I Give Up!

Three templates and many many hours later I've come to the conclusion, I suck and give up. I've checked and rechecked my floats. I completely changed the template, and still in IE it's all jacked up. Firefox, kick ass. Internet Explorer, jacked. Why oh why does IE have to be so dang fussy with CSS?? So I'm gonna leave it as is until I have the patience again. Anyone with more insight on my problem feel free to tell me where I went so wrong?

Twin Nubian Bucklings

Welcome To Our Family!!

Yesterday morning our doe began kidding. I checked in on her quite frequently, but nowhere near as much as last time. She had a very easy delivery. Labor lasted about 6 hours. And at 5:30 pm we had a newbie!! Then about 6 minutes later another one!! TWINS!! Twin bucklings. They are very cute.

Her last kidding she only had one (buck also) and what a size difference! These little guys are tiny in comparison. But healthy.

Is was such a nice day I guess Momma let the kids roam a little. We found them outta the stall and under a tree.

We did notice a little trouble. Since they were apart from Momma we wanted to make sure they were being nursed. Usually Momma and babies lay together for a few days. Usually she a lil over protective. To check if the baby is full and eating you have it stand. ( Yes at a day they can stand , not very good but still) You feel its belly, if it's squishy it needs to eat if its firm its good to go.

Both tummies were squishy. Which meant no milk. So, we watched her for a bit and she was over by the fence with a buck... So we took the buck away from her sight and right away she tried to nurse. But it seemed the kids couldn't get a hold of the nipple. Either didn't know or couldn't either way we had to step in.

Now, first off, I'd rather NOT step in and bottle feed right away. Animals are just like people. They develop bonds with their young. And I would never want to take the mommying away from a ready and willing doe. But sometimes they need interference. We milked Dora next to her kids. Two reasons. One to relieve pressure, the nipple may had been to large for the mouth. And two, to see if we could help the kids find what they should do. We gave the kids some milk, they loved it but just would latch.

So we emptied her. We got about a gallon or so from her. Between the kids and her (yes does love milk!!) we ended up keeping about half a gallon for them later to feed "in case".

All you need to bottle feed them is a nipple from a feed store, about a dollar, and a 20 oz bottle of some sort. Snap it on, thats it!

Well these little full Nubian bucklings are very cute!!  And in late March will be ready for sale!!

Internet Explorer Readers

Well, for some dumb reason this time when I redesigned my page I forgot to have both IE and Firefox open....  I've been gone for too long, I feel like such a dummy.  I opened IE to use scrapo and I saw my page.  YIKES!  Considering over half internet users use Internet Explorer, I better fix this fast!!  But, since I tweaked "blindly" I have no clue where to start.   I will be going through the CSS with a fine tooth comb, ugh!! 

If you've never tried Firefox and would like to download and give it a whirl:

Washing Machine Turned Chicken Plucker

Anyone who has processed a chicken knows how hard the plucking part is. If you do it by hand that is. I found this neat video of a DIY chicken plucker. Yea another project for Hubby to do for me ☺.

Just to let you know this chicken had been killed and scalded first then placed in.




How nice and quick! I gotta find me an old washing machine!!

BookSwim.com

I love the local library we have here.  Being a home school family it's become a monthly visit. Just about.  But I live 20 miles from town so it's not really a convenient one.  I'm often late on returning them.  But what choice do you have when an assignment requires reading.  And with all my kids at different reading levels it can become quite a task just gathering the literature for them all.  Also keeping track of who's book is due when!  Although we do have a book mobile that travels out here, its not always for sure, and sometimes they don't have the book needed.

I recently discovered Bookswim.  It's like Netflix for books!  Pick your membership and load up your favorites.  Just like Netflix, once you've mailed it back they send another from your list! So you can list all the kids reading requirements in the order they need them done and they ship in that order! They have from 1 book to 11 books at a time memberships.  No late fees ever and free shipping both ways!  Exception: 1 book membership.


BookSwim has a wide array of book choices.  College textbooks, Oprah Book Club List, Childrens everything you'd find at a big bookstore.  Something for everyone in the family.

If you decide you just can't bear to let a book go, been there, you can choose to buy it!  

Bonus:  They're offering a $50 gift card to Restaurant.com to anyone who enrolls in the avid or devout readers plans!!

They also offer BookSwim.com Gift Cards

So no more rushing to the library hoping you get it in on time, and  no paying the late fees if your not done in time. No contract.  Cancel anytime!


For you greenies out there like me that love to see some good going on here's a bonus:
"Renting books, rather than purchasing, helps lower the number of trees cut down each year for virgin paper. BookSwim also plants trees for every gift card we sell.  BookSwim has planted or otherwise saved enough trees to reduce 10 TONS of carbon emissions! That's like taking 14,000 cars - all the yellow taxicabs in New York City - off the street... ...enough cars to fill a parking lot the size of 152 football fields!"  Straight from the horses mouth!

 So click on the picture below and give it a try.  Your under no obligation and may cancel if it's not all you'd thought it would be. 

*Summer's on its way and books are a great way to keep your child learning and busy*