The Accidental Smallholder Forum
Community => Coffee Lounge => Topic started by: AndynJ on September 23, 2013, 05:40:52 am
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As you can see I get up early, usually between 4 & 4.30, I use this time to research internet have breakfast then shoot rabbits until chickens come out, but the last couple of mornings it's pitch black.
So it be 5.30am now and I'm still sat here, I could have had another hour.
I'm attempting to put 50 rabbits in the freezer either for the dog or wife, trouble is they keep eating them.
research this morning, making an apple crusher, fox traps prevention better than cure, all our neighbours have lost their hens, and more knowledge on barley sprouting.
I need a hobby :knit: oh yes I've got one :farmer: :roflanim:
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Flippin heck 6.15am and its still dark :rant:
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I suppose we'd better get used to it... Worst is, I'll be off to catch the first bus soon, and it'll be more or less dark again when I get home tonight. And it's only September!
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been up since 4.30... nice time of the day :)
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What time do you people go to bed ???
Now it's getting a bit darker in the mornings I'm having an extra half hour in bed, so getting up at 6.30 but I still look like :tired: most days. I only get up early for my chickens :chook: .
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normally about 11.30 Bert ...but don't normally surface til 6.30..i always look rough too ;D
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I have to agree 5 am best time of the day. Everyone else is sleeping and it's the only time I get a cuppie in peace and some me time...
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It's always a rush in the morning to get out and let all the birds out. 36 pens/coops of various ages that are waiting to get to the area of the farm they hold as thier territory.
Delay would mean fretfull birds, so I always eat my Alpen the night before just before I go to bed.
Lovely morning here today and after I have sent the dogs out to deter any lurking foxes the birds are released.
I don't mind the early starts.
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I hate early starts, been getting up at 6.30am and that's early enough :rant: but on the other hand, I look worse is I sleep in past 8.00am!!
AndyJ, you must have to skin and gut the rabbits before you chuck um in the freezer........I am not sure I could eat them too often but good cheap meat and a great hobby. I would love to go shooting but not fit enough to plough through undergrowth and marshes ::)
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I used to get up at 2.30am to start work at 4am. i never had a problem with it but I must admit its lovely to wake up at 2.30 now, look at the clock and snuggle under the duvet again :)
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I get up at 4.57am.... I have timed my mad dash to feed animals, let dogs and cats out (and in and out and in and out), shower, drag brush through hair, dress, hunt for shoes hidden by dog, trip over old dog, hunt for phone and keys, grab coffee..... in order to leave for work by 5.25am to avoid the M25 rush hour!!
If I am in the office all week, I feel totally burnt out.
In fairness, I leave work at 4 (to avoid/minimise the evening rush hour) and am back home for about 6pm.... to do the mad dash of animal feeding etc before it gets dark ;D The interwebby doesn't get a look in!
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I don't do telly so I go to bed 8-9pm generally don't look just go to bed when ready really.
Yep I skin & gut rabbits before they go in freezer
We don't work as such we rent out log cabins so one cabin to clean today 1 1/2 hours that's it for today, I've just started window cleaning but only did 5 hours last week so I can please myself as and when I do things :excited:
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its still dark at 8am in winter here :roflanim:
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No matter what time I go to bed, I tend to be awake before 4. Today I had the sunrise from the bus - and sunset as well. Both magnificent...
And now I'm so knackered that I think I'll leave the washing up for tomorrow morning, yet again!
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I have to get up at 8 tomorrow so I'm off to bed now. I'm not well just now, so am sleeping more. I'm normally a 10am to 1am person.
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Yep I skin & gut rabbits before they go in freezer
what do you do with the skins?
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I cure them and use them to cover training dummies, then i forget I have left them at nose height and they disappear :innocent: so I have to ask Rio to keep replacing them :roflanim:
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Ahh - I worked in "Sleep" for 20 plus years and shudder when I read here some peoples sleep routines.
Sure we all have our own sleep requiremnets but please be safe out there driving when you know yourself to be sleep restricted. If you think that your mood or performance at work is worse than it was then maybe take more sleep.
At least the rabbits will still be around a bit latter now thatthe days are shorter.
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Sunday is the only day I get up really early. I have to be up for 8am so my OH can help me shower, dress and do the goats before he heads off to church to set up the sound desk. I hate being up that early though, so it's usually 9am. It's not dark then even in December. ;D
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I have a 4 year old who is jumping on our bed by 6:30 am latest. She just started school and she is so excited that she has been up at 5ish for the past two weeks..... :-\
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what do you do with the skins?
Bin, do you want them ? you can have anything you want from me :love: