Week 43 - Make Hay While the Sun Shines and Get off My Chickens!

Got your attention, didn't I?  This is mostly about weather here in southwest Missouri.  As a lot of folks know, we have been in a drought for a while...so much so that we were fearful of finding enough hay at a reasonable price to feed the cows thru the winter.  By reasonable, I mean less than $50.00 a roll....most of the hay we were seeing was close to 100;00 per roll and that just isn't in the cards for us...we needed at least 15 rolls to get thru the winter....do the math, folks!

John had to get chicken feed the other day and asked the shop if they knew of anyone who was selling hay....turns out they did.  And the folks who were selling hay are friends of ours!  So I got hold of the wife and she asked the husband and this past weekend, they brought over 15 rolls of hay!  John and another friend used their tractors to offload the hat and placed it wherever they could.  John will formally store it this weekend.  In the meantime, here is my side yard.

As to the second heading in this blog entry....John is so tired of using a trap to get rid of the predators to his chickens...he finally talked me into letting him get a gun.  He has waiting patiently for 4 months to get an HR 001V rifle to shoot foxes and raccoons and other predators. Interestingly enough, the V in the rifle designator stands for Varmint.  So John now owns a Varmint Rifle.  He still needs to get a scope for it but that won't take as long as getting the actual rifle did.   He's recently lost 2 more of his egg-layers...sigh.  

He is hoping he can get rid of the creatures who are attacking his chickens.  More on that later, I'm sure.

Hey, thanks for stopping by.  

Week 41 & 42 - Outage and Recovery

This past week has been - well - a long week!  It started last Saturday with the internet going out and we didn't get it back till yesterday. It's easy to access at work and I took advantage of it daily. I'm so used to being able to just go on the internet whenever I think of something that I want to look at.  It honestly was a pain in the you know what NOT to have internet access.  Yes, I am so used to having instant internet.  I'm spoiled...so sue me.  Anyway, Mr. Wonderful talked to the internet provider every day starting Sunday....they FINALLY got it fixed yesterday....Whew!  

Yesterday was Knit-a-Tit day at One City Market, my favorite yarn shop.  It's an annual event where knitters from all over the area come together to knit prosthetic breasts for cancer survivors.  We knitters make boobs all year long because there is, sadly, a huge need.  But the event that the shop puts on is something that we all look forward to.  Held in October - Breast Cancer Awareness Month - Lisa puts on a wonderful 'festival'!  This year, there was a cover fee - hygiene products to donate to local schools (evidently, those products are not covered by food stamps - who knew - and lots of youngsters don't have simple items like deodorant or tampons).  As usual, the knitters came thru with a huge amount of products for List to take to several schools in the area.  There were also over 600 boobs brought and made at the event that will go the the Hulston Cancer Center in Springfield.  I think about 50 people showed up to knit, and there were several folks who don't knit that stuffed boobs alongside the Firefighters and Police who showed up.  In spite of the bitter cold and the beginning rain, it was a fun day dedicated to helping folks who can't afford the traditional high cost of prosthetics following mastectomy surgery.  

Thanks to Lisa at One City Market, thanks to the Logan-Rogersville Fire District and thanks to the Rogersville PD.....And a gargantuan thanks to all the knitters and crocheters and significant others who braved the weather to help others.  

Today is cold and rainy again.  I'm not complaining - we are finally up to normal measurements for rain for the month AND for the year!  Barely, but we'll take all we can get.  It's a fine day for hot chocolate or tea and sitting with a throw over your lap and knitting needles in your hands.

Happy Fall, Ya'll.  Thanks for stopping by.