According to the weather forecast (that changes oh-so-frequently), we are going to have rain tonight turning to snow by early morning and throughout the day Friday and Saturday. Yuck! We laid new straw in the buildings for the mamas and babies and are hoping and praying the weatherman is wrong.
I found a piano on craigslist.com for free as long as we load it and haul it off. It doesn’t have a bench, but is an upright and looks okay in the picture. It is first come, first serve and due to the weather it will be Sunday before we can pick it up. We will see if it was meant to be or not.
My mom always wanted to learn how to play the piano and never did. I always wished I knew how to play the piano and have tried to teach myself off and on.
If someday we have children in our home I plan to try my very best to afford them lessons and help them learn how to play the piano if not other instruments as well.
I received yet another box of plants from Gurney’s last night. Randy was so good to help me get 2 cranberry bushes, 2 dwarf blueberry bushes, and a cherry bush in the ground last night. I also have two coffee plants that need to be potted inside. I’m short on pots, but do have some I have been meaning to paint and decorate. We’ll see if the two tiny plants setting on my counter are incentive enough to get them done.
We still have 37 baby lambs as of this moment in time. Last night we discovered one of our mamas with a bad half (udder) and twins had gotten a split in the back of her udder. Once we got her penned up and started to clean up the cut and milk her out I realized her bag was enormously full. Not sure how this happened with two big healthy lambs nursing her, but it did. She is now off food and water for at least 24 hours to try to get her milk production down and her udder healed. We will supplement the lambs if needed and dry her off completely if she does not heal soon.
We also lost a hen this week. Randy found her dead in the coop. Not sure what the cause of death was, but we suspect it could have been from ingesting the Styrofoam insulation on the ceiling of their coop. It’s tricky for them to get to, but we have noticed areas where it has been pecked. Hopefully she will be our only casualty. The insulation is so nice to hold heat in in the winter and keep heat out in the summer. We may end up having to cover the Styrofoam with wood, but our to-do list is so incredibly long right now the thought of adding to it is less than favorable.
I am looking forward to a 4-day weekend. I am always off on Fridays and also have Monday off for a dentist appointment. So, I will be getting our neglected house back in check. It is all we can do to keep up with regular chores, lambing issues, and feed ourselves. Housekeeping is kept to a bare minimum during lambing season. We are just above “safe” and “livable” in our home right now. Hopefully after this weekend we will be in the “clean” and “comfortable” zone.
Have a great weekend!
A Simple Prairie Life 