I need to apologize... again! I posted almost nothing last week on my blog. Very uncharacteristic of me on the whole. I hadn't even had my camera out for most of the month! But there have been some good things going on around here and I even dug out my camera for a few quick shots (sorry the lightening was bad on them! I was in a hurry)....
• I worked on organizing my new seeds and started some indoor seedlings for cool weather crops and utilized some of that great worm composting from my worm bin! They all seemed to be at one end, so I scooped some castings out from the other end and mixed it with my potting soil along with some other amendments.
• Planned more on the future goat barn, garden, and bees. I had to move some things around, but I decided to leave the garden where it is.
• Made liquid hand soap from the left over soap scraps from my bar soap (it was only semi-successful)
• Been nursing a sick chicken for several days; amazingly she's still alive, but not sure she'll make it. I thought she was egg bound (and I tried olive oil around her vent), but she laid a nice regular sized egg this morning, so I'm thinking it's bacterial. I've been giving her water with probiotics. She is drinking well and even ate a bite of food today, but after just a few seconds, she's so tired her head drops and she goes back to sleep. Poor baby!
• Completed my training as a Global Media Outreach Volunteer - yeah!!! (It shouldn't be so time consuming now)
• Started making cultured dairy products from my new goat's milk. I'm trying some Middle Eastern Cheese this week from Wardeh's GNOWFGLINS class.
• and of course, did all the usual including an outing to the big city with my husband and some of the girls!
I did spend some time writing some blog articles that I haven't posted yet. I need to pray over them a bit more and tweak them some. A couple are for the Dear Daughter series. I'll give you a little clue... we've done some clothes shopping this week and I felt that writing out my thoughts in this series would be helpful. (When I write, it helps me get my thoughts in order and to think through why I believe what I believe. I hope you can benefit from some of it.)
In other news, this is Kelly's last week with the Barn Hop. Nothing bad, but the Monday timing wasn't working well for her and she has a new adventure planned for a link up that will fit her schedule better. We hate to see her go and wish her the very best!
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Jill @ The Prairie Homestead
Kendra @ New Life on a Homestead
Kelly @ The Morris Tribe
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Oooh, hope your chick is feeling better soon!
ReplyDeleteLove seeing all those seeds organized! Sounds like you've just been busy living life.
Enjoy your week, Amy!
Thank you all for hosting again!
ReplyDeleteOh me, so sorry about your chicken. She looks pitiful laying there.
ReplyDeleteI was wondering if you could tell me a little about the cards in the plastic box. My husband and I are in the very EARLY stages of our garden and this looks like something I would be interested in helping us to keep track of what we plant/grow, what success we have. Is that what this is used for? I tried to enlarge the picture to be able to tell what was on the card, but couldn't make it out. Thanks so much!
ReplyDeleteNester, did you see this link? http://homesteadrevival.blogspot.com/2010/05/organizing-seeds-and-planting-records.html?showComment=1332172887645#c664145096006287290
DeleteIt shows in detail how I keep my seeds organized. Hope it helps!
Dear Amy,
ReplyDeleteI love love love and love this Barn Hop series!
I've found so many wonderful and above all interesting blogs thanks to you, so many women sharing my very same ideal and love for working with their hands!
Thank you
Francesca from Italy
Love the seed record! I need something just like that. Thanks! Hope your chicken perks up.
ReplyDeleteAmy, So sad about your hen. We've had a hard time here with racoons and lost three hens on three consecutive nights. The problem has been remedied, so our flock is now secure, however egg production is down considerably. Poor hens.
ReplyDeleteHere in the Pacific Northwest we're still deep into winter (snow again this morning). I'm starting cool weather seeds this week and will trust that the Lord will provide the weather to move them out into in a few weeks. Spring will come, right? :)
Thanks for hosting! ~Lisa
Howdy, I feed my sick/stressed out chickens home made apple sauce. I put them in a pet carrier with water and the apple sauce (Mixed with GROGEL sometimes). In about 2 days they perk up and rejoin flock. If they are wounded I treat with Vetricyn spray, that stuff is magic for deep wounds. I keep the wounded in the cage inside the house for about 4 days. Good Luck.
ReplyDeleteWoman! You have got to be one of the most driven ladies I have the privilege of knowing. And definitely the most organized, lol. I just don't know how you do it all. Your family must realize how blessed they are to have you :)
ReplyDeleteThank you, Kendra. I really haven't felt all that productive lately, but perhaps my perspective is skewed. Your encouragement is very appreciated!
DeleteI will say, having older daughters who help cook and clean is HUGE! I hope all you moms with younger children don't think I do it alone. My girls are a big help (and a joy to work with) and someday your daughters will rise up to help, too! (Although I know that even the youngest of children can help with many things; it's the training ground for bigger things to come!).
I definitely look forward to the day when my girls are big enough to help without any oversight! My eight year old can do a lot, it's just a matter of teaching her to do it with a good attitude! :)
DeleteAmy,
ReplyDeleteWhen my chickens aren't feeling themselves, I always feed them kefir and molasses. Seems to work. How does her crop feel?
Good idea... I just fed her some homemade raw yogurt (along with the probiotic powder in water), but I don't have any kefir right now. I always forget to check the crop! Why do I forget that?? I'll be checking it on my next trip out there in a minute. Thanks for the reminder!
DeleteMy super-soil order finally arrived, along with a blinding migraine headache! My sweet hubs knew how important it was to me to get that soil in the beds, so he worked for two hours this afternoon hauling the soil barrow-by-barrow to the garden. I meant that I was going to get my hands in the dirt today regardless of any headache, so I did just that. Amazing how much better I felt after getting all those little onion/potato sets planted! Tylenol never worked so good! I am so thankful to finally be on my way to growing more of our food! God is good!
ReplyDeleteI just LOVE seeing little seedling starts. I've had such a hankerin' to get started on my own, but then it just snows again. :-)
ReplyDeleteToday I'm sharing some tips I've been learning about eating local. I'm trying to support my local farmers by only buying from them, which is hard to do in the winter. I'm not going crazy with it...baby steps only.
By the way, are you looking for another host for the Barn Hop? My blog is still pretty small, but I would love to be a host.
LOL!! It snowed SEVERAL inches here on Sunday and Sunday night. But I'm having faith that spring WILL come and all these seedlings are cool weather crops. I'll start my warm weather seedlings in April.
DeleteThank you so much for the offer on the Barn Hop, but the hostesses conferred earlier and decided that we will just keep it as it is at this point. I'll definitely keep you in mind if things change!