Today we are iced in. We had some snow last night and then ice. The snow is a crunchy-crusty frozen mess. I got the Gravely out and scraped the drive. I had to put a concrete block on the blade to have enough weight to break the ice.
I think in my last post I said we had goats. I took the big doe to get her bred in Bloomfield, and in the mean time the neighbors dogs came over and killed all my chickens and the little male whether goat we had. I called the sheriff and made a report. I found that Indiana law says you can shoot an animal if it IS attacking your livestock. So next time I will have to take care of it I guess. I spoke with the neighbors who are letting their dogs run loose. They said they would take care of it. The dogs have been in my yard everyday since then, so.... I guess I will have to take care of it myself. I am out of options on that.
I recently obtained a laptop. I am enjoying it a lot. I can blue tooth vids and photo from my phone now. Maybe I can get more media on the blog now.
I think I will include a pc of when I went and got some hay for the goats.
I had the lil Suzu loaded. It will also haul wood too. So you see, the old truck gets a work out. When ever this one goes out..if... I can get a new one, Jen said so. :)
I loaded wood on it today and backed it up to the door here on the house so I don't have to go over the hill with a wheelbarrow and fetch wood any more.
I built an antenna for the T.V. it worked really well. It's called a "coat hanger antenna". The plans are all over the Internet. If you need a uhf antenna, then this one works really good and it's easy to build. I need to add uhf to it so I can pick up the rest of the channels.
I am in the process of moving all the ham radio gear out to the shop. We are going to use the upstairs for a bed room I think. We both have laptops now, so we don't need a computer room. Besides, I can't ham it up in here because the kids make too much noise and vica versa for me.
I try to be quiet, but I make more noise than comfortable. I seem to like to "ham" at 1:00 am too. Not conducive to a peaceful environment.
I got to go to MS school this past week. That was really nice. The C.O. mentioned a bit about Nyle from the platform, in fact, all the B'field kids. He made some very positive comments about the B'field kids during the elders school, I heard. HE really liked Nyle, but whats not to like??? He's a good boy.
Well I guess that is enough for now.
Snow and ice today. Oh well...
