The Nano novel is coming right along and my word count is about where it should be. The typewriters are great fun and I suspect that there is another one in my future. The important thing for me is that I believe I am going to try my hand at writing for money. It’s time. I’ve wanted to do it for a long time. And it doesn’t much matter if I just manage to sell a magazine article or two, instead of a book.
The goats are doing fine, although I haven’t been taking many pictures lately. We are going to go ahead and butcher the two Scamper kids. It will make it easier to afford hay for the winter. We’ve been lucky so far, but the weather won’t hold. Spacewise and feedwise, it makes sense. We’ve just been waiting for cooler weather. We have little chickens everywhere. The 10 chicks from the Rock have tailfeathers at this point. We’ve been letting them back out to forage. The 10 buff chicks are still small but getting bigger every day. And we still have the five larger chicks from the earlier hatches. I hope they can make it through. It would be great to have replacement chickens for the spring. The buffs we have are getting old. We lost the last Lorp and are down to one Rock. But it seems that we have chicks from those too, so there’s a chance to carry on.
We patched a hole in the floor of the porch and the cookstove is doing a decent job of heating the trailer. We can’t bank a fire in it, so we are going to need a real wood stove at some point. Jeffrey has been out cutting firewood. We have been cutting dead standing wood, so it burns okay. And we had elk steaks a few nights ago. A friend got one this year and gave us some to try. Not bad, but we should have pressure cooked it a bit to tenderize. That’s how we do goat and it makes a huge difference.
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