Storm days...

Sunday was prepare for the storm day.

•  I went grocery shopping, which was a mad house! 
• Mark & I got 60 bales of hay & stacked in the barn.
• Took grain out of my trunk & K3  helped me deliver it to chicken coop, pig pen & sheep barn.
• We moved the chicken coop, so they can clean up the remainder of my garden.
• Took the chicks out of the basement & moved them into the little coop.
• Brought the ewes in from the pasture & put them in with the ewe lambs
• What to do with Dave (ram)? First we put him in a pen in the barn,  he rammed his way through that. Then we moved him in the corral ....Sorry Dave guess you won't have shelter from Sandy. 
• K3 cleaned her coop & I cleaned the cows
• Brought in all the outside furniture
• Phew...finally ready! 
• Ended the day by making popcorn we grew. Yummy!

Monday:

Dave & the steer kept head butting each other between the fence. The steer was bleeding. Stupid Boys! We decided it was time for Dave to go....Mark loaded him up & off the commission sales he went. Mark decided to brace up the chicken coop, we didn't want that to blow over. Then we settled in to await the storm with drink & a house full of kids. Since school was cancelled, my 2 nieces & nephew came to stay the night because their parents had to work in the morning. Lucky me had a storm day...one of the benefits to working in the school system.

Tuesday:

Home for the day...it's 68 degrees, a little rain, windy with a few big gust...but really uneventful. No damage or power loss here. Enjoying my day!

Skunks!!

We have a skunk issue!

 Our first skunk encounter was our lab cross Carter. This was several years ago, I let him out in the middle of the night & when I let him back in, I smelled skunk. I checked him but didn't smell anything, then I touched him, still nothing. I woke Mark & had him smell my hand....Yup skunk. Apparently, it takes a few minute for the odor to appear. In one weeks time poor Carter had 8 baths, needless to say, he now despises baths. We tried vinegar & douches. Douches worked better & we were buying them by the four pack. Then every time he got wet for months afterwards we still smelled a slight skunky odor.

Next was the sheep. We had a skunk spray them in the barn. When we sheared them months later, we had to throw away the wool because it still smelled.

Two years ago, Carter was sprayed again! This time we let him in the sugar shack, because we were sugaring...again it took a few minutes before we realized it was him. This time, we put him in the back of my brothers cab truck & brought him to the groomers. It was the best $50 I have spent! He smelled great & he knew it. He came home with a bandanna around his neck & a happy face!

Last month it was the kitten, Ryder. She just got a little on the side of her neck. I Googled what to use. A mixture of peroxide, baking soda, and soap (which actually seemed to work). I thought, this should be interesting...giving a cat a bath. Silly cat, didn't fight me at all. When I was done, I wrapped her in a towel & she let me hold her while she was shaking, terrified. Poor Baby!

Now, it's the pigs! Good thing they are babies & were not ready to eat them! It sure does make chore time, not as pleasant.

Triple K Farm Long Overdue Update

•  We have 3 new sheepies....they have been here before & now they are back for good. My niece brought her two sheep here last year to breed & they each had a ewe lamb. We got the ewe lambs back & one of the ewes.
•   Dave (ram) is doing his job & lambing will be in February & March.
• We sent 3 of the ram lambs off this week....they weren't as big as we hoped :(
•   You might be a redneck if........ We moved the piggies in a new pen of pallets & baler twine.
• K3's chickens are showing their age....we are only getting 8 to 10 eggs a day out of 26 chickens.
•  25 new chicks arrived in the mail this week. We were waiting every morning for the Whiting post office to call & tell us the chicks were in. Finally, on Thursday afternoon Mark got a call from the Brandon post office to come get our chicks.....not sure how that happened!!

Happy Piggies!