We have rain, and plenty of it. Our front yard is a quagmire here and, over at the property, the creek is up a bit and the pond that the creek joins across the road, is full to the brim, it looked awesome. With the area logged recently, we can see the pond and the creek leading out the other way, quite clearly now.
So, it's been a very busy week. It seems we're rushing back and forth each day, from home to Belton to spend time with, and feed, the animals there, and then home again a couple of hours later, to spend time with our others here. As soon as Little Bit has had her final shots and rabies, I want to assimilate her back with her family there, and the use her to help assimilate our dogs from here, one at a time. Since Little Bit loves Brunel to bits, then we'll use her as the bridge (hopefully) and then it'll be Lightning last as he is the one we had issues with when we brought him home, nervouse and baring his teeth. When we first brought lady from the shelter, she did the same with Mama and Sonny although they were all from the same original pack of semi-wild dogs. They may be the two that have the most issues during the meld. It'll just be a slow process, and it can't begin until Little Bit has her rabies shot and the last of her puppy shots.
We've been slowly taking stuff over there. I thoroughly cleaned my black fridge-freezer and hubby took that over on his truck. That saves us $3 a day that we were spending on ice to keep the dogs' water cold during all the hot days we were getting recently. Now we can put water, our drinks, and snacks in there. So much easier. And cheaper!
Sonny, Mama and Lady are all doing great (getting fat! I'm going to have to cut their food down a bit, I think). They love getting lovings and are so good 99% of the time. Sonny is a mischief, he's forever grabbing stuff and presenting it to you, wanting to play.
I've been getting my seeds planted in pots ready to transplant into the garden once it's all ploughed. Since the cooler weather is coming in, some of them may end up staying in the barn as if it was a greenhouse. I have 2 cucumber plants coming up, and have peas and beans planted that I will transplant into a storage tub so that I can pop the trellises over them indoors.
Today, I finally transplanted my largest Pothos (that has needed a bigger pot for quite a while and I hadn't got around to it). I put it into a huge patio type pot. Eventually, I'll trail the vines around the place, like I've done in various homes over the years. I do love my indoor plants. they make for some good clean air, as well.
I was very happy today at how well insulated the barn is. We closed windows and it got quite cosy. Admittedly, as Mark is fixing the damaged areas (that Sonny and Mama destroyed their first night with us), he is then putting up boards, and when we get it framed out for living space, that will be done beyond that. That will give us quite a lot of insulated space even before the actual room walls. It will also mean that I will be finally able to have some real window sills about 5-6 inches deep instead of the couple of inches we have at the house that there is NO WAY you could put plants on.
Before the cold and rain these past couple of days, hubby was putting some of our plumbing underground. We need as little chance of water pipes freezing, if we get that bad a Winter, as possible. We need running water for the animals. Losing it is not an option.
Today being cold, our late lunch was some home made cock-a-leekie soup, out of the freezer, and a crusty baguette. It hit the spot! It's def getting into crock pot cooking days.
