February 27, 2007

t snowed a couple inches last night. We are still not used to the new schedual of the man of the house leaving for early shift and getting home before noon. It always takes a few days of getting used to cooking 2 meals of dinner. The well ran dry again last night. I am going to have to start hauling more water every day again now that the cows are drinking more. I think I see udder enlargement in one if not more cows. Ever since "Daisy" accidental chiropractic adjustment with the tractor, she has been 100% normal. She is friendlier, but she still only makes a deal for food only. When we have a stanchion for her and she cannot move sideways or forward, she may stand better. I will work with her alot more once the ground is not slippery.

The tracks in the snow were funny this morning. A cat, a squirrel and a mouse all in the same path. In the snowbank we found the squirrel's winter stash and the path to the snowbank where he sits and watches.

I guess I will go for one more good dog run with the sled and pull the dogboxes off for the year, so I can start hauling water. The "Teenager" is too cool to be running about with a 300 gallon water tank in the bed of his truck. So I am deemed it. With "Break Up " in a matter of a couple weeks, we will need the boxes off anyway to do our chores as my guy will be off and that is when we do the majority of our yearly building and major chores.

I have a mass of magazines to print and fold. The collating is the worst part of it actually. Especially the Winter 2005 issues. The rest are not so bad. I also donated a year subscription for the auction at the Boer Goat Association and I have to print off their gift certificate tomorrow. I feel like I have not seen my press in some weeks now with all the kuffuffle with the cow and other odds and ends.

I am getting antsy for Spring to be here. I have detained looking through my seed bag as long as possible as I knew I would want to start planting something. March 17th is traditional for me to plant in Oregon and it is difficult for me to wait until the middle of April to start many things. I may push my luck and start seedlings in the house March 17th and transplant in April to the greenhouse and wake several times a night to stoke the woodstove in there. I probably will only have to get up twice. Mary was putting an order in today from the people I wanted to get my short season corn from and I got in on her order. I got the corn that they sold out of the last 2 years. I am not sure how the corn tastes, but it is a short season corn I was highly interested in. Notice I am not telling what variety it is yet *S*.. Not until I save my own seed from it.

I was next to the greenhouse yesterday to squeeze the cow sling into it through the 2 inch wide gap, which was as far as I could open the door. It was really rather strange looking 3 feet down into the greenhouse from the flat snow I was standing on. The snow piles tower around me even more.