Well, it hasn’t rained for 40 days yet, but we’re definitely in the 40 hours range. Our place is a swamp.
It's just been gloomy around here all weekend.
Everybody’s a little wet and crabby around here. Especially me. We made the ewes and lambs all going into the nursery field shed and shut the gate on them Saturday. Remember the hill that was almost my demise a few weeks ago while I was trying to feed up? Yeah, not going there again!
The "hill which will live in infamy."
Besides, it’s nice an cozy in there and I just put two fresh bales of straw down for them. And the rest of the field is a swamp.
But they’re not very happy about that. (I think they get as tired of rambunctious boys with no where to play as I do!)
Why would anyone want to be out in this mess anyway?
While I was putting them in there and dragging the gate shut through the slop that I discovered…the CRACK.
Yes, a CRACK.
In my muck boots.
How did I discover this phenomenon, you ask?
It occurred to me that there was a problem when I stepped in a puddle and actually felt the mud squish between my toes.
Just...yuck!
But I slogged on.
Can’t you believe that I still had to fill water buckets? Nursing momma’s drink a LOT of water! Everyone’s looking kind of bedraggled and scruffy and walking around with their heads down.
The good news is that with half the flock in the nursery field and half the flock still over in the “gestation” field, there’s plenty of room in all the shelters for everyone. The sheep just don’t like to be in the shelters unless it’s pouring and the wind is howling.
The cows, on the other hand, high-tail it to the barn as soon as the clouds roll up.
Our cows don't mind the heat, but they HATE to be wet!
Hopefully we dry out soon.
In the meantime, I got to clean out my pantry–yeah! (It’s beautiful, I’ll be posting about it tomorrow!)
And I got to finish up ALL the kids laundry–can you believe it? The only thing in their hampers right this minute is their pjs from last night! Yeah!!
We’re in the last steps of simplifying their wardrobes down and now we’re at the point where we’re even purging things that fit because we just don’t need 14 long-sleeve monster truck tee shirts and 13 sets of pjs per person. I’ve got the boys into one dresser between the two of them, and their closet space and we’ll be tackling the Ladybug’s closet later this week. It’s so awesome to know that I will never get more than 2 loads behind because we only have 2 loads of clothes! (Well, kid clothes anyway. But baby steps!)
How do you limit your kids clothes? We’re shooting for 4 of each item, but we’re not quite there yet.
Wow – that is a lot of muck and mud!! I’m quite glad that while we had some rain, we didn’t get that much!
I just purged the girls’ closets, since they both need to share on now. I basically got rid of anything that was too small or that I didn’t like, or that I liked but they didn’t wear. Amazing how much room there is now! Next up are the dressers and I’m not quite ready to face them yet…..
I saved the dresser until last too! I’m still trying to figure out where in the world all these clothes came from! And isn’t it funny how picky they can be about their clothes? That’s one reason why I decided we could get rid of more–they only wear their favorites over and over again anyway unless they’re dirty.
Sorry, I had to laugh! This muck boot story sounds so familiar…you never know you have a crack until it is super muddy! Then, THERE it is!
Yes, my kids always had way to many clothes. The older they get though it seems like they don’t ever have enough! What?! I don’t do their laundry anymore either. Each one has a day of the week…I am never behind anymore! Except when the dryer went out…
Going to see tha pantry now! ta ta!