April 29, 2007

t was a very full day once again. I had a trade show today and invited Amy and Mary to share my booth. I of course sold "Down to the Roots" magazines, Amy sold her Highland Clover Farm natural lip balms and gardening seeds and Mary sold her lovely scented soaps which made me hungry each time I got a good whiff of them.

I highly recommend both ladies products. Amy sells her peppermint, orange and vanilla lip balms for $3 each and heirloom seeds for $2 a packet.

Mary makes excellent soaps and the only soap I use anymore as I have not made any for myself for 2 years now. She sells hers for $3 a bar or 4/$10 and it is well worth it. They sold like crazy today. She does not have a website yet, but it is in the works. If you are interested, contact her at cougarcreek@telus.com . My favorite is the Oatmeal & Honey, but she makes many many kinds.

Other news for the day is the guys worked half the day and have quite the pile of lumber from our logs. The 6x6" beams are magnificent. They are 16 feet long and I immediately started dreaming of them for the writing cabin floor joists for the upper floor. Will it happen? Who knows.

While the guys were sawing logs (I couldn't help it - hehehe), and after the trade show, us girls deaked over to the livestock auction. I grabbed a number and all the sudden Amy screeches at me to help her grab a lamb. Huh??? She, on the whim of the moment, utilized my bidding number to get a $30 lamb. Well.. she is kinda cute. I meant the lamb!! Well, Amy is too.. but we keep trying to find the perfect match for her. Hopefully he, the perfect man, can run a chainsaw and love horses. The lamb rode home on Amy's lap.

When we all got back to my house, we set 119 chicken eggs in the incubator. I think the incubator is set at a much higher temperature and it will probably go better this time around. I need alot of poultry to put into our freezer this year. "Teenager" may be leaving us soon to play semi-professional football, which very well could lead to his biggest dream, to play pro. (He is actually quite good). But if he leaves, our food consumption in this household will be reduced alot!

We also decided that "Mudbog" though she is not a dairy cow, very well may be our milk cow as "Daisy" really does not want anything to do with humans. I do not want to fight an animal who does not really want to be a part of our family. "Mudbog" will stand there and I can scratch her all over and play with her udder and she never even pauses in her chewing of hay or cud. "Daisy" gets a wide eye and runs whenever you get anywhere close to her. We shall see.