Morning Folks,

Boy does it need to be a nice heavy duty working monday, I am planning on having a “kicked” week around here and getting lots done.

So this morning, I had a pd of meat that I had taken out yesterday and put in the cold room to thaw, and then with everything else that was going on I forgot about it till I saw it this morning, while I went to get Purrpot food to fill the morning bowls and darn, I needed to cook it up right away, it was still cool to the touch and so I cooked it up, as I was doing other things I looked the bowl of really ready tomato’s and washed, trimmed and cut them up and threw then in after the meat had been well cooked and put it all to a simmer, figured it was the start of any good soup/stew base.. In and out of the house, this chore and that chore and boy did the house smell good, looked at it and hmmm, grabbed a jar of baked beans, and dumped some chili powder in and let it simmer for another 20 and voila, the most tasty healthy hot breakfast you can get..

Yesterday we had a total of about 24 hours of light and med rain, and they say we have lots more coming later this week, we can use it all! Its not great for the fall havesting but I still need the rain and will not complain about it in any way.

Yesterday they had a short notice sale that was going to have lots of horse stuff including wagons and single horse drawn horse equipment, a friend was willing to come and off we headed, thinking very wrongly that given the rain, given the short notice and given that there lots! of other sales locally that we would have the ability to get a few new good deals.

Well, the good news is that I was able to get a good deal on two heavy duty tree branch trimmers for less then the cost of the new one we got on sale eariler this year and broke last week.. so that was excellent.

The rest of the sale, not so much, first a ton of folks showed up, much more then I expected, second they had no canteen, so despite the cold, damp and the rain, there was no chance for a hot anything to warm you up, and despite a number of layers ,that damp just seeped into us as we were standing around..

Then my friend got a call to come home as she was needed, and so I quickly paid and we booted it home, so I don’t know what the different things went for but as they say, life happens and we roll with it.

Had a lovely early supper with friends and then got a helping hand fixing my big round bale feeder, I could not figure out how to do it myself but with a extra pair of hands, we were able to get it done within a short time.. many hands make light work as they say.

Did the rest of the required evening chores, heard from DH for less then a min and will catch up with him today as they were very busy, which is fair enough and feel asleep within a matter of moments after my head hit the pillow but alas it did not last, purrpots woke me up needing loving, and cool hound noses snuggled into me, I have a king size bed, and I swear that I woke up at least three times not just hugging the edge of my bed but not able to move as the critters where all crowded round needing to touch me while we slept..

Then at three, I heard a beep sound, woke me straight up, and I got up and checked the house, nothing.. went back, finally drifted off and it went again, still don’t know what it was but finally dropped off hard at about four am but the critters got me up like clockwork at 5, so its already been a long morning, and I am hoping for a either a nap this afternoon or a early evening 🙂

How is your monday going..