Busy Weekend

Thought I would do a quick post about what's been happening.  It's been a very busy 3 days here.  Friday we did our normal food shopping and chores and cleaned the house.  I also had a delivery of regular grass hay for the the boy goats,  I stacked it all myself.  This will get us through to the next haying season, late spring.  I picked about 18 lbs of beans from the garden and some zucchini, squash, pickling cucumbers and red onions.

Saturday morning we all got up and took a drive to get Alfalfa Hay,  this is the type of hay the girls eat, it helps with the milking.  We got 25 bales and will be picking up another 25 in a few weeks.  The 50 bales should get us through to next haying season, late spring. I'll be happy once we have the rest of the hay as alfalfa is hard to find around here.  Then we won't have to worry about feeding the girls hay for another year.  Hailey and Jamie helped me with cleaning all the beans and getting them ready for canning.  We ended up with 4 quarts and 10 pints of beans.  Jamie also did all the mowing today and got the hedges trimmed up again.

Today, Sunday we have been hanging around and doing chores here and there.  Our great friends the Royalty's are coming in 1 week, we are all so excited to have them visit, so we have been doing lots of preparing for them to come. Jamie got some firewood cut down this morning and I mowed inside and outside the pasture today. Hailey & I also picked some veggies from the garden again.  We got 3 large zucchini's, 3 large yellow squash, 5 red onions and 2 more pickling cucumbers.  The cucumbers don't last though, the kids eat them as soon as they are washed.

All the animals are doing well.  Matilda is getting bigger and will be going to the vet for a checkup this week.  All the girl goats are doing well too.  Priscilla's girls, Abby & Maddie got the CD&T booster on Friday. So thankfully we are all done with vaccinations/shots till next spring.  Brady & Bruschi are doing good too.  All the chickens are growing.  Layer hens are just growing and we are waiting for them to finally lay eggs, still about 2 months to go.  The meat chickens are now 11 weeks old.  They have 1 more week till butcher time.  Hoping to do some with the Royalty's so they can experience where their food comes from.  I just got an email for my new set of meat chicks, they will be here within a day or 2 and of course Lou & Bryce are the spoiled ones living in the house and doing just fine.