Please pardon my absence from the internet. This past week has been an extremely busy time for me and I feel I've neglected both my blog and my online friends whose blogs I religiously read and generally comment on on a regular basis. One of the reasons I've been busy is that it has been kidding season on the farm. We had nine kids born in a weeks time - 3 girls and 6 boys! Fortunately, this kidding season has been much better than this past winter where we lost 8 out of 16 kids, plus some of the adult goats. All the baby goats are healthy and happy, as are the moms. In addition, our hens have been laying, at most, three eggs a day due to the change in season and the age of the hens. Three eggs a day does not support two families, so yesterday my husband picked up ten more baby chicks.
In addition to the farm duties, my current class requires quite a bit of reading and writing so I've been trying to focus on getting the reading done so I can begin researching for the paper I have to do. The program I'm in has 8-week intensive classes (rather than the usual 16-week schedule) so I have a lot to do in a short period of time.
However, I did manage to get away one day last week to attend the grand opening of an outlet mall about 1 1/2 hours away from us. Stacy London, of the show "What Not to Wear" made an appearance and a friend and I made a day of it. Although the place was a zoo - outlet malls and celebrities do not normally come to this area - it was well worth the trip.
I'm already looking forward to Thanksgiving break and Christmas break so I can get caught up on the important things in life - like reading posts by fellow bloggers.
2 comments:
I'm happy to hear that you are having a better year with the goats. I will probably have to raise more chicks this coming spring, too. We have one that is getting older and lays sporadically and four which are about two years old. I had way too many eggs over the summer but right now I'm only getting a couple a day and am hoarding them for holiday meals.
Deanna, I recently had to purchase eggs for the first time in a long time and will probably be buying more until our teenager hens start laying.
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