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Alee
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 Posted - May 10 2009 : 9:09:33 PM
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Oh Cherry! Please make an appointment with your doc to have that looked at! My aunt did something like that (okay a softball hit her in the shin, but it was a blow to the leg) and it bruised the bone! She got staph or something like that because of the bruise and about lost her leg! So please be careful!!
Kristin- Thanks for the beautiful rain shower this afternoon! Too bad I couldn't enjoy it- Nora was having a fit because she was over tired and didn't want to take a nap. Stubborn girl...just like her mama. My peas are up and the beans too. Looks like it is time to plant some more things- just in time for me to be leaving in a couple of days! Only two more weeks and then I will be gone for two weeks! I can't wait. I am SOOO excited!
Alee
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CherryMeDarlin
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Cherry
Odenville
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Posted - May 11 2009 : 09:28:00 AM
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You, sweet, sweet, girls! The leg is much better. Still a bit swollen and bruised. Still hobbling a bit. I may go on to the doc, though, because of what your aunt went through, Alee. We have a friend who got hit in the leg by a softball and she had a blood clot develop from it. Dratted getting older! But where will you be going for two weeks that has you so excited?
Kris, this rain is making me crazy! Just when I think the sun's beginning to dry things out enough to till, another shower comes through! My little watermelon seeds are sitting on the counter, waiting patiently. But the ground's just too wet to make any hills. And it looks like I'm gonna have to replant the okra, too. Only 4 or 5 plants have popped up. Everything that's already up is growing well, though. The hubs is already asking how soon we'll have corn so I can fry some up for him! Now if only I could get him interested in raising some chickens!
~~Cherry~~
"A thing is as simple or as complicated as you make it." --TT Murphy |
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kristin sherrill
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Posted - May 11 2009 : 10:35:08 AM
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I want to know where Alee is going too. It is fun to get away. I hope to be going back to Colorado for July 4th weekend for our family reunion. The way it looks now though, I may not be able to. I have got to get a goat milker-sitter to come stay here while I'm gone. The girl I used last year is getting married and will not be here. Her sister might be able to.
It looks like it's going to rain here any minute now. It's cold, too. I have the windows open. I did turn the air on Friday because it was so hot and humid and I had company. But it's off now. And I might have to shut the windows!
Ley us know about your trip. Alee. I do hope you have fun. And Cherry, I hope you are much better.
Kris
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Alee
True Blue Farmgirl
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CherryMeDarlin
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Cherry
Odenville
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Posted - May 11 2009 : 11:13:41 AM
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Yay, you! Stress-free time away from the books and the tests and all that "grown-up" stuff, huh? And will Miss Nora be along to daydream with you? I bet she loves your horse!
~~Cherry~~
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NikkiBeaumont
True Blue Farmgirl
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Posted - May 11 2009 : 12:04:52 PM
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Yay, Alee! A much deserved break for you! I hope that you have a wonderful time and take lots of photos!
Good night, Cherry! I am so sorry that you have been getting hurt so much lately. I hope that you will go to the doctor to make sure that everything is in its proper place!
Kris, do you have another thread about goats? milking and the caring of? I would really like to know more, first-hand info. about them. I hope that you can get a good milkmaid to come while you are in Colorado! If that is all that would keep you from going and you would be back in less than 4 days, then I might offer my very inexperienced services to you.
Y'all, I went to the farm this weekend and I bet you I screamed more in the last 48 hours than I did the last time that I went to Six Flags. There were snakes, notice plural, and black-widows, once again, plural. And mice in the desk drawers and jumping and climbing trees outside. There were many, many other disgusting bugs and spiders that I could not even identify and some of them crawled on me! Some of them even bit me! Although, I didn't see one mosquito or tick while I was there. I knocked a spider off of Lovin' Man's back and made him look at mine. The image I had was of the beginning scene of Raider's of the Lost Ark with the tarantulas. Ugh!
Sadly, the battery died in my good camera and I couldn't even document all of this horror properly. On the bright side, I was the recipient of many heart pounding moments so I think that I must have benefited from the involuntary aerobic workouts.
Here is what I came home to.
Tomato sprawl. How can I tie this tomato plant up in this pot? Do I need one of those wire cone things?
And then look at this. Are those bumps normal? If not, WHAT ARE THEY?
Here is the other plant with this problem.
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CherryMeDarlin
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Cherry
Odenville
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Posted - May 11 2009 : 12:33:52 PM
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Yay, Nikki's back! You definitely had a heart-pounding week-end, huh? Just maybe not the heart-pounding in a "good" way!  Where is your farm? Do you have a house there, too? Which reminds me, where 'bouts do you live? About your tomatoes, the wire cones would probably be best. Stakes might take up too much room in your pots. And I'll defer to Kris about the mysterious bumbs. At first I thought they might be new little nubs, but maybe not. You have lots of blooms, though! Mine have little baby tomatoes just beginning. And the squash is blooming, so maybe lack of sun hasn't hurt too much.
The leg's mucho better now! Still a little pain, but nothing Excedrin can't take care of. The hubs is still threatening to make me wear the football helmet, though.....
~~Cherry~~
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CherryMeDarlin
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Cherry
Odenville
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Posted - May 11 2009 : 12:35:25 PM
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Hey, and I want to post pics, too. How do I go about doing it?
~~Cherry~~
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Alee
True Blue Farmgirl
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NikkiBeaumont
True Blue Farmgirl
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Posted - May 11 2009 : 2:18:14 PM
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Alee, WOW! I don't see how you get everything done! You are a dynamo, girlfriend! It is wearing me out just reading what all you are going to be doing! And school, too! Do you sleep? I read somewhere that Martha Stewart only sleeps 4 hours a night and then I was like, well, OF COURSE, that's how she does it. She has an extra 4 hour jump on the rest of us.
Hey, Cherry, just be glad that hubs is not insisting on the complete football uniform! The helmet won't be so bad. Ha!
If you want to post photos, you need to set up an account on photobucket.com, then you need to upload your photos (may need to resize them before you do), if you have a lot on one subject you might want to put those in a separate album before you post them here because if you move them after sharing they will have a different address and not show up. After you have downloaded your photos, drag your mouse over the photo and a little menu will drop down below it, copy the IMG address, then paste it into your reply. It is that easy!
Hey, I went to Petals from the Past on Saturday, but dang it, we got there too early (8am) and they weren't open yet (9am). Wow! It is really beautiful! I can't wait to shop there. Lovin' Man said that we could stop by on our way back Sunday afternoon, but I was so sweaty and filthy after helping to load the trailer with firewood, I felt like Cinderella with no Fairy Godmother to clean me up. Blah!
The "farm" is in Selma. I call it Swampy Bottom Acres because it consists of a field that dips down into a beaver created swamp and then rises back up into another field. There are no alligators in that swamp, about which I am both relieved and disappointed. The crops are mostly things that deer and ducks like to eat in case Lovin' Man ever wants to hunt there, but he hasn't yet. And we are growing pine trees, ostensibly for our retirement, but really, I think Lovin' Man only goes down there to ride the tractor. HA!
We have a metal building 12' x 36' that has a bank of cabinets and a double sink at one end and a bathroom that Lovin' Man made at the other end. We have furnished it with all of the castoffs from our house. The place is a magnet for all kinds of wildlife. I never know what we will find when we walk in the door. A mouse was nursing her three babies in the desk drawer last time and Oakley and I had to sneak around and put them back when Lovin' Man wasn't looking. He KNEW what we were doing, though. I don't mind killing adult mice, but BABIES, no way. Let them grow up and then I will kill them.
I live very close to you, Cherry! We are probably less than 10 miles apart!
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Alee
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kristin sherrill
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Posted - May 11 2009 : 4:21:50 PM
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Nikki, first off, welcome back and what a weekend you had. When you said you saw spiders and snakes and there were pictures, I knew I couldn't look. I cannot even look at pictures of snakes, I hate them so much. So PLEASE don't put one on here. I will never come back! But then I saw the pics of your plants. Thank goodness!! I was much relieved then. Thanks!
Ok, then the 2nd thing is you will probably not be able to get a wire cage around that big ole plant. If you do attemp it just be careful and not break the branches. A few poles and some old panty hose tied around it may be better since it is SO big. Goodness, it makes my poor plants look like munchkins, which they are really.
Then those bumps are a normal thing on tomatoes although good grief, I have never been that up close and personal to it before! They sure are big bumps. But really, I do believe that is normal for tomatoes. So no need to worry. Kind of like little root things. So your ok there.
And your farm sounds pretty swampy. You sound like me out in the woods. Oh my goodness, I am so afraid of snakes that I think I see them all over the place. And they probably are all over just watching me ready to fall out of a tree or something. The evil things. Makes ya glad to be home for sure.
Kris
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NikkiBeaumont
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Posted - May 11 2009 : 5:21:23 PM
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Oh, Alee! I know what you mean! My house has been going to pot lately. I have SO MANY other interesting things to be doing other than cleaning! HA!
I am so relieved that my tomatoes are not harboring some parasitic nursery or something. I thought that bugs had laid eggs in there. Gross!
An older man at Lowe's told me to put those tomatoes in a pot with half manure and potting soil and the things have just taken off! My other one's that I planted in the actual ground are not doing as well, though I feed them today with some organic fertilizer. Maybe that will help them.
Glad that I didn't put the snake photos on then! We did have to kill two of them in the wood pile. My first husband's grandmother was bitten by a copperhead out at the woodpile, so I was mindful of that while I was getting wood from there. I grabbed the tarp and yanked it up and a snake fell out! I knew it was big but I only saw part of it. Well, I went around for the next 15 to 20 minutes thanking Jesus for watching out for me, my heart pounding out of my chest! Oh, after that I "saw" a snake in every pile of leaves and underbrush.
Lovin' Man came back and investigated the woodpile. He thought that the 5 foot long snake did not look poisonous, so Oakley and I begged him from our lookout in the bed of the truck not to kill it. Then another one poked its head out and we realized that our mercy only extended as far as one snake was concerned because we immediately started screaming for him to kill them both. LOL!
After that I had to completely disassemble the woodpile. As I spread out the tarp to fold it up I found a HUGE black widow with her nickel-sized egg sack. I took a crappy picture of her and then smushed her fast. That was not the only BW that I saw either. Oh my goodness, there are a bunch of deadly creatures out there! I began to comprehend man's reasoning behind trying to control everything around him. Nature is scary and unpredictable and out THERE everywhere! Why not control what you can? HA!
I read a poll recently conducted with Floridians to find out what they were most afraid of and snakes was #1. Sharks and alligators and spiders were among the others but I don't remember in what order. I was surprised. I thought that alligators would be on the top!
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Alee
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NikkiBeaumont
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Posted - May 11 2009 : 6:29:48 PM
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"I will bite you now and you will die later" !!!!! That is so funny! Alee, you are cracking me up!
But, really, do y'all not have anything deadly other than bears and rattlesnakes? That is pretty cool!
I read a book, I think called A Sunburned Country by Bill Bryson, and he was talking about all the deadly spiders and octopus and ALL that they have in Australia to deal with that can kill you and I was like, "HOW on earth could anyone live there with all that scariness?" But, you know, we all live with danger everyday. On the highways, in our own bathrooms (CHERRY!), at the mall. You don't know what will happen. Either you have faith that God will carry you through whatever happens or you don't have any assurance at all. So I am thankful for today.... with no spider bites in it.....so far. LOL!
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CherryMeDarlin
True Blue Farmgirl
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Cherry
Odenville
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Posted - May 12 2009 : 09:48:27 AM
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I like that, too, Alee, about being bit now and dying later! And girls you are not alone in the housecleaning department. I once read an "article" (or something like it) by Fannie Flagg that she wrote shortly before she died. It really opened my eyes about how I spend my time. I'll see if I can find it. But basically it was kind of a wish list. Like playing more with your kids when they're little and still want to play with you.
The hubs talks every so often about buying acreage down south. He hunts in Greene County somewhere around Boligee. I've told him that if he's moving me south, we're gonna keep going until I can see sand. If I'm gonna move that far from my family, I may as well go all in and get close to the beach! But your week-end adventure sounds very similar to how one of our week-end adventures might be like with me and baby girl begging that the snake not be killed, then changing our minds and wanting them all killed! LOL!
When we first bought our land up here on our little mountain ridge, we had something of a problem with rattlesnakes. My granddaddy scared me silly by telling me to make sure we didn't build our house on a rattlesnake "crossing". He said that they hibernate in the same den every year and make a crossing to that den twice a year. So when we decided where to build the house, there I was, sitting in a chair for several days, waiting to see if we'd decided to plop this house down on a rattlesnake highway! The longer we're here, the fewer we see. Baby girl came real, real close to stepping on one a few years back when we decided to hike out to a waterfall we have on the property and take pictures of the blooming mountain laurels. She was in 1st grade when we first bought the property and from the very beginning we drilled it into her head to look where she stepped. That paid off. She was about to step down right on this huge coiled-up rattler. She twisted right out of her shoe and practically jumped 10 feet into my arms, screaming "SNAAAAAKE!" Lawd, I bought had a heart attack! And me with just my camera and no shotgun! One of her friends was with us and she had already went around the snake without ever seeing it. So I had two hysterical pre-teens that I had to calm down and get back to the house, 1/2 mile through the rocky woods, neither one of them wanting to take one more step!
And the black widows love the well house and the wood piles. And the scorpions love the bathtubs. And the tunnel spiders love my flower pots. But the one critter I can not stand and refuse to get near is a camel cricket. I absolutely hate the disgusting creatures!
I think Kris is right, Nikki, about your tomato plants and those little nubs. The more I thought about it, the more I think those are places the plant would send out a root if it were underground.
And you're right about all the danger we live with every day. I have a habit of talking to God when I'm outside. I don't know, something about being in nature makes me feel so much closer to Him and like He can hear me better. The other day when I was working out there, pulling ivy off the foundation of the house and cutting it loose, there were all these carpenter bees flying around my head, mad at me for getting so close to their little holes which they'd hid behind the ivy. Ever been stung by a carpenter bee? Hurts like the dickens! So I was just asking God to keep them off me and not let me get stung, pretty please. I was in a "zone" and must have been talking louder than I realized 'cause next thing I know the hubs is standing there cracking-up at me. He oughta be used to it by now. I "pray-talk" over my seeds and plants, too, asking God to give them what they need and keep me from unknowingly killing them!
And now ya'll think I'm schizo!
Thank you for the photo instructions, Nikki! Maybe I can some garden pics posted. And oh, happy day! the sun's trying to come out! And now it's gone again. And now it's back! And now it's gone. ARGH!
~~Cherry~~
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CherryMeDarlin
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Cherry
Odenville
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Posted - May 12 2009 : 09:50:14 AM
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Oh, and Nikki, we'll just have to plan us an adventure to Petals! Didn't it look like a gardener's heaven?!
~~Cherry~~
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Alee
True Blue Farmgirl
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Posted - May 12 2009 : 10:48:39 AM
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Well lets see here, we do have wolves (but they stay away from humans as best they can), and we have mountain lions (usually they stay away from humans), and the bears. We have rattle snakes and occasionally we will have a black widow- but I don't think I have ever seen one.
So I think we are pretty safe compared to all your poisonous critters and slithery critters in the waters- ick. Sorry. The though of alligators and crocodiles creeps me out! Not a way I would like to go!!
Alee
Farmgirl Sister #8
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CherryMeDarlin
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Cherry
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Posted - May 12 2009 : 11:05:52 AM
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Okay, maybe Fannie Flagg isn't dead. And I can't seem to find that wonderful email!
~~Cherry~~
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NikkiBeaumont
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Posted - May 12 2009 : 12:17:18 PM
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Oh, Cherry, no, I don't think that Fannie Flagg is dead. LOL! Maybe you were thinking of Erma Bombeck.
Mountain Laurel! We just saw a massive wave of the stuff blooming at Horse Pens 40 two weeks ago! I had never seen any and was completely enchanted. We walked through a tunnel of the stuff. Beautiful!
Before Lovin' Man bought the farm we had a chance to buy either a place at the beach or the farm and (I AM AN IDIOT) I advised him to buy the farm. At the time, we had access to a friend's beach place whenever we wanted it and now, not so much. It really chaps my hide. Every spring I look through the realty ads. We eventually want to retire there so I think we ought to buy now since things are rock bottom down there. I am desperate to get to the beach! This summer I am hauling my camper down there and truly beach bumming for weeks at a time like I have always wanted to do! I am going to live on ramen noodles and wear my hair in dreadlocks if that's what it takes.
Funny that you are most disgusted by the camel crickets! They are ugly! They are so big and jumpy and brown and ugly!
Well, I am sure that your plants are very happy with you talking to them, makes them feel loved!
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kristin sherrill
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Posted - May 12 2009 : 12:52:32 PM
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Nikki, any time you want to talk goats, just ask away. I love goats and will talk about them as much as I can. I am in no way an expert especially when it comes to the diseases they can get. But I've goats for a long time now. I do have milk goats now but have had Spanish and Kiko before. I was going to get in the meat goat business one time but decided to go with dairy. They are so much more work and time but I love 'em.
I'm with ya on the dread locks! And the camel crickets. Eeewww!! If I forget and leave the goat feed barrel lid off they get in it and when I reach in they jump on my arm and scare me to death every time. I hate those big ugly things. Who ever thought up those things had a great big imagination for sure. And flies, too. I spend so much time obsessing on one lone fly in my house I can't sit down til I've killed it. And the fruit flies are back! Darned ole fruit flies.
Kris
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NikkiBeaumont
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Posted - May 12 2009 : 1:09:12 PM
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Okay, I am back. Had to go pick Oakley up from school.
I have never been stung by a carpenter bee. I didn't even know that you could be. I have always been intimidated by their size, but they don't seem to be aggressive, just annoying. We have a pile of dead ones in every corner of the deck. Yuck!
So you are talking out loud to your plants and to God. I can see how the hubs would be amused at catching you doing that!
Oh! I am going to Pepper Place this Saturday! Cherry, I don't know if you would like to meet me down there or not. I have to leave here at about 7am so that I can get there by 7:30 and be done shopping in an hour so that I can meet Lovin' Man at my grandmother's house and help him cut up some fallen trees in her yard. Then I want to go to the Bass Pro Shop. Did you see that they are having canoe and kayak days there this weekend? They don't have any alligators so it won't be the same, but still might be very educational. I hope they let people test them in the pool.
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NikkiBeaumont
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Posted - May 12 2009 : 2:38:07 PM
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Kris, I am interested in goats. I don't have a back yard, I have something slightly short of a ravine. I was wondering how much space a goat needs to forage. Also, do you milk twice a day? And can you make butter from the milk? I was thinking that goats would be the most economical way of insuring that you had milk, butter, and cheese options if things got bad and you had to provide for yourself and your family. Plus, they are so dang cute. At least, I think that the babies are.
Anyway, these are the things that I have been contemplating. I would also have to have some help on the milking side of things because I like to up and go whenever the opportunity presents itself. Maybe I could talk my mother-in-law into taking some milking lessons. HA!
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Posted - May 12 2009 : 7:51:36 PM
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Well, a goat by itself is not very fun, especially for the goat. Although I do have one doe that would love to be an "only" goat only because she is so selfish and greedy. She would be the exception. But you should have at least 2 goats because they really don't like to be alone. They do like to forage and will clean a place out in no time. So they could be moved around or rotated.
When the kids are weaned then I go to TAD milking. Then when they slack off I go to OAD. It is hard to leave for a weekend with milk goats because of that. With any other goat you could. But not when a goat is in milk unless you have someone you can depend on to take over for you, which is hard for me.
And unless you have a cream separator, you don't get enuf cream to make butter. I have before but only when I had tons of milk and it sat long enuf for the cream to rise a little. Even then there is not much. Your best bet for butter would be to find someone with a Jerset cow and get some from them. And making yogurt with goat milk is ok but not thick like cow. I have made moz. cheese and ricotta and fete plus hard aged cheese. I make buttermilk, too.
And I have plenty of kids for sale if you are interested. I am getting ready to have them all disbudded next week and the girl that does it will also castrate the guys if you'd rather have a wether which is better if your not going to breed and they won't be stanky. The bucks are just $50 plus the disbudding is $8 and the castration is $4. I could deliver, too. Or meet ya half way. I am going to put an ad in the paper this week and start advertising them. I need to sell them all. Right now I have 20 goats.
I have Lamancha. Some have elf ears and some have the gopher ears. They are all adorable, too.
Oh, and with goats, the 2 most important things next to food and water are shelter (they hate to get wet) and good fencing ( they will get out of just about anything if they want to!) So there are lots of things to consider when thinking about goats. I have electric fence out back and they respect that. Up front is chain link and field fence. Also good. But I also have a jumper. Nothing keeps her in. But she won't jump over the electric.
Kris
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CherryMeDarlin
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Posted - May 12 2009 : 8:17:27 PM
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Duh! It was Erma Bombeck! Now maybe I can find that email!
I am the ultimate beach bum myself! Fortunately for us, the BIL and his fam live in Lynn Haven, just outside of PCB, so we have a free room whenever we get the itch and the time. From their house, we can be at St. Andrews in 15 minutes! Love it! But we're heading down the 2nd week in June with friends of ours and splitting a condo. There is absolutely nothing like falling asleep to an ocean lullabye! I've been keeping my eye out for property myself. I'd love to find something on Mexico Beach. Not touristy, kinda out of the way. But no one ever seems to sell there. Can't say that I blame them!
The male carpenter bees are the aggressive ones. They're very territorial. As long as you stay away from their little hole in the wall, hee, hee, they'll leave you be. The hubs and I each have been stung and it's no fun.
I wish I could meet you Saturday, Nikki, but, oddly enough, the hubs and I are going to my sisters to cut down trees for them! And then I have to work. Bass Pro Shops sounds like more fun than sitting in a subdivision, praying a ready-willing-and able-buyer comes through! And they have alligator gar at Bass Pro. Maybe they'll put a few in the pool for you so you can get something of an idea what it'd be like to kayak with real alligators but without the danger factor!
Once upon a time, we had to live with the in-laws while we built our first house. MIL had a bad habit of going around talking to herself. Freaked me out. Let me tell you, it was spooky. Well, the first time the hubs caught me talking to my flowers, he compared me to MIL. Now that just made me mad. I was talking to actual things and an actual Being, not myself! There is a difference! Still, I believe it does help my plants to grow.
And I was thinking the same thing you were with the goats and if things got bad. Besides that, I think it's just a good skill to have. You never know what's going to happen. And I would think that goats would be less expensive to keep than cattle. Lord knows I have the room for them. I had already suggested to the hubs that we get a few just to eat the underbrush. He says our property doesn't grow the proper kind of grass for cattle or horses, but goats should be fine, right, Kris? Or do dairy goats have to eat only feed? Grandmother and TT had an old nanny goat named Flo that they had just to keep the pasture "cut". At the end of summer, they'd stake her out in the garden to eat it down.
Nikki, what does Lovin' Man think about you contemplations?
~~Cherry~~
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