A Different Family

One thing about being part of a play, is you become part of a new family. You've bonded in ways you don't get elsewhere. You ironically see their true selves as they work at being a character. It's amazing!

I had the honor tonight of hosting a cast party for most members of the cast. I wasn't the true director and not everyone on the cast listened to me, but those who did were treated to a fabulous dinner tonight at a local restaurant. I didn't take pics, sorry, but it was so good seeing everyone. We all love each other and there's a bond there that won't break. 

They also treated me to an awesome stained glass picture Tess made for me! It is spectacular and I'll share a pic of that when daylight comes back. For now, have a wonderful weekend and if a community theatre is looking for people in your area, please give it a go. You have no idea how much it will benefit your life!

Daylight Struggle Time

I know I talked about this before, but really, this switching the clocks thing has hit the hardest this time. The dogs are waking up at five in the morning, the livestock think we've instituted a lunch program for them as they're mooing for more grain in the late evening. The chickens don't know whether to lay more eggs or none at all. It's chaos!

Don't even get me started on evenings around here. Without play rehearsals and now less daylight to play with, I've had to resort to working on my house cleaning and continuing the unboxing I'd stopped doing months ago. I've swept our highway traffic area from the backdoor to the living room daily and yet the dirt magically reappears. 

Oh and shedding! Everyone is shedding and molting like they're getting awards for most fur shed. Mango always wins, so everyone should just stop trying. Ok, I'm done whining for tonight, off to sweep again. 

Spice's girl, she's an absolute sweetheart

Competition

This afternoon, I got to spend some great quality time with my cows. After I had brushed everyone as much as I could, I decided to take pics and videos of them. I learned Coorie is now rivaling Flora in the diva department!

With brushing, picture taking, following me and wanting love from me, it's difficult to tell them apart personality wise. This is wonderful news! I'll keep working with all of them and hopefully everyone feels like Flora. 

I also learned Fur Real Farms has local competition in the boutique farm department. Someone in Lampasas is doing miniature highlands and miniature donkeys as well. It's quite ok for several reasons. One, we've got medium to full size Highlands, so no risk of the dwarf gene which causes health problems down the line. Two, we've got a bigger herd. Three, our animals are socialized almost as much as Rob and I are which means they love it here and love any company that comes by. Ok, they don't love the vet, but even humans have problems with doctors!

Coorie left is plotting to take away the limelight from Flora. They can share!

Less Nutty

While we're thankful for his services with all our does, today we shipped Nutty off with Gator to do with as he pleases. This last season of Nutty being in rut was becoming dangerous for everyone. We had literally tried everything with him, but we just couldn't keep him. 

This is a thing farmers and ranchers do all the time in large quantities, but I'm still learning. Not every livestock animal is a good fit and it's ok to have him try somewhere else. Maybe he'd do better with a hundred does, who knows? I have mixed emotions about the whole thing, but the decision was made when he tackled Rob this weekend. 

I will say, it is much quieter on the farm tonight. Tomorrow, we'll be able to release all the kids and mamas from the nursery and everyone will have full run yet again. For Fur Real Farms, it's now safe again to walk in the pasture. 

What Time Is It?

The clocks fell back an hour, but do you know who doesn't care about that? Animals! Teddy Bear woke me up at 5:50 this morning and all the livestock were carrying on at 5 this evening that they were starving. Ok, in truth, they had eaten the last of their hay earlier today, so maybe they were starving. 

All I know is switching the clocks is something I want to see end in my lifetime. I don't know what time it is, or which clock is correct, or what's going on. At least last week, I knew two of the three!

This week, we've got a couple of things planned like always. I'll share what I remember and go from there!

Tale of Two Sides (of the mouth)

Double feature to finish off this week. First, we traveled this morning to my oral surgeon for part 2 of 3 of my dental implant. Part 1 was three months ago with an extraction and bone graft. Today, well they implanted a metal screw into my jaw with a drill. Seriously!

On this model, it shows four different metal implants. The one by my pinky finger is exactly the one and location I got today

I don't do the sedation, so I got numbed to oblivion. It took right hours for the numbing to fade away. But here's the x-ray of my new gear

Yes, that's my mouth and you can see how much work I've already had done

But that was this morning. This evening though, I got to treat my mouth to delicious, mouth watering Akaushi steak. My favorite meat ever is my mom's prime rib, but this is second I believe. The charcuterie starter and hatch green Chile mac and cheese were good, too. In a tiny little town of Blanket, Texas, who knew?

Since this was the restaurant's very first day being open, and that we drove so far, the owner treated us to cheesecake for dessert. A perfect ending!

Every Two Weeks

For the past couple of months, our cell service has gone down in town every two weeks. As we use a cell based Internet, that means each time, we're pretty much off the grid. Usually, it only lasts a couple of hours. Today, well we're still waiting. 

I'm writing the blog in hopes to post eventually. I've noticed we get little blips where calls and messages come through. If I load up this in my queue, maybe it'll send out during one of those blips. This town has been crazy. You can't drink the water, if you happen to get water from the city. Cell service is spastic when there's a perfectly good tower in town. Electricity bills are always high. But yet, I still love it here. 

We've got water from our well. We can afford the electricity. And not being able to be reached is sometimes a good thing. Of course, this means I had plenty of time to clean today. Oh joy!

I got smart this time. I cleaned off the Mango fur from the chairs and put plastic covers on them!