It’s winter
We have snow now. About 8 inches. I plowed the road yesterday with the drag plow, and then used the ATV with it’s plow to widen it. I’ll finish it tomorrow. It’s still cold out. In the teens for the most part. It gets pretty cold out on the ATV even with layers and layers of clothes on. My fingers get pretty darn cold. Our road looks a lot bigger on the ATV than when I’m in the truck!
The goats are all doing fine. The ones that are pregnant are starting to show a bit. They are almost all overweight. Just a couple of the does are of a slimmer build. The rest are pretty easy keepers.
We are down to 13 turkeys now. There is one more for us to eat, then the rest will be added to the breeding flock. Next year I hope we have more to sell. They are becoming quite popular. Very tasty, too!
The chickens are still not laying eggs. At least I don’t think they are. I’m finding one egg most days. I’m starting to think someone is eating the eggs. I caught a turkey eating one the other day, so now they are banned from the chicken coop. I hope the chickens didn’t decide to start eating them after seeing a turkey do it.
Tonight when I went out to the dairy side of things to milk, etc., there was a rather big buck deer eating on the hay I throw over the fence that the goats won’t eat. I wish I would have had my camera with me. It would have made a great picture with the snowy trees in the background and this huge buck standing there looking at me. I really should start carrying the camera with me all the time.
We went to town today. The roads were a bit slippery, but we didn’t have any problems. All the side streets weren’t plowed yet, so they were messy. Glad we had 4-wheel drive. That kept us from spinning out at the stop signs and lights.
I got the dog hair all spun up. It turned out rather nice, if I do say so myself. Now it’s back to spinning the rest of the cashmere that is left.
Well, that’s it for now….
