The New Look!

Jen has my blog installed onto the site now and has been suffering through teaching lessons. Those of you who know me will understand what this means and your heart will go out to the girl. Poor thing. I doubt she'll ever utter the words, "Of course you can do that! I'll teach you." to anyone again. Can't say I blame her. What would take someone ten minutes to learn and then about a half hour to update takes me nearly a week's time. Well it's not all my fault. I'm pulled away to the kitchen, children, and animals so many times a day I wish "getting up and down from the computer chair" was an Olympic sport. I'd win the gold, hands down, every year. At any rate. I think the final practicing skill will be the soap page where I will upload pics into the catalog and then hook Mals up. If the lights go out tomorrow in your town, you'll know I've done something wrong. I do love the design of the site and am very pleased with Jen's work. My only complaint (and it has NOTHING to do with her) is that I've been quite spoiled by MT blogs and using blogger sometimes isn't fun. However, in the interest of fairplay to blogger I will learn as much as I can at the risk of annoying everyone I know and determine at a future date if I should keep using it. Jen did plug in blogrolling for me so I can 1-click add links, but here again, I'm so spoiled I'm used to having choices on that and many different sections in the sidebar for different subject. I want it all!

Today I spent the early afternoon building a nursery for the baby chicks in the coop. The stocktank we were using has always worked quite well for us until they sport their feathers and can roam the coop. But we've usually purchased just 15 or so chicks. Twenty-five of the little ones quickly becoming not-so-little-ones in that tank just wasn't going to cut it. Not having the energy or the knowledge or even the inclination to get out the man-tools, I simply used hay bales. Yup, stacked those little suckers two high, run a length of them in the draft-free zone corner of the big coop, installed their food and water, and set the little ones loose. I think it will work fine as the hay walls are too high for them to get over right now and that way the coop door can remain open during the day while the teenager hens are out impressing Rooster and cleaning up our weed patches.

Ed's working on a second stall area in the barn to separate out the goats. The meat goats just hog all the food (they are so rude about it!) from the little ones. As soon as that stall is done he'll run a new fence cutting the large pasture into two pens and they'll all be happier, I think. I know I'll be happier as the feeding chores won't be quite so dramatic.

I need to check the calendar because I marked Moo's season last time and I think she'll be coming in again next week. If that's the case, we need to get her over to the vet's for the insemination. This will be very interesting!

I'm going to practice with the site again tomorrow and as soon as I get the hang of that, I should have more free time to blog and get pics up. :)