March 20th -April 9th

So I had this brilliant idea last month to just come and make a bulleted point list of the main events of each day. Well this plan stopped much sooner than planned because Renee (whose fast computer I was using) left, plus farm life gets crazy and busy. So this is just the bulleted day by day agenda. I'm sorry if it a tad dull..... and a month late.
Sunday 20th : Renee, Nichole and I went to the Valley of Fire (pictures are on my last post) It was a lot of fun! We went off the beaten trail and just climbed other rocks and posed and had a blast. My favorite part about the Valley of Fire (especially Mouse's Tank trail) is the hollows in the rocks that you can fit in and are just such a perfect frame for people.
When we got back around 5:30 pm we were in time to see a Bee Swarm. Bees will swarm when they feel the hive is getting to crowded. So they have a rebellion and 1/2 fly off with the new queen. (picture of this is also on last blog.... maybe it isn't on the blog but it is in the link.) Since they were all just clustered on the tree Monte decided to create a new hive before he lost them. So we got to help. He gave us each a bee suite...(Bees can sting through this on occasion) well Nichole's suite was really only 1/2 a suite . None of us got stung. We then sprayed or misted the bees with water. This made them fall off the tree and into the new bee box Monte had placed under the tree.
Monday 21st: We had some chilly windy rainy weather. The wind blew over our chick coop....(a car-port tent kind of thing that has been turned into the chick coop.)... and scattered our chicks all over the place. Then it rained on them. Chicks have to be kept a certain temperature or else they will catch hypothermia and die. We lost almost 1/2. So I pulled out my blow-dryer to try to dry more of them off quicker. Blow-dryers are amazing inventions. Who would ever have thunk that it is really a farm tool? We also weeded a whole high tunnel (the one the most full of weeds.) We also did some rabbit processing, or at least Monte did. I just watched. That night I got to taste my first rabbit. SO YUMMY!
Tuesday 22nd: Missy had a rotting baby. The baby had been inside her for a week. She smelled pretty nasty. Missy always looks like she is pregnant when she's not; so when she is pregnant she looks more like Noah's Ark. Because she is always so big the baby didn't feel like it was cramped enough to come out.
Wednesday 23rd: Harvest day. I caught a bit of a cold. Chewy had a little baby we named Snowball.
Thursday 24th: Pulled up 3 rows of cabbage and accidentally some radish plants.
Friday 25th: pulled big weeds around Grape vines.... getting ready for Shareholder breakfast
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Saturday 26th: Shareholder Breakfast! Snowball died
Sunday 27th: Had to burn the horns off of the baby girls... and banding the boys (they will not be bred goats.) :(

Monday 28th: 7 rows of tilled and planted with tomatoes... I saw Mystere again this time with Nicole and Renee, sat in sound booth.

Tuesday 29th: carrots, shade cover, water high tunnles, emptied 3 more rows and got all of A tilled.
Wednesday 30th: Harvest Day
Thursday 31st: Planted 3 more rows of tomatoes
Friday 1st: April Fools.... supposed to be a light day of work ended up WEEDING ALL DAY! sore. 3 blisters. Exhausted
Saturday 2nd: General Conference.. Went shooting after the first session, shot a 22 riffle and 22 pistol. Britches had 5 babies. Missy had another rotting baby.
Sunday 3rd: went to Cedar city Zina had 2 babies

Monday 4th: Harvested Carrots, Asparagus, drip lines.

Tuesday 5th: set up area for fair display, picked 4 green bins of spinach, washed and bagged carrots.
Wednesday 6th: Harvest Day
Thursday 7th: First day of the Clark County FAIR!! I had heard so much about it and there wasn't anything that special about it. Us Interns manned the booth in the Small animal pavilion all day. All of Overton and Logandale shut down completely when it's fair time.
Friday 8th: Manned the fair booth again for 1/2 the day.
Saturday 9th: Renee left for good. :( I took the A.C.T. :-/ We got Hail, wind, and rain, so all hands were called on deck to man the booth since tons of people had flooded into the building to get out of the weather. Saw the rodeo that night. I don't think I'm much of a rodeo person.
We have sold all but 4 of the 13 baby goats. We are only keeping Nellie, Mimi, Beth, and Pierre (Zina's baby is all white except for his head which is black. He has floppy ears that are black in the center then fade into gray. He also has a white streak down his nose. He will be dinner is a couple of months most likely.)