I am so tired. Husband came home (finally! He's a truck driver and they only let him come home when they want him to) Sunday night, after being out on the road for about a month. He is diabetic. He runs out of his meds out there when they don't let him come home. So now he's forced to get them from Walmart. Which, and I hate to say this, is a blessing because the meds he got the other day were just $26.00 for 4 prescriptions. And there are Walmarts all over this great country of ours, so he can get his meds when he runs out.
He had 2 doctor appointments on Monday. First with his diabetic doctor at 11:00. Then his eye doctor at 2:15. I stayed home and made soap.
Tuesday had some errands to run in town. Delivering milk and getting feed for all these critters here.
Wednesday started off early butchering chickens. Did 12 that morning. I am not really happy about these Freedom Rangers. They are 13 weeks old now. Well, the 22 that are left. The 28 I have done so far are small. They range from 2.5 pounds to 3.14 pounds. Yep, that's all. They were free ranging all day. In a pretty big area. Running around. Having fun. Eating frogs and bugs and grass. Just being chickens like they are supposed to. But they are SMALL. For as much money as I have in these birds, it's definitely NOT worth it for me.
Wednesday ended with my hubby, daughter and grand daughter and I going up on the mountain to a friend's place to get some fire wood he had ready for us. All chopped up and stacked all nice.
And I work all day on Friday. It's really not "real" work. I help a 95 year old lady go shopping, pay bills, take her to the beauty shop, go eat lunch. Fun stuff. And I love her. She is the sweetest lady. We used to live next door. I am going to post a bunch of beautiful pictures of her house and yard soon if it's ok with her daughters.
When I get home on Friday evenings, I have to do chores and milk goats. Also have to pick produce for Saturday market. I only picked peppers and some beans tonight. It might rain sometime soon. Looked like tonight by the big huge black clouds floating around up there. Then it could be in the morning. Who knows? But I don't have a canopy. Still. My friend said I could share with her. So if I go, I'll have to get up early and pick all the greens. Collards, turnip greens, kale and lettuce. Then carrots, radishes and beets. So a busy morning.
And I'll have my 9 year old very energetic grand daughter Kansas this weekend.
2 comments:
Good morning Kris! I'm glad your hubby is home and I hope you had a good night sleep. My hubby travels too and I usually don't sleep well when I have to share a bed again.
We are butchering today...Cornish X. The buggers are dirty and lazy and prone to congestive heart failure, but they sure get big fast. These are 9 weeks and look like they'll dress out about 5-6 lbs. I just bought another batch of 50 from Town Line Hatchery in MI. They're the best looking chicks I've had yet!
Your garden sounds great. All I'm getting are peppers and butterbeans now. Slugs are after my cabbage and kale. I really need to bait them. And something ate off all my "homemade" carrot seedlings!
What kind of soap did you make this time?
Kristin, I wish I had just gotten the CC birds instead of the FR, just so we would have had some meat! These FR are small. I did it all wrong though. Should have had a small chicken tractor to put them in so they wouldn't be running all over the place. Ya live and learn, right? And I made the tea soap on Monday. Haven't made any more since. I will next week. Slugs are nasty critters. I have way more when I mulch. SO how do you handle the selling aspect of the meat birds? You can email me at outbackfarm@gmail.com. I'd love to hear how y'all do that.
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