Thinking about moving my personal info to my blog.......FB is getting really tired and too nasty for my taste....more later!

Spring is Coming

Finally, it seems as though we could be looking at Spring.  Typical for March, the weather has been crazy....31 degrees to 61 degrees....wind, snow all in a 48 hour period.

The goat is still milking, so that's a good thing... and bred her stablemate in January. I have no clue if the 'date' was successful...time will tell.

Finished the second floor renovations a few weeks ago...was that a struggle.  Actually, I finished up projects that were started way back in 1999.  Geez...!!!

Looking forward to getting the garden started....Planning on doing a seed inventory in the near future.  The new seed catalogs just arrived a few weeks back and everything is sooo tempting.  I think this year I will be planting lots of potatoes and squash....tomatoes, of course and a few small batches of peas.  I found a great book for reference titled 'The Resilient Gardener'....lots of very useful information.

WOW....daylight savings time begins Saturday/Sunday
Update for Bucky:  he's doing great!

More political...tis the seacon......(@~@)

Yes...tis the season...to be stupid!  I found myself with my head spinning and my brain melting down , after this last GOP debate.  If this is all the GOP has to offer in the way of viable candidates...we are in serious trouble.  Let's begin with the moderators....planting ideas and opinions rather than questions!!!!  Good start!!!!  Newt is such a pompous ass along with his 'brother in spirit' Mitt...neither one of them has ANY foot in the real world that most of us live in.  Rick Perry is a buffoon and I don't understand why Texas even tolerates one second of his stammering.  Only the remaining 3... Santorum, Dr. Paul and Bachmann made an ounce of sense.  These 3 are the most conservative, consistent, seemingly honest, ethical and willing to tell the truth....the real truth!  Especially Dr. Paul.  He found the center of the real issues and I found it disturbing the moderators did everything in their power to change the discussion and move to other people.  One reason why TV news anchors should NEVER host a political debate.  I'll have more to say ...on politics...later...after my brain cools off!!!

Where do I begin?

Since my last post in May...so much has happened. It rained for almost 2 months straight, actually a record for this area at 56 inches so far this year. The garden was a bust because I couldn't even get in to till the ground, not much luck with mowing either. The ground was so wet the mower left huge ruts in the ground. In late June, one of my best wethers [a neutered guy sheep] took sick...really sick. It was trying one thing after another,consultations with the vets office...this drug/that drug, B-complex shots, pain killer shots...hours on the net looking for some ray of hope to get him back on track. Twice during that time...I found myself 'saying'..."if there is no improvement over this week-end...that's it". Through some miracle...he started to get better...one tiny step at a time. To this day he gets yogurt and his tonic [Power Punch from Tractor supply] at least 3 times  week.The first day he ran across the yard to get his yogurt...I knew things were good!

"Bucky"...aka Gabe in his polar fleece jacket for the Winter.  Five months doctorin' a sheep..hope the fleece is worth it!...(^_^)>>>>>

In the middle of all this ..I was finishing three rooms upstairs that had been left untouched for 13 years ....major work....re-plastered, scraping of old paint, priming, color selection and ...last but not least....finished the bathroom that has been in primer white for 13 years too....I moved here 13 years ago and started the process of a sympathetic restoration of this house built in 1834.  Is that just nutz or what?

The big thing now is the Penn State pedophile scandal....and right here in Pennsyltucky! Is the world going mad? It will be interesting to see how many more shoes drop before its' over...I'll blog more on this subject in a few days.

And if that's not enough...all this fuss about the GOP candidates...I only had the opportunity to watch this last debate and was very disappointed that the selection of the candidates to speak seems to favor only a few ...more on this subject later too.

Hopefully, I can make more time in the coming days to sound-off ....

 Later!