A trip to the city
On the 27th of every month one of our checks hits the bank and we usually take a quick trip to pick up animal feed, a few groceries, material, material, material, and lunch at IKEA. I love their meatballs. Soon the material will stop and it will be seeds, seeds, seeds.
Today we had to also deliver a birthday present to a really sweet girl. The wild quilt I just made has been delivered. She wasn’t available to see it so I didn’t get to see the look on her face…I will get an email tomorrow probably to tell me if she liked it.
We also brought one of our gifted rabbits home for a weeks visit while the owners move into an new home. She has certainly been taken care of and is so cuddly so has been loved while in her new home. I’m glad. They told us how her and their cats play like old friends. A nice story.
While in IKEA I saw that they had cyclamens…my Mom’s favorite flower. I wanted so bad to buy one for her and actually reached for it…I guess I’m losing it. I have a bag of Christmas candy here that I got my Dad for Christmas and I’m buying flowers for my Mom. Do we ever let them go? I admit, I shed a few tears and went on with my day. I need to throw this candy out now that it’s one lump.
While we are on the subject of death, a new facebook friend lost her long time pet rooster. Now that might seem trivial to most after all he was just a chicken. I feel so bad for her because I have a rooster that I will be very sad when he leaves me for the roost on the other side of the rainbow. Since he was just a little guy he and his brothers used to all protect me from their Daddy who was the devil of all roosters. They would chase him off the property every time he came after me. One by one something got the three brothers and I thought Rooster too but one day I walked into an empty shed and there he was. I had never touched him but reached down and picked him up and he has been my baby ever since. I had him penned for the winter and in the spring got him a lady friend. Some days he is under foot and wants attention and some days he stays his distance. But the minute he sees me in the kitchen window he runs up and gets whatever treat I throw out to him. Last summer I had a big rooster that turned mean and the one time he came after me, Rooster was in between us in a flash and had to jump up to get in his face. He just didn’t know how little he was, but he backed the big rooster off me and stayed in between us until he lost interest in me. The big rooster was chicken dinner…I don’t give roosters second chances. I have a Rhode Island Red rooster now named Bubba who is a sweetheart and hopefully will stay that way.
I just got a call from the place I purchase my chicks and ordered 20 Jersey Giants to try out this year. Supposedly they aren’t that great of layers, but wonderful for meat. We will see. They don’t come in until May 31st so I have time to get their habitat ready over at Tina’s place. All the poultry is moving over there by the end of summer. I need the barn space and the outside sheds are just too damp for my babies. They don’t seem to mind, but I do. We will put floors in the new chicken building. In the summer they will have the woods behind Tina’s to free range. Hopefully the predators will leave them alone. I have seen coyotes there chasing cats. We will figure out something to keep them safe or use the chicken tractors. Rick will be glad because he won’t have to mow that and the elk and deer will still be able to walk through there on their way to my garden for a snack.
I found a place to buy organic raw cows milk. I bought a gallon tonight and had some with my dinner…yum. It had all these warnings but I grew up on organic raw cows milk and stayed slim and trim and healthy until I started drinking the milk from the store. I’m still looking for a place to get organic grass fed beef…maybe I will just have to put an elk in the freezer. I sure have enough of them walking through my yard every day and night. Seems like one could fall down dead and nobody would miss him. Another story for another day.
Today I stumbled across another rabbit grower who has the same basic philosophy of raising rabbits as I do. He is out for a good quality of life for them and works on quality rather than quantity. Also he looks for raising as much of his rabbit food as possible which is my goal. I picked up some pointers from him and am excited to get them into my program. All these ideas and can’t do a thing about them for several months. Poor Rick when Spring gets here. He’s going to start calling himself my slave again. I keep telling him that he’s my favorite slave but somehow that’s just not enough. What’s a girl to do?
Enough chatter for tonight…..have a great day!!!
