A History Lesson

Reader Contribution by Lisa Doucette
Published on February 15, 2011
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I don’t even know where to begin. Well first, I’ve started with the soap making. It’s so much fun, and I wish I had more time to make it. I made 2 batches on Monday. We’ve started to use 3″ PVC pipe for the molds and it works great. It’s hard to get out, but “Red Green” already has his brain smokin’ on a way to take them out easier.

Then we got an email from the Baptist minister we met on the ferry last month. They’re coming for a month long visit next summer. They’ve already booked at a B & B. This is going to be lots of fun.

Dave has sold all his piglets from this litter. Well he’s got deposits on all of them. I’ve also found out how to make lard!! So when we take our pigs to the butcher I’ll be able to get free lard! Cheaper soap.

The goats have gone nuts. I think Tommy has begun to be bucky. Tonight we were getting whiffs of some different odor while we were beside him. I haven’t seen him pee on himself yet, but I’m also not here all day. Cindi Lou was going nuts tonight. She was trying to jump on our backs and stay there as we were walking away. She would actually walk on her hind legs and follow us. Methinks she’s going into an early heat. Even Febe is getting edgy and nasty, which means heat time is a coming. It would be so nice if they could be bred early in the season. Then I could relax the rest of the fall. So far in the past years, Febe has only come in heat at the end of October, early November.

We put Tundra in with the goats. He stayed there. Thank Goodness!! Who needs a livestock guardian against coyotes when you have Febe. If we wouldn’t have been there, she would have hurt badly or even killed Tundra. I mean Tundra is now almost the size of a coyote (they’re small here, about 50-60 lbs). But we tried again tonight and it went a bit better.

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