Switch, Switch.. tiny little tink, tink of nails.. Hmmm What is that? Flip on the bed light.. nothing..hmm off to sleep, I’m tired, we had a late night for a farmgal who’s bed time is normally quite early.. A sound of papering being played with wakes me in the middle of the night.. Did something fall down and one of the purrpots playing with it? Is there a Purrpot in the bedroom, we have one critter friendly bedroom but two no pet bedrooms, and I was in a no pet bedroom.. up and big light flipped on, checked the whole room, no purrpot, check the hallway.. nothing, hmmm Back to bed.. am I dreaming it? Movement on the bed.. what the? lay very still.. listening, was that real, and then it comes from above and right, rip, rip, rip.. hand flies out, and hit the bed lamp, and I sit up to be darn near face to face with a big old fat field mouse, who went down the backside and into a drawer, and then the next drawer as I am trying to follow him.. Ahhh.. Finally go out, call one of my best hunter purrpots, and put her in the room, shut the door and I’m up for the day, cleaning with mask on, the only thing in the drawers right now is mouse traps.
Hit some of the local crazy 50 to 75 percent off sales this yesterday and today and here are some of my goodies list.. A box of assorted Glass baking wear dishes with lids for Dh to be able to take to work and use to heat up in, which means that I have been able to replace all his plastic lunch wear now. Picked up four heavy duty work flannel shirts, 6 packages of heavy works socks at 3 to a pack, assorted sizes of leather/sheepskin lined gloves, some fancy driving, some work, a two way radio set (up to 18 miles, we have tried it up to five and good to go) Some of the sales where kind of odd at the farm store but awesome, so I got a assortment of Syringes, mouse traps and bought them out of the highly on sale Milk Filters Disks, bringing home all ten box’s for a thousand of them to add to my stores.
Did you do any sale shopping, or did you stay home?
Girl and Marty update:Marty first, he is wonderful!, gaining steady, eating more of his baby grain mix, and loves! his hay, so different then Girl, it took us forever to get her started on hay, used to have to sit and put it in her mouth, but he either has his head in the hay feeder or is napping when we pop in and out of the barn but this afternoon he had his first calf zoomies.. O my god, he is a cute boy..
Girls is finally showing signs of real improvement, she is now walking with almost no limp at all today, she is eating her normal amount of hay, she always stayed eating her extra’s and her water at normal levels but she made me a little freaky when she slowed down on her hay and she didn’t seem quite as full as she should for a few days.. I could not put my finger directly on it, but she was just a bit off, like when you are doing your routine but you are tired, well that was my sweet girl.. just a bit off, so I can’t tell you how happy I was to see the improvement over the past couple days, provided she does not relapse, I would say she is heading back to being her typical happy cowself.
I’m late I know but we got all the glad’s dug and drying for storage for keeping next year, and there was a big of time spent today on cleaning out blackberry cane rows, and general yard cleaning and prepping for the next snow fall.. My garlic is all planted for next year, here is hoping that is will be a good crop, Dh found some sage herb plants still going strong in one of my sheltered spots, so will dig it up and bring it in for winter, along with a number of the mints and the horseradishes, along with a clump of stringing nettle.
So how was your saturday? Did you get to stay home? Did you have a work day? A quiet homebody day?
Just another Day on the Farm 
So do you dry all of the herbs you just mentioned? Or are you potting them up to use fresh all winter?
You asked what was happening today? Well, here it is one month ’til Christmas and we were outside in shirt sleeves giving the vehicles one last really good scrubbing before winter hits. Isn’t this just the most bizarre fall ever? Can’t remember ever having this many Indian Summers in one year… (What is it three now, I think? I’ve kinda lost count; )
Hi Deb
I do dry all the herbs talked about over the summer and have a number of jars of them in different sizes and amounts depending on which one, but yes, I am also potting them up and bringing them into the house to have fresh all winter as well.
T-shirts wow, we are not T-shirt weather, it has been an amazing fall indeed!
HA! No, I meant shirt sleeves – no coat. Not short sleeves – t-shirt…
It was warm enough for no coat, but not that warm!
Sure is nice to see the truck all shiny and happy again though!
I’ve run out of windowsill room with all of the tender herbs brought in from outside. Two Rosemary, Saw-toothed Lavender, Pink Lavender, Aloe, English Ivy, Lemon Scented Geranium (plus all of the house plants…)
Think I am going to go pull some Plantain to dry, after reading that great article you sent a link for the other day… Also saw a Burdock with two new leaves coming on it yesterday. Hope they (and all of the other plants that have been putting on new growth in this extended growing season) can tough it out this winter. The signs here seem to be pointing to a rough winter. How about you?
Oh Farmgal, don’t fall in love with Marty!! lol I’m one to talk, if I had cows I would be naming them all and lovin’ them up. I still think about one named Jenny, and that was decades ago now. 😉
I had to work today (boo) and will be for the next 6 days (double boo), BUT I did hit up the super awesome sales at Canadian Tire yesterday and got hubby’s Christmas present at a deep deep discount. Half an hour later I’m in the grocery store and I hear “Hey lady, you don’t need any more pasta” and turn around and there’s hubby, who got off early to take me to lunch…and to Canadian Tire. Goofball almost ruined his Christmas present being sweet to me. Anyway, he ended up going and we now have a brand new generator (yay!) and I can quit worrying about everything in the freezers every time the lights flicker.
Hope the purrpot got your midnight caller, what a way to wake up. Yech.
Hi Daisy,
Don’t worry, I am loving up Marty but after I am done, I remind myself, I will give you the best life possable, but your are so going to freezer camp dude! Sorry you had to work today but glad you made it to the great Canadian Tire sale, I hear you about having the backup for the freezers being very helpful indeed. So far, that mouse is being smarter then the cat and the traps but its time is numbered!
Our little fieldmice are tough to catch–we find little ‘deposits’ all over the house. They gather dog food from Xena’s bowl and store it away for us to find unexpectedly. We were gone overnight for Thanksgiving and yes, . . . we came back to find a nice little deposit of dogfood in our bed! Ewwww!
Thankfully I have enough Purrpots that I don’t often have mice in the house but I hear you, finding a deposit of saved food in my bed, would get the EWWW as well! along with a full change and hot water washing of the bedding that is for sure.. I got it figured out where this little guy is calling home, and If I can’t get him today, I will breakout the sticky traps and put them in his or her run lines.