Crawl underground
Nov. 6th, 2020 03:21 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
I have definitely not got enough sleep this week. Between election grumpiness (?) with Tucker, popping a tire on the trailer and needing to get up early to get it fixed, putting the trailer full of pumpkins into the ditch and having to get it out, waking up early for a counseling appointment, my head meds (I seriously need a better term for these) make my sleep more fragile, and having a full moon and something out there that kept the dogs working I have been getting about 5 hours of sleep per night.
Last night I went back to the downstairs bedroom, sheltered from noise by the earth, and slept more soundly. That was good.
I'll be doing some more of that this weekend.
I got 3.5 of those big cardboard bins full of pumpkins from the grocery store. The pigs seem to like them; the geese mostly just like the guts. No one can get into them without help so I've been chopping them open with the axe before I take them out to the pigs. It's a pretty funny morning chore honestly.
Hopefully it freezes soon. The pigpen is soup, deep soup knee-high on the sows on the downhill side of the fence. I moved the food dishes up to a drier spot but it's still pretty miserable in there for the poor things. At least the woodshed pigs are starting to integrate with the bigger pigs so they're sharing warmth, and it's not that cold right now.
I definitely think I need to pick up some extra straw for the winter. This mud has rendered most of what I've put down so far kind of useless.
Meanwhile I opened up the garden while the snow is off but the geese have been ignoring it. I suspect they just keep thinking they can't get in. Maybe I need to lure them.
Last night I went back to the downstairs bedroom, sheltered from noise by the earth, and slept more soundly. That was good.
I'll be doing some more of that this weekend.
I got 3.5 of those big cardboard bins full of pumpkins from the grocery store. The pigs seem to like them; the geese mostly just like the guts. No one can get into them without help so I've been chopping them open with the axe before I take them out to the pigs. It's a pretty funny morning chore honestly.
Hopefully it freezes soon. The pigpen is soup, deep soup knee-high on the sows on the downhill side of the fence. I moved the food dishes up to a drier spot but it's still pretty miserable in there for the poor things. At least the woodshed pigs are starting to integrate with the bigger pigs so they're sharing warmth, and it's not that cold right now.
I definitely think I need to pick up some extra straw for the winter. This mud has rendered most of what I've put down so far kind of useless.
Meanwhile I opened up the garden while the snow is off but the geese have been ignoring it. I suspect they just keep thinking they can't get in. Maybe I need to lure them.