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Community => Coffee Lounge => Topic started by: MAK on January 23, 2013, 09:37:26 am
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Well I have done the daily jobs, fed our neighbours dog and the fire is roaring. Snow has all gone and the sun is out.
How lucky we are to have given up our 9-5 jobs and have the time to try new things.
Top 5 options today include.
1, Check bacon and slice and freeze if done.
2. Seperate mum rabbit from 10 youngsters and maybe take on for the pot.
3. Dig out some fossilised cow manure from the barn and dump on the veg garden to hydrate and rot.
4. Go in search of fallen trees and branches that are suitable for logs. Maybe move a few and identify an area to stack the cut wood.
5. take all the empty wine bottles to the bottle bank (nah).
What are your top 5 options for the day?
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1 Make coffee
2 Make more coffee
3 clear snow and salt path
4 feed the animals
5 thaw pipes and water the animals
6 moan about having to do anything outside. :rant:
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At work this morning but this afternoons options are:
1 Clean out pig feed store (its become a bit of a dumping ground)
2 Poo pick pig yards now its thawing
3 Let pigs out for gallop round orchard while i do above and then spend ages trying to get them back in :roflanim:
4 Bake :thinking:
5 None of above catch up on taped tv progs, wade thro more xmas chocs and drink coffee until feeding up time! :thumbsup:
Mandy :pig:
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Not options
1) Feed the animals again
2)Start motor heater, shovel snow from drive.
3) Drive to the local foder store (50 miles) to buy pellets for the sheep.
Options on arriving home,
4) spin wool
5) start on my accounts (shudder)
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1.) Stop procrastinating on TAS and write PhD thesis
Woe is me :(
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1. Feed and water the chickens ( done)
2. Collect the single egg for today ( from 15 birds!)(done)
3. Work ( ho hum)
4. Work some more ( ho hum)
5. Plan my veggie planting for next year ( worth looking forward to)
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1) Feed, water, turn out and muck out the animals (done except for all the mucking out :P )
2) Breakfast, coffee and catch up on emails etc (in process of doing :roflanim: )
3) Attempt to drive mile and half through heavily falling snow to get to the 21 sheep up there and check on haylage etc (fortunately they have a large bale in a ring feeder)
4) Help OH get 3 more big bales of haylage down off stack.
5) Repeat of No.1 but bring in instead of turn out :tired:
then this evening.......feet up and fall asleep in front of wood burner :bow:
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My top 5 options
1. Attempt my first ever wooden spoon whittling ( done, not to bad for a first go)
2. Hoover
3. Make some more bead butterflies
4. Hang washing out
5. Plan weekend fun jobs
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:wave:
From the snowy north Devon coast
1 - Feed birds
2 - Make Lemon & lavender barley water
3 - Make cottage pie
4 - Make sultana and hemp seed flapjacks
5 - FEED SELF :roflanim:
:excited:
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Not options
1) Feed the animals again
2)Start motor heater, shovel snow from drive.
3) Drive to the local foder store (50 miles) to buy pellets for the sheep.
Options on arriving home,
4) spin wool
5) start on my accounts (shudder)
So what will you spin, renee? :eyelashes: :innocent:
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Like many, I have more than 5 things I have to do (but enjoy them all, even in these conditions ;D) but in between the livestock-tending and milking, I will probably get some spinning done and maybe some knitting.
I am also contemplating having a bath... the electric is on, the ch is working, the outlet has thawed... maybe it would be best to take the opportunity while I can! :-J
Coq-au-vin according to Alistair's recipe for supper - looking forward to drinking brandy for 3 hours while it cooks... :eyelashes: :innocent:
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See to and let out animals
Make coffee and take painkillers
Do hot water bottle
Lie up on settee shivering and feeling like sh*te
Wake up after 2 hour sleep to make a sandwich
More painkillers, time for emails and TAS before getting OH ready to take do the doctors.
Get the wood in.
Get animals back before going out to doctors.
Hope and pray that OH doesnt want anything special for tea! (Im still shivering!)
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Just come in from doing items 2 & 3 on my list and contemplating 5, have decided to leave item 1 until weekend when i can have a bonfire :excited: will probably get round to 4 on saturday while OH is out shooting. Its very satisfying ticking things off :thumbsup:
mandy :pig:
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Yep - I opted for moving mum rabbit and we killed 3 youngsters. Sold one to our neighbours home help ( who also took half a doz eggs) :excited: .
On the down side we sliced the bacon. streaky stuff looks and tasted great but we have concerns about the mid-back rashers ( see my post on pigs).
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As my husband was around this morning I sat and watched down under and had a tear in my eye but he
1 fed the dogs
2 fed the chickens
3 washed up
4brought me more tea
5 got on updating his CV
Then I got up and made the beds and cleaned the toilets and bathrooms then myself! :relief:
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Ok it's in retrospect but:
1. See to goats and milk.
2. Clear up all the dog poo that was exposed by the snow thawing (cancelled because it was covered over again.
3. Get lunch for self and OH
4. Rest
5. Starting threading loom.
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What shall I like to do today:-
1) go for a lovely long walk with the dogs
2) take kids to the baths for a few hours of super slide and waves fun
3) do some spinning after kids in bed
4) a nice glass of wine
What did I have to do instead:-
1) go to work til this afternoon
2) pick kids up from school
3) get homework on the go while making tea and sorting animals, washing, ironing and getting set to go to football practice in the snow before kids in bed.
4) a beer as wine has preservatives I cannot have :-\