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we woke up this morning it was -8C/17F outside and 14C/57F inside the cabin. It
was a wee bit chilly, but I was leaving to go help a friend with a goat with a
injury first thing this morning, so I did not bother starting one. October 17, 2006
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we woke up this morning it was -8C/17F outside and 14C/57F inside the cabin. It
was a wee bit chilly, but I was leaving to go help a friend with a goat with a
injury first thing this morning, so I did not bother starting one.
On
my travels there, I saw a vintage piece of farm machinery which I have not
bothered to ID yet, I just liked the fall colour of it and the Autumn leaves, so
I quickly took a picture of it before the next logging truck zoomed by me. The
guys are normally good drivers, but you never know..
People have been asking about "Daisy", I will try to have an updated report tomorrow. The last couple days have been busy enough that I have just tossed her hay and fed her and the calf.
When I went to another town to order a industrial sized paper trimmer for the magazines yesterday, I also stopped at a thrift shoppe and picked up four really nice sweaters ranging from .99 cents to $5.99. The only thing wrong with the .99 cent one, which is probably the nicest of the lot, a white sheep wool sweater-jacket handmade in Ecuador, is that it is missing 3 of its wooden buttons. Buttons!.. but actually what I was going to tell you about was not sweaters, but about 2 books I got from there as well. One is on sheep rearing, to add to my collection of 900-some books and the other is a book written by a woman I had read a small article somewhere about and knew about the book. It is this book I would like to recommend. I am in the middle of reading it, but an excellent book to read for those who really want to give it all up and live in the middle of the wilderness.
The book is called "Wilderness Mother" by Deanna Kawatski. It is about a woman. like me, who probably dances to a different drummer than the rest of the world, who meets a fellow, marries and goes to live and raise a family in the bushlands of British Columbia, Canada, about 6-8 hours further north than where we are. She has a sequel out I believe. Go to your local library and check her books out.
Tonight consisted of me making 9 batches of waffles to freeze for the boys' quick breakfasts before school. The Belgian Waffles are big enough, they have to be quartered before they can go into the freezer. I think I spent 2 hours cooking waffles, but I could do this and and that between rotating the waffles and freezing them.