I see the sun!

It is such a beautiful thing to see especially after all the rain and everything.  The ground is still very wet and there is still standing water.  But I saw the sun!

We went to Rockville today to take a look around the auction and it did not seem as organized as it usually is.  People seemed to be coming in late and setting up late.  We went to look for turkeys and vegetable plants so we can try to replant everything.  As it stands right now, we have no food planted.  Everything has either frozen, rotted, or got eaten by the chickens.  The turkey population is now zero thanks to the rains and being stomped by the goats trying to stay dry.  Milk production is down as well because the goats are not going out in the standing water or ankle deep mud to try to get some natural browse.  As a result, the are eating just what we put out and like anything else, if they don't have at least some of what is currently growing, the milk production drops.  Thankfully, we have tons and tons of milk in the freezer still.  Since we have already paid for this month, this month will be our last month for the cow share since we (obviously) don't need it anymore.  It was great when we had several long months of no milk.  But we have milk coming out of our ears now and I don't see us going long stretches like we did before with no milk of our own.

I am having to cancel piano lessons for this month because we have too many other things requiring our financial obligation.  One being Downtown Farmer's Market.  It costs money to get a table and I really think we will do well with our soaps there.  (If my application is approved.)  The other (as I have already mentioned) is having to replant everything and getting more fencing to keep the chickens out of my vegetables so they can actually grow.  Although I would love to be able to replace the turkeys, I don't think we can afford it right now.  Maybe by July.  I don't know.  I do know that the six chicks we got at Rural King are not going to go out for at least another week since we have more storms coming on Wednesday.

George got one of our gas powered push mowers to work by putting together bits and pieces from other things.  So he is out mowing the grass that is too tall (and wet) for the reel mower.  Once that is done, I can keep up with it with the reel mower no problem.

Anyway, I need to go out, put the goats back in (they just got loose) and take over mowing.