Chickens & morels!
Picked up all the stuff for the chickens and geese on Thursday. $125 for feed, litter, feeding trough, waterer, heat lamp, thermometer, and a stock tank. And a few other things not chicken related (plus some chicken wire, which I won't need till later). Then Friday we went and got the actual birds. We ended up with a baker's dozen 13 for the price of 12, and two geese. I think one goose is a White Embden and the other is probably a Toulouse or a Buff. They were in the "assorted goslings" bin. And the chickens are all Cornish meat birds. So far taking care of them has been a snap, although I wonder if they will ever get used to me and not freak out when I reach my hands in their pen. I hope so because eventually I will be letting them outside during the day and putting them back in at night and they will need to be used to people.
Thursday Dave and his dad cut wood in the morning then went looking for a trout stream in the afternoon. They never did find the stream, but they found a huge patch of morel mushrooms! They picked a bunch as it was getting dark, then Dave and I went out Friday morning and picked a ton more. And Dave went back out last night and picked even more after the rain yesterday. I think we got about a gallon total. So far we've had steak with sauteed mushrooms on Friday, and pheasant & mushroom cream sauce over pasta last night. Just the thought it making me hungry. We'll probably clean the rest of them up and dehydrate some of them tonite.
We have been working in the garden all weekend. Dave got a bunch of it turned over and some of it hoed, and I raked. It's hard because it's been raining off and on. Yesterday we planted two blueberry bushes, and today we planted two apricot trees and one pear tree. I had my seedling onions, shallots, broccoli, cabbage, cauliflower, brussel sprouts and kohlrabi outside hardening off when it started to rain, and then hail. It might have been freezing rain, it was like small hail. So I had to run put those back inside. But we got a lot done, so that feels good.
What else? Oh, we had great sex last night, then got into a huge fight right afterward. It was so stupid. I mentioned to Dave that instead of taking Monday off I would take Tuesday off instead so I could clean the house on Monday. He freaked out because he thought I should be planting the garden instead of either cleaning the house or taking a day off. And I got pissed because he said I shouldn't take a day off until everything was done. How ridiculous is that? It is impossible to have everything done. So, we had a huge fight. Then he went and picked morels while I cleaned the house last night, then he apologized when he got back and admitted that he was being unreasonable and of course I should be able to take a day off every week whether everything was done or not.
I just hope this summer doesn't turn into a repeat of last summer where it seemed that he was pissed off all the time. I am really trying very hard to treat staying home full time like a full time job. I know I didn't last summer, but I'm making an effort here. And I'm off all my medication now, so that doesn't make things any easier. Yesterday I felt like I had lead weights on all my limbs. Today is better, and I'm sure every day will get better as my body gets used to not being on the Wellbutrin any more.
Thursday Dave and his dad cut wood in the morning then went looking for a trout stream in the afternoon. They never did find the stream, but they found a huge patch of morel mushrooms! They picked a bunch as it was getting dark, then Dave and I went out Friday morning and picked a ton more. And Dave went back out last night and picked even more after the rain yesterday. I think we got about a gallon total. So far we've had steak with sauteed mushrooms on Friday, and pheasant & mushroom cream sauce over pasta last night. Just the thought it making me hungry. We'll probably clean the rest of them up and dehydrate some of them tonite.
We have been working in the garden all weekend. Dave got a bunch of it turned over and some of it hoed, and I raked. It's hard because it's been raining off and on. Yesterday we planted two blueberry bushes, and today we planted two apricot trees and one pear tree. I had my seedling onions, shallots, broccoli, cabbage, cauliflower, brussel sprouts and kohlrabi outside hardening off when it started to rain, and then hail. It might have been freezing rain, it was like small hail. So I had to run put those back inside. But we got a lot done, so that feels good.
What else? Oh, we had great sex last night, then got into a huge fight right afterward. It was so stupid. I mentioned to Dave that instead of taking Monday off I would take Tuesday off instead so I could clean the house on Monday. He freaked out because he thought I should be planting the garden instead of either cleaning the house or taking a day off. And I got pissed because he said I shouldn't take a day off until everything was done. How ridiculous is that? It is impossible to have everything done. So, we had a huge fight. Then he went and picked morels while I cleaned the house last night, then he apologized when he got back and admitted that he was being unreasonable and of course I should be able to take a day off every week whether everything was done or not.
I just hope this summer doesn't turn into a repeat of last summer where it seemed that he was pissed off all the time. I am really trying very hard to treat staying home full time like a full time job. I know I didn't last summer, but I'm making an effort here. And I'm off all my medication now, so that doesn't make things any easier. Yesterday I felt like I had lead weights on all my limbs. Today is better, and I'm sure every day will get better as my body gets used to not being on the Wellbutrin any more.