few more birds, they FINALLY get to my Favs! Yes, MY FAVS! I got them for way less than I thought they'd bring!!! I took both pens, figured I'd choose what I want for my stock, and since they NPIP test every chicken that comes in, they are Ok to be on my farm. YAY!!
Still, in quarantine for other things that NPIP doesn't cover!
So then I go out to tell Becca I got the birds we wanted, and emilosevich meets me halfway and says, "Oh, she just bought another crate!"
I thought that was great, because we had only brought ONE CRATE with us, and my goat was in it!
Well, I have to say our quick trip to Rogers wasn't quick - and nearly 2 and a half hours later we were finally leaving and on our way home - with a goat, chickens, ducks, new crate, the canopy Becca wanted, and some lumber!
Now remember, I'd been up since 5:30 am, so I was closing in on 20 hours of being UP! Wowza, was I tired! But we were BOTH running on adrenaline at this point! We'd had SO MUCH FUN! and even managed to get all the things we'd had our eyes on!
HOW AWESOME!
Quick stop at my house to get the goat bottle and milk replacer that I had forgot, and then off to Becca's, Goat and All, for the night.
And, that's all for now...I have a lot to get done, so I'll have to finish this tale later..............
There's more???? I'm exhausted just reading!
patiently waiting for "the rest of the story"...... 
