I have plans to update this site more regularly, and the next thing I know, a month has passed by. Sometime, I’ll have to write up my tech rant about the “cold pizza of doom”. Anyway, a quick update in the meantime. Something, likely a rabbit, got in and wiped out all the cole crops I had planted in the garden. It’s getting too late to replant cabbage, so I am going to replant with a bunch of old seed and see if anything comes up. I can still replant collards and kale. We have a live trap out to see if it comes back.
We are still working on the yurt but I suspect it is going to have to go on hold until next year. I’m going to try and felt some of this stuff up anyway, just to clear up some space. We really need to hook up the wood stove and start getting ready for winter. Likely, Jeffrey will build yet another extension onto the trailer for now. We need to move some cats in and find a place for my bird.
Speaking of cats, Jack had urinary blockage, something I haven’t dealt with in a long, long time. But I recognized it right off. Managed to find credit enough to get him unblocked. He’s been back home for a week and seems okay so far. He now gets to eat expensive food for the rest of his life, but I’m glad he’s back home.
We are planning to start butchering out wethers when the weather cools, including Ragnar (the goat in the lawn chair picture.) Hay is pretty expensive, $250 a ton for grass. Many folks are getting rid of their livestock as a result. Not a good time for me to do that. I’ll try to pull the rest of them through the winter and will wait until November or so to breed. We might manage it.
Loretta is still a handfull. She’s more like a dog now than a puppy. I wish she minded better, but she just doesn’t hear you sometimes. She’s such a good dog otherwise. She is a bird dog, so I guess it’s not surprising that she likes to flush chickens from the brush.
So, I guess that’s it for now. Maybe I can pull together that tech rant.
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