Hey everyone who may or may not still be reading my blog!!! Time really gets away from me as you all can tell. I'm going in so many directions at once, that it's hard to keep up with everything I love. And trust me, I love this blog!!!! You just can't tell here lately by the way I haven't been posting.
Frank has been working a lot extra at work, he's been teaching some classes, and then they have a bunch of overtime days. So, I've been trying to keep up with all the farm work, the book keeping, the house work, and my sewing. This is going to be a sort of catch up blog.
Last weekend was Frank's birthday. We didn't really do anything to celebrate. As we get older, we find that we like to spend a quiet night at home. So, we made a big pan of nachos with seasoned beef, lots of cheese, black olives, refried beans, salsa and some other stuff that we put in the oven and baked until everything was nice and hot and bubbly. Then, we put sour cream on top of it all. Once that was ready, we settled in to watch TV. We were going to watch a movie, but decided to watch a couple episodes of Lethal Weapon on Hulu. (We're still behind, by 5 episodes) (I was really afraid to watch it because the movies are classic, and was afraid they would really ruin it, but I was wrong, it was fantastic!!!! It really gives the characters more depth, and personality, and gives them so much more life. I love it) Then we added some grown up beverages, and it was just a nice relaxing evening.
My chickens are doing great, they took me by surprise last week. I walked into the hen house, and there were 4 eggs waiting for me...after not getting eggs for a couple of months, I was so happy!!! The next day there were more, and then I got 9 eggs by day 3, and by the end of the week, I was getting 3 dozen a day!!! I truly was not expecting that considering the number of older hens I have. When I went to Tractor Supply yesterday to pick up some feather fixer for some of my Easter Egger Hens that had been in a separate pen with 6 roosters, which are no longer in existence, I had to stop and ogle the chicks. Oh they are so cute, and loud!!! I almost caved and bought 6 Black Australorp chicks...I still have my original girls of that breed, and they are older, and barely laying these days. They are laying, but just a couple times a week. What I love about them goes beyond the fact that they are good layers. I love that they are big, and beautiful, and so laid back, and calm and friendly, and don't act like fools when you pick them up to check for eggs. Not like the White Leghorns which are fantastic layers, and don't eat much compared to what they lay. They aren't my favorite breed, they are a really high strung bird in my opinion. They tend to get my Easter Egg hens wound up, which cracks me up because they are generally a laid back breed.
My rabbits are doing well. I think I told you all about Betty having to come in the house. (My Chocolate Silver Fox) I thought she was doing well, and was going to possibly make a full recovery and be able to go back outside when it warmed up again. She was doing great, she was eating, and drinking, and cuddly. Then one day she just stopped eating, but was still drinking, the next day, she stopped drinking as well. I kept her close to me that day, and examined her, but my guess is, she had injuries to her back legs that we didn't realize, and we made the decision to very quickly, and very humanely put her out of her pain, because it was very obvious she was in pain. I can assure you all, she didn't feel a thing. We do not believe in allowing any animal to suffer, and will do everything in our power to keep them from suffering. Yes, I buried her, and yes I cried. I still get kind of teary eyed when I look at her son George who we kept. I'm planning on breeding him with Ethel this spring/summer since I know she has the chocolate gene, and plan on trying to get a new chocolate doe.
I have lots of sewing projects going on!!!! I'm working on some more dresses for my friends little girl, a dress for myself, some dresses for the dress a girl around the world project, some t-shirt quilts, and some other quilts that I've been working on for a long while. I have one pinned together, that's ready to be quilted. Frank is back on his regular work schedule starting Saturday, so I'm thinking I'll work on finishing something this weekend. Basically, I sew based on how my hip and back feel.
I'm still in love with the Subaru. I don't know what took me so long to decide that we needed one of those!!!! Since we've done all the work on the Neon, it's running like new!! Well, not quite like new, but it's running better than it has in years. It still has under 120 thousand miles on it, and with it being a Dodge, and is over that repair hump, Frank thinks we can make it to 300 thousand miles easily. I think I might be a little sad when the Neon does kick the bucket though, it's kind of part of the history of Frank and Brandi.
That's about it from here for now. Hopefully I can get back into posting things again, it's just a matter of things getting back to normal!!!!
