and this is our forecast for the coming week:
Needless to say, our Fall Cow Works have been cancelled. On Saturday we got 1.1" and with the weekly forecast, DH made an executive decision to shut things down. Weaning calves this week just isn't smart. Besides being drenched horseback, we won't be able to get to some of our pens, much less down our roads with trailers loaded with calves. We try to minimize their stress and even if we COULD get them to the pens, putting them in wet pens with hay that will be wet, just does not make good sense.
So, my menu planning and list making is complete, but my trip to town for groceries was cancelled. Thankfully, I hadn't already bought everything. We're pushing things back a few weeks and regrouping, and thankful for fall moisture.
On a side note: look what we've added to our family:
Baby Guineas!! We've been missing 2 guineas for about 6 weeks and a few weeks ago I would see them once in a blue moon and I told DH they were hunkered down in the garden plot. We thought they had met their demise via the ever present coyote population so we were tickled to see that they were simply doing what guineas do.
Then on Saturday we found a clutch of 13 eggs in one spot that the white guinea had been sitting upon and on Sunday we saw these little fluff balls scampering about the gray guinea. Yes, we are easily entertained and yes, we are excited. :)
We're a little concerned about the weather as they are out in the open, but it's best to leave them be and let their mama do what she needs to do. There are places for them to hunker down out of the weather if they so choose.
As humans, we like to think we're in control, but Mother Nature...ie: God, is really in control and in the daily busy-ness that is life, that brings me great peace of mind.
4 comments:
Enjoy the respite and the rain. It's been cold and rainy here for the last four days. I'm ready to welcome some sunshine and warmer temperatures.
We had ours ending yesterday-- lots of snow on our mountains and lighter on foothills. Early winter?!
Probably just about anything out your way can wait for rain, huh? Wish we'd get some over here..maybe later in the week. Yeah for the little chicks! Hope they all make it.
It's good you have some leeway for your Cow Works dates and weaning the calves. He is in control -- it's just that sometimes we're not paying attention and miss the cues. The peeps are too cute. Hopefully you'll show us more of them when you can get some photos.
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