oh my......my poor little blog

susan reminded me ......i forgot you!

ok so
saturday was fall stuff ......winterizing chores!
storms are mostly in
ac units are mostly out
wood stove blanket it is
and i lit the first fire last night
the second this morning
halloween was quiet.....not like normal which was good actually
cause normally bernie screws up halloween big time
this time it was just sorta of very low key on his part

today i had to finish his chores and bring the wood in, which i did sorta
he didn't stack the deck nor the studio so i am going to be bringing in the wood all week it looks like
now if i have to do that...it's going to again cut down on my knitting time
as well as other things
cause it takes me forever to do wood......bernie it takes 20 minutes me it takes 20 hours or so it feels

i found a deceased mouse in the basement...... i don't think the chickens got it
even though the chickens are turned out to EAT the mice.....
colette is thrilled to be able to follow me around now....and get picked up often
she's not going to be happy when she's got to go back in the day pen full time again

the baby ducks are feeling their hormones
and today i took the boys to the back part of the back pen leaving the girls in the front part of the back pen
(thank goodness for two parted pens that have a gate to close or open)
the boys were not happy
the girls were happy until they realized that the boys couldn't get to them ......then the girls where not happy either
ducks
can't please them
and now they are too old and tough to eat them

i am watching my woodstove while i type this, it's got a hot and lazy fire in it
i need to put a bunch more wood in but for now i'll wait until bernie gets in

tomorrow i have to get a new title to the white van, which bernie sold....
get cat food in town
possibly a rutabaga and a pumpkin
i think something else but i forget
oh and i ordered an 8 quart stock pot...... with shipping for 37.98
all stainless, with an encapsulate bottom from zwillin/henkel (you know......the knife people)
for boiling pasta!
now tomorrow with luck i get stewing chickens for NOTHING! which will be processed on wesnesday!
(chicken whacking wesnesday!) i am hoping for at least 6 but i could be getting 7!!!
now that is an abundance of stewers.........all slated for the canner!

i could get about 15 gallons of stock out of them birds or more....plus meat
i would like that
and i have the big stock pots to help out too!

i also got the green tomatoes but haven't had time to pickle them yet
maybe wesnesday.......?

oh and my nephew is going to be leaving for some military training so he can get sargent..i had to read it on his FACEBOOK page, i'm crushed.......sniff
but i am still planning on keeping him in cotton socks when he deploys
oye

ok off i go
bernie is almost home