A cold day here; it feels more like November than May but the weather guy says it's warming up for the weekend. It can't come soon enough! We have a fire in the living room to toast up the house and it's cozy but it'd be nice to be outside in the evening catching fireflies instead of curling up with books and tea!
A pretty full day here; after doing chores, cleaning and liming the barn, putting down clean straw, setting some milk for chevre and doing kennel chores, I drove up to Deer Creek to pick up the sheep meat. It came to $40 to slaughter and bag about 40# of meat and bone. It'll be great for the dogs and far better than having the sheep rot away in the woods. I traveled up the road to Amery next to look at apple trees but they're too expensive - we're putting them in the back of the house, a little tiny orchard of 9 trees - so far we have Beacon, Haralred and Honeycrisp planted - anyway, I ended up bringing home some basil and will make some mozzarella next week for salads. I stopped at Jim's cafe on the way home for coffee and to discuss our options for a new truck; the old S-10 slid into the silo over the winter and is banged up and rusting now. We decided to have it repaired and wait for another year or so before replacing it. Back at home, I checked the pigs and the chickens - and was delighted to find another peahen egg!! That makes 5 under one of the broody hens!
Well, rounding out the day came a call from St. Louis that Solo had been collected and his valuable semen is now FEDEXing its way north for insemination tomorrow. Another busy day coming up - and pictures if I can remember to take them!
