Bye-Bye Babies

Wow, we have had a busy couple of days here. This afternoon these two sweetie's went to their new home. I'm so happy a really nice young couple took both of them, so they will have each other to play with. DH didn't put the ad on craigslist about them till last night, and it got flagged by some busy body, who doesn't like seeing dogs on the list, so he had to reinsert it this morning. I'm glad they went quickly though, cause that way I don't have to keep wishing we were keeping them. Photo is a not so good one I took the other night, when they were playing as it was getting to dark to take photos. LOL

I'm happy with the home they will have though, cause they seemed like really nice people, and they will be guarding other animals, instead of just being a pet...like at least one of the others ones sounded like they would be. Nothing wrong having them for pets...but they ARE a working dog, and I think they are happy having other animals around.

Yesterday we had to take the two goat kids up to the sale barn, because the Mom died over the weekend. I think she got gored by another goat (we must have a "mean to other goats", goat...that needs an attitude adjustment, but since we don't know just WHO did it, we can't! LOL). Since the babies were males, we didn't want to do the bottle feeding, cause we would just end up taking them to the sale barn later anyway...so we took them to the sale that they had yesterday. I so wish they had been girls, so we could have kept them, they were so cute, and being bottle fed they are SO friendly.

Since we had decided to sell the pups, we didn't need the money we had saved to "fix" them with, so I took a little of it and we went and did a little extra shopping after dropping the kids (goats) off. It's just a little further to get to the south shopping center in Lincoln, and I wanted to get a mesh colander that I had seen but couldn't afford when last we were shopping. I got one just like this one, except for it didn't say kitchen aid on it, it says Farberware, and was 5 bucks cheaper...although still rather expensive to my way of thinking. LOL

I have two other nice colanders, but making the cottage cheese wasn't working as well with them, cause the holes were bigger, and some of the cheese would go through them and get wasted. I made some cheese today, and it worked lots better...there was a tiny bit that went through, but not much. Cleaning it isn't AS easy, but with a brush and running water over it, I didn't have to scrub to much to get what cheese was stuck in the mesh out. This colander is rectangle, with a couple handles that will expand, so if I want, I can expand them and hang it on the sink to drain. As I mentioned before, I thought it was kinda expensive (I'm a cheap skate remember!) but with making cheese several times a week it's worth it to me. :)

Between being gone all afternoon yesterday, cleaning and making butter, cheese & some more lotion bars today...along with spending part of the afternoon outside helping move the goats and Belle and Chuck into the summer pasture and talking with the people who came and got the dogs I've not had enough time to get everything done that I wanted to. I did throw a couple layouts together early this morning but decided not to post them, as they weren't fantastic...or for one of the Lady's I do LO's for...so I didn't figure I'd spend the time uploading them. LOL

Oh I had to laugh at Mabel and Daisy today, we had them out on the driveway for a little bit, till we got the call that the people were coming to look at the puppies and so we had to put them back in their pasture...and open the driveway again. They were NOT happy cows, they mooed and walked the fence, looking at us with those accusing eyes. Mabel doesn't usually moo much, but I heard her voice her displeasure today! *giggle* Poor things. They were happy when we opened it back up so they could go out there, once the people left...although it wasn't to long before they had to be rounded up for milking. But least they can go back out there, once they are through in the barn.

I think they will be REALLY happy, when DH gets a portable stanchion built, so they can go over to the summer pasture too. LOL My Dad gave us one that was my Grandpa's I think...just the metal stanchion part, so hopefully it won't take to long for DH to build a little movable building for it to go in, and get it so we can milk the cows in other pastures. So much to do....so little time!

Ok, just wanted to mention that the puppies are gone, and touch on a few highlights of the last couple days! Better get going and get a few things done before bedtime. I keep thinking that things will get back to normal and I'll have more scrapping time, but I think I've been thinking that for several months...maybe even a year, and I still seem to keep busy doing this or that, and not getting near enough scrapping done. *sigh* Maybe I'm just slow at most everything I do. I think I need to start thinking that this is the NEW normal, and just figure I won't have time to scrap as much, and be thankful if I can every week....instead of every day like I used to. LOL

Hope everyone is having a good week so far! :)