Monthly Report




It may truly only be a monthly report for a while, but once the farm goes to bed for the winter we *should* have more free time. *grin* So here we go....

Family: The girls are doing ok at preschool, thought Georgia is throwing fits of epic proportions from the minute she wakes up to the second they tear her off of us at the door. We're going to add an extra day, so that she goes M/W/F in the hopes that less of a break in between school days gets her over this phase (she loves it there and has fun once we leave, but oh! what a way to start every Monday and Friday morning for poor E). The baby is everyone's fave, as usual - amazing how a happy cute baby who likes to sleep wins over hearts and minds. :) We've been bringing the whole family along to the farmer's market, which is frantic but fun - it's nice to have the extra time with both girls now that I am away from them so much of the week. Gi is doing well with the potty, but still wages epic battles over wearing anything below the waist - we're hoping the cold weather helps us with this one, since even she has to start getting cold soon!



Farm: Still selling chickens, goat kids still for sale. We've been making steady progress on our flock reduction, but think we probably still have two or so weeks, at least, of the farmer's market left (we'll stop once we have less then 25 dozen eggs a week). I'm not sure if we'll have to sell any birds to the livestock dealer - but I'm hoping if we get to that point we have very, very few birds left. We haven't placed our chick order yet, only because Ideal hasn't posted availability for the beginning of November, which is when we'd like to get our replacement pullets started. We DO have three chicks running around, thanks to a renegade hen who must have stashed her eggs in the front garden. I always saw her out by the front steps, but with the possums and raccoons out there I didn't think she'd manage to hatch out a clutch. They all have the feathered legs of their daddy, a white guy we took in as a favor to the animal control officer down the street. They are black, yellow, and brown though, so who knows that genetics he has going on. Georgia is thrilled. Here's hoping they aren't all roosters! We harvested our second round of honey Friday night, and I canned our grapes into tons of jam, though I need to re-process all of them - they were so ripe I guess I needed more pectin. I also need to can the tomatoes that are filling up all the freezers soon.



Craft: I have three craft fairs booked so far, two juried and one not, and am all set up to accept credit cards. My first show is October 11th, and I'm very excited! I'm planning on finishing a set of quilted place mats (I've been working on lots of smaller, lower priced pieces like place mats, coasters, and scarves) today, as well as basting together a large square bento box quilt so that I can get that quilted and bound a little bit here and there throughout the week. Hillary finally came our with her doll pattern as a pdf and I can't wait to start working the dolls for Gi, Alexandra, and Molly. Need to finish up some sale pieces first though.

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Posted: Sun - September 21, 2008 at 08:48 AM        

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