11/14/11 - No more clumpy poops for Cupcake, and all seems well.
11/15/11 - Heard back from Molly @ Molly's Herbals. She says the clumpy poop is a sign that the herbal wormer is doing its job. Glad to hear it.
Cupcake showing signs of heat today. For some reason, whenever she's in heat she gets bullied by the other does more, so I can usually tell when it is.
First real snow of winter is falling now. Kids having fun tonight with snowballs.
Learned today that birdsfoot trefoil is high in concentrated tannins, making it a good natural wormer for barber pole worms. Happy because we have plenty of it for them in the summer, and they graze it fairly well after the dandelions slow down.
Raised bed is finished and ready for mulching. Big garden still needs more mulch. If this turns out to be the snow that stays maybe it won't get done this year.
I seem to be over the slump I was having this fall. I'm so glad! I wonder what happened to so many of us this fall? Any way, I'm back to being productive again, at least a little (when blog reading and writing don't distract me too much). I've finished my apron in time for Susan's apron sew off over at e-i-e-i-omg!. I'm really excited to see everyone's project, and the project really got me going on the sewing path. Can't wait to make something else!
The rest of this week I'll be spending all of my spare minutes cleaning for a visit from my parents over the weekend. I'm really looking forward to having some time with them. Well, I guess that's it for now.
I, too, am back on a good, productive track . . . much different than I was a couple of weeks ago. I find it very strange that so many of us homesteader-bloggy-friends-type women were nailed by the same lack-of-energy, grumpy-dump slump and mini-depression. Very strange.
ReplyDeleteI'm very close to having my apron done, too. Won't it be fun to see all of them?
Have a wonderful visit with your parents this weekend!
so ma and pa kettle are on the way---oh wait that was my name for my ma and pa---Hi Patty
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