October 12, 2008

  ouse painting day. That is if it warms up a bit. I waited until too long, but there was no other time to get it done other than when I was on vacation and I thought I really did deserve a break. I bought more paint & rollers yesterday hoping for the best. 

It is strange to go from 52 animals down to 10 in a matter of days. Soon I will be down to 5 until we move out on the other property next spring. If my house doesn't sell by then, I will rent it out. I am not in a big hurry to sell it. 

It has dandruffy snowed the last couple of days, but it was the kind of stuff you were questioning if it was snowing or if it was your imagination. 

The woodstove was nice last night. It was so hot, I almost had to open the windows as the four (my three helpers stayed the weekend) of us were sweating to death from it. Soon it will have a fire in it all the time until May-ish. It is great for simmering a soup or something on it all day to be ready when you get home and for drying the clothes from the washing machine, which I set out on racks to dry instead of using the clothes dryer. It will be wonderful to have my soft mead again and it makes the house smell nice. 

I need to pull the cabbages in from the garden. They will not last out there too much longer. I told the guys I would make them cabbage rolls. I wonder how they feel about them made out of red cabbages as that is all I think I have left out there. 

All of the livestock equipment goes into its wintertime shelters today. The hog feeder that we build this spring which holds 400 pounds of feed at a time, the goat milking stand (which I will not have a goat for next year I think), the hog/sheep scale and a few other odds and ends like the poultry gear. I want to get it all under cover before the snows come again. 

"Dixie" and "Blossom" are getting their winter coats so they are all fuzzy. I will stick "Blossoms" earmuffs on in a month or so. I think she appreciates them, even if she looks reminiscent of Mickey Mouse.