Glenda booked in- Check
Ordered the sheep tags- Check
Ordered the coming lambing season`s required goodies (my first lamb could be here as early as the end of Dec)- Check
Booked the lambs in for butcher- Check
Booked one pig in for butcher-Check
Looked at the price of freezer -Yikes
Figured out which ducks are to be butchered- Check
Moved the fowl from summer pens to winter pens-Check
Figured out how many rabbits need to be butchered- Ready NOW-18, ready by the first of the year, another 10
Ordered in a few more things for tanning-check
Offered to help a girlfriend work on tanning full wool on sheep hides(she wants to brain tan) and I want to play!-Check
Got the ferrier booked-Check
Got the winters supply of hot chocolate on the sale-Check (but don`t think I didn`t notice that the packaging went down, while the price regular went up, so even on sale, it was still not as good of buy as last year)-Check
Getting back into the grove of things in terms of the house-Check
Need to do a whack of canning-Check LOL
Start Christmas Shopping-Check
Fall Cleaning of Windows-Check
O yes, I can see some light at the end of the tunnel!
O I know, there is so much more to do.. but at least I can see some of the things that should have been done weeks and weeks ago are starting to get there! 🙂



wow you are busy!!!! You can make hot chocolate mix very inexpensively and quickly…
10 cups powdered milk
4 1/4 cups instant chocolate milk mix (I use nestles)
1 1/4 cup dry coffee creamer (I use coffee mate)
1 heaping cup icing sugar
Mix & put in container
to make :
put mix in a cup (4 TBSP mix to 8oz water)
add hot water
Wow, tried a couple of times now, at different times of day, to send this; but 3 strikes and I’m out. Keepin’ it short and sweet…
Glad the end is in sight, just take it easy getting there, ‘k?