What a Busy Week!

Wow. Sorry. Can't believe it has been four days since I posted. I've been running around like crazy. Sunday, we worked around the farm until, exhausted, I dropped into bed. The weekend caught up with me on Monday, and I did a few things around napping most of the day. Tuesday and Wednesday I worked all day and today I am hanging around the house. The freezer died on Tuesday :( So today I am cooking a turkey :) I'm working on cleaning out the cellar-way to make room for the things that go there from the porch. The porch needs to be cleaned off because the chickie-babies come tomorrow. I don't have to work tomorrow because I put my hours in on Wednesday. I have also been cleaning out half the pole barn from the winter storage to build a chicken coop. And, of course, I bought the wrong chicken wire. I need 5 foot - sigh - I bought 3 foot. Another chore :(

The girls are still doing softball. We are trying to get wood cut and split and stacked to dry for winter. Trying to get the lawn mowed. Trying to fix fences to put the horses out in the big pasture now that some grass has grown. Too many chores, too much to do in spring.

And this weekend, we are having someone come with equipment to help us move composted manure to where the garden is going to be and having that rototilled. Then I will have to hire my nephews to 'harvest' the rocks that will be sure to come to the surface. Then plant the garden.

Ok, now I'm tired enough from just thinking about it to go back to take another nap.

Oh, and we need to set up the pool. Sigh. The chores never end. And that is all on top of the normal, regular chores that need to be done every day. Feed the horses. Hay the horses. Grain the horses. Water the horses. Grain the chickens. Water the chickens. Feed the barn cat. Clean the stalls. Clean the water tanks. Feed the dogs. Water the dogs. Feed the cats. Water the cats. Feed the birds. Water the birds. Clean the cages. Pick up the girls from softball. Watch the softball games. Go to work. Go to work. Do your chores. Eat. Sleep. Clean the house....... ok, you get the picture... Sigh. No wonder I want to take a nap :)

On the other hand, the skinny gelding is doing well. He is enjoying some brushing and treats and his coat is already starting to get shiny. He's still got a long way to go, but he is doing well!

Ok, enough of a coffee break. Need to finish checking my email real quick - delete, delete, read, delete, delete, read, etc.

Hope you had a great week!

Happy Mother's Day!

Hope everyone had a wonderful day. My husband and daughters took me out to a local restaurant and we had the buffet. It was wonderful, as usual.

My biggest gift today was all the daughters were gone and just my husband and I worked around the farm. We got some strapping and chicken wire so I can make my chicken house. I got all the fences moved around and reset after winter. We got all the sumac cut down. We cleaned the area for the pool to be set up. I got the door off the run in shed.

Tomorrow, after the cordless drill is charged and since I found my big stapler, I can put the new chicken area together.

I'm going to clean the clutter off the front porch so the baby chickens can stay out there until they are feathered out so I can breathe.

I'm going riding tomorrow! One way or another.

Hope everyone had a great day :)