Adding another busy week...

Sunday, Oct. 23-Went to Laingsburg to help with putting up a garage in a box for our friends Don and Betty.  Jenn and Pat were there as well.  All day project.

I had put beef short ribs in the slow cooker before we left, so when we got home supper was ready.  Thank goodness.

Monday, Oct. 24-I am personally starting to switch over from daylight savings time (DST) to slow time, so I got up at 7 AM which in two weeks will be 6 AM.  Don't care for DST, don't see how it helps anyone.  Just have to live with it.

After chores I got my pickled peppers done.  I only got two pints, but that will be plenty.  At least until I decide if this is the recipe I like.  Lunch time, went to town an then Home Depot and TSC.  Picked up lumber for us and Swanson's.  Swanson's are building a goat shed for the twins.  The stuff from TSC is fencing supplies for my new riding area in the front pasture.

I have the horse bug right now really bad.  Cool weather brings it on every year, but this year seems like it is worse the usual.  To add to it I have had several different encounters with "horse people" and that is making it even more pronounced.  Example:  I was recently contacted by a young woman, thorough FaceBook who had owned the one horse that I bred, raised, and trained.  She was very happy with him and called him her "soul mate".  She had him for 11 years before he passed in September of 2010 at the age of 20.  She was looking for another horse like him and was hoping that I could help.  We are making plans to meet in November so we can exchange stories and pictures.  That way also, she can meet his mother and half sister, Mandy and Mariah.  Here is a picture that she has already sent me...I am sooooo proud of him.

Wow, that's my horse!

Back from town and it's late, nearly 7 PM!  Daniella's doe Genevieve is ready to be bred.  I will AI her with KbarC Ranger Rick semen...here's hoping it works!

Earlier in the day, Jenn had called to say that my ex-husband's brother had been murdered in his home up north.  Gary (ex) was hoping that either Jenn or I had his sister's phone number, as he had a number but there were too many digits.  I didn't have her number, but between Jenn and I we figured out the correct number and she called Aunt Janet to tell her the news.  They had a long chat and before ending Janet told her to tell me to call so we could visit.

So, I spent my evening visiting with Janet.  Somewhere around two hours we talked!  Mostly about horses, as that was one of our common interests.

Tuesday, Oct. 25-Two months until Christmas!  Woke up at 5:30, caught up on my journal, then did up dishes.  Did some good house cleaning.

Will be doing another session of teaching homeschoolers this coming January.  Spinning will be held again per their request.

Did some repairs to the buck barn.  Put some OSB up to cover  and reinforce the east wall.  Less drafty as well.

I made Moussaka for supper.  Egg plant, ground lamb, and cheese in it.  Yummy!

Wednesday, Oct. 26-The usual Meals and Group.

Thursday, Oct. 27-Lots of puttering around in the morning.  Afternoon the Share customer picked up and Cindy Carter brought over her two does for breeding.  Isaiah will be busy.

Friday, Oct 28-My girls are visiting the bucks this morning.  Then put Cindy's does in with Isaiah in the pig barn.  Angus gets to have Thea as company today in the buck barn.

Greg and I cleaned out the tomato plants and cages from the garden.  Cages are in the small area of the pig barn for the winter.  We pulled the beets and picked some broccoli as well.

Made the beets into pickled beets and canned 14 pints.  Tried using the Tatler lids I had gotten at an auction.  Seem to work fine.  There is still more beets to finish up later.

Saturday, Oct. 29-Got around early and went to the auction.  I didn't know she had this much stuff...she would mention that this or that was upstairs but WOW upstairs must have been packed!

Unfortunately for me, but great for the estate everything seemed to go high.  The wringer washer I was hoping to bring home went for $165!  Way over my budget.  I did bring  home just a couple of things, nothing really what I had hoped for, but that's life.  What I did get was a sheep bell that I plan to give to the goat that I name after Ann.  I hope to use her Slovak name as the registered name.  I will have to do some research as Ann told it to me one time, but can't remember it right now.

Long auction, not home until after 4 PM.  Chores and then just relaxed.

Onward and Upward.