Dog toys and T shirts

We have 6 dogs.  We added Sugar when I wasn't writing.  Sugar came from my husbands worker.  His wife found her tied up and forgotten.  They could not keep her because their dog has issues with other dogs.  She is still young and in trouble a lot.  You  know puppies get into everything.

Well I can not bring myself to buy toys at the crazy high prices they are.  You know I have two boys that are still growing and growing and growing.  These boys of mine are very ruff on clothes.  When the Tshirts get so stained they won't wear them.  I can not throw them away.  I have finally found a use for them.  Well actually two uses if I can ever get around to it.  I cut the tops off and tie in knots to give to the dogs.  They love these.  Then I cut the bottoms into one long strip.  Right now I have rolled them into balls for the next project.  I want to make a rug using a hula hoop.  I have the hoop and the materia, just no time

Running late

Wednesday I was running late for work.  I normally arrive at work 20 minutes early.  This is so the morning person can give me any updates and so I can gather all my work.  I must pick up files from two other areas in order to complete my job.  Any way I would have arrived just on time for the shift switch without any extra gossipy time.   Look what happened to make me even later.

My husband came and put on the spare.  I Quickly gave him a kiss and drove to work.  I was 29 minutes late clocking in.  After my husband was done with work he picked up my truck and took it to get the tire fixed.  He dropped the truck off at my work and I drove it home.  His friend owns the tire shop in our small town.  He was the first person we met when we moved to Casa Grande.  Also because of a need for new tires.  He gives my husband a good deal.  Usually not charging at all.  Which is a blessing.

Hello Again

I decided to write again.  I am just going to start as if I never stopped. 

 This week I have some added little bunnies to our homestead.  These 5 are so round and plump.  They will mostly be black like their daddy.  He is Cole.  He has done so well.  In fact I think I will thin out the rest of the males.  We can not afford to feed them if they are not producing.  We have a total of 37 rabbits now.  This includes the babies.  

We recently harvested 5 males and I am so happy with the product.  Our neighbor helped process them.  This took less then 10 minutes.  I was cautious at first, but he had done it before. My husband took over for me.  I might have been going to slow.  This meat was so tasty.  We fed many people.  At least 9.  We had enough meat left over to send ziplock bags of leftovers home with everyone.  The next day we made quesadillas.  And the day after that we had Alfredo.  When my youngest came home for the weekend he had some too!  Of coarse we want to put some meat up in the freezer.  Next time.  I hope to plan out harvesting once a month.  Only time will tell

TGIF

Thank God It's Friday.  I have the next four days off.  Yeah.  I hope to be very productive around the house.  We will See.  If you do not hear from me this is why.

Things I Am Not Thankful For

You may ask why I choose to live the way I do after you read my list of things I am not thankful for.

1.  mud
I do not like mud it is sticky and wet.  Of course the ducks love the mud.  I dump their two kiddy pools every other day and refill them.  The ducks get so excited and quack, quack, quack.  Then the waddle over to the new puddles and quack and quack.
2.  Poop
I do not like poop.  Yet I have so much.  I do know that poop has many benefits.  When you are cleaning out pens you are not thinking about those benefits.  Since I have not successfully had a garden I have not used the poop to its potential.
3.  Loud Noises
The minute I step out the door I hear every voice.  The are saying.  Mama are you bringing me something to eat.  Mama did you see what they did.  Mama please pet me.  Mama look at my present.  Mama, Mama, Mama.
4.  Bugs
Spiders, Crickets, Ants, flies, Creepy Crawlers.  Need I say more.  They love hay and corn, and poop.  Not to mention the water.  In the morning we have the flies bothering us until they find the fly catchers and then they do not bother us anymore.  At night time the past week we have had one or two mosquitoes.  Because we do not let our water stand sitting for more than a day we do not have very many mosquitoes. 

I'm sure there are more things but who wants to read more. 

Poor Sad Little White Chicken

Poor sad chicken.  Let me tell you about our two remaining white chickens.  They came with 8 other chickens from a friend.  She no longer wanted them because her children grew up and moved away.  She was getting to many eggs.  What, too many eggs?  Like most of the smaller animals we transported them in our dog kennel.  They came from high up on the mountain.  They rode in the back of the pickup.  When they arrived they were a little windblown.  We put them in with the other 8 chickens that we already had.  Right away they began to push the other chickens around.  Pecking anyone who got in the way.  They were the first to eat.  They got the first treats.  When we watered in the morning they were the first to drink.  The first to roost too.   They are very old.  They came to us used.  2 years old at least.  So when they started to die I thought it was okay.  Now when I took the baby roosters out of their tractor I expected some pecking.  But I did not think it would be that bad.  So anyway I moved the remaining teenage chickens and the two white chickens back into the old chicken coop. Leaving the 16, yes I counted 16 live baby roosters.  In the new coop.  I want to give them a chance to grow.  I expected the two white chickens to rule the roost again.  But only one did.  In fact she picked on everyone including her white sister.  Poor sad chicken has a sore foot, no tail feathers, and a hurt eye.  I scooped her up.  Put her in with the baby roosters.  She is eating, drinking, and pooping.  All good things.  I even got an egg from her this morning.  If she survives this I will be surprised.  She is a sad sight.  I will give her a little time to see if she heals.  I like to give them a chance.  Old white chickens do not have much meat on them, if you know what I mean.

Heed Your Dreams

Early this morning I woke up from a dream.  June our deceased mother dog was stuck in the home of terrible men in a room with growly snarly dogs.  I had to get her and walk through those mean dogs.  When I carried her out we had to climb stairs.  At the top of the stairs were hundreds of puppies.  Some were dead, some were chewed on, some were bloody, some were wanting attention.   I woke up and went back to bed thinking it was just a bad dream.  When we went outside to feed the animals we saw them 4 dead baby roosters.  Their little bodies were still warm.  If only I got up to check on them.  It seems like in the early morning light the older chickens scared the baby roosters into the corners of the pen and they smothered each other.  We let the baby roosters out of the tractor yesterday they got along fine.  4 dead, 2 pecked. There are 15 left.  We banded the teenage chickens with zip ties.  and put them in the old coop with the old chickens.  I also put the chicken who was in with the duck in the coop at the same time.  I will call her the crocked little hen because her tail grew back in crocked.