Thanksgiving




I hope all of you had a great Thanksgiving - and even better, a long weekend off with your family! All the state workers in NJ don't get this Friday off - a budget thing - but pretty much everyone just takes it as a personal vacation day instead, E included. He's off right now helping a friend move, and when he gets back I'm going to stop by the local studio to see if any of my quilts have sold this past week. It's the first time they've converted the studio space into a show/sale gallery for the holidays, and there are lots of great artists set up. Saturdays (when they have music and food) at least seem busy. I haven't been doing much holiday sewing - I want to get a big custom order out of the way first - but I found really great fabric for kids pj's on my last trip to the big local quilt store and just saw a great pattern, so I'll order that and start sewing up some kiddo pj's soon.

We've put the new goat search on hold for now - "Guy" goat is doing better then I thought - he doesn't seem too lonely, though we certainly will be getting him a new girlfriend sooner then later. The pigs are still out on pasture, though I think we've move them to the dog kennel once it starts snowing - it's warmer back there and it's easier for us to keep an eye on them and make sure they have food and thawed out water. That's one advantage of them both staying SO small - they are the size of beagles, at best - tiny little potbellies indeed. The first day the chicks came some came out from the brooder in the general mayhem, and one was eaten by a cat, and then a few days later I found another dead. Not bad at all out of 200, that's for sure. We are using the back half of the barn as a giant brooder since we sold our adult flock and it seems to be working out wonderfully - we need lots of heat lamps to heat a space that size, but the chicks seem happier and healthier for the extra space and ventilation. We lost some last year once they were about a month old to a pile up but with all the heat lamps and extra space we're hoping to avoid that this year. We're cautiously optimistic. :)

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Posted: Fri - November 28, 2008 at 02:30 PM        

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