Oh sweet, sweet rain.
Tuesday I seeded our front pasture in anticipation of the rain coming. It rained three drops and then the wind came. I hollered at the sky.
Last night it rained. I left the car windows down last night. But I don’t care. It rained in my seed and I distributed the rest on the back pasture this afternoon. And the rain has come again. Wonderful, wonderful rain.
Scott is home from his weekend trip to Montreal, where he got tattooed by Dave Cummings. Holy, WOW! Monkey King rib piece in effect. Scott canceled one of MY tattoo appointments to go… so I’m hoping we’ll finagle a sitter and I we can get started colouring in my Kali soon.
Learned a lesson in soap making this week, thought I’d share. When you mix lye & water, it’s like 200′F and highly caustic. Like chemical burn city, y’all remember that scene in Fight Club, CAUSTIC. SO. I mixed my lye & water in the garage, away from children and dogs. I shut the door to the house, everyone was in. I was in “waiting for the lye to cool” mode. Nice and calm. Then Scott left for Montreal. Having opened the garage door from the outside before he left. In slipped La Cochonne. It took me a while to figure out that she was locked in the garage with the lye water.
Piggles tried to drink from what looked like a huge glass bowl of water on the nice cold floor of the garage. Thankfully none got on her tongue. Just her chin, which is now a fried scab. Poor Notorious P.I.G.!
Soapmakers: quadruple and squidruple check your creatures are safe when you make soap. Take NOTHING for granted.
Instead of showing you pictures of a crusty dog face, here’s a cute picture of (The Vicar of) Dibly the Nigerian Dwarf Goat, who is most likely not pregnant, as we had hoped.
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Hi there!
Beautiful goat! We’re getting a small herd of Nigerian Dwarfs…..hopefully some time this week! I’m excited about it! Do you milk your Nigerians?
Happy farming to you all over there!
love,
sara
Yes we do, though it’s more like milking myself than a goat. Haha.
poor pup.
Hi Ashley,I was reading your posts about the wind tubines,and wonder if you have read any of the papers written by Dr Nina Pierpont on the health dangers potentially posed to children living close to turbines? She is a New York paediatric specialist,and I believe her work was cited by a british independant study a few years back. I cant get a link to work right now,but I can try and email it to you,or you could probably track her down via google.Hope the dog has recovered from the soap incident!
I have read the Pierpont study.
i loved the Vicar of Dibly… the show. oh, hell, i love the goat too. how could anyone NOT love such a face.
On the mention of soil blowing in the wind, have you seen the documentary “Dirt! The Movie.”
I have a love of dirt and thought you might appreciate this film as well.
Bee
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I know I’m late to the game on this one, but I just read that eggs are the best thing to use on a burn. Now, this may not be true for chemical burns like lye, but just in case, it’s good knowledge to keep handy for any future mishaps. Just thought I’d share.
(Oh and I just randomly found your blog the other day and I love it.)