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Every time you feel in God's creatures something pleasing and attractive, do not let your attention be arrested by them alone, but, passing them by, transfer your thought to God and say: "O my God, if Thy creations are so full of beauty, delight and joy, how infinitely more full of beauty, delight and joy art Thou Thyself, Creator of all!
- Nicodemus of the Holy Mountain

You can’t get to joy by making everything perfect. You can only get there by seeing in every imperfection all that’s joy.
-Ann Voscamp

Sunday, March 4, 2012

Homestead Diary 2-23-12 through 3-4-12

3-23-12 Did fecals on the goats (Starlight and Cupcake). Only two eggs on each slide. Still using the herbal dewormer.

3-28-12 Brought doe (rabbit) to the vet (Cherry; DX2). She appeared to have a mite problem that needed attention. Turned out that it may be mange. Not sure where she could have picked that up since she's never our of her all wire hutch hung up on the wall of the rabbit barn. Got .25cc Ivermectin SQ. I need to give her another injection on the 7th. Praying it doesn't spread.

3-3-12 Deep bedding finally reached the point of "deal with now" in the chicken and goat barns. Hauled out about 10 wheelbarrow loads. This fall, I want to wait longer to begin the deep bedding, to see if I can make it until spring is really here before having to deal with it. Last fall I began letting it build up in October, I think.

I've been working in the storage room of the barn lately. We're trying to get it cleaned out so we can build two more stalls for goats there. One will be for kidding, and the other for the future herd sires.
I've been hauling the canning jars out of there so we can store them on the new shelves in the garage. Thanks to Dan for the hard work. Now I have a place to store all the canning stuff. No more frantic searching! :) I've also been moving hay bales, trying to consolidate now that there are fewer bales. I've still got a LOT of stuff to move before Dan can start building the stalls.

That's about it for farm stuff. The rest of life continues as usual. :) Hope you all have a wonderful week!

6 comments:

  1. hooray for North Forest Farm,sounds like your keeping busy and the children too,and you still have time for home schooling?

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    1. Yes, keeping busy, and yes, school too. School's the main thing right now. It will be until sometime in June, though I think kidding time in May will dominate. :) We're all pretty excited about that, trying to guess how many and what sex each doe will have.

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  2. Busy, busy! I love reading about all that goes into your budding operation!

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    1. Thanks, Erin. I love reading about your life and family in that warm Southern land too. I am pretty stoked about reading a Northwoods version of your life too though! :)

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  3. I got wore out just reading that! Off to take a nap!

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    1. Well, just remember, I didn't do it all at once. :)

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