May 12, 2007

aturday Market again today.  Amy was not with us as she did not have the day off from the veterinary office, but we took her products with us. She has a new hand cream which went over very well. Mary is almost sold out of soap again. 

I love Saturday Market. It is like the local coffee shoppe where you know everyone and can just gab. You also make contacts. We may be selling salad lettuce twice a week to a very good government program. They picked us, due to the heirloom lettuces we grow. They met us at Seedy Saturday a couple years ago. That would be an excellent thing to get into. 

Then I get home and go to turn the 115 eggs (they have reduced in numbers as 4 were not fertile and we culled them out) and find the incubator is not 101F, it is 84F.. I hope we do not have 115 dead chicks in 7-8 days. I cannot tell until they do not hatch. I turned up the heat in the incubator as it was not coming up any other way, but now I am having to check on it every 5 minutes. It could have been cool for up to 8 hours. It seems to be at the correct temperature now. But is so touchy to regulate.. I need to check and check and check and check. I think the cord came unplugged slightly. 

We don't have any kids here for 4 days. Which has never happened before. It is q-u-i-e-t around here!! And the house is staying cleaner. Tomorrow I want to get it 100% spic and span. 

After a short nap, which I may take here in a little while, I will go on the other sofa across from where my honey is currently snoring. It is 15.2C inside the house here, but I am being too lazy to build a fire in the woodstove until this evening. But after the nap (which I always dream about and rarely get) I need to work in the greenhouse and garden. I want to plant some things which the cold nights will not bother. When I woke up this morning, it was 0.4C, which means it probably frozen during the night. I want to get my Nasturtiums planted so I have nice growth for the gates when they are ready to be hung out

8pm:

Mary stopped by and dropped me some dog meat. We fed the dogs and went and fed and observed the cows. We are wondering how much wider "Daisy" can get before she bursts at the seams.

Then Amy stopped by to pick up 2 flats of tomatoes I had extra, get her cell phone and her Saturday Market stuff and scam the fence post pounder.

We have a problem with the woodstove tonight. I am cold and it is 17C in the livingroom now. My guy said if I light the fire, he is moving out. *L* I guess I need to grab a couple blankets and wear them around the house.

Debbie R.... I will really miss you.. please look down on us from cloud #9 and I hope you met up with one of your former horses who left before you and you are jumping back and forth over those Pearly Gates.