Well I have a busy few days.
Tuesday I was supposed to get 2 teeth pulled. I went to the dentist and he gave me all the local anthesthia that he was authorized to give me and my back molar still wasn't numb. He tried to pull the other one and worked on it for 45 minutes and couldn't get it out. They finally called my oral surgeon and got me an appt for the next day. Chris took off work to stay home with the kids and my dad took me to the oral surgeon (Dad doesn't do diapers and mom wasn't going to be home!) So I went on Wednesday and had my 2 back lower left teeth cut out. Today the area doesn't feel that bad, but the doctor said the 3rd day is the worst day for swelling and pain. He got me some good pain killers, anti-biotic, and some medicated mouth rinse that tastes horribly.
Today I ordered 125 chicks from
Cackle Hatchery and will go pick them up on March 24th. At the end of the month I am going to be going crazy I have a feeling. I didn't plan this all very well I guess. My bunnies should be having babies in the end of March/first part of April and I will have 125 chicks to look after. AHHH. lol. But I think I can handle it. :) I ordered 25 Jumbo Cornish X meaties, 25 Brown Leghorns (wanted some white eggs), 25 New Hampshire Reds, 25 Red Star sex links, and 25 Black Sex links. I can't wait to see all the different colored chicks. I was going to order some baby ducks, but I already spent $273 and I decided that I could probably find some ducks at the sale barn or something one of these days.
I have 2 more gallons of fresh milk in the fridge, trying to figure out what to do with it. I think I want to make cream cheese and yogurt. I really like yogurt and I think homemade would be wonderful. The options are endless. I will definetly be making butter out of the cream- I made some last Friday with my new mixer and it was the easiest thing I had ever done! I need to make bread and rolls tomorrow so I think I will use fresh butter on the cinnamon rolls. YUM!
Today I had to kill 1 of my roosters. He flogged Sophia and Cooper and I won't have any animal messing with my kids! Sophia was bent down petting our kitten when the rooster came up behind her and fluffed his wings at her. Knocked her down and scared the crap out of her. As he was attempting to peck her my foot landed in his butt and he flew across the yard and rolled a couple of times. He got up and ran off. We then went to the post office to deliver some eggs to one of the mail-ladies there and came home. That damn rooster then attacked Cooper and wouldn't let Cooper walk anywhere. He was screaming and crying so I kicked the rooster again. This time the rooster came at me with his feathers all fluffed and well there was a steel post lying against the fence so I swung it at him. Needless to say he didn't get back up. I thought about plucking him and putting him in the crock pot, but with my mouth being sore I decided not to.
I gave another rooster away today, to a lady that lives in town, Carmen. Her rooster was being really agressive with her hens and she was wanting a different one. I really didn't need 2 roosters (didn't need 3 roosters!) So now I only have 1 rooster. I wonder when he will figure out that he is the only man? lol.
The past 2 days I had only been getting 12-13 eggs a day and today I discovered a stash of eggs in the hen house. I will have to wait until morning to see if they are any good when I make the kids their eggs. I found 7 eggs so I don't know how many days they have been there. The eggs were both a dark brown and a pink color, so I think it may have been more than one hen laying. Most of the eggs are smaller so I think it may be one of the pullets that just started laying and maybe another hen being wierd. The pullet will figure it out soon enough. I imagine a chicken that starts laying eggs is as about as scared as a young girl getting her peiod. They probably think they are going to die... or at least I thought that when I was little.
The weather here has been really nice the past few days. Right now it is 4:19 am (I may just stay up for the day since I can't sleep!) and it is only 50 degrees outside. Yesterday it was in the 70's and I think it is suppossed to get in the mid 60's today. The farmer's alamanac suggests that we will get 30 inches of snow at the end of March (I hope it is wrong!) I have ordered all my seeds for my garden and hope to be able to plant soon. We should be planting our potatoes on March 17th - St. Patty's Day but who knows if the garden will be ready by then?
Chris has been working on the camper the past few weeks and I can't wait until this spring and we can go camping! He is working on putting the gooseneck hitch on it. It did have a 5th wheel hookup. We have to seal the roof to keep it from leaking anymore and fix the ceiling in the inside. I would like to get the plumbing done, but we can camp with out plumbing. It would be nice to have hot water to cook with, but I can heat up water on the stove I guess. :) My brother in law and sister have a little spot not too far from here that they have their camper on. It has a big fishing pond/swimming hole with dock and not too far from there is the river. It is a great little escape from the real world.
I think my mom and dad think Chris and I are crazy for buying so many chickens, rabbits, and etc. I want to get some pigs and some goats...but maybe another day. lol. I talked to dad tonight about it- he agreed with me though that is all is a gamble and it is better to think you have invested your money rather than just bought something to look at. (like we desperatly need a new TV, but oh well it is still working slightly so we will wait lol)
Everything is going up in price, The economy is sucking like crazy. We should all be trying to save money or make money to save. Diesel went up today to $3.59 a gallon! Unleaded is $3.49! We can barely afford to drive anywhere. Chris has been driving the escape and leaving me the truck since I don't go many places.
I think we need to be focusing on food. If the prices of fuel and corn keep going up, we will have a harder time buying food at the grocery store. This is one reason that I am planning a HUGE garden, raising meat rabbits, raising meat chickens, and so on. I have my milk in supply and really hope that soon I can make where I really don't need to go grocery shopping. That will be the day! (I know I am talking like a crazy woman) and I know I will still want to get a few groceries at the store like rice and beans (although I guess I could grow beans...) And I know I will have to buy supplies. But it is nice to just buy 2 sacks of flour, yeast and sugar and know that really that is like 4 loaves of bread...I don't need eggs or milk really. The three main food items people buy I don't need to. To me that is awesome. I guess I am going to go take a shower and get ready for the day. Maybe I will even make Chris breakfast and freak him out. :) Love it! Later!
Cooper named him! We are keeping him on the backporch for now. He goes outside with me when I do chores and we let him run around the house a couple times a day. He chews literally EVERYTHING! He will be 7 weeks old tomorrow. He is half beagle and half??? maybe yellow lab?? He is just so squishy and adorable. We already love him so much.
They are so cute! I wanted more but I know better because we are going on Thursday to pick up our 125 from Cackle. We were supposed to go last Thursday but they called earlier in the week and said they weren't going to hatch them until the 30th of March. So I had to wait another week. The wait is killing me!
