4-F is not going to happen... my intention was to work on that blog every Sunday but the thing is... I sit here and think about age and quite frankly I can't think.... I'm sure its a sign of aging!!! : ) So as a result of my lack of clarity of thought, I have deleted that blog and decided that for now I will continue to just concentrate on this one and Feathermist. I don't write on Feathermist much either these days, but really that is the place where I want all my creative diversions to go... like poetry and paintings. I haven't really had a lot of time for poetry lately or painting (though I'm still working on the Nude for Teapot's and my bedroom...) so I haven't been posting there either. But I will eventually. Right now all that's consuming me is level 4 and level 3 homework and of course the day to day grind of life in this little home of ours and when I write about that, I write here.
Teapot opened the last bale of hay... I have a line on more though so I'm not too worried. Evidently the price of beef has just bottomed out and so people are selling off cattle at astounding rates since it is more expensive to feed them than the farmers can get for the meat. So now there seems to be an abundance of hay on the market since the farmers won't be needing it to feed all the cattle they had.... at least in this area. Go figure.... so even though I'm down to my last bale of hay I'm looking at buying some and I've got a likely source for more... yeah... this is good news.
It has been snow on again off again for the last few days... after the chinook stopped blowing the colder temperatures returned and we are back to snow and blowing snow. I'm not sorry because every Chinook that blows means that there is less moisture in the spring. I really want the wet to stay around a while this year so that we don't have to worry about hay in the fall and maybe I can go back to buying hay from the guy that I always bought from.
Teapot has just finished building Dreamer (the horse) a nice shelter to go into when the snow is falling or the temperatures dip. It is good to see her using it and know that it was not a waste of time. It is not a barn just a little lean to type shelter where she can go if the North wind is blowing or there is sleet or rain. The business of farming keeps us going as we try to figure out the best way to care for our animals. I am contemplating getting rid of my sheep altogether and just keeping my alpacas though it is hard to consider. There has been a severe reduction in my sheep this last year that's for sure.I am down to two ewes and four lambs and two rams. One of the rams will be butchered, all of the lambs will be slaughtered and then I will just have two ewes and one ram until the lambs start coming again. But Teapot and I think that it is just too much work to keep the sheep. So alpacas and a couple of ewes that we can breed for meat lambs. That's it! Really this is quite a big decision for 2011.
So that's it for this very non-descript day.
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